Following in the grand tradition of misleading monikers (Thompson Twins, 10,000 Maniacs), Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, and Amelia Randall Meath are the trio of voices that form Mountain Man. And more than anything else, it is their voices that elevate Made The Harbor above the babbling brook of Appalachian folk music flowing through indie music these days. Pairing their exquisite harmonies with almost nothing else, Mountain Man creates an album that can be appreciated as much for what it achieves as for what it leaves out.
Past tours and live offerings have found the group blasting out hard rocking/white boy blues, but tonight found them more confident, easing back and letting the songs (especially those played as a four piece) speak for themselves. This came with a sacrifice of their metallic aggression and urgency but it is hard to argue with the quality of the Brothers tracks.
Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp are announcing details about the 25th Farm Aid next week during a special webcast. While lineup and venue are yet to be revealed, it is
Omar Rodriguez Lopez of the Mars Volta has announced the U.S. live debut for the Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group in September, directly following performing at the Metamorphose Festival in Japan.
Earlier today we told you about Bob Weir’s difficulties during the first set of Wednesday night’s Furthur show at the Nokia in New York City. The Furthur guitarist – and
We were saddened to find out that legendary musician/producer Ben Keith left this mortal coil on Monday at the age of 73. Keith is probably best known to our readers for his pedal steel work with Neil Young, but he’s also worked with The Band, Paul Butterfield, Patsy Cline, Warren Zevon and on and on.
For this week’s B List we wanted to pay tribute to Keith by dipping our toes into the YouTube vault for a few examples of his exemplary work…
1. Neil Young – Down By The River
We start with Ben Keith’s last appearance with Neil Young at the 2009 Bridge School Benefit.
READ ON for more clips featuring the work of Ben Keith…
I had a horrible nightmare, I dreamed that we went…back in time. It was terrible. Well…We’re safe and sound now, back in good old 2010. We’ve got a nice collection this week, opening up with long instrumental exploration, members of The Grateful Dead, a jamband’s first show in over a year and some topical humor dedication from our friends from down south.
[Thanks to Craig T for this week’s photo]
And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.
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Artist & Title: Geoff Scott’s Public House – Unknown
Date & Venue: 2010-07-20 Atwoods Tavern – Cambridge, MA
Taper & Show Download: Andy Murray
I often write in this feature about one of Boston’s best kept secrets – Club D’Elf. Another one is Geoff Scott, guitarist formerly of Miracle Orchestra, that heads up Tuesday Night gigs at Atwood’s Tavern in Cambridge, MA. Geoff pulls from a similar pool of musicians that show up at Club D’Elf, and this 20-minute segment of music – which we are all having trouble figuring out song titles for – illustrates what this ensemble is all about. This past Tuesday’s performance featured Mike Rivard of Club D’Elf (Bass, Sintir, Kalimba), Johnny Trama (Guitar), Timo Shanko (Saxophone) and Brian Sayers (Drums). It’s not the most organized pickup jam, so I can’t even point you to a website that tells you when the next gig is.
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/geoffsauce.mp3]READ ON for tracks from String Cheese Incident, the Rhythm Devils and Widespread Panic…
Furthur played the first of two shows at the Nokia last night and the big story was Bob Weir’s performance. Bobby – who uses a teleprompter – struggled mightily with the lyrics in a particularly horrid Brown Eyed Women, El Paso sequence. Weir couldn’t get past the first verse of El Paso and after futzing around for a while announced he was going to start over. The second take on the lyrics was just as rough as the first.
There’s been tons of talk and speculation on the PhilZone and Ratdog.org message boards about what Bobby’s issue was, but nothing has been confirmed. Regardless, we hope Bobby’s okay and that Furthur pulls it together tonight. Take a listen to the sequence yourself to hear how bad it was. Brown Eyed Women starts around 16:35 and El Paso at 24:30…
READ ON to hear last night’s first set (warning: it autoplays)…
Back in early June, I centered my Phish Summer Tour Preview around a symbolic fork in the road, which is where I saw the band prior to their 19-date first leg. It wasn’t my most accurate column as I mistakenly called the cavernous Thompson Boling Arena in Knoxville small and was probably a little harsh in criticizing their playing in Hampton. But at the end of the column I laid out three options that I thought were available to the band for this summer, which was really my main point of the whole article.
[All photos by Adam Kaufman]
We all saw what went down in June and early July with Phish tearing it up on a nightly basis and surprising the hell out of fans with bust outs and new covers galore. This is what I referred to in the column as “Option A.” Every song the band had ever played was fair game. Among the most outstanding choices: Fuck Your Face was played in Charlotte after being on the shelf for over 23 years (or 1,413 shows). The Friday night Camden show opened with the first Alumni Blues in 222 shows sandwiched around the first Letter to Jimmy Page in 587 shows. Tela, which had previously appeared only five times since 1997, was played twice. In Raleigh, the show opened with the now-rare Llama and always-rare Roses are Free with Have Mercy and a scorching Light Up or Leave Me Alone in the second set.
The new covers included The Band’s Look Out, Cleveland and John Lennon’s Instant Karma! in Cuyuhoga Falls, Tom Waits’ Cold Water in Portsmouth, VA, Jumping Jack Flash in Merriweather and a heartfelt take on Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, a gutsy choice considering the high regard in which that song is held. And in Alpharetta, on July 4, the band whipped fans into a frenzy with a Harpua featuring a cover of Rage Against the Machine’s Killing in the Name Of. That of course after already playing Colonel Forbin’s Ascent > Fly Famous Mockingbird in the first set. So far the covers have all been one-offs. Will that continue in the second leg or will we see more polished versions of some of these? I’m hoping for the latter.
READ ON for more of our Phish Summer Tour Leg 2 Preview…
This 17-minute infomercial promoting the Gathering of the Juggalos has been described as “the greatest thing on the internet” and we think that’s not too far from the truth. Can
