Live Review: Buddy Guy - Buddy's Got The Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration 10/1/26 Radio City Music Hall NY, NY

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

It is of, Buddy's Got The Blues: A 90th Birthday Concert Celebration on 10/1/26 at Radio City Music Hall NY, NY. This tribute to Buddy Guy was special. 

Album Review: Rodrigo y Gabriela - OurHome

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

It is of Rodrigo y Gabriela's newest album, OurHome. 

Live Review: Real Young & Lazy Horse - 9/19/26 Industry City Brooklyn, NY

Real Young & Lazy Horse

Live 9/19/26 Industry City Brooklyn, NY

On an overcast fall evening, in the courtyard of the refurbished warehouses that makeup Industry City in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, the quartet Real Young & Lazy Horse took the stage to deliver their dynamic, extended spin on Neil Young & Crazy Horse tunes. The resulting three and a half hour show was spiritually uplifting as the band channeled the core of the original group with energetic majesty.

Album Review: Samantha Fish - Paper Doll Live

Samantha Fish

Paper Doll Live

**** out of *****

The Kansas City born, New Orleans based, blues/rock guitarist Samantha Fish makes her way by performing live hundreds of nights a year and has done so for decades. Now comes Paper Doll Live, her first official live album on Rounder Records, capturing the immensely talented Fish and her band's energetic show.  

Album Review: Dinosaur Jr. - There Near

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

It is of Dinosaur Jr.'s newest release, There Near. 

Enjoy The 4th of July with The Grateful Dead

The United States celebrates it's Independence, and while the country has deep rooted issues and problems we are dealing (and not dealing) with, it is still the best country mankind has founded in our sordid history. So enjoy the outdoors, hanging safely with friends, and living life. What better soundtrack for that is there than The Grateful Dead?!?!

We took the opportunity a few years back to talk about the Best American Band question on July 4th. Now (in a tradition started years ago) we are just giving you our answer in concert form, the Grateful Dead's July 4th 1989 concert. What a doozy! It is the perfect time to bust it back out and get Truckin' Up To Buffalo.

Happy 20th Anniversary to Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped

Happy 20th Anniversary to Sonic Youth's Rather Ripped.

The most accessible pop-art-rock of SY's discography, and it came twenty five years into their career. When RtBE was working with Glide Magazine for our favorite albums of the 2000's it came in 44th on our list. 

Album Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band - Future Soul

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Future Soul

** out of *****

Following up on their stretched out, expansive four album collection I Am The Moon, Tedeschi Trucks Band has scaled back ambitions releasing eleven shorter tracks via their new album Future Soul. While professional and pleasant the group never lives up to the album title promise. 

Album Review: Samantha Fish - Paper Doll

Samantha Fish

Paper Doll

***and1/2 out of *****

The newest offering on Rounder Records from guitar great Samantha Fish, Paper Doll, continues Fish's style of supped up rocking blues, yet turns down her recent electro-pop tinges. 

Full Show Friday: Jerry Garcia Band - September 1 1990 Shoreline Amphitheatre, California

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...Jerry Garcia Band!

RtBE gave him his props earlier, but now it is time for a full Jerry Garcia Band concert for this weeks Full Show Friday. 

This one is from September 1 1990, Shoreline Amphitheatre, California, upgraded video and sound. Full set list below. Enjoy!

set 1 00:00 - How Sweet It Is 07:45 - Stop That Train 15:30 - Dear Prudence 27:40 - I Shall Be Released 36:25 - Run For The Roses 42:14 - My Sisters And Brothers 46:20 - Deal 

set 2 56:08 - I Second That Emotion 1:04:10 - Think 1:11:33 - And It Stoned Me 1:18:30 - Waiting For A Miracle 1:24:40 - Don't Let Go 1:40:35 - That Lucky Old Sun 1:52:30 - Tangled Up In Blue

Jerry Garcia, guitar/vocals

John Kahn, bass

Melvin Seals, keys

David Kemper, drums

Jacklyn LaBranch, vocals

Gloria Jones, vocals

Remembering Jerry Garcia

On this day way back in 1942 Jerome Garcia was born and as we have done in the past we wanted to take a second to remember Jerry in the best possible way, by listening to his music.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brentdpayne

To kick things off how about an interview with Branford Marsalis (Go Mets!) Scott Poulson-Bryant, Anthony Decurtis and others on what it was like to play with Jerry and the Grateful Dead.

In past years we have focused on full shows from The Grateful Dead (who we featured in our Master series as well), but here are a few Jerry Garcia Band songs.

Enjoy them on this great day...oh and also, Happy Birthday Meg!

Enjoy The 4th of July with The Grateful Dead

The United States celebrates it's Independence today, and while the country has deep rooted issues and problems we are dealing (and not dealing) with, it is still the best country mankind has founded in our sordid history. So enjoy the outdoors, hanging safely with friends, and living life. What better soundtrack for that is there than The Grateful Dead?!?!

We took the opportunity a few years back to talk about the Best American Band question on July 4th. Now (in a tradition started years ago) we are just giving you our answer in concert form, the Grateful Dead's July 4th 1989 concert. What a doozy! It is the perfect time to bust it back out and get Truckin' Up To Buffalo.

Live Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band with Buddy Guy - Beacon Theater NYC 5/22/25

Tedeschi Trucks Band with Buddy Guy

Beacon Theater NYC 5/22/25

On an unseasonably cool and rainy May evening, Tedsechi Trucks Band continued their six-night residency at the Beacon Theater on the upper west side of Manhattan. Making this fourth night of the run extra special was that it was the last to have the legendary Buddy Guy and his band opening the show.  

Happy 20th Anniversary to Sleater-Kinney's The Woods

On this day 20 years Sleater-Kinney released The Woods, an amazing album of ripping rock and roll.

This was the last album the band would release before a ten year hiatus when the excellent No Cities To Love emerged (which made our list of best albums of the 2010's). The Woods just may be RtBE's favorite SK album, so let's look back at it...

Album Review: Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta - Mapambazuko

Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta

Mapambazuko

**** out of *****

The partnership between Ale Hop (Peruvian electronic musician and researcher Alejandra Cárdena) and Congolese guitarist Titi Bakorta is a very interesting mix of cultures, sounds and styles as the music bounces, shakes and shimmies down a new path of Peruvian/African rhythms. Mapambazuko is a wild ride and one very much worth taking. 

Live Review: The Brothers Live at Madison Square Garden 4/16/25

The Brothers 

Live at Madison Square Garden 4/16/25

Back in March of 2020, just before the world shutdown for Covid, The Brothers got together to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary Macon, GA outfit The Allman Brothers. That show was a success by all indications, but due to a host of issues it was a one time thing. Five years later they decided to run it back as past Allman members Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge, Chuck Leavell and Marc Quinones brought on board Joe Russo, Reese Wynans and Isaac Eady to round out the sound for two shows at Madison Square Garden. 

Album Review: Warren Haynes - Million Voices Whisper

Warren Haynes

Million Voices Whisper

***and1/2 out of *****

When the legendary James Brown passed away in 2006, Warren Haynes may have inherited the hardest working man in show business title, as he was active with The Allman Brothers Band, solo shows, Gov't Mule, Phil and Friends, and more. Haynes has slowed down a bit, but rarely takes a break from writing songs. 

His past solo albums seemed to scratch an itch that his main projects weren't addressing but on his newest solo release, Million Voices Whisper, the tunes had been in various stages of completion since Covid and Haynes just wanted to get together with old friends to record them. 

Happy 45th Anniversary to Neil Young's Live Rust

Released on November 14th, 1979, Neil Young's Live Rust turns 45 today. 

A few days after Young turned 79 the mega live album with dynamite performances from Neil and Crazy Horse turns 45.  Oh and the record also has a killer concert film attached. 

Album Review: Jack White - No Name

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

It is of Jack White's newest release, No Name. RtBE are huge fans of White and this album grounds him back in his rock sound after a few albums of him wandering away from those roots. Not as adventurous as some past work, but solid. 

Support the artist, buy the album, read the review, check out some video below:

Remembering Jerry Garcia

On this day way back in 1942 Jerome Garcia was born and as we have done in the past we wanted to take a second to remember Jerry in the best possible way, by listening to his music.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/brentdpayne

To kick things off how about an interview with Branford Marsalis (Go Mets!) Scott Poulson-Bryant, Anthony Decurtis and others on what it was like to play with Jerry and the Grateful Dead.

In past years we have focused on full shows from The Grateful Dead (who we featured in our Master series as well), but here are a few Jerry Garcia Band songs.

Enjoy them on this great day...oh and also, Happy Birthday Meg!