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Infamous Stringdusters – Four Days of Infamy

September 28, 2007

The Bluegrass Blog has posted an excellent documentary about The Infamous Stringdusters called Four Days of Infamy. Produced by String Theory Media, Four Days of Infamy gives insight into the daily life of the ‘dusters as it follows them through a tour of Colorado this past March. You can stream the documentary in its entirety. [...]

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Years In Your Ears

December 5, 2006

There is an excellent documentary  called Years In Your Ears out about one of the best bands of the jam band era, Leftover Salmon.  The documentary features tons of live footage and interviews with Yonder Mountain String Band, String Cheese Incident, Sam Bush, Peter Rowan, Béla Fleck, John Cowan and tons of other musicians that [...]

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Tom Petty Highway Companion

July 21, 2006

I’m streaming the new Tom Petty solo album Highway Companion on Rhapsody. So far I have to say it rocks just like everything Petty touches. Highway Companion has a more honest, less radio friendly appeal to it not unlike his record Echo which is one of my favorites despite the fact that it was relatively [...]

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Pete Wernick

July 11, 2006

One of my favorite bluegrass acts is Hotrize! They were so imensely talented and funny. Every second of their show was completely entertaining and fun. Hotrize is where I first heard the sounds of banjo virtuoso Pete Wernick (a.k.a. Dr Banjo. It seems like I keep hearing all sorts of things about Pete Wernick lately. [...]

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No Dead This Summer

March 20, 2006

The big question on every deadhead’s mind lately has been will The Dead tour this summer and if so, in what formation? Well sorry to be a debbie downer, but there will be no reunion this summer according to this interview with Bob Weir. To be honest, the best post Grateful Dead shows I’ve been [...]

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Bill Kreutzmann Interview

March 16, 2006

Last night on my favorite radio program, Dead to the World, Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann and his son Justin Kreutzmann gave an interesting interview. In the interview Bill talks about his approach to drums and his style. He also talks about meeting Pigpen, Jerry Garcia and playing with Trey Anastasio and Mike Gordon (as [...]

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Wilco Frontman Jeff Tweedy On Piracy

February 16, 2006

Here is a great interview with the singer of Wilco, Jedd Tweedy in which he discusses music piracy and file sharing on the internet. I think he hits the nail on the head. The whole point of making music is to be heard. Making money is secondary. Don’t get me wrong, an artist should be [...]

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