The newest studio offering from Asbury Park, NJ based jamband Dogs In A Pile is a double album, giving listeners an overview of their wide-ranging talents. Distroid touches on everything from prog to country to reggae as the band stretches out and flows.
The Ottawa, Ontario based shoegaze outfit Tree of Smoke have a new single out "Every House A Dead Room" off their most recent album, Enders via Dirt Cult Records.
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 Dave Alvinplaying "Highway 61 Revisited"
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 Ratdog!
The newest release from Tipitinas Record Club is also their most recent recording as Dumpstaphunk'sLive at Tipitina's 2025 was captured at the venue's final late night show from last year's Jazz Fest. The gorgeous yellow and black splattered vinyl finds the funk band playing to their strengths with a surprise guest as they wrapped up another great Festival weekend in New Orleans.
Lucinda Williams was working on her 18th studio album last spring when inspiration struck. She scraped the original idea and decided to write about the state of frightening world events. Williams, her band, and a few high profile guests dug into new topics and World’s Gone Wrong was completed quickly. The title of the record states exactly how Williams is feeling during these troubling times.
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 George Possley playing "Workingman's Blues #2"
Thoughts on Original:
From the first time we tackled a cover of this song: One of Dylan's late career highlights, "Workingman's Blues #2" first appeared on Modern Times and was a stunning reminder of how Dylan can just completely nail it sometimes. The ease with which the piano and song flows out reminds of Dylan's best work, as if the song has always been there and he is just breathing it into existence at this time and place. It owes a debt to Merle Haggard, the Civil War, poet Henry Timrod and thousands of others, but is perfectly Dylan when it comes to the lyrics which bounce all over. A folk song, mistitled a blues song, for the workingman that feels aloof, pure Dylan
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...Art Hirahara Trio!
It's Jazzy January again here at RtBE, so get ready to kick off 2026 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.
We wrap up Jazzy January with a trip to the west coast back in 2022. The Art Hirahara Trio (Art Hirahara, piano, John Wiitala, bass, Tim Bulkley, drums) play a small book shop in San Fran for your pleasure.
Thanks for hanging out this month, next month it is back to normal programming.
For his newest project Don Was assembled a crack team from Detroit, titling the outfit the Pan-Detroit Ensemble as he states "we are on a mission to promulgate the music of our hometown". Groove In The Face of Adversity allows the laid back musicianship of all involved to shine through.
The debut release, titled Sing On, from the newly formed Colossus Brass Band is a hefty slice of traditional hymns and original music steeped in the vibrant history of New Orleans Brass Band's and the city's unique Second Line culture. The album mixes older classics and new originals that fit right into the brass band tradition. Released on the Old Saw Music label, the album is chockful of musical veterans and is a must own for any fans of New Orleans traditional sound.
With all the hectic happenings at the end of the year, things can be missed. This is a catch-up post to point out a few of our favorite things from 2025 that shouldn't go unnoticed.
What a year! Lots of reviews and live shows attended. Thanks for reading and following along on Instagram and Bluesky or wherever
Also thanks to Shane and the whole Glide team for allowing me to continue to write for them, working on a wide variety of reviews.
Now...in case you missed it here are our Best of 2025 series of posts:
As part of Craft Recordings Original Jazz Classics series, Art Pepper's 1959 album Surf Ride gets a remastered release. These twelve tracks, originally recorded for the Savoy label, display Pepper in some of his earliest sessions as a band leader and the results are electric.
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