For the encore of their 2007 performance at the quirky home of the London Symphony Orchestra, St. Lukes, Gillian Welch and long-time musical partner, David Rawlings, brought out the members
We welcome our newest Featured Columnist – Brian Bavosa – to the Hidden Track family, where he will bring his bi-weekly diatribes about life, liberty and the pursuit of Gamehendge. Take it away, Brian…
First off, let me welcome you to my new home. So, please wipe your shoes – or take them off all together if you please – for this is my humble, plush and shaggy electronically carpeted confines, affectionately dubbed Postcards From Page Side. My name is Brian Bavosa, music fan and journalist, whom some of you may have met at some of our favorite shows over the years.
[Photo by Pete Tschudy]
The rules of “Page Side” will be simply, or all together non-existent. It will be imperfect, like me, but with every intention to tell it like it is, from the perspective a a boy who grew up rocking out to the same tunes that have kept me in this scene right up until today. The column will include lots of stuff: from history lessons and live reviews, to interviews and I’m sure a few black-and-blues. PFPS promises to have a little bit for everyone, including the long-winded, tongue-twirling malarkey that I’ve been know to spout from my musical pulpit on occasion. Just try and debate me on Jagger vs. Bowie’s wardrobe of the 1970’s or the best Harry Hood ever and I’ll talk your ear off until it bleeds. My girlfriend can attest to that.
Think of me as Hidden Track’s utility ballplayer, who sometimes will go deep for a walk-off homer, play all nine positions if needed and always will be the first with a shaving-cream-pie-to-the-face after a big win during the post-game, TV interview. But whatever the case, I invite you to stop by and peruse, have a cup of coffee and make this column a regular read, as all things Page Side shall focus on the reason we are all here: the mighty, transcendent power of MUSIC and all of the trimmings that go along with it.
Sure, I’ll go on tangents about Phish – my all-time favorite and a band I spent time being a beat-writer of sorts for on the road for certain publications – but will not be my only focus, despite the column’s name, but more of an inspiration, or jumping off point, and also aim to give you some of my insights into what else makes the world of music so special and meaningful.
READ ON for more of Postcards From Page Side…
LIVE IN LONDON, the first live recording and concert film from Regina Spektor, will be released November 22nd on Sire / Warner Bros Records. Captured mainly at London’s famed Hammersmith
Furthur, the new vehicle for music exploration featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, just recently brought summer to a close with a swing of dates up and down the Pacific coast. After two nights in Oregon and another in Washington, the band headed to Southern California, playing the Santa Barbara Bowl and Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre on September 20th and 21st. For those who showed up for the band’s SoCal gigs, it was two nights of fantastic musicianship celebrating the Grateful Dead’s legacy, as well as a beautiful present and promising future.
Put together musicians who have played with Zeppelin, Deep Purple and others and you should expect a concoction of ‘70s era hard rock with a blues belting vocal delivery. The new “super group” Black Country Communion is just that. Featuring Glenn Hughes on vocals, master blues-rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa, and Jason Bonham on drums, the band plow through a heavy, riff-saturated opener entitled “Black Country” with Hughes planting himself firmly inside the rocker.
The Budos Band has been playing their brand of “Afro Soul” since 2005, where they’ve recorded at their label's own studio, Daptone's House of Soul, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Their brand of Afro Soul can best be described as “Ethiopian music with a soul undercurrent to it, sprinkled with a little bit of sweet 60's stuff on top.
Music Today has started sending out notices of regret and confirmation to those who entered the lottery for tickets to Phish’s New Year’s Run. How did you fare? Let us know
Earlier this year the Dave Matthews Band announced that they’d be taking all of 2011 off from recording and touring, with DMB currently scheduled to conclude their year with two
Under African Skies is the seventh track off Paul Simon’s classic 1986 album Graceland. We have previously done The Boy In The Bubble Cover Wars here at Hidden Track, but because of stupid IMEEM shutting down, a lot of those old editions no longer have audio embedded in them, rendering them a bit useless. At some point in the future we will go back and fix these old posts with direct audio embeds. But enough about that, on to the covers…
The Contestants:
Brock Butler, who also appeared in The Boy In The Bubble Edition, kicks us off with a killer solo rendition. Source: 12-30-2005
[audio:https://glidemag.wpengine.com/hiddentrack/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/brockskies.mp3]Video from Amberland 2008 with a little help from Ayinde:
READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…
Royal Family Ball @ Terminal 5, October 2
Last Saturday night saw New York City’s Terminal 5 play host to the 3rd annual Royal Family Ball presented by Royal Family Records. With a huge sound and a stage that was bursting at the seams, fans were able to partake of a rotating set of jazz and hip-hop artists that included the members of Soulive, Lettuce, The Shady Horns, Nigel Hall, Talib Kweli and John Scofield.
Highlights included tracks from Soulive’s homage to the Beatles, Rubber Soulive, with Come Together, Something, Eleanor Rigby and I Want You (She’s So Heavy). A surprise appearance by Warren Haynes sealed the night for most, as he traded verses with Nigel Hall and blistering guitar licks with John Scofield on Born Under a Bad Sign.
Nigel Hall Setlist:
Intro – Hang It Up, Wait Till I Get Home, Too Sweet, Never Know, Gimme A Sign, Baby I Do Love You, Never Gonna Let You GoLettuce Setlist:
Intro, Blast Off, Sam Huff, Last Suppitt, King of the Bergs, Move Somethin w/ Talib Kweli, The Blast w/ Talib Kweli, Get By w/ Talib Kweli, Break Out, Relax, The Flu w/ John Scofield, Move On Up w/ John Scofield, Makin My Way Back HomeSoulive Setlist:
Come Together, Something, Eleanor Rigby, I Want You, El Ron, What You See Is What You Get w/ John Scofield, Hottentot – w/ John Scofield, Born Under a Bad Sign w/ John Scofield, Warren Haynes, Do The 2, Too MuchEncore: James Brown Medley w/ John Scofield
[Setlists courtesy of jambands.com]
READ ON for Jeremy’s fabulous pics from the Royal Family Ball…
