Robert Earl Keen photo by Ushlambad.

Here is a classic live gem from Austin City Limits Festival 2003. Robert Earl Keen is the king of ACL and this performance serves as a great reminder why that is. From the first slide licks on Lay Me Down My Walking Cane to the last drum fueled distortion laced riff of Road Goes On Forever this show rocks! I especially dig the cover of the Waylon Jenning’s classic I Don’t Think Hank Done It This Way.

This was Robert Earl Keen’s first performance at ACL and the second year of the festival which started in 2002. He’s somewhat of a regular fixture of the festival now having played five ACL festivals. Nothing is more fun than sitting out in the September heat of Zilker park screaming along “A can of bean dip and some Diet Rite A box of tampons, Marlboro Lights.” Thanks to the person who recorded this and also to trustthex for seeding. Robert Earl Keen will be playing Gruene Hall new years eve. Get your tickets here.

Get your lossless copy here.

Robert Earl Keen
September 19, 2003
Cingular Stage, Zilker Park, Austin, TX

01: Intro
02: Hand Me Down My Walking Cane
03: Blow You Away
04: Corpus Christi Bay
05: Furnace Fan
06: Shades of Gray
07: Amarillo Highway
08: I Don’t Think Hank Done It This Way
09: Beats the Devil
10: China Cat Sunflower>Dreadful Selfish Crime
11: Floppy Shoes
12: Tangled Up & Blue>
13: Road Goes On Forever

There is a movie being made about Todd Snider’s new album Peace Queer. I don’t have very many details but here are some clips. All I can say is that Todd Snider is a very disturbed man and I love him for it!

Todd will be playing Gruene Hall on December 30.

Best stop motion video ever!

Radiohead – Weird Fishes – by Tobias Stretch

Austin live music task force

If you care about live music in Austin, show up at Antone’s tomorrow at 1:00 and march over to city hall to show your support and hear the Austin Music Task Force present their recommendations to city council. Important topics such as noise ordinances and the creation of an Austin music office will be discussed. Do your part to make sure that Austin remains the live music capital of the world!

This is an Austin City Limits Festival after show at Emo’s that was amazing. Shooter and the band were on fire that night during the opening set for Drive By Truckers. When listening to the show you can tell that Shooter brought his A game for the ACL shows. There must’ve been some sore throats and ringing ears the next day. I can’t help but think how much hell Waylon must’ve also raised in Austin. Thanks to Larry Pillman for taping and seeding. You can get your lossless copy on bt.etree. I will continue to seed as long as possible. Enjoy!

Shooter Jennings and the 357s
09-26-08
Emos
Austin, TX

Source: AKG 483 > Oade UA5 Wmod > Microtrack 24/48
Location: DFC @ 9′
Transfer: Microtrack > Wavelab 5.0 (resample, dither) > CDWave (tracking) > flac level 6
Taped, Transfered and Seeded by Larry Pillman

01 The Wheel Keeps On Rollin
02 Gone To Carolina
03 Lonesome Blues
04 Slow Train
05 4TH Of July
06 Bad Magic
07 Higher
08 Ain’t Livin’ Long
09 Crazy
10 Blood and the Stone
11 Living in a Dream

Derek Trucks Band

The new Derek Trucks Band album Already Free comes out on January 13. If the first single Down In The Flood is any indicator, the album will be smoking. Already Free is the sixth studio release from the Derek Trucks Band and was recorded entirely in Trucks’ Jacksonville, FL home studio. According to Trucks:

“This album was completely organic. We had no expectations. We just came down and started writing. Then one thing led to the next. I had all this time off so I just started calling up friends. And once the process started rolling and once we realized that we were onto something, we were writing tunes and all the sounds we were getting were amazing and it was starting to feel great. It felt like something was happening and we wanted to keep throwing musicians on the fire”

In addition to the standard Trucks Band music wizardry of Derek Trucks on guitar, bassist Todd Smallie, percussionist Count M’Butu, drummer Yonrico Scott, keyboardist Kofi Burbridge and singer Mike Mattison the album features several guest appearances from the likes of Doyle Bramhall II, Oteil Burbridge and Trucks’ wife Susan Tedeschi.

Check out Down In The Flood on iTunes

Already Free track listing:

1. Down In The Flood
2. Something To Make You Happy
3. Maybe This Time
4. Sweet Inspiration
5. Don’t Miss Me
6. Get What You Deserve
7. Our Love
8. Down Don’t Bother Me
9. Days Is Almost Gone
10. Back Where I Started
11. I Know
12. Already Free

I’ve been listening to and thinking about Stevie Ray Vaughan quite a bit lately. There was a great article in the Austin Chronicle a couple months ago about some recovered early recordings from 1978 which kicked off yet another rediscovery of SRV for me. I’ve got a few live recordings but this show is the best live Stevie Ray that I have in my collection. It will blow your mind if you are a big Stevie Ray fan and turn you into a fan if you aren’t. The Little Wing is bone chilling. I can’t imagine the energy in the air on that summer night at Red Rocks when Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble blew the place away.

If you’d like a lossless copy, you can download it FLAC here.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
06/19/85
Red Rocks Amphitheater
Morrison, CO

01. Ain’t Gone ‘n Give Up On Love
02. Pride and Joy
03. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
04. Tin Pan Alley
05. Look at Little Sister
06. Texas Flood
07. Come On (Part III)
08. Little Wing
09. Third Stone From The Sun

Big thanks to Flickr user motleypixel for the cc licensed photograph of the Stevie Ray tribute at Lady Bird Lake.

I’m still a little shocked that it actually happened. Had you told me four years ago that in 2008 a black man would become president I’d probably have called you crazy. Now we can finally hold our heads up high and turn a new page. We can say goodbye to all the destructive politics of the last 8 years. Goodbye to McBush, Bible Spice, Bush, Cheney and the lies and destruction that they’ve brought upon the world. Hello peace, democracy and prosperity!

Here is a great video of Wilco playing an Obama rally in Chicago. Tweedy does a great job of verbalizing all the things that are great about our newly elected president:

Get your Palin 2012 shirt here!

Starting to get some traffic from a Todd Snider photo I shot at the Santa Fe Brewing Company. Thought the Jambase hippies might like to check out this superb (if I may say so myself) Jerry Garcia show from Oregon State Prison (5-5-82) I posted a while back. It seems to be a favorite of cuckoobird.net readers.

Cheers!