From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Todd Snider – Santa Fe Brewing Company 2-13-07

February 14, 2007

Last night I got to see Todd Snider play at the Santa Fe Brewing Company. I arrived at 7:00, thirty minutes before the show was supposed to start and it was already packed. Somebody mentioned to me that Todd’s new album The Devil You Know was ranked 33 on Rolling Stone’s top 50 albums of [...]

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Van Halen On Bluegrass

February 14, 2007

Well only David Lee Roth on Bluegrass, but it is a Van Halen tune (Jump). I love how the banjo player transposed the guitar solo to the banjo. David Lee Roth looks like a Senator or something in this video, he’s lost his edge. The band in this video is really good.

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John Prine – Angel From Montgomery – Telluride Bluegrass Festival 2006

February 11, 2007

I love this video…

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Rose’s Pawn Shop

February 10, 2007

I recently came across an amazing bluegrass, rocknroll, western, rockabilly, punk band from L.A. called Rose’s Pawn Shop. Their sound is very familiar yet completely different from anything I’ve heard before. Rose’s Pawn Shop does a wonderful job of taking aspects of all sorts of styles and making something that is new and all their [...]

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[mp3] Jerry Garcia – Oregon State Prison 5/5/82

February 6, 2007

I’ve been wanting to share this bootleg for a long time. The copy that my sister gave to me as a gift years ago is entitled Lonesome Prison Blues. This is Jerry Garcia playing acoustic with John Kahn on the bass in front of a small audience of inmates at the Oregon state penitentiary on [...]

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New Kings Of Leon

February 2, 2007

Kings Of Leon are streaming their first single off their new album Because Of The Times (set to be released sometime this spring) on their MySpace page. The song is called “On Call” and while its a little more down beat than most of the previous KOL stuff it remains true to their sound. Kings [...]

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