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[Mp3 Monday] Songwriter Delight

August 30, 2010

I have just what you need to make manic Monday not so manic. Here are some superb live tracks from three of the finest songwriters that are making up tunes today: Ryan Bingham, Fox Theatre, Boulder, CO September 8, 2009 Tell My Mother I Miss Her So Depression White Freightliner Blues Sweet Louisiana Justin Townes [...]

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Albert Collins Monterey Jazz Festival 1978

December 7, 2008

Lovers of Texas Blues: this one is for you. This vintage live masterpiece is Albert Collins at Monterey Jazz Festival in 1978. Albert Collins was such a pioneer of the Texas Blues sound and had a profound influence on guitarists like Stevie Ray Vaughan (just listen to Things That I Used To Do), Billy Gibbons, [...]

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Blitzen Trapper + Fleet Foxes, The Beta Bar, Tallahassee, FL March 7, 2008

December 1, 2008

For those of you who are still coming down from Blitzen Trapper‘s show at The Moehawk last week here is a great recording of an incredible show by two of the most amazing indie bands from the pacific northwest. This show includes Fleet Foxes opening for Blitzen Trapper at The Beta Bar in Tallahassee FL. [...]

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Stevie Ray Vaughan Red Rocks Amphitheatre June 19, 1985

November 8, 2008

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 [...]

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Sam Bush & Jorma Kaukonen High Sierra Workshop 6-30-2000

October 27, 2007

I love it when two musicians from completely different musical backgrounds come together and play music. This performance by Sam Bush and Jorma Kaukonen from High Sierra Music Festival on June 30, 2000 could be what influenced Jorma to record Blue Country Heart which is a masterpiece of roots blues and country featuring Jorma, Sam, [...]

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Janis Joplin & Jorma Kaukonen – The Typewriter Tapes

April 2, 2007

I’ve always loved the vintage aesthetic to this recording. It gives me a good sense of what it might have been like to live in San Francisco during the sixties and bear witness to all sorts of spontaneous musical events. Janis‘ heart wrenching voice is accompanied by the fingerstyle sounds of Jorma Kaukonen on the [...]

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Jerry Garcia – Oregon State Prison – May 5, 1982

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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David Crosby 1970 Session Outtakes

July 6, 2006

Aquarium Drunkard has posted the outtakes from the David Crosby album If I Could Only Remember My Name. Not sure where he gets these things but he sure does deliver the goods! Here’s an excerpt from the post where you can grab the mp3s: “One of my favorite LP’s from the early ’70s is David [...]

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Vince Welnick: You will be deeply missed.

June 8, 2006

The Grateful Dead community suffered a great loss on June 2 when their keyboard player from 1990 to 1995, Vince Welnick took his life. Vince was an incredibly talented musician that filled some huge shoes for the Grateful Dead after Brent Midland passed in 1990. Not only did Vince fill those shoes, but he brought [...]

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Drew Emmitt Band

April 18, 2006

I love Drew Emmitt! I think he was one of the key ingredients to Leftover Salmon. My favorite songs that they played were the ones that he sang. In addition to being a great singer, he’s a killer mandolin picker. I wrote about Vince Herman’s post Leftover Salmon carreer here and I’m happy to see [...]

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