I can’t get enough Fleet Foxes these days. Check out this video of them performing Blue Ridge Mountains shot in the Grand Palais. It is a truly stunning performance. Its cool to see all the instruments they use in the song which I didn’t really have an appreciation for until I saw this. Fleet Foxes are the best new band of 2008 by a mile!

This video is so cool! Ricky Skaggs should’ve played mando on the original recording of Old Enough. Wake up little Suzie!

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, Robert Cray, Kenny Wayned Shepherd, Susan Tedeschi and countless others. The Master of the Telecaster is really on fire in this set which must’ve been an amazing experience for those lucky enough to be there. Monterey Jazz Festival is one of the longest running music festivals in the US. Starting in 1958, the festival celebrated its 50th anniversary this past September and has hosted some most legendary names in blues and jazz music. This show is a true gem and I hope you enjoy it!

Get your lossless copy here. Thanks to jimitrane for seeding.

Albert Collins
Monterey Jazz Festival September 16, 1978

Somebody’s Gotta Go
I’m Ready
Instrumental
Have Mercy
Don’t Lose Your Cool
Do What You Wanna Do
Things That I Used To Do
Frosty

Albert Collins photo by flickr user hoshisatotravel

Fleet Foxes are touring Australia and New Zealand right now and Blitzen Trapper’s US tour is heading out west. Do yourself a favor and go see them live!

Special thanks to Alex Leary for the superb soundboard. You can grab your lossless FLAC copy here which I will continue to seed as long as there is a demand.

Blitzen Trapper &
Fleet Foxes
07 March 2008
The Beta Bar
Tallahassee, FL

Source: SBD > Nomad JB3 (16/44.1)
Transfer: (usb) > iMac. Tracked via Sound Studio, FLAC via xACT

Blitzen Trapper
1. You’re Such a Big Star
2. Futures & Folly
3. Jericho
4. Godspeed
5. Wild Mount Nation
6. Sci-Fi Kid
7. Country Caravan
8. Devil’s A-Go-Go
9. Shoulder Full of You
10. Miss Spiritual Tramp
11. Cool Love Number One
12. Summer Town
13. Woof & Warp of the Quiet Giant’s Hem
14. Rock Us

Fleet Foxes
1. White Winter Hymnal
2. Your Protector
3. Mykonos
4. Oliver James
5. (Merch Banter)
6. Blue Ridge Mountains

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

Todd will be playing Gruene Hall on December 30.

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