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Cover Wars: Goin’ Out West Edition

DaveO September 22, 2010 No Comments

We first visited the catalog of Tom Waits a couple of months ago when we made the Cold Water edition of Cover Wars. Goin’ Out West was released on the 1992 Waits album Bone Machine. Fun bonus this week, we’ve got both very old and recent video to compare from two of our four contestants. You don’t see a whole lot of Mid ’90s live concert footage on YouTube, so that was a pleasant surprise to find. Ten points to anyone who can identify what scene in Fight Club features this song.

Cover Wars

The Contestants:

British band Gomez leads us off this week with a strong performance from 2005. A fantastic recording of a show that also features covers of The Beatles and Buddy Holly. Audio Source: 1-24-2005

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READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…

Widespread Panic: Live In The Classic City II

Bryan Rodgers September 9, 2010 No Comments

Widespread Panic's Live in the Classic City II is an example of how not to put together a live release, and it stands in stark contrast to the beloved first volume of the series. Comparisons between the two releases are inevitable, and this two disc set is the son that could never live up the older brother, the participation award winner instead of the blue ribbon holder, the comeback bid that fell short.

Best of Cover Wars: On Your Way Down

DaveO August 17, 2010 9 Comments

[Originally Published: December 1, 2009]

On Your Way Down was originally released on Allen Toussaint’s 1972 album Life, Love and Faith. It’s OK if you thought this was written by Little Feat, because a lot of people do. Little Feat recorded their studio version just months after Toussaint and put it on their record Dixie Chicken.

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The Contestants:

Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint: I’m always torn on whether or not to include tracks like this in Cover Wars. That is, covers that also feature the original recording artist. But in this case, Elvis Costello handles the lead vocal duties for the duration of the song, plus it’s an amazing take – so it would be a shame not to include it. If you’re not familiar with this CD/DVD, it’s amazing – would make a good holiday gift. Source: The River In Reverse

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READ ON for the scoop on the rest of this week’s contestants…

Last Week’s Sauce: July 19th – 25th

DaveO July 29, 2010 No Comments

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.

Click here to download the Last Week’s Sauce Podcast

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.

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READ ON for tracks from String Cheese Incident, the Rhythm Devils and Widespread Panic…

Panic: Fall Tour + Classic City II

Scott Bernstein July 26, 2010 No Comments

As Widespread Panic embarks on the final week of its summer tour, the group has announced plans for an extensive fall tour. The tour kicks off on September 17th in Morgantown, WV and continues through to a three-night stand at the Kiefer UNO Lakefront Arena in New Orleans, LA that ends on Halloween. Along the way JB and the boys will perform two shows at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Alpharetta, three nights at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in Nashville and three nights at the Fox in Oakland.

[Photo by Adam Kaufman]

In other Panic news, the band has announced plans to release a follow-up to 2002’s Live In The Classic City live album. Live In The Classic City II will be culled from the same three-night run that took place on April 1-3, 2000 at the Classic Center Theater in Athens that the original release came from. Those legendary shows are among the few in the band’s history in which taping wasn’t allowed. Special guests on Live In The Classic City II include Mike Mills (R.E.M.), percussionist Arvin Scott, producer John Keane and vocalists Daniel Hutchens and Anne Richmond Boston.

Check out THIS PIECE for our review and photos from last Thursday’s Panic show at Radio City Music Hall. The group kicks off a sold-out three-night run in Knoxville this evening. READ ON for a full list of fall tour dates…

Widespread Panic: Dirty Side Down

Shane Handler June 10, 2010 No Comments

Mixing up laid back southern charm (“Clinic Cynic”) jazzy instrumentals (“St. Louis”), compositions from old friends (Jerry Joseph’s “North”) and plenty of dynamic song-writing, there’s no arguing the oxymoron that Widespead Panic is the best studio band in the jam scene.

Video: Band Of Horses – Laredo

Jeffrey Greenblatt May 26, 2010 No Comments

After putting out albums in back to back years, it’s been three long years since we’ve heard any new music from Band Of Horses. The band dropped their major label

Widespread Panic: Walnut Creek Ampitheater, Raleigh, NC 4/24/10

Bryan Rodgers May 6, 2010 No Comments

Widespread Panic have ruled the roost at Raleigh’s Walnut Creek Amphitheater for almost two decades, and the addition of Jimmy Herring’s guitar work has given the veteran band a much-needed shot of adrenaline for the last couple of years. But judging from the attendance at the band’s traditional late April shows in Raleigh, interest in WSP is on the wane. Whether the culprit is sluggish concert ticket sales as a whole or dwindling interest in the band, the reality of the situation was sobering. WSP isn’t quite the power it used to be.

Review: Panic In Our Nation’s Capital

Chad Berndtson May 4, 2010 No Comments

Widespread Panic, Washington DC, April 21

The more time I spend with Widespread Panic’s forthcoming Dirty Side Down, the more it sounds to me like the most comfortable album Panic’s recorded in a decade. If it’s taken this long for Panic to finish a document that feels lovingly stitched together, not “assembled,” and truest to their live mojo, so be it –- for me, it’s taken almost as long for Panic the live band to be as reliable as they once were.

No, it’s not that I haven’t had epic, soul-nourishing Widespread experiences in the post-Houser era of the band, it’s just that it’s taken a long time to be able to depend on them again. Catching the band early in the tour in mid-April, the second of two nights in the capital’s lovely Warner Theater, was affirmative. To JB, Jimmy, JoJo, Dave, Sunny and Todd: I’m buying.

It was a haphazard show with some marvelous moments – part of Panic’s appeal, oddly, are the groovy, ragged edges that contrast the fiery peaks and soulful zeniths – and it was enough to keep me convinced. It’s not a “the band is back” type of feeling, either; Panic never went away and recovered pretty quickly, all told, from a personnel tragedy that would have derailed, or at least neutered, a lesser band. It’s more that I’m not convinced Panic’s best days are in the rearview mirror. They have miles to go, mountains to climb. Nearly 25 years in, that’s pretty impressive.

READ ON for more from Chad on WSP in Washington D.C….

Cover Wars: Rainy Day Women #12 & 35

DaveO April 28, 2010 No Comments

This was originally supposed to publish last Tuesday, where it would have been nice and topical, but time got away from me as I took a little vacation to the West Coast, but I’m back. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, numbers which multiply together to equal 420 in case you never went to college, is the opening track on Bob Dylan’s 1966 release Blonde On Blonde.

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The Contestants:

The Black Crowes: In addition to performing the song live, The Black Crowes also contributed a studio take to this 1995 disc for NORML that also includes Gov’t Mule performing Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam, and Widespread Panic’s studio take of And It Stoned Me, amongst other tracks. Source: Hempilation: Freedom is NORML

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