Billed as America’s only Teen Grateful Dead Tribute Band, Lead Heads features a 12-year-old guitarist who has the signature Jerry tone and licks down as well as a 12-year-old female
Since late last fall, the organizers behind ATP New York have slowly revealed the details behind this September’s incarnation of the hipster-leaning music fest. As we previously reported, Iggy Pop
Trey Anastasio Band performing at the E-Factory in Philly on February 11th, 2010.
With the anticipation of the release of The Rainwater LP behind him, Clarence Greenwood (a.k.a. Citizen Cope) is back to his cool and collective musical ways. The New Yorker took the Bowery Ballroom stage last Friday, performing a collaboration of new and old Cope classics for a jam-packed Lower East Side crowd.
Southern sounding singer-songwriter Ken Will Morton’s latest release True Grit brings to mind a cross between Tom Waits, Marah, Steve Earle circa Exit O and Ryan Adams. Whether it’s the safe but solid opening title track to the roots-rock nugget “Gamblin’ Man’s Blues,” Morton can pen a song with an equally strong melody. And thankfully Morton doesn’t ease off that quality pedal for a moment judging by the mid-tempo “Hard Weathered Life.”
A couple of Fridays back I headed over to Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan’s West Village (formerly the famed Village Gate) to catch an intimate show from singer-songwriter Josh Rouse.
On March 16, The White Stripes will release Under Great White Northern Lights their first ever concert movie documenting the duo’s 2007 cross-Canada tour – the results of which will
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With each passing show, Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB continue to gel into a formidable unit. Last night in Red Bank, Big Red’s band got the Count Basie jumping with a concert that focused on the group’s early material. Anastasio opened the Valentine’s Day show with Valentine and dedicated Drifting to his wife, Sue, on the 21st anniversary of their first date.
[All Photos by Regan Teti Marscher]
Let’s take a look at the setlist…
Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB
February 14, 2010
Count Basie Theatre
Red Bank, NJSet One: Valentine, Cayman Review, Shine, Drifting, Curlew’s Call, Tube Top Flop, Obstacle of Course, Night Speaks to a Woman, Goodbye Head > Gotta Jibboo, Tuesday
Set Two: Sand*, Push On Til The Day, Mr. Completely, The Way I Feel, Money Love & Change, Sweet and Dandy, Last Tube
Encore: Sultans of Swing, First Tube
Notes:
* House lights go on because of fire alarm leading to impromptu parade with just horns and Trey on percusion[via @YEMblog]
The tour continues on Tuesday night at Terminal 5 in NYC.
READ ON for more of Regan’s amazing photos…
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