From the monthly archives:

October 2006

Willie Nelson – Songbird

October 31, 2006

Willie Nelson‘s new album Songbird was released today, what an excellent Halloween treat! The album was produced by Ryan Adams and features Ryan and his band the Cardinals as Willie’s backup band. The album is very bluesy and has some killer guitar licks to compliment Willie’s lyrical presence. The steel guitar really sounds sweet, giving [...]

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JJ Cale & Eric Clapton The Road To Escondido

October 18, 2006

The new JJ Cale and Eric Clapton collaboration, The Road To Escondido is a must hear for any Clapton /Cale/Blues/Guitar fan. Its got a laid back blues, rock, soul, americana sound and some killer guitar work. In addition to the licks of Cale and Clapton, Derek Trucks also lays down some slide work on this [...]

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Shooter Jennings Live At Irving Plaza 4.18.06

October 13, 2006

Shooter Jennings is the son of the late great Waylon Jennings (for those why might not know) and his brand of outlaw music could be described as Waylon Jennings meets Led Zepplin. His brand of rock and roll kicks soooo much ass and asures us that outlaw music lives on! His most recent release Live [...]

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Beck The Information

October 13, 2006

I’ve been on a huge Beck kick lately. Every album he releases is candy to my ears! I’ve listened to his new album The Information every day this week. My favorite song off the album, Strange Apparition is a nod to the Rolling Stones’ classic Torn And Frayed. The album uses less sampling than alot [...]

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More On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 10, 2006

Joel Selvin has a fantastic review of this year’s Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle.  The article also has some great photos.  I’m going to figure out a way to make it to this festival next year come hell or high water.  Hopefully they will break the “you can only play once [...]

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Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

October 6, 2006

There is a great article on NPR about Hardly Strictly Blugrass Festival (complete with streaming audio) and how it got its start. Billionare investment banker (and claw hammer banjo player) Warren Hellman started the festival 6 years ago as a way to bring some free music to his home city of San Francisco in Golden [...]

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Grateful Dead Gear

October 3, 2006

For all the gear heads in the audience, Blair Jackson has just published a new book called Grateful Dead Gear that contains in depth information about the Grateful Dead’s instruments, sound systems, and recording equipment.  Here is the info from the publisher backbeatbooks.com: Grateful Dead Gear is the very first in-depth examination of every aspect [...]

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