Lady Gaga Napalm Strike show would get some spectacular press.

It'd definitely be a hot story.

Amanda Shires at the Birchmere

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass finally posted the full lineup. Pretty great for a free music festival blocks from our house. 

FRIDAY OCT 6 (Noon - 7pm)

Foy Vance, The Sam Chase & The Untraditional , Brandi Carlile, T Bone Burnett, Laurie Lewis & The Right Hands, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Dry Branch Fire Squad, Billy Bragg, Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express, Conor Brings Friends for Friday featuring: Mega Bog, Jesse Harris, Big Thief, The Felice Brothers, First Aid Kit, Conor Oberst, Terri Hendrix with Lloyd Maines , Tracy Blackman, Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors, Molsky’s Mountain Drifters, The Bo-Keys featuring Don Bryant and Percy Wiggins

SATURDAY OCT 7 (11am - 7pm)

HSB Blues Revue featuring Sugar Ray Norcia, Annie Sampson, Chris Cain, Steve Freund, Austin deLone, Ruth Davies and Tony Braunagel, Ozomatli, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Moonalice, Tyler Childers, Patty Griffin, Buddy Miller's Cavacade of Stars featuring Gurf Morlix, Bill Anderson, Lillie Mae, Dan Penn, Buddy Miller with The War and Treaty, Blackfoot Gypsies, Rising Appalachia, Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Gillian Welch, Jamey Johnson, Alison Brown & the Compass Bluegrass Allstars, Peter Rowan Dharma Blues featuring Jack Casady, Dan Auerbach, Willie Watson, Midnight North, Justin Townes Earle, Henry Rollins, The Nth Power, Tim O'Brien Band, Reed Mathis & Electric Beethoven, The Brothers Comatose, Poncho Sanchez, Nancy & The Lambchops, The Wood Brothers, Sam Outlaw, Hardly Strictly Silent Disco featuring Ren the Vinyl Archaeologist, Steve Fabus, Deejay Theory, Tom Thump, DJ Phleck, DJ Tobiwan, Motion Potion, U9lift, The Go To Hell Man Clan, Robyn Hitchcock, Robert Earl Keen, Sturgill Simpson, Colter Wall

SUNDAY OCT 8 (11am - 7pm)

Jon Langford's Four Lost Souls, Jello Biafra, Ghost of Paul Revere, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile (and the Sea Lice), Kane Welch Kaplin, Lampedusa featuring Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, Big Freedia, John Prine, Poor Man's Whiskey, Tyler Childers, Junior Brown, Bob Mould Band, Lucinda Williams, Sisters Morales, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones, Shelby Lynne & Allison Moorer, Marco & The Polos, The Flatlanders, Norbert Putnam and Friends, The Sons Of The Soul Revivers, Ciaran Lavery, The Secret Sisters, Lila Blue, The Brothers Gibb, Hot Tuna Electric, Ornette's Prime Time Reunion Band featuring Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Al MacDowell, Charlie Ellerbe, Badal Roy, Denardo Coleman with Special Guests David Murray, Wallace Roney & Marc Ribot , Weyes Blood, Emmylou Harris, Randy Newman, Cheap Trick, The Well Known Strangers, Jade Jackson, Will Durst, Hardly Strictly Silent Disco featuring 4NR, Gordo Cabeza, DJ Alarm, Mophono, DJ Tyme, King Most, Motion Potion

Unholy carp, that looks awesome.

Don't miss First Aid Kit, they're a recent discovery for me, and I love 'em.

Jello Biafra?

18 minutes ago, Dusty Chalk said:

Don't miss First Aid Kit, they're a recent discovery for me, and I love 'em.

^ This! I am also a big fan.

Watching She Wants Revenge at The Masquerade in Atlanta.


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Saw Sarah Jarosz (and opener The Brother Brothers) tonight.  Both were great!

 

 

I just saw Ne Obliviscaris destroy everyone's brain in Winnipeg. They're heading south and east. You in their path need to check them out.

They're going from Canada to North Carolina and skipping right past me this time (presumably because it's Thanksgiving week), unfortunately.  And I'm getting too old to be driving 4.5 hours each way to North Carolina.  Although I do like what I heard of theirs.

Played a holiday concert last night at the Memorial Auditorium in Chattanooga.


Kids came out to watch.


Good night. So tired.

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Looks like a great concert!

And your kids look like they are very proud of their "old man".

Happy Holidays!

Vivaldi's Four Seasons at the Chattanooga Symphony

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Went and saw 1000mods tonight.  Opener Telekinetic Yeti blew me away -- they had kind of a Royal Blood thing going on, except instead of bass, the guitar guy played a seven string, so it was just him and the drummer.  A lot of syncopated rhythms and unorthodox time signatures, so I was happy.

1000mods were awesome, too, of course.  It was their first time in America coming over from Greece.  I hope it isn't the last time.

Goooood Evening Napa!!

Went to see Run The Jewels

And Lorde


10th row center is a solid spot it seems.

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Did fucking annoying tweens and 20-somethings around you sing/scream every word of every of every song like they did when I saw Lorde? 

Did fucking annoying tweens and 20-somethings around you sing/scream every word of every of every song like they did when I saw Lorde? 

Luckily I was close enough that most of those people were behind me or off to the sides, but... Yeah.

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Brunchtime acoustic set


Dylan, early Floyd, Beatles, all sorts.





Joanne and I may have lowered the median age of the audience.

I finished processing my recordings from The Monterey Jazz Festival back in Sept. and a few tracks from the 2016 festival too. That year I was in the middle of packing up my home in San Jose and dolling it up to sell so I figured I just combine the two.

If you go to my SoundCloud page I posted 6 new tracks

2 from the Joshua Redman Quartet 2016

2 from Regina Carter's Southern Comfort Band 2017

2 from a fantastic tribute to Quincy Jones with Christian McBride bass, Hubert Laws flute, Dave Grusin keys, James Carter tenor sax, Lewis Nash drums and Valerie Simpson lead vocals.

Here's a taste of Josh Redman playing in one of the medium sized venues ending 2016

 

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Thanks!  Listening now.

We saw Ry Cooder and Rosanne Cash play Johnny Cash songs at SFJAZZ tonight and I am a better person for it. We also met Rosanne in the green room, but not Ry, sadly. Here is Claire, her sister and sister's girlfriend with American Country Royalty. 

Sorry you missed Ry.  He deserves to be in some Hall of Fame on Buena Vista Social Club alone.

Looks like an amazing night out!

Rosanne has really done herself and her dad proud musically and personally.

Gotta a lot of respect for her.

Very cool Al -- 

and thanks for sharing the recordings Steve - they are great.