Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Jerry Joseph, Backed By Drive-By Truckers, Album The Beautiful Madness Arriving In August

Singer Songwriter Jerry Joseph has a new album coming this August titled The Beautiful Madness.

The album was produced by Patterson Hood and his main band The Drive-By Truckers were enlisted as the backing band for Joseph.  Hood also helped write a few songs, and one of them is the first release from the record, "Days Of Heaven", and you can hear it below.

The album is coming out this August and Joseph is doing a Happy Book session on all of his social media channels every Thursday.


Live Streams: Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.


Today we highlight: Elena Ayodele Pinderhughes

Join the amazing flute player when she visits @harlemstage tonight at 6pm EST


RtBE first came across Pinderhughes talents when we heard her in the Christian Scott Quintet. She is amazing, check out her work here:

Album Review: Built To Spill - Built To Spill Plays The Songs of Daniel Johnston

Hey all, got a new review up @glidemag which you can read Right C'here!!!

It is of the Built To Spill newest release, Built To Spill Plays The Songs of Daniel Johnston.

RtBE are fans of both Built to Spill and Daniel Johnston having written about them both a bunch.That said, we wanted a little more from this record...that seems to be a continuing trend with BTS.

Support the artists, buy the album, read the review, stream it on Bandcamp or below and peep some video:

Monday, June 29, 2020

Live Streams: The Ladybug Music Festival

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: The Ladybug Music Festival

The Ladybug Music Festival has moved online like everyone else during these trying teams, as the first night of the two day fest starts in an hour:



The 2 Day fest can be viewed here. To get in the mood, one of RtBE's favorite albums from 2019 was Taylor Kelly's Up Up and Away and she is participating in this event, so here she is to hype us up for Ladybug with "Taco Night":



Dylan Cover #434 Molly Jeanne "When The Ship Comes In" Live

In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a live cover by Molly Jeanne playing "When The Ship Comes In"

Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this tune:
One of our favorite songs from the early days of Dylan. The purest Irish Folk we felt he ever got, Joan Baez was a fan of this one and told a cool story during No Direction Home, about him being pissed at a hotel attendant and then having this song just spiral out of him. Images of the sea, the salt, the song, raiding/pillaging; a pirate song at heart. When we are looking for pure folk Dylan this one usually finds it's way to our ears.
Cover:


Thoughts on Cover Artist:
Have not heard of Molly Jeanne before today's cover. She has a debut album, original songs and more at her site.

Thoughts on Cover:
An excellent live ukulele cover with some really gorgeous floating vocals from the young singer. This was posted in 2014 and Molly Jeanne has grown up, but this video shows she had lots of talent even back then.

Sunday, June 28, 2020

Live Streams: Justice Comes Alive

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Justice Comes Alive

Earlier this month the Quarantine Comes Alive stream helped out artists and charities, now the focus turns to social justice and police reform. This benefit is vital to help support the change that is needed and long overdue and a great lineup supports the just cause:


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@justicecomesalive is a one-day, donation-based virtual music festival harnessing the power of music to bring about collective change in response to racial inequality, produced by @liveforlivemusic in partnership with @nugsnet and @plus1org. The event will feature 50+ artists performing brand new sets throughout the day, streamed across multiple platforms on 6/28 beginning at 12 ET. . Donations generated from the event will benefit the PLUS1 For Black Lives Fund, which includes organizations such as @eji_org, @impactjustice, and @bailproject, as well as local Black and Indigenous-led grassroots organizations combating racism. We're also proud to partner with @headcountorg in their mission to encourage voter participation. . The event will be hosted by Robert Sput Searight, Nikki Glaspie, Nigel Hall, James Casey and Ari Fink, and feature artist-to-artist conversations throughout the day. . Donate any amount and receive links to watch on the day of the show. Link in bio.
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To get ready for the event here is Brandon "Taz" Niederauer - Where I Belong - 9/7/19 Blues & Brews Festival - Lowell, MA

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Live Streams: Can't Stop The Blues - Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram

The blues gets an airing today as one of the best young players on the scene Christone "KINGFISH" Ingram oes on Can't Stop The Blues Facebook page tonight:


RtBE has dug Kingfish since we first heard him and rated his album highly when we did our year end review for 2019 and are looking forward to tonight.

Kingfish is also participating in tomorrows Justice Comes Alive which we will post about as well, until these live streams, here is Kingfish playing with Buddy Guy:

Friday, June 26, 2020

Live Streams: Jason Marsalis

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Jason Marsalis

Playing down in New Orleans at Snug Harbor later this evening is Jason Marsalis:



To get in the mood for tonight's show here is the Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet:


Live Streams: Do Division Virtual Street Fest

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Do Division Virtual Street Fest

Do Division Virtual Street Festival will be happening over the next two days as The Empty Bottle and West Chicago come alive. The full streaming schedule is below:


To get in the mod here is OHMME who will be headlining tonight:

Live Streams: Denver Bluegrass Allstars

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.


Today we highlight: Denver Bluegrass Allstars

Some great bluegrass picking going on tonight in Denver:

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Honored to be part of this online event next Fri. Bluegrass music would not exist without the inspiration of Arnold Schultz, a former slave who lived in Rosine, KY & coached Bill Monroe during his formative years. To help kickstart the IBMA Arnold Schultz Fund, which promotes diversity & cultural education in Bluegrass, we bring you a collaboration of Denver-based musicians @phoffmanmusic, @AndyHallmusic, @tradplus, @greggarrisonbass, who'll come together at @mightyfinestudios for a 90-minute livestream, 6/26 at 7p MT (9PM Eastern). The stream will be available to view on @nugsnet and is being made possible by our friends at @upslope. It will be free to view with a percentage of funds raised going straight to help kickstart this fund. Copy/paste this link for more details: http://2nu.gs/DenverBluegrassAllstars • • • #DenverBluegrassAllstars #ArnoldSchultz #ArnoldSchultzFund #Bluegrass #InfamousStringdusters #GreenskyBluegrass #LeftoverSalmon #GrantFarm #IBMA #Farmily
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To get in the mood here is Paul Hoffman from  Greensky Bluegrass whose most recent album All For Money was one of our favorites from 2019. Hoffman is covering The Grateful Dead's "Black Muddy River", perhaps he will play that as part of tonight's broadcast:


Full Show Friday: The Fab Four @ Burbank, CA - July 11 2015.

We search the murky back waters of youtube to find full concerts and post them to the site weekly, come back every seven days to help us celebrate Full Show Friday's. These shows are of varying quality and may not be here for long so enjoy them while you can...As always, please support the artist every which way, but especially by seeing them live (if they are still playing)...This week...The Fab Four!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artistsyearsvenues, festivals or some combo of it all. This month we are showcasing bands that cover other artists.

This week it is: The Fab Four Burbank, CA - July 11 2015.

While RtBE discussed The Beatles last year when we were neck deep in our Masters series, but we never brought up their best cover band, The Fab Four.

Here they are covering the band in 2015. Full set list below, Enjoy:


0:00 Penn Jillette Disclaimer 0:43 Introduction - Ed Sullivan 2:43 Please Please Me 4:44 I Want to Hold Your Hand 8:32 All My Loving 12:09 A Hard Day's Night 14:44 If I Fell 18:34 Eight Days a Week 21:27 Can't Buy Me Love 24:19 I'm Happy Just to Dance with You 26:51 In My Life 30:23 Yesterday 33:18 Help! 36:02 You're Going to Lose that Girl 38:27 The Night Before 41:13 I Saw Her Standing There 45:50 Twist and Shout 49:11 Second Set Introduction 52:13 Good Day Sunshine 54:39 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 56:40 With a Little Help from My Friends 01:00:54 Penny Lane 01:04:20 Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 01:05:35 A Day in the Life 01:14:27 Got to Get You Into My Life 01:19:51 Imagine 01:25:25 Here Comes the Sun 01:29:06 Revolution 01:38:42 Let It Be 01:43:12 Hey Jude


Thursday, June 25, 2020

Album Review: Holly Bowling - Alone Together The Living Room Sessions Vol 2

Holly Bowling
Alone Together The Living Room Sessions Vol 2
***and1/2 out of *****

Holly Bowling, like many artists on the jam band scene, make their living touring. With the Covid-19 lock down in place that has been impossible in the spring of 2020 so Bowling has hunkered down in her living room and recorded/released a few live performances which are a joy to listen to (safely) in your own living room.

Alone Together The Living Room Sessions Vol 2 shows exactly who Bowling is as she weaves through her classical piano instrumental covers of Grateful Dead, Phish and others. The hour and a half long set directly deals with the original tunes and leaves space for improvisation.  

Cascading opener "China Cat Sunflower" sets the mood as Bowling touches on many aspects of playing with joyful runs, minor dissonance clanging before a dramatic swelling into "Taste". The Billy Breathes tune is a perfect tune for Bowling to use as her piano delivers the tune in direct a direct straight ahead manor. "St. Stephan" goes a different route progressing through lots of phases before pairing well with "Pebbles and Marbles" which slows the pace with a mellow rendition that eases into the first noticeable pause in the playing. 
  
Bowling next turns her attention to "Crazy Fingers" a song that could be performed straight ahead like "Taste" and fit perfectly, but Bowling jams all around the tune including a bluesy finale that drops smack into an exploratory "Sand". The following "Days Between is stoic and gorgeous in Bowling's fingers before it fades into feedback and a digital pulsing Youngbloods original "Get Together" with loads of energy palpable through the speakers.

Bowling then revisits "St. Stephan" which segues into a searching upbeat version of "The Eleven". The main set closer is a call back to the opener as "I Know You Rider" begins slow, increases to Broadway dramatic levels, while encore "Squirming Coil" brilliantly recalls Page McConnell's piano with reverence as Bowling wraps up a fantastic set of tunes.

Fans of the Dead and Phish are already well aware of Bowling's talents and will thoroughly enjoy this collection, however even if you have never heard those bands, Bowling's classical piano instrumental work is exciting, enjoyable and worth a listen. Whether it is Alone Together The Living Room Sessions Vol 2 or any of her other recent lock down related releases Bowling and her piano work can help ease us through tough times. 
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Support the artists, buy the album and peep some video below:


Live Streams: Soundtrack of Our Lives - A Celebration of For The Film/TV Community

With live music on lock down (like everything else currently in New York City) live streams and old concerts have become essential for live music junkies like RtBE. While this current state of pandemic separation is in order we will highlight various shows/streams/virtual events for your viewing and listening pleasure and you can always check out or weekly Full Show Friday series for concerts from the past. Please support the artists any which way you can.

Today we highlight: Soundtrack of Our Lives A Celebration of For The Film/TV Community

This benefit is for the following:
Members of our Film & TV Music community - from composers to musicians to singers to those involved in preparing, recording and mixing - are suffering from the financial and emotional impact of COVID-19. These are the people whose scores and songs transport, inspire, uplift and get us through some of the hardest challenges by creating the soundtracks of our lives. In this well-paced, pre-recorded and edited one-hour online special, stars, singers, composers, songwriters, and others will celebrate glorious moments of Film/TV Music with great heart and humor. Charity donations to MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund will be encouraged throughout the show.
A whole host of artists will be participating in today's live stream including, Jon Brion, Danny Elfman, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Nicholas Britell, Tim Rice, Hans Zimmer, Sting, Catherine O’Hara, Ming-Na Wen, Patti LuPone, William Shatner, Elisabeth Moss, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Marla Gibbs and many more...


Tune in and support starting at 12 Noon PST (3pm EST). To get in the mood here is the master himself, Weird Al Yankovic: