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...Dua Lipa!
This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on Female Artists at the Bonnaroo Festival.
Since we are in the teeth of summer, it gets RtBE thinking of Festivals, so let's revisit great sets from Bonnaroo's past. This isn't the first time we will be looking back at Bonnaroo, but there are tons of full sets to choose from. This month we focus on Female artists who played the festival in the past.
The NYC based Lightning Bug's fourth album is a continuation of their mix of ethereal and folk sounds as the quartet toy with electronics, nature, poetry, and the modern world on No Paradise.
It is of Beachwood Sparks - Across The River Of Stars on Curation Records. The album is very reminiscent of GospelbeacH'slatest which we also reviewed for Glide.
Continuing our ongoing Monday's Dylan Cover Series, this week we present Eliza Gilkyson performing a cover of "Chimes of Freedom".
Thoughts on Original: From the first time we tackled a cover of this song: This song is a giant one in Bob's catalog, but it has always been one of the classic Dylan anthems that never really struck a chord with RtBE. For some reason when we talk about Dylan moving from protest singer to full on poetic songwriter, this is the tune that comes to mind. It seems to be stuck between those two worlds and the version on Another Side Of Bob Dylan just doesn't connect on many personal levels. I may be in the minority but this has never been a great Dylan song in my eyes...which in-turn does make it ripe to cover...
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This is the second time we are featuring Eliza Gilkyson who is a Taos, New Mexico-based folk musician, in our Monday Dylan Cover series. Check out her live version of "Love Minus Zero/No Limit".
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A very 90's alt-rock-folk take on the tune sung as a duet, marching forward into the unknown with electric/acoustic guitar strums, drums and a protest spirit.
Happy 83rd Birthday to George Clinton, the purveyor of all things funky.
Clinton has been a longtime favorite of RtBE and a massive influence on our musical tastes. We reviewed his most recent album (which was much better than expected) and have seen him live a bunch.
Give up the funk for Uncle Jam, the dirty dog himself. Celebrate his birthday by pumping some tunes and getting down. Here are a few we will spin:
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...Gillian Welch!
This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on Female Artists at the Bonnaroo Festival.
Since we are in the teeth of summer, it gets RtBE thinking of Festivals, so let's revisit great sets from Bonnaroo's past. This isn't the first time we will be looking back at Bonnaroo, but there are tons of full sets to choose from. This month we focus on Female artists who played the festival in the past.
This week it is back to 2007 with Gillian Welch. Check it out below:
Orphan Girl
Elvis Presley Blues
Rock of Ages
Throw Me a Rope
I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
Black Star (Radiohead cover)
Look at Miss Ohio (with John Paul Jones)
Wayside/Back in Time (with John Paul Jones)
Keys to the Kingdom
Everything Is Free
Knuckleball Catcher
My First Lover
No One Knows My Name
One Little Song
Revelator
To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) (Ryan Adams cover)
Caleb Meyer
Encore:
I'll Fly Away (Albert E. Brumley cover)
Jackson (Billy Edd Wheeler cover) (with John Paul Jones)
Happy 50th Anniversary to Neil Young'sOn The Beach.
This record from Uncle Neil, the second of his Ditch Trilogy, has always been a a favorite of RtBE's, starting with the best album cover Neil ever created.
The North Carolina based outfit The Pinkerton Raid have released a new single "If A Tree Fell".
Regarding the songs creation, the writer, Jesse James DeConto states:
"I was complaining to our old drummer Scott about struggling to connect with the right audience who would have the kind of experience that we’re trying to craft for them. Scott said I should write a song for those people; that was after playing for one of those very distracted and preoccupied barroom crowds, maybe six months before COVID started. During the lockdown, I finally dug into writing that song, and the sense of longing was only heightened because in those endless 18 months, we couldn't be in the same room with any kind of audience at all, much less a beautifully connected one. “If a Tree Fell” is my attempt to capture the feeling that a song is incomplete until it makes somebody feel something."
The fantastic Tipitina’s Record Club’s newest release is a reissue of Sister Gertrude Morgan's only full length release, 1971’s Let’s Make A Record. This singular gospel rarity arrives on white vinyl, the same color Morgan wore once she became a bride of Jesus, preaching her sermon throughout New Orleans.
One of RtBE's Favorites, Japandroids are back for one final album, Fate & Alcohol, which is due out in October.
The site has focused on the band a lot in the past and can't wait to check out the new album. The first single, "Chicago" has been released today. You can check it out below:
On Thursday night July 11th a heat wave thankfully broke in New York City and the River & Blues Festival in Battery Park City kicked off their 25th year of free music in downtown Manhattan with the fantastic American band Los Lobos.
London based singer/songwriter Laura Marling releases her new single "Patterns" ahead of her eighth studio album Patterns in Repeat.
Regarding the new album Marling states:
“Over the course of nine months, I had happily prepared myself for the fact that my life as a songwriter would be put on hold while I adjusted to life as a new parent. How delighted then was I to discover that for the first few months of a baby's life, you can bounce them in a bouncer and play guitar all day. For the first time in my life, I was able to gaze into another human's eyes as I wrote. Of course, new parents feel like they discovered that feeling - one of the very finest that life has to offer, of looking into the eyes of your child and feeling the enormity of the picture as a whole, the enormity of a precarious life, celestial, fragile and extraordinary, taking its place among the comparatively banal constellation of a family. This banal constellation seems to have dominated the writing of Patterns in Repeat - the drama of the domestic sphere, the frail threads that bind a family together, the good intentions we hold onto for our progeny and the many and various ways they get lost in time. So much complexity in the banal, the caged, the everyday.
“Being as I am, 34 years old, now 15 years and 8 albums into a life in song, I am unable to escape the fact that each record has served as a time-stamped chapter of my life (though some have appeared more a premonition). Now, here we are, following a youth spent desperately trying to understand what it is to be a woman, I am at the brow of the hill, with an entirely new and enormous perspective surrounding me.”
It is of Johnny Blue Skies (aka Sturgill Simpson's) newest offering Passage du Desir.
Metacritic thinks I gave this album an 80. I thought the review was a bit more reserved, I would say it is closer to a 75-70, but Metacritic doesn't ask me and I am not sure how they calculate their numbers from my words?
In this ongoing Monday Series we will be exploring various artists versions of Bob Dylan song's. Today's tune is a cover by Chris Hillman, Roger McGuinn, Marty Stuart of "My Back Pages"
The original has taken upon itself a cultural importance, and the chorus has simply become iconic. I doubt Dylan intended such, but it toes the line of out and out protest and illustrative questions. He puts down everyone from evangelists to girls, but the language snakes and flows so magically that it doesn't seem as harsh as "Positively 4th St" or "Ballad in Plain D". The sense of exhaling desperation or at least the realization that age confuses things even more seems to be what I take from this tune after each listen, but things can change...or can they? Cover:
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We did a month of The Byrds covering Dylan twelve years ago, but we never got to this tune. Here are two of those Byrds with Marty Stuart doing it live in 2018.
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Fun and straight ahead cover in Byrds style that really works wonderfully no matter what year it is.
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...Daughter!
This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on Female Artists at the Bonnaroo Festival.
Since we are in the teeth of summer, it gets RtBE thinking of Festivals, so let's revisit great sets from Bonnaroo's past. This isn't the first time we will be looking back at Bonnaroo, but there are tons of full sets to choose from. This month we focus on Female artists who played the festival in the past.
This week is Daughter from 2016. Check out the full set below:
Hamburg, Germany's Entropy share a new video/single "King of Rain"
About the tune, Guitarist/vocalist Hans Frese says:
“Lyrically, what I’m most excited about in this song is that I managed to include a reference to one of my favorite movies, the Denzel Washington-led flick Man on Fire, one of the all- time great stories of perseverance and redemption. Which also fits well with the general vibe of the song!"
In the studio, I remember that recording the solo was particularly fun - playing the simple melody, I kind of felt like George Harrison for a tiny moment. Kövi says that the drums were at least partly inspired by "Pretty Woman" too, so even though the song has a distinct '90s alt rock vibe, there are also subtle elements that recall other great decades in music!”
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