In our never ending quest to keep you up to date on all the festival announcements that bombard our in-boxes each day comes artist line up for the sixth annual McDowell Mountain Festival . The fest, which will takes place at the Westworld Polo Grounds in Scottsdale, AZ on April 24 and 25, will feature sets from The Flaming Lips, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Matisyahu, Hot Tuna, Railroad Earth, NRPS, Assembly Of Dust and a slew of other acts. Tickets are currently on-sale now for both day and weekend passes, and are limited to 10,000 for each [...]
Remember G.E. Smith? You remember, long blond hair, a jaw line that is kindly referred to as 'chiseled' and enough guitar playing talent to be the de facto band leader whenever he plays anything, even the radio. Sure you remember him. He toured for years with Hall & Oates. Led the Saturday Night Live Band for about ten years. Heck, I think he was even married to Gilda Radner about that same time. Played with Dylan, Jagger, and Bowie. He even led the house band at Live Aid back in '85. Yeah, THAT [...]
When current New Riders of the Purple Sage and former Hot Tuna guitarist Michael Falzarano put together his latest solo album, We Are All One , he enlisted the help of many of the great musicians that have become part of his extended family including the late Vassar Clements, Buddy Cage of the New Riders, JGB's Melvin Seals and Kerry Kearney. The resulting album takes you on a cohesive journey through many genres with Michael guiding us through all the wonderful styles of music that he's played over the years. [...]
It seems I spend a lot of my time organizing stuff around the house, a sure sign that I have too many things or not enough organization. Every now and then, a stack of CDs will accumulate from one place and another, without much rhyme or reason."Stacks of wax" is much more lyrical but this is simply a random desk full of digits. Steely Dan - Brooklyn One of my all-time favorite Dan's. Oliver Nelson - Elegy For A Duck How can you not [...]
This is my final Lebowskifest post for '08. The Rolling Stones released " Dead Flowers " in 1971, though they'd started recording it back in 1969. It's a song that's been covered a LOT -- the perfect country song for a rock band, and the perfect rock song for a country band. I've gone overboard for this edition of Multiple Mondays, with eleven versions (though I still can't claim it's even near complete) so you get to hear all-rock and all-folk versions, in addition to the various mixtures of rock and country. (I also had all-country and all-pop versions, but [...]
The big news in the Straw household: we got cell phones . Both The Duchess and I have abstained from them all our lives. We finally succumbed to the pressure. I would like to say we picked AT& T because they used The Band's "The Weight" in a commercial. But it was because of their rollover feature. It did get me thinking about all the different versions of this song. I LOVE that a lot of females tackle the tune. So here are oodles of [...]
. . . Continuing where we left off, with the 70s, including the greatest rock double album in history. "Let it Bleed" (1969) Featuring one of the greatest songs ever written, "Gimme Shelter." Gimme Shelter-Back Forty Gimme Shelter-Local H Gimme Shelter-Phil Lesh and Friends Let It Bleed-Mumbouli You Can't Always Get What You Want-The Radiators "Sticky Fingers" (1971) [...]
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Panama Red
1976 Publicity Photo (left-right): Stephen Love, David Nelson, Buddy Cage, John Dawson, Spencer Dryden. So my experience with New Riders of the Purple Sage is pretty much limited to a couple standards I heard my dad spinnin' as a kid and that it originated as a side project of Jerry's. That right there is enough for me to go looking for more though, and this happens to be the best example I came across on Archive.org that has the songs I knew previous to checking this out, "Panama Red," "Take A Letter Maria". I [...]
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