Full Show Friday: Bob Weir And Wolf Bros 2020 NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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...Bob Weir and The Wolf Brothers!

Some months our Full Show Friday's will focus on specific artists, years, venues, tv shows, festivals or some combo of it all. 

This months Full Show Friday Series focuses on concerts from Bob Weir who passed away last month.

Full Show Friday: Big Daddy Kane - Instagram Live 4/19/2020

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...Big Daddy Kane!

We started the month with a Tiny Desk Concert and we end with an Instagram live set from the legendary Big Daddy Kane.

Full set list and more below. Enjoy: 

Big Daddy Kane performed a 30 minute concert on Instagram Live with over 7,000 people watching on April 19, 2020. He performed 15 classics, with great timing and sound quality. In case you missed it or want to watch it again, this is a great performance. Enjoy! Set List: Big Daddy Kane feat. Biz Markie - 'Just Rhymin' With Biz' Big Daddy Kane - 'Set It Off' Marley Marl feat. Big Daddy Kane, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap - 'The Symphony' Big Daddy Kane - 'Smooth Operator' Big Daddy Kane - 'Let's Get It On' Big Daddy Kane - 'I Get The Job Done' Big Daddy Kane - 'Young, Gifted And Black' Big Daddy Kane - 'Wrath of Kane' Big Daddy Kane - 'Warm It Up, Kane' Big Daddy Kane - 'Mortal Combat' Big Daddy Kane - 'Raw (Edit)' Big Daddy Kane - 'Ain't No Half Steppin' Big L feat. Big Daddy Kane - 'Platinum Plus' Big Daddy Kane - 'Lean On Me' Big Daddy Kane - '???'

Full Show Friday: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live On My Green FM Music Festival 2020

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...Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit! 

This week we head to Live On My Green Music Festival back in 2020 for Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit's set. 

Having caught Isbell and crew this summer, and multiple times before that RtBE can attest to their live prowess. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Full Set List Below.  Enjoy! 

Intro: 00:00:45 If It Takes a Lifetime 00:01:03 24 Frames 00:05:03 Stockholm 00:08:30 How To Forget 00:12:10 Traveling Alone 00:16:19 The Life You Chose 00:22:04 Decoration Day 00:26:19 Speed Trap Town 00:34:04 Alabama Pines 00:39:09 Codeine 00:44:10 Cover Me Up 00:51:20 Super 8 00:58:15 Something More Than Free 01:03:25 Flagship 01:07:25 Never Gonna Change 01:13:10 Children of Children 01:21:25

Full Show Friday: Little Freddie King - 2020 Virtual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival

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...Little Freddie King!

Every April (and first week in May) we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on Little Freddie King who will be playing Today!

It has arrived! Today starts the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival at the Fairgrounds. Playing later today is living blues legend Little Freddie King. To celebrate, check out his set from the 2020 Virtual Crescent City Blues & BBQ Festival below to get pumped. Also tune into WWOZ later today to catch live music from the Fairgrounds!

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy!

Full Show Friday: Germaine Bazzle - Live from the Jazz & Heritage Center (2020)

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...Germaine Bazzle!

Every April (and first week in May) we have a special showcase for bands who are playing this years Jazzfest in NOLA. Today we will focus on Germaine Bazzle who will be playing Saturday April 30th.

Here is a set from the legendary Germaine Bazzle from WWOZ. Pro Shot, Pro Sound, Enjoy!

Full Show Friday: Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quartet - NaturaJazz 2020

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...Andrea Motis & Joan Chamorro Quartet! 

It's Jazzy January again here at RtBE, so get ready to kick off 2022 with some different styled shows every Friday. For this series we skew into new (or more recent) jazz lands. Keeping it current proves there is amazing live jazz still being performed no matter what Ken Burns says.

This incredibly talented Spanish jazz trumpeter and singer Andrea Motis is a joy to behold.  With Joan Chamorro and the whole quartet this performance is fantastic from just a few years ago. 

Pro Shot, pro sound. Enjoy:

 

Full Show Friday: Chase - Christmas in Concert Live 2020

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...Chase!

The artist Chase sings Christmas songs backed by the Summer Street Band. Pro shot, Pro Sound, full set list below. Merry Christmas. 

Enjoy this hour-long, live Christmas performance by Chase featuring both nostalgic classics & Great American Songbook standards. This concert has been made possible by the generosity of dear family, friends, supporters, patrons, and friends. Thank you, and Merry Christmas!! Virtual Tip Jar: https://paypal.me/chasesings This Live Concert Is Also Available On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0hdErP... Setlist: 0:00- It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year 4:22- Winter Wonderland 7:41- The Christmas Song 12:10- White Christmas 14:43- Please Come Home for Christmas 18:30- Kiss Me Beneath The Mistletoe 22:13- Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 26:13- Don't Get Around Much Anymore 28:48- I’ve Got You Under My Skin/The Look of Love 36:38- It Had to be You [with Scott Truran] 40:48- Georgia On My Mind 46:00- This Christmas 50:04- Spend A Little Christmas 53:55- I’ll Be Home For Christmas 57:33- Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow! 1:00:43- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 1:05:25- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas 1:08:38- Credits ________________________________ Vocalist: Chase ________________________________ Website: https://www.chasesings.com Instagram: @chasesings.music Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chasesings ________________________________ Due to the generosity of our Kickstarter backers, we were able to donate $1000 to the DYRK1A Syndrome International Association through the Christmas In Concert project. This is an organization that is very close to my heart, so, thank you, Kickstarter backers, for making a special difference in the lives of affected individuals and families!! To donate directly to this cause, please click here: http://www.dyrk1a.org/donate _________________________________ Special Thanks To: Musicians (Summer Street Band) Drums- Scott Truran Guitar- Tim Gowens Keys Left- Stan Coates Keys Right- Robert Meadows Bass- Kenny Bentley Saxophone- Ollie Patterson Venue (The Oak House) William Nolan Tony Nolan Audio Jorge Castro Video Team (Aethon Films) Will Ogburn Jon Haight Chris Brady Alex Wolcott Wardrobe Karon Davis-Truran Photography Walt McDole Set Design Karon Davis-Truran Bert Cooper

RTJ4 Deluxe Released with Lil Wayne Remix and More

RtBE's highest rated album of 2020 has just been re-released in a deluxe version, as Run The Jewels deliver RTJ4 Deluxe. 

Our review of RTJ4 mentioned how it captured the cultural zeitgeist, and things haven't changed all that much as we roll into the finale of 2021. 

Grab the album here.  Peep out the "Oh La La" remix with Lil Wayne below:

 

Full Show Friday: Valerie June - Shelter In Place Sessions

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...Valerie June!

Southwest Roots Music presents Valerie June live acoustic Shelter In Place Session from December 2020. June is a favorite of RtBE and we dig her style. 

Pro Shot, Pro Sound, full set list below. Enjoy:

0:10 Uncloudy Day 3:50 Astral Plane 8:11 Slip Slide On By 13:10 What a Wonderful World 17:40 True Love 20:06 Synthetic World 25:03 Landslide 30:01 1979 34:41 Columbine 37:59 Meet Me in the City 42:42 Drink Up and Go Home 45:33 Katie Cruel 48:11 Closing meditation

2020 Recap: Favorite Albums, Shows, Etc

With all the hectic happenings at the end of the year, things can be missed. This is just a catch up post to point out a few of our favorite things from 2020 that shouldn't go unnoticed. There were many strong releases, not many great live shows but other interesting things in a crap year....good riddance.

What a year, of course the world ground to a halt, and RtBE went out of our collective brains, posting 515 times, with a focus on live streams trying to publicize the musicians who were performing remotely, unable to tour. 

I personally also submitted the most reviews I ever have to Glide Magazine (almost 50 in 2020) and will take a second to thank Shane and the whole Glide team for allowing me to continue working with them on a wide variety of reviews.

Now...in case you missed it here are our Best of 2020 series of posts...

Our picks for best album art of 2020, where we check out some creative album art from the last year.

Our picks for best live show of 2020, what an amazing year for live tunes...all of these were jaw dropping nights in their own ways.

Finally our favorite albums of the year. The honorable mentions and top ten list are all lined up. 

If you are looking for more suggestions, we also have our list of the top fifty albums of the past decade which you can check out and yell at us about. 

Feel free to let us know your choices for all of the above in the comments and thanks as always for reading and exploring...as the patron saint of this site stated:

What are those of the known, but to ascend and enter the Unknown? 

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Albums of 2020

Here are our all of our favorite albums of 2020. This is the year end review, all in one place.

It starts with our honorable mentions then moves into our top ten albums of the year. There is a short blurb about the album and a song from it, click on the title to read our full review of the selected records. The focus here is on full albums, not singles, but long playing releases you can slap on and listen to all the way through.

It has been a weird year to say the least... 

Thanks for reading.

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Albums Part 3: The Top 5

Another year is finishing up and @RockBodElec wouldn't be a proper music site if we didn't end the year with a "Best Of" list, so RtBE presents 2020's Favorite Albums Part 3: Top Five.

In the instance that RtBE has reviewed the album, either on this site or elsewhere, we will link to that review and just give a quick summation; click on the name/title and you can read our full opinion. RtBE worked with the Glide Team to give input on their Top 20 so you can expect some overlap if you already have seen that list.

Again the focus here is on full albums, not singles, but long playing releases you can slap on and listen all the way through. We know these are a dying breed, but it still is the way we consume music, no shuffle or singles for us.

The number ten just works for this, so here is the second part of our top ten, numbers five through one. You can see the back end of our top ten and the albums that just missed as well. Like all of our lists or 'best of's' these are meant to start conversations more than end them...

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Albums Part 2 (#10-6)

Another year is finishing up and @RockBodElec wouldn't be a proper music site if we didn't end the year with a "Best Of" list, so RtBE presents 2020's Favorite Albums Part 2: Numbers Ten through Six

In the instance that RtBE has reviewed the album, either on this site or elsewhere, we will link to that review and just give a quick summation; click on the name/title and you can read our full opinion. RtBE worked with the Glide Team to give input on their Top 20 so you can expect some overlap if you already have seen that list.

Again the focus here is on full albums, not singles, but long playing releases you can slap on and listen all the way through. We know these are a dying breed, but it still is the way we consume music, no shuffle or singles for us.

The number ten just works for this, here are numbers ten through six, numbers five to one are coming soon. You can check out the albums that just missed this top ten as well. Like all of our lists or 'best of's' these are meant to start conversations more than end them...

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Albums Part 1 (The Just Misses and Let Downs)

Another year is finishing up and @RockBodElec wouldn't be a proper music site if we didn't end the year with a "Best Of" list, so RtBE presents 2020's Favorite Albums Part 1 (The Just Misses and Let Downs):

In the instance that RtBE has reviewed the album, either on this site or elsewhere, we will link to that review and just give a quick summation; click on the name/title and you can read our full opinion. RtBE worked with the Glide Team to give input on their Top 20 so you can expect some overlap if you already have seen that list.

Again the focus here is on full albums, not singles, but long playing releases you can slap on and listen all the way through. We know these are a dying breed, but it still is the way we consume music, no shuffle or singles for us.

The number ten just works for this so these are the albums that just missed out on being our ten favorite for the year. After that we have s few albums from artists we dig that we were let down by. Like all of our lists or 'best of's' these are meant to start conversations more than end them...

Full Show Friday: Rebirth Brass Band 1/11/20 from Tipitina's in New Orleans, LA

 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.. Rebirth Brass Band! 

For December 2020 RtBE are going to highlight the bands we can't wait to see when it it is safe to do so, hopefully in 2021. These are the bands we are looking forward to seeing the most.

This set from the legendary Tipitina's (with Sam Price & The True Believers excellently opening) by the amazingly funky Rebirth Brass Band from January will be our stand in for ALL New Orleans music.

It is safe to say that we miss this town and it's live music scene more than anything else musical during the Covid-19 lock downs. We watched a few streams but of course it isn't the same from your couch...

Here'e hoping (early) 2021 brings things back in a funky way in the Big Easy and RtBE can get down to celebrate and enjoy all that New Orleans has to offer. Until then, pop open an Abita and spend some time (virtually) in Tipitina's:

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Live Show #SaveOurStages

The live show is a slippery thing. There are lots of variables at play, most having little to do with the performance itself. Does the venue have enough bathrooms? Is it going to rain? What day of the week is it on? Did I have a shitty day at work before hand? Did tickets cost waaay too much? All of this effects one's opinion of a live show before the band even tunes up and with reason, but when the stars align, there is no place RtBE would rather be then in the moment of magic occurring spontaneously from the stage.

Live Music Has No Equal!

Taken By The Fantastic Megan Donohue

RtBE has used that same introductory paragraph for years now. It hurts as we read it in 2020. Live music is everything and this year mostly robbed it from us. Live streams during the year of Covid-19 will make up the bulk of this list and we hope this is the only year we ever have to suffer through so little live music, but who knows... 

We watched a lot of live streams and tried to promote them as much as we possibly could for the artists, various charities and the venues who rely on the revenue. Hopefully all survive through 2021 and things can trickle back into action. #SaveOurStages 

Year In Review 2020 - Favorite Album Art

We kick off our Year in Review section of 2020 with a favorite feature in the Best of... area, Album Art. Like in years past we will be choosing our Favorite Albums of the Year, a few that were underwhelming and our favorite live shows. 

Today we are starting out by judging books (records) by their covers (vinyl sleeves, jackets, digital pics, etc) with the Best Album Art Work of 2020.

The biggest gripe RtBE has with digital music is not the quality (that has been massively improved) nor the disposal nature of it (still a problem, but whatever), it is the lack of amazing album covers and art work.

Sure there may be great album art out there but seeing it on a screen, in iTunes or elsewhere is nothing compared to holding an LP cover or even a CD booklet with pages of lyrics, pictures etc. Thankfully the rise of vinyl is helping this dilemma but it is still not enough. The hours we spent staring, actually holding, examining tons of covers while listening to music can't be adequately recorded, it added new dimensions to the sounds. You were connected to album in a more physical way; things were deeper, more evocative...Anyways...