2010 has some great albums on the way, and some are already here. Charlie Hunter released his most recent effort on January 12th, the Disco Biscuits supposedly have their first studio effort in eight years coming in March and Drive-By Truckers also release a new disc that month. Check this piece to see what these bands and others were up to on the road last week.
[Thanks to sonicsound for this week’s photo]
Artist & Title: The Brew – Chance Reaching
Date & Venue: 2010-01-29 House Of Blues, Boston MA
Taper & Show Download: Ted Gakidis
HT contributor Wade Wilby headed out to the House Of Blues last week, and as I always do, I followed his thoughts on Twitter. Since he’s not the easiest person to impress, I took note of the comment that, “At moe. HOB. The Brew is ferocious. See this band asap”. The track I have selected is from the band’s 2008 release Back to the Woods. The band also opened their set with the theme music from Back To The Future, which is just awesome. The Brew play tonight with Particle at The Jewish Mother in Virginia Beach.
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Earlier this year Chali 2na, the former front man for the much beloved – but now defunct – hip hop act Jurassic 5, released his long awaited solo debut, Fish
This week, we have the long overdue Cover Wars debut from legendary British rockers Dire Straits. Sultans Of Swing was the band’s first single off their first album, which was self-titled and released in 1978.
In The Fender Stratocaster Handbook: How To Buy, Maintain, Set Up, Troubleshoot, and Modify Your Strat, Mark Knopfler shares how Sultans Of Swing almost had an entirely different melody, funny to think if the song would have still been popular with the alternate structure. Knopfler says no.
I originally wrote Sultans Of Swing on my National steel guitar, open tuned. Same lyrics, but a different tune. Since I can’t remember it, it was completely unremarkable! When I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Vibrolux, it became something else.
Check out the rest of that page over on Google Books for some funny quotes from Mark as he discusses the pros and cons of music theory.
The Contestants:
Agents Of Good Roots: Here’s a blast from the past in the jambands department. Fans of the Dave Matthews Band might remember these guys as the band that Dave shared some stage time with in the mid 1990’s. Source: 2-5-2000
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While the world celebrates the 40th Anniversary of Apollo 11, I made the best selection I could to fit the vibe and that is a track off of the Grateful Dead’s 1989 release Built To Last titled Standing On The Moon.
Many in the Grateful Dead community have hypothesized that the outro lyrics, “A lovely view of heaven but I’d rather be with you” indicated a feeling from Jerry that while he appreciated the band’s success and fans, a part of him wanted to just be out in the crowd with everyone else. Makes sense.
The Contestants:
Big Frog: You may recognize this band from their spot opening for Phish back in 2000 during their Japan tour. The ever-elusive Phish opening act spot. Source: 8-1-2007
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This wasn’t Guitar Center or Musicians Warehouse or any of the other large corporate owned multi-instrument behemoth, this was your friendly neighborhood guitar shop. With a dazzling array of guitars hung to a basic pegboard backdrop, a cash register, “No Stairway To Heaven” – an ode to Wayne’s World – and “Shoplifters Will Die” signs, the stage was set for America’s favorite “one man jam-band” to take the stage.
[All photos by Megan Case]
The lights fell at 8:45 p.m. and Keller’s Guitar Shop & Clinic opened for business. Its chief proprietor, Keller Williams, ambled to center stage, with guitar in hand and a goofy grin on his face as a flurry of notes reverberated out of the Variety Playhouse’s speakers. Perhaps the most lovable and likeable acoustic axe man around, Keller’s unique sound and presentation are his hallmark; his clever, cheerful and upbeat grooves are his trademark. The sold-out show seemed relatively sparse when Keller started up, but slowly and surely filled in.
The first time I saw Keller back in ’99, I was absolutely blown away. He is able to combine his virtuosic guitar playing with bass lines, drum fills, beats, horns and keyboards looped through delay devices, which creates a thick pillow to either play, sing or solo over. The results are truly unique and often times sublime. Keller’s show on the last day of January in Atlanta was much of the same and that’s a good thing.
READ ON for more of Matt’s review of K-Dub at the Variety…
In the west coast for a little more than a decade, there have been certain musical performers who have dramatically influenced the local music scene. At this year’s String Summit deep in the lush green forest of Horning’s Hideout, many of those musical icons came together to jam and celebrate in style….With Yonder Mountain String Band, members of the String Cheese Incident, Leftover Salmon, and Keller Williams all in tow,
For his latest album, 12, Keller Williams employs a fairly straightforward concept: 12 songs, one from each of his 11 albums and one previously unreleased track. It’s a neat twist on the “greatest hits” concept, a unique approach that should be no surprise to fans of the eccentric musician.
Photos by Norman Sands of Ratdog, String Cheese Incident and Keller Williams performing at Summerfest, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 6th, 2006.
For years, That One Guy has been stunning crowds with his remarkably peculiar one-man show, applying his stand-up bass prowess to a monstrous, homemade instrument. Standing nearly seven feet tall, The Magic Pipe is a chaotic collage of galvanized steel, duct tape and electronic gadgetry, run through an array of samplers and effects boxes.
Photos of Keller Williams and The Keels at the House of Blues in Cleveland, OH
