Just ran into the lovely and ridiculously talented Samantha Stollenwerck hanging around the press tent and resplendent as usual. Stollenwerck already played yesterday on the Solar Stage, but she’s here
Phil Set 2: Scarlet Begonias > All Along the Watchtower > Jam > He’s Gone > Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad > And We Bid You Goodnight Jam, **Phil
SET 1: Here Comes Sunshine > Good Lovin’, Gone Wanderin’, Cumberland Blues, Dire Wolf, Loser, Cold Rain and Snow It was a jam-packed first half, with a rollicking Good Lovin’
Well, yes, Kreutzmann was aboard for a few songs, and overall Cactus gave us a really groovy set, focused on much of The Green Sparrow, which drops this week. Murawski
I’m too exhausted to get into a review, but let’s just say it’s exactly what you’d expect from a Trey solo acoustic set. Good songs, no jams and a shiny/happy
The trio of Bill Kreutzmann, Scott Murawski and Oteil Burbridge is a heady thing—a lot fuller and far-reaching a sound than you might expect, but then chide yourself for not
Of all the people I’ve met and got re-acquainted with at the Vibes so far, I need to introduce Joy Bashew Rosenberg, who’s headquarterd in the tubes at thejambandbook.blogspot.com. Joy,
Jonathan Lobdell, the Vibes’ unflappable press guru, just did a fist pump in exclamation of the first rays of sun in about three hours. We know the feeling. The Gathering
There’s so much to say about the beguiling ambiance of Seaside Park—and how well this long-maintained festival holds and absorbs the space, especially since its 2007 return—but a few traveling snafus have put your faithful correspondent a little more behind the eight-ball at the moment than he’d prefer. So, to the point.
The Black Crowes diehards among us haven’t had it so good this decade—I’ve found my own Crowes apologism working overtime with every false start and curveball. Sometimes it’s been difficult (I took some first-timer-for-whatever-reason Crowes fans to a messy, flatlining show in New Hampshire in July 2006 and ended up embarrassed) and sometimes faith rewarded (brought those same skeptical “fans” to a two-set blowout of a Crowes show in Worcester, MA later that year, and they were sold from the opening notes of “Virtue and Vice” on).
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If the Metro-North and I-95 treat me right, I’ll be hitting the grass at Fort Adams a little after 11:30AM for this year’s Newport Folk Festival. Keep your eyes on
