Cybergrass (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band will perform one of the new cuts from their latest album 'Speed of Life' (NGDB Records/Sugar Hill) as well as their classic "Mr. Bojangles" on the CBS Early Show on Saturday, November 21. Later that night, the group will bring their "deceptively masterful playing" (Washington Post) up north to play Levon Helm's Midnight Ramble in Woodstock, NY - a fitting...
Brooklyn Vegan (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Levon Helm The Levon Helm Band will be departing from their weekly "Midnight Ramble" gig at Helm's Studio in Woodstock for a show at NYC's Terminal 5 on Thursday, January 7th, 2010. Joining them at this show be Okkervil River...
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
I adore The Band's first three albums. I also like a great deal of their later stuff and even some of the solo output, especially Danko's first and the recent Levon Helm CDs. I was surprised the Observer Music Magazine gave space to Robbie Robertson's version of "The Last Waltz" filming. The break-up came, as is clear from various accounts, of Robertson's reluctance to tour and/or share...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
One of our favorite bands, The Band, was far from the most photographed/filmed act in the ’70s as such there aren’t many clips of The Band in action on YouTube. Yet, there are some and the ones that are on YouTube give a great view of this incredible ensemble doing their thing. This week’s B List presents the ten best The Band vids on YouTube. 1. Don’t Do It (The Academy of...
silence is a rhythm too (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
As many of you will know, I saw Steely Dan live a month or two ago. Their touring band is smoking hot - three lovely backing singers, a Grand piano, and a four piece horn section all feature. Their trumpet player is Michael Leonhart. He has been with the Dan since 1996, both in the live band and as their arranger, performer, and conductor on Two Against Nature and it's follow-up Everything Must
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Filed under: News , New Music When 15-year-old Killian Mansfield decided to record his debut album last year, it had to be the best he could ever do. He knew there wasn't another shot at it, no follow-up to refine any novice slips or incomplete artistic visions. This was his only chance. Within a year, the amateur musician who grew up in New York City and lived in the small village of West Shokan,...
Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News When the Who take the stage, it's deservedly an event. With a catalog 40 years in the making, frontman Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend , the last two remaining original members of the band, have earned that right. On Saturday night at the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, Daltrey was at the helm of a more low-key event, taking to the stage as part of...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Ken Shane has re-emerged from those dusty crates again, and this time he's carrying a rock and roll classic: the Band's Music From Big Pink .
captains dead (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
top of the morning. i have finally gotten around to listening to levon helm’s 07 release, dirt farmer, and all i can say is wow. its scratchin right where i itch. is electric dirt as good? i have heard that its hit or miss. anyone confirm or deny? so, after listening to dirt farmer for [...]
SLSO Blog (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
With the release of Bob Dylan's Christmas CD and the SLSO rehearsing Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, Dylan legend and the 1812's cannon blasts must have converged in my mind. (Sorry, no cannons in Powell Hall.)...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - He's the Eagle who isn't Don Henley or Glenn Frey or Joe Walsh.
Crispian's Album Reviews (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Mid 70’s southern blues rock isn’t as fashionable now as it was in say, the mid ‘70’s, so kudos indeed to the Black Crowes for refusing to kowtow to current vogues. There is not a single sound bite on “Before The Frost” that would identify it as a contemporary album. Recorded in Levon Helm's Woodstock barn before a special selected close audience may well sound like...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
This was a busy week as usual for the Hidden Track Crew as we published 34 posts by 11 different contributors including the latest member of our team - Tammy Wetzel . On Monday, I told you about Page McConnell’s sit-in with Mike Gordon at Higher Ground, Ryan Dembinsky profiled Hot Buttered Rum , Jason Woodside shared his photos and thoughts from the Disco Biscuits’ shows in Tennessee and...
Music Industry Newswire (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
COLUMN: You go through your musical memories and up pops that long lost classic, that awesome album from years gone by, that ideal example of “the way music used to be,” that shining beacon of ...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
I didn’t know much about guitarist Jim Weider’s Project Percolator band before I listened to the ensemble’s latest album, Pulse . I was familiar with Weider’s work as a member of both The Band and Levon Helm’s band, so I expected to hear your standard classic rock fare. Instead, I was treated to a wonderful disc full of complex, proggy tunes that grooved. Jim Weider &...
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