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Slowdive Share North American Tour Dates

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Slowdive recently made their return with new single, “Star Roving,” their first new material in 22 years. It was released to a flurry of excitement, even taking the band to No. 1 on the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140. Comprised of Neil Halstead (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Christian Savill (guitar), Nick Chaplin (bass), Rachel Goswell (vocals) and Simon Scott (drums, electronics), Slowdive is now announcing a North American tour, their first since fall 2014. They’ll play select cities throughout the Midwest and East Coast. Japanese Breakfast will support on all dates. Tickets will be on sale on Jan. 27th.

Slowdive Tour Dates:
Tue. May 2 - St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre # [TIX]
Wed. May 3 - Chicago, IL @ Vic Theater # [TIX]
Fri. May 5 - Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall # [TIX]
Sun. May 7 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club # [TIX]
Mon. May 8 - Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Steel # [TIX]

# = with Japanese Breakfast

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Dweezil Zappa Plays Whatever The F*** He Wants In Raleigh (SHOW REVIEW)

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Dweezil Zappa returned to Raleigh with a subtle lyric change to his dad’s tune “Fembot In A Wet T-Shirt”. Referencing his brother, Dweezil said “Ahmet is waiting for you behind the toolshed.” The Zappa family vitriol hasn’t waned. They’re still battling about ridiculous things. The Cease and Desist shirts are still displayed at Dweezil’s merch stand, but the concert was thankfully full of music, not drama. Dweezil did take one moment during the encore to rant about his unfortunately toxic family situation, making sure to take a jab at his relatives plan to put Frank’s face on yoga pants before leading the band into an appropriate “Cosmik Debris”.

The sizeable Lincoln Theater audience was enraptured for most of the 2-plus-hour show, which found Dweezil steering band members old and new through an intensely complex, widely varying selection of Frank’s compositions. The first part of the show focused squarely on the Freak Out album, which just turned 50 years old. Interspersing Freak Out tracks with “Harry, You’re A Beast” and the oddity “Lemme Take You To The Beach,” the septet combined “Help I’m A Rock”, “Who Are The Brain Police”, “You’re Probably Wondering Why I’m Here”, and “How Could I Be Such A Fool” into one dazzling display of vocal  and instrumental calisthenics.

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Dweezil has had a lot of partners in crime over the years, but perhaps none are as vocally gifted as this current band. Cian Coey adds soulful power and a raspy, rugged approach to some of the music’s toughest singing challenges, such as “Zomby Woof”, “The Illinois Enema Bandit”, and “Doreen”. David Luther was called on between bouts of baritone sax blowing to handle most of the droll vocal intonations that Zappa so loved, such as the storytelling voice in “Montana” and “Cosmik Debris”. Bassist Kurt Morgan proved a fine harmonizer and offered falsetto yelps of “Mama!” on “Yo Mama”. As always, Dweezil’s right-hand woman Scheila Gonzalez performed an incredible amount of tasks, handling keys, kazoo, sax, vocals, beach balls (during “Lemme Take You To The Beach”) and giant fake boobs (during “Fembot”). They all put themselves through the wringer with the maddeningly off-kilter vocals and time signatures of “Inca Roads”, which featured a fantastic solo from Dweezil, and “Flower Punk”, which, from every angle, seems an incredibly tough tune to perform live.

The end of the show included a run of tunes from the ever-influential album Joe’s Garage, starting with the aforementioned “Fembot” and continuing on through a couple of dreamy guitar solos in “On the Bus” and “Watermelon In Easter Hay”, plus precise versions of “Keep It Greasey” and “Packard Goose”. The encore was all fun, featuring “Cosmik Debris”, a cathartic “Muffin Man”, and “Ride My Face to Chicago” with the titular city changed to Raleigh. Apparently, if it were up to Dweezil’s family, the only thing keeping Frank’s music alive would be the provocative squats of yoga pant wearers. Legions of devoted Zappa fans, who know that seeing the music in a live setting is a special rarity, are thankful that’s not the case just yet.

 

Dweezil Zappa Setlist Lincoln Theatre, Raleigh, NC, USA 2017, Cease and Desist

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The Magpie Salute (Robinson, Ford, Pipien, Hogg) Prove Worthy at Gramercy (SHOW REVIEW)

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By Saturday’s show at the Gramercy, The Magpie Salute had a couple of shows under their belt as an official band. Starting with a touching tribute to late keyboardist Eddie Harsch during Thursday’s “Descending,” the group kept its promise of trying to rekindle the magic between former Black Crowes members Sven Pipien, Marc Ford, and Rich Robinson. Ford was just in New York a month ago in support of his The Vulture album, but this was the first time he had played Crowes tunes to a big crowd since he abruptly left their reunion tour in 2006.

The Magpie Salute was born out of Robinson’s most recent Woodstock sessions, which last year featured Ford, Pipien and Harsch. After Harsch’s sudden passing, it was unclear how these shows would proceed, but it turned out that the performances just became that much more of a musical celebration.The green inflatable alien sitting on stage left reminded all that Eddie wasn’t very far away, but Matt Slocum of Robinson’s solo band did an admirable job.

magpieThe band wasted no time getting things started with “Black Moon Creeping” and it was clear from the get-go that Ford and Robinson still have unmistakable synergy. When these two play apart, their talents are on display for smaller audiences, but they also miss the magic of playing together. John Hogg, who sang vocals in Robinson’s first post-Crowes outfit, Hookah Brown, did a nice job of handling Chris Robinson’s vocals. The band had also kept its promise to dust of some obscure nuggets from the Crowes catalog. This became clear when after strong versions of “(Only) Halfway To Everywhere” and “One Mirror Too Many,” they went into “Title Song.” For a song that wasn’t officially released on a studio album, you’d never have known how rare this one was given how well they played it. ”MARC FUCKING FORD” was screamed from the floor on every night of the run reportedly and this reviewer didn’t even need to do it once.

The next part of the show was dedicated to Robinson and Marc’s solo catalog as Robinson also has an excellent recent album, Flux. The songs sounded great with the full-band treatment, even though Robinson joked that the people in the front row could be a little more subtle when using their phones during these songs. But he said it with a sense of humor and was a far cry from many of the self-righteous rants his brother would launch into on an almost nightly basis during Crowes shows.

“Seeing Things” built beautifully and brought the music back to the Crowes vast legacy and next the band dusted off Led Zeppelin’s “Sick Again.” They covered the tune when they toured with Jimmy Page in 2000, but Audley Freed was the second guitarist back then. After a little more solo stuff, they performed The Band’s “Ain’t No Cane On The Brazos” which allowed each member to sing a verse. The Crowes’ “Lay It All On Me” and “Josephine” then followed. The familiar intro to “How Much For Your Wings?” was next which unfortunately featured Hogg stumbling over some of the vocals, but the jam was fantastic and more than compensated. But Robinson told the audience that the band had gone through its share of mistakes on this night, as opposed to the first two shows.
It was unclear what to expect from this band when these dates were announced.

The November passing of Harsch raised even more questions, but this was a triumphant stand. Both Ford and Robinson deserve to have their work featured in this context, plus they are giving a great gift to the fans by playing it again. With a London date just announced and the prospect of new music from this group, it seems The Magpie Salute won’t be a one-off project after all

 

 

The Magpie Salute Setlist The Gramercy Theatre, New York, NY, USA 2017

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High On Fire Demonstrate Speed, Aggression, and Tightness In Portland (SHOW REVIEW)

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Few bands other than High On Fire have proven to be such worthy torchbearers of both the heaviness of Black Sabbath and the speed and grit of Motorhead. The trio’s last album Luminiferous came out in 2015, but a fervent cult following means they don’t need a new album to support tour. This time around it was a brief jaunt through the Pacific Northwest that brought High On Fire to the Hawthorne Theater in Portland on Sunday, January 22.

High On Fire’s set was more or less the opposite of guitarist Matt Pike’s other project Sleep. Sure, there is a sludginess, but in place of droning stoner doom we are given the musical equivalent of methamphetamine. This is the brilliance of Pike as a guitarist; he is able to effortlessly go back and forth between one of the slowest and one of the fastest metal bands ever. The perpetually shirtless shredder was in peak form on Sunday night as he led the band through eighty minutes of blistering heavy metal. While the set was dominated by songs from Luminiferous, the band managed to touch on nearly all of their LPs. The combination of Pike, drummer Des Kensel, and bassist Jeff Matz proves to only get better with age, and onstage the trio conjured a storm of lightning fast drum beats, bass lines, and punishing riffs. Pike, whose abrasive vocals hit like a glorious gut punch, demonstrated his ability to play as many notes at once on his guitar as viciously as possible. On songs like “Carcosa” and “Rumors of War” his relentless torrent of sludge and razor sharp solos created a wall of noise. At other moments Pike showed his ability to tone things down with beautiful solos that felt more nuanced and expansive. Closer “Snakes From The Divine” was one of the best examples of this with its soaring introduction. The crowd at the Hawthorne was eager to embrace everything the band could throw their way, moshing along in cheerful savagery.

As they enter their 20th year, High On Fire are still one of the heaviest, most brutal bands in metal. Their set in Portland was only further proof that even younger acts can hardly hold a candle to their speed, aggression, and tightness as a trio. Sunday night’s show was also perfect timing, as many of us needed a break from the cesspool of “alternative facts” being spewed. Luckily, High On Fire swooped in to provide Portland with a chance to take a load off and revel in the riff.

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Father John Misty Announces New LP ‘Pure Comedy,’ Shares Title Track

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Father John Misty has announced the release of his third proper album Pure Comedy, the highly anticipated follow-up to his internationally acclaimed album, I Love You, Honeybear. The album will be released April 7th on Deluxe 2xLP / 2xLP / CD / DL / CS in Europe through Bella Union and the rest of the world from Sub Pop.

Pure Comedy highlights include the title track alongside standouts “Leaving LA,” “Total Entertainment Forever,” “Ballad of the Dying Man,” “When The God Of Love Returns There’ll Be Hell To Pay” and “Things It Would Have Been Helpful to Know Before The Revolution”.

Listen to the title track below..

Tillman wrote the majority of Pure Comedy throughout 2015 and recorded all the basic tracking and vocals live to tape (in no more than two takes each) at United Studios (fka the legendary Ocean Way Studios, favored by Frank Sinatra and The Beach Boys) in Los Angeles March 2016.

Pure Comedy was co-produced once again by Josh Tillman and long-time producer Jonathan Wilson; mixed by Tillman, Wilson and Trevor Spencer, and mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios.  The album features string, horn and choral arrangements from classical iconoclast Gavin Bryars (Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet, Sinking Of The Titanic), with additional contributions from Nico Muhly and Thomas Bartlett.

Pure Comedy’s front/back covers and gatefold feature a gargantuan original piece (his first ever commission of its kind) by Ed Steed (The New Yorker) and is now available for preorder through Father John Misty’s Official Store, Sub Pop Mega Mart, andBella Union in the following formats:

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Acoustic Trey: Trey Anastasio Reveals Three Solo Acoustic Shows

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Trey Anastasio will be returning to his northeast roots in more ways than one courtesy of a solo acoustic run. Anastasio will be performing three solo acoustic evenings in Northampton, MA (March 8), Troy, NY (March 10), Portsmouth, NH (March 11). A real-time presale begins Wednesday, January 25 at 10am ET, and ends Thursday, January 26 at 5pm ET: http://treytickets.shop.ticketstoday.com. Public on sale starts Friday, January 27 at 12pm ET at trey.com/tour. Perhaps this tour will see the long awaited return of “Inlaw Josie Wales.”

Recently Anastaio strapped on his acoustic guitar for a take on “Back on The Train” during a taping of “A Prairie Home Companion.” Check it out below…

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Real Estate Confirms New LP ‘In Mind’, Shares Lead Track “Darling”

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Real Estate has confirmed details for their upcoming fourth LP – In Mind – out March 17th via Domino. Recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-winning producer Cole M.G.N. (Beck, Snoop Dogg, Julia Holter),  the video for the album opener “Darling” is available to watch below…

Over 11 songs, In Mind pushes the band in new directions, while still retaining the warmth and soft-focus narratives that one has come to expect from Real Estate —pastoral guitars, elegantly deployed arrangements, a mindful melancholy. In Mind offers the sound of a mature band not only at the height of its power, but in a period of change. Since their last record – 2014’s Atlas – primary songwriter Martin Courtney became a father of two and moved to upstate New York, while bassist Alex Bleeker relocated to California. In addition, following the departure of co-founding member and lead guitarist Matt Mondanile in 2015, Courtney, Bleeker, drummer Jackson Pollis and keyboardist Matt Kallman welcomed longtime friend and New Jersey native Julian Lynch into the band as a full-time guitarist.

In Mind Tracklisting:


1. Darling
2. Serve The Song
3. Stained Glass
4. After The Moon
5. Two Arrows
6. White Light
7. Holding Pattern
8. Time
9. Diamond Eyes
10. Same Sun
11. Saturday

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Richard Edwards of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s Announces Debut LP ‘Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset’

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On March 31, Richard Edwards will release his debut album Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset on Joyful Noise Recordings. The album was produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Cass McCombs, Beck) in Los Angeles, and features a stellar lineup of musicians including Pete Thomas (Elvis Costello) on drums and guitar work fromMike Bloom (Jenny Lewis).

Today, Edwards has shared “Disappeared Planets,” the first song to be released from the album. Stream the track via Soundcloud:

Watch a moving trailer for the album via YouTube:

“‘Disappeared Planets’ was written in the days following my separation from my wife, explains Edwards. “I woke up on pain medication from an abdominal surgery in a cold sweat with a premonition and the song fell out real fast, within a few minutes, I reckon. It was a real draining thing to write and made me kinda sick to listen to for a long time. Not so much anymore.”

Edwards is also announcing his first live performances in over three years, at the first annual Gas Feed & Seed Festival in Davenport, IA and Rough Trade NYC – on sale this Friday, January 27.

In 2014, Richard Edwards (then frontman of Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s) was diagnosed with C. diff – a rare and potentially fatal stomach ailment. Shortly after releasing Margot’s final album he lost over 40 pounds, was to forced to abandoned a near sold out tour, and spent the next couple years recovering and writing a new record about absence. In 2015, after the dissipation of a longtime partnership & marriage, he underwent surgery on his abdomen and re-wrote the record about absence. The result is Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset, Edwards’ first post-Margot solo album.

Richard’s friend Rhett Miller has written an impassioned biography about the new album which you can find on his website HERE.

Lemon Cotton Candy Sunset is currently available for pre-order via Richard Edwards’ official site and Joyful Noise.

Tracklist:

1) (beware the golden fang)
2) Lil Dead Eye-d
3) Git Paid
4) Fool
5) Disappeared Planets
6) Postcard
7) Management of Savagery
8) When You Get Lost
9) Lemon
10) Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’
11) Sister Wives
12) Pornographic Wives
13) (chaka khan)
14) Moonwrapped

Tour Dates:

2/16-18: Davenport, IA – GAS Feed & Seed Festival
4/1: New York, NY – Rough Trade

www.facebook.com/RichardEdwardsMusic

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Derek Trucks, Willie Weeks and More To Guest On New Ruthie Foster Album ‘Joy Comes Back’

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Ruthie Foster has announced a new album due out March 24th. Titled Joy Comes Back, the album features many guests including Derek Trucks, Willie Weeks, Joe Vitale and Warren Hood. Songs range form new Ruthie originals to hand-picked covers by Chris Stapleton, Mississippi John Hurt, Stevie Wonder, and (the kicker) Black Sabbath. It is her eighth album for Houston’s indie Blue Corn Music.

After a three-year absence from recording, utilizing the time to straighten out various matters in her life, the Blues Music Award winner and Grammy nominee quietly entered former neighbor Daniel Barrett’s studio and began to make this record with no formal producer. She told very few people what she was up to — until it was completed.

According to Ruthie, “(On past albums), it was about being a professional singer, a hallelujah-chorus girl. But I’m a real person, and relaying that through this music and the stories behind it is really important to me. I haven’t written much because it’s been rough for me to put pen to paper, but Dan, having spent at least a year and a half being a listener and witness to my life, found these songs that have a lot to do with where I was and where I am — and who I am.”

Ruthie will begin an extensive U.S. Tour just prior to the album’s late March release.

For more info check out http://www.ruthiefoster.com

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SONG PREMIERE: The Knitts Keep It Simple and Catchy on “Sorry Sonny”

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In a gritty industrial area of Van Nuys, California, behind a powder-coating plant, lie a dozen neatly stacked repurposed shipping containers. One of these is ‘home’ to The Knitts, a band with a surprisingly long history and a short fuse, ready to explode onto the music scene with the release of their upcoming debut full-length album Retreatwhich is out March 3rd via Knitting Factory Records.

It should come as little surprise seeing their record label, as the origins of The Knitts go back to the final years of the Knitting Factory on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles. “That’s strangely how the band name came about, from Charlie’s time working the box office,” recalls Justin Volkens of his brother, Charlie Volkens’ time at the club while various future Knitts hung out at KF shows. Now The Knitts are made up of the brothers Volkens – Justin (Vocals) & Charlie (guitar), along with Victor Portillo (lead guitar), Jaime “Jimmy” Luque (bass) and Clare Taylor Wilkes (drums).

Retreat is a tightly crafted collection of tunes, bringing to mind the second-wave of Brit pop with the danceable energy of Wolf Parade and the gritty garage folk of Deer Tick. Many of their songs don’t stretch beyond three minutes but manage to make a strong impression with their pop-laden hooks and catchy choruses. Today Glide Magazine is offering an exclusive listen of the shortest song on the album, “Sorry Sonny”. Coming in at just under two minutes, the acoustically strummed tune is a simple little ditty with minimal, non-sensical lyrics that one can only assume reference a friend of the band. It’s a nugget of simple folk-rock that lingers in your head.

Frontman Justin Volkens sheds some light on the magic of the track:

“The recording of ‘Sorry Sonny’ made use of a plastic bag as the snare drum to add a different element to the recording. It was written to not have any percussions, but the sound of the plastic bag helped it maintain its intended acoustic/unplugged sound as well as add a layer a rhythm.”

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The Knitts release Retreat on March 3rd. Check out their website and Facebook page for more info:
Photo credit: RSDIVA Jessica

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Just Like The Ol’ Days – Bash & Pop (Tommy Stinson) Rock Assertive With ‘Anything Could Happen’ (ALBUM REVIEW)

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tommy stinson cd 2017Regardless of his guise, the one thing that’s consistent about Tommy Stinson’s musical career is his proficiency for pure, unabashed thrash ‘n’ roll. It was nurtured as a core member of The Replacements and then spun off with his solo forays, his support stints with Soul Asylum and Guns N’ Roses, and his various nom de plumes, Perfect and Bash & Pop, along the way. For his latest foray, Stinson chose to release his record Bash & Pop’s aegis, although in truth it really doesn’t matter how it’s tagged at all. Echoes of all his aforementioned associations are emulated and echoed in its grooves.

Stinson’s first semi-solo album in five years, the optimistically titled Anything Could Happen finds him joined by a superb support team that includes North Mississippi All-Stars guitarist Luther Dickinson, former Ryan Adams bassist Cat Popper, and Guns N’ Roses drummer Frank Ferrer. Members of the Hold Steady, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Screeching Weasel also lend an assist. Not surprisingly, the sound is frequently familiar. The rowdy, rousing “Not This Time,” the robust “On the Rocks,” the rollicking “Anything Could Happen” and the assertive strains of “Bad News” all collide with the same boisterous sound, all sweat and swagger with brash intent. Three tracks break stride — the mid tempo “Can’t Be Bothered, the battered ballad “Anything Soon” and the weary closer, “Shortcut.” Think the early Faces, Exile-era Stones or practically any effort from stepsons like the Black Crowes. This is vintage-sounding rock ‘n’ roll with a decidedly frayed edge — all upbeat and energetic, with ample attitude tossed in.

Ultimately, Anything Could Happen contradicts its title. Anything could happen, but what results is predictable, at least as far as this ex Mats man is concerned. Still, that’s just fine. Nothing more is really needed beyond Stinson’s irrepressible approach and pure devotion to duty. And that’s ideal happenstance indeed.

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Tales From The Golden Road: Jamie McLean Band Savor Lobster Rolls And Friendly Faces (Part II)

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Plenty of people go to see bands when they come through their town, but most people don’t think about everything that it takes to get those bands to their favorite club. Being on tour for a musician is both enlightening and daunting, as physically and mentally draining as it is stimulating. And no matter what, there are always stories to tell. In Tales From The Golden Road we let musicians tell their own stories of life on the road to get a behind-the-scenes, up-close look at what really goes down between each show. 

Jamie McLean is best known as the former guitarist for New Orleans’ legendary Dirty Dozen Brass Band and his own Jamie McLean Band are set to release a new album later this year that was recorded at the famed Sound Emporium studios in Nashville. The album is produced by former Wilco and Uncle Tupelo member Ken Coomer and features Sam Bush and Jeff Coffin of Dave Matthews Band. Jamie and his band are excited to share these new tunes with audiences up and down the East Coast over the next couple of weeks, and Glide Magazine is excited to be right there with them. Jamie will be sharing behind the scenes dispatches of life on the road while he tours with Louisiana singer-songwriter Marc Broussard…

Tour is in full swing and we are having a ball!

Everything kicked off on Wednesday morning as I met my band at our rehearsal space in Park Slope and we made the trip from Brooklyn up to Boston. The Sinclair was a perfect club to kick off the tour. It’s a beautiful new venue with amazing sound that is situated in the heart of Harvard Square. Soon after we arrived at the venue Marc Broussard and his band pulled up as well and hugs, high fives and good times ensued. Touring with other bands is such a blast. It’s always felt a little bit like summer camp to me. You get to spend a lot of time with your buddies in great locations and have a blast together making music, grabbing dinner, and catching up on life. Marc and I had a long talk about some exciting new projects we are working on and the collaborative spirit was immediately flowing. After soundcheck I went for a walk around campus at Harvard. I always love soaking in the history and sights in each city as much as I can and walking those hallowed halls and open spaces on campus at Harvard was a perfect quiet moment before showtime.

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Boston knows how to party! Most of the shows on this tour have sold out and the crowds have been electric! We’ve recently started performing a few songs from the new Jamie McLean Band album in concert. We recorded the record in Nashville and it won’t be released for a few more months but it’s great to see the response that the new songs are getting from people hearing them for the first time. I always go out to the merchandise area after the show to sign CDs and I love getting to meet the fans and hearing their stories. I literally met new fans coming from everywhere from Boston to Brazil. It looks like we may be heading to Rio de Janeiro for a gig next year! You never know who you’re going to meet!

We got up early the next morning and made the short drive to Portland, Maine. Portland is a hip town. The harbor is beautiful and we’ve been hearing great things about the restaurant scene so we wanted to make the most of our time there. After soundcheck we made our way to a restaurant called Eventide which did not disappoint us with a phenomenal array of oysters, clams, lobster and more! This was the best lobster roll I’ve ever had and we loved the food so much that we went back to their sister restaurant the next day for lunch! A media company was at the concert that night and they live streamed the video from our set online. Another great crowd and it always trips me out to think that someone can be sitting on their couch in Colorado watching us play a concert live on their phone.

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The Shalin Lui Performing Arts Center was a special room. A dirty CBGG’s style rock club it is not. This gorgeous venue is literally nestled on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on Cape Ann. The venue was recently renovated and they spared no expense. There is beautiful wood panelling everywhere and an enormous floor to ceiling glass wall behind the stage which lets the fans look out at the relentlessly pounding waves onto the cliffs below. The comedian and actor Mario Cantone of Sex in the City and Chappelle’s show fame came to the show that night. He is a good friend of Marc Broussard’s and we all had a blast hearing his phenomenal stories and classic jokes in the dressing room after the show. You never know who you’re going to meet!

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Today we have a day off from touring and then we head south through Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Southbound indeed.

See the first part in this series! 

Check out a full list of tour dates below and stay tuned for more installments of Tales From The Golden Road! 

Jan 25 – Musikfest Cafe – Bethlehem PA
Jan 26 – World Cafe Live at The Queen – Wilmington DE
Jan 27 – The Tin Pan Richmond VA
Jan 28 – Harvester Performance Center – Rocky Mount VA

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John Craigie Embraces Portland Musical Community For Relaxed LP ‘No Rain, No Rose’ (INTERVIEW)

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In 1969 the three astronauts of Apollo 11 completed their mission–the first manned lunar landing. They were Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and…the other guy.

“The other guy” was Michael Collins. While Armstrong and Aldrin spent almost a day on the surface of the moon, Collins orbited the moon, alone, waiting for the rendezvous with the lunar module.

Folk singer John Craigie was drawn to Collins’ story from a young age because his father, a test pilot in the 1950s, knew Armstrong and Aldrin, and would often tell his son about Collins, the astronaut who came so close to the moon but never touched down on the surface.

The song “Michael Collins” on his new album No Rain, No Rose (out 1/27/17) tells Collins’ story, and it was a long time coming.

“Even as a kid I remember thinking that was really interesting. When I first started writing songs I wanted to write a song about him, but initially I wanted to write one that was more sad or more wistful. So for years I worked on that, about a character who’s up in the shuttle, à la Major Tom, but it never came to me. And then I was talking to my dad just about a year ago and we were being a little more jokey about it.”

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This time the song came easily and it ended up far from sad or wistful. It’s a playful, amiable song with a bluegrass sound.

The chorus goes like this:

One small step for man, Jesus, goddamn,
22 hours hanging in the air.
Sometimes you take the fame, sometimes you sit backstage
But if it weren’t for me them boys would still be there.

While recording No Rain, No Rose in the living room of his Portland home, he’d play it as a joke.

“During the sessions I’d play it for the people to try to make them laugh. We didn’t really think we were gonna put it on the record, but we had so much fun doing it that we ended up putting it on there. It’s a pretty loose recording, and the engineer, Bart Budwig, ended up singing on it.”

Craigie recorded No Rain, No Rose over a period of three days with Gregory Alan Isakov, The Shook Twins, Tyler Thompson and Jay Cobb Anderson of Fruition, as well as other members of the Portland music community.

There’s one cover song on the album, a laidback, folksy take on The Rolling Stones’ “Tumbling Dice.” Its presence on the album is a nod to the mood-setting Craigie did with the group.

“I really wanted to loosen everybody up, because a lot of people who played on the album are used to stiffer recording sessions, just because they’re all from really good bands. So to get them in the flow of being in my living room and really loosening up, at night, we’d set up one microphone and we’d play through a bunch of covers that I liked and that I had arranged. Then we’d do an original. I wasn’t going to use any of the covers, but the Rolling Stones one ended up coming out really fun and it really encompassed the family vibe. But I have 10 other (cover) songs that I want to release somehow. Maybe this summer.”

The relaxed atmosphere of the sessions comes across in the album, which includes some of the banter and chatter between songs. At the beginning of one short track, titled “Interlude,” Craigie plays the beginning of Gregory Alan Isakov’s “Suitcase Full of Sparks.”

“What’s funny about that audio clip,” Craigie said, “is that’s me talking to Gregory about his own song ‘Suitcase Full of Sparks.’ There’s a song called ‘Highway Blood,’ which is track three. He was talking about doing some ‘oohs’ on that, and so I said ‘Let’s make it like Suitcase Full of Sparks,’ but obviously not too close.

“When I wrote that song, we had just become friends and I was hanging out with him a lot, so I think that his vibe was rubbing off on me. So that song has a lot of his mojo in it anyway. So having him sing on it was great. That and the California song (‘I am California.’) Both of those songs are indicative of my time with him, playing music with him and listening to his music a lot. “

Craigie sees the folksinger’s job as traveling, seeing what other people’s experiences are, and sharing those.

“It’s all pretty easy if you travel enough and you see enough people and enough things. I think there’s plenty to write about. I think the only times it’s hard to write is when I get stagnant or when I get stuck somewhere, which luckily doesn’t happen too often.”

On this album he draws inspiration not just from people, but also from a place: his current home of Portland, Oregon.

“It’s been about two years since I’ve been living in Portland. I feel like each of my albums tries to catch me in a period of my life. All these songs were written during my time in Portland. This community of people was huge. I’ve known the Shook Twins for about ten years now, but the other people I met by living in Portland. I wanted their sounds on it. The title itself is stolen from Buddha, I think. Buddha said ‘No mud, no lotus.’ And I thought that was symbolic of music. You need some friction; you need some bad things to make good stuff.

“So I was sitting there talking to my housemate about how I wanted to make it more Portland. I wanted to use roses because Portland is the city of roses. I was like ‘No dirt, no rose,’ and then she was like ‘Rain really is what we’re most famous for.’ So the title comes from that. We have all that shitty weather and we end up getting beautiful springs and summers and our roses bloom.”

That sentiment made its way into the first track, “Virgin Guitar.”

“And also there’s just little mentions of Portland in different songs. I think people will connect with it if there’s town or a place that has held them, that has given them a nest. All of us musicians, we look for that.”

Photos by Maria Davey

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Thundercat Enlists Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington, Michael McDonald For New LP ‘Drunk’

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Thundercat will release his third full-length studio album Drunk on February 24 via Brainfeeder. The album is a 23-track epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/bassist and finds a few of his friends joining him along the way including: Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington and Brainfeeder mastermind Flying LotusDrunk is the follow up to his widely praised 2015 mini album The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam, 

Show You The Way is the first single from Drunk, and the ballad features two of Thundercat’s heroes: iconic musicians Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald. And how did this collaboration come to be? Thundercat mentioned his love of Loggins several times during his press tour for The Beyond (Dinner Party Download,Billboard), leading to an introduction via his keyboard player Dennis Hamm. He tells Red Bull Music Academy Daily, “These are guys that I’ve listened to and where I felt that I’ve learned that honesty in the music. Kenny Loggins is one of my favorite songwriters.” Loggins was the one that suggested bringing McDonald in on the track and, Thundercat adds, “I think one of the most beautiful moments of it was realizing how amazing Michael McDonald was. He would go through so many ideas and have so much to offer.”

 Thundercat also notes, “That song to me is about going down the rabbit hole, taking you to another place… On the edge of dark, there’s the brightest light. It means a lot to me in the sense of… the experience that I’ve had growing up with friends and people that I’ve been around where it’s inviting them into where I come from emotionally. Sometimes it’s a pretty intense thing. The point is how weird things can get. I feel like it’s very funny that, in a way, of course Michael McDonald and Kenny would be there.” “Show You The Way” is available to stream / purchase now.

THUNDERCAT - DRUNK TRACK LISTING

01. Rabbot Ho

02. Captain Stupido

03. Uh Uh

04. Bus In These Streets

05. A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)

06. Lava Lamp

07. Jethro

08. Day & Night

09. Show You The Way (feat. Michael McDonald & Kenny Loggins)

10. Walk On By (feat. Kendrick Lamar)

11. Blackkk

12. Tokyo

13. Jameel’s Space Ride

14. Friend Zone

15. Them Changes

16. Where I’m Going

17. Drink Dat (feat. Wiz Khalifa)

18. Inferno

19. I Am Crazy

20. 3AM

21. Drunk

22. The Turn Down (feat. Pharrell)

23. DUI

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Allman Brothers Band Founder/Drummer Butch Trucks Dead at 69

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Allman Brothers Band founding member and drummer Butch Trucks has died at the age of 69. The uncle of Derek, played through all incarnations of the band and was always a vital voice and spokesperson for the band. Alongside drummer and percussionist Jai “Jaimoe” Johnny Johanson, they formed the two drum assault that would propel the band’s legendary rhythmic section that would later include Marc Quiñones. Despite the Allman Brothers ending things a couple years back, Trucks always was a vocal part of the group and kept Allman related side projects including Les Brers and The Butch Trucks Freight Band. As for now the cause of death is uncertain, but it certainly leaves a huge gap in any future reunion plans and to the Allman Brothers Band family. Watch the band take on “Whipping Post” live with Butch Trucks always keeping that steady beat long and dynamic…

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Butch Trucks: In Memoriam – 5 Essential Performances

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It was perfectly apropos for the late drummer Butch Trucks, one of the original members of The Allman Brother Band, to nickname one of his own groups “Freight Train.” Even in the later years of his career, Trucks was the driving force of whatever band he was part of, taking as much relish in his contributions as he did in savoring the loyalty of the ABB community.

The percussion partnership he forged with drumming partner Jai Johanny Johanson, aka Jaimoe, is one of the greatest distinctions in the sound of the Brothers, a virtue founder guitarist Duane Allman envisioned when he brought the two of them together in 1969. Herewith some highlights from Butch Trucks days at the kit, with ABB and otherwise…

  • There’s no more crisp drum interlude on a rock album than the one that punctuates the version of “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” as it appears on The Allman Brothers’ At Fillmore East.

  • Trucks’ main role in the Brothers was to supply a bedrock foundation around which Jaimoe could add rhythmic accents and Butch’s hammer-and -kick intro to “Trouble No More” from Eat A Peach is the archetype of that style.

  • The reunited ABB truly  found their groove in the studio with producer Tom Dowd on Shades of Two Worlds and the way Butch Trucks drove the band on “Nobody Knows” might well represent the moment that ensemble truly coalesced.

  • As much as his straightforward approach commanded attention, Butch Trucks was above all a member of the band and his generosity of spirit never more evident than when he surrendered the spotlight to percussionist Marc Quinones during their two-man drum interlude during the Les Brers show in Rutland, Vermont in September of 2016.

  • It’s worth debating which musician had to adjust most when The Allman Brothers reconfigured itself in the wake of the deaths of Duane Allman and bassist Berry Oakley, but it’s easy to make a case for Butch Trucks:  he needed to lighten his touch considerably for guitarist Dickey Betts’ country-flavored  material. The extended “Ramblin’ Man” appearing on the ABB archive release Nassau Coliseum Uniondale, NY 5/1/73 may be no better illustration of his fluency.

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RIP Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017): Actress, Comedienne, and Legend Dead at 80

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The latest in a long line of those we’ve lost took her final bow Wednesday afternoon, wrapping up a long life of creative innovation. Groundbreaking and world changing actress and comedienne Mary Tyler Moore died in a Connecticut hospital surrounded by family and friends due to complications from pneumonia. She was 80 years old.

Moore decided to pursue her creative side at the early age of 17 with the intention of being a dancer. Throughout the 50’s she worked in small television roles and commercials, before getting pregnant at 18 with her first and only child. She took a step back for a short period, during which she could no longer hide her pregnancy on screen, but dove right back into it, getting cast on the legendary The Dick Van Dyke Show. The series catapulted her into the public sphere, and she later admitted that she almost didn’t show up to the audition. Moore was magnetic, playing opposite Van Dyke, outshining him on more than one occasion with her skilled humor.

 

When The Dick Van Dyke show ended in 1966 Moore and her second husband TV executive Grant Tinker pitched a new show involving a single working gal in her 30’s, doing her best to balance her work and home life in an environment that wasn’t exactly common place. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was wildly popular, creating a brand new genre of television. If The Dick Van Dyke Show had made Moore a star, it was here where she became a legend.

Moore would continue to dabble in television, acting not as America’s sweetheart, but as savior from the monotony of the male dominated entertainment sector. Her work would set the bar for where women in television could, and should, be. Moore went on to work in theater, starring in seven Broadway productions. Though most of her theater time wasn’t critically acclaimed, Moore always strove to keep her work in a constant state of flux, allowing her to round out her fame with an impressive resume.

Moore had a stunning run of films, earning an Oscar nomination in the notable Ordinary People. The film marked a new chapter in Moore’s repertoire, allowing her to explore her dramatic acting in a remarkable way. While she didn’t win, her performance helped shape the impressive film that eventually took home four Academy Awards and five Golden Globes.

Moore lost her son in a tragic accident involving a sawed off shotgun and its “hair trigger.” She and her second husband divorced soon after. Moore went on to marry Dr. Robert Levine in 1983, a relationship that would last until her death.

In addition to personal tragedy, Moore suffered from Type 1 diabetes and was later diagnosed with a meningioma. The benign tumor was removed, but she would suffer from heart and kidney problems towards the end of her life. Her diabetes diagnosis led to a series of philanthropic efforts. Moore acted as the international chairperson for the JDRF, and actively campaigned for Farm Sanctuary, raising awareness for the horrors of factory farming.

A week leading up to her death Moore was placed on a respirator due to complications involving pneumonia. Her condition would deteriorate, ultimately leading up to cardiopulmonary arrest and her passing.

While we will continue to mourn our idols, one thing has been made abundantly clear; these magnificent women that paved the way for generations ahead will not pass quietly, or in vain. Their legacy will be a roadmap for the women (and even men) who walk their same path. From the darkness emits a light of hope left behind by Moore and her peers, urging us to learn from their mistakes and come to find our own creativity and truths early enough to enjoy the legacy that will one day be left in our wake.

There has undoubtedly been a hole left behind in our fleeting world, and it is up to us to fill it with an unbridled faith in our past, and a hopeful look to our future. Moore has not been the first screen giant to take her leave in what will always seem way too early, and she definitely won’t be last. There will never be another like her, but that shouldn’t stop us for aspiring towards it nonetheless.

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Song Machine Robert Pollard Notches 100th Album, Guided by Voices’ Double LP ‘August By Cake’ Due 4/7

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Guided By Voices’ August By Cake (April 7, GBV Inc Records) is the one hundredth studio album that Robert Pollard has released since 1986′s Forever Since Breakfast. To put that in perspective, Bob Dylan has released roughly 39 studio albums since 1959. And that includes the Traveling Wilburys.

A highly anticipated record with the new line-up (returning GBV veterans Doug Gillard and Kevin March, virgins Bobby Bare Jr and Mark Shue) that has been wowing audience in clubs and festivals throughout 2016. It’s the most musically adept and versatile line-up Pollard has ever assembled.

With 32 songs, August By Cake is also GBV’s first ever double-album, and song contributions from all five bandmembers is additional icing on this particular cake, setting album #100 apart from the previous 99.

The double album is an important format in Pollard’s own musical iconography, and he doesn’t take the form lightly — one reason he’s planned and abandoned several would-be GBV double albums in the past is his high regard for foundational works like Quadrophenia, the White Album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, Daydream Nation, Zen Arcade, Double Nickels On the Dime — “defining records for these bands,” says Pollard. It’s important to him that August By Cake not just be a double album but that it be a great double album.

Spring tour dates, including Coachella Festival are below, and there are several surprises in store for 2017.
TOUR DATES
4/7 – St. Louis, MO – Ready Room

4/14 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
4/15 – San Francisco, CA – Bimbo’s 365 Club
4/17 – Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge
4/18 – Seattle, WA – Nuemos
4/21 – Indio, CA – Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
4/28 – Columbus, OH – Skully’s Music Diner
4/29 – Grand Rapids, MI – The Pyramid Scheme
5/5 – Detroit, MI – Magic Stick
5/6 – Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop

 

‘August By Cake’ – Tracklisting
00. Bob Intro
01. 5° On The inside.
02. Generox – Gray
03. When We All Hold Hands
04. Goodbye Note
05. We Liken The Sun.
06. Fever Pitch
07. Absent The Man
08. Packing The Dead Zone
09. What Begins On New Years Day
10. Overloaded
11. Keep Me Down
12. West Coast Company Man
13. Warm Up To Religion
14. High 5 Hall Of Famers
15. Hiking Skin
16. Sudden Fiction
17. Its Food
18. Cheap Buttons
19. Substitute 11
20. Chew the Sand
21. Dr. Feelgood Falls Off the Ocean
22. The Laughing Closet
23. Deflect Project
24. Upon The Circus Bus
25. Try It Out Its Nothing
26. Sentimental Wars
27. Circus Day Holdout
28. Whole Tomatoes
29. Amusement Park Is Over
30. Golden Doors
31. The Possible Edge
32. Escape To Phoenix

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Vic Chesnutt’s ‘Texas Hotel’ & New West Record Catalog Set For Reissue – New “Mystery” LP Set For Late 2017

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New West Records is proud to reissue Vic Chesnutt’s seminal Texas Hotel and New West Records catalog throughout 2017.  Chesnutt’s 1990 debut album, Little, was produced by Michael Stipe and will be released this Friday, January 27th.  Drunk (1993) will follow next month, Is The Actor Happy? (1995) in March, an unannounced mystery release in April, Silver Lake (2003) in May, Ghetto Bells (2005) in June, and a final, never before released mystery LP, in late 2017.  Silver Lake and Ghetto Bells will both see their first US vinyl pressings and among the LPs, over 30 bonus tracks will be included and available on vinyl for the first time.  Each album has been remastered and pressed on high quality 180g vinyl with a limited edition color vinyl version** being available for each viaPledgeMusic.  Each title will also include high resolution 96kHz/24-bit downloads.

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Chesnutt received little commercial success but overwhelming critical acclaim during his lifetime.  In 2006, NPR Music placed him in the top five of the ten best living songwriters, along with Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Paul McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen.  His songs have also been covered by R.E.M., Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins, Joe Henry & Madonna, Fugazi, Neutral Milk Hotel, Sparklehorse and many others.  A drunk driving accident at the age of eighteen left Chesnutt a quadriplegic.  He switched fluidly from bass to rhythm to lead on a nylon-stringed acoustic guitar, oftentimes in the same song, with the use of only two fingers.  Kristin Hersh, a founding member of the acclaimed band Throwing Muses, toured with Chesnutt for close to a decade and became a close friend.  Her memoir of their time spent together, Don’t Suck, Don’t Die, was released to rave reviews in 2015.  In her new biography for the Texas Hotel and New West Records catalog reissues, she writes, “Vic Chesnutt songs are often funny, occasionally anthemic, and always lonely.  Though Vic felt life acutely and observed the world with a keen, unfaltering eye, he seemed ever the outsider.”  She added, “The noise Vic made was an ode to his own story but also a heartfelt appreciation of his fellow humans” and “He seemed obsessed with truths much deeper than most of us are allowed to go.”

After more than a dozen acclaimed releases into his twenty year career as a recording artist, Chesnutt took his own life on Christmas Day 2009.  After Chesnutt’s death, Michael Stipe spoke to NPR, stating, “He was able to bring levity to very dark emotions and feelings, and he had a humor that was really quiet unusual.  I said recently that I thought he was one of our greatest songwriters, and one of our greatest voices.”

**Little on Georgia Red, Drunk on Translucent Orange, Is The Actor Happy? on Coke Bottle Green, Silver Lake on Silver, and Ghetto Bells on Brass vinyl.

Little Tracklist
Side 1

Isadora Duncan

Danny Carlisle

Gepetto

Bakersfield

Mr. Reilly

Rabbit Box

Speed Racer

Side 2
Soft Picasso
Independence Day
Stevie Smith
Bernadette*
Vernon*
Acting So Bad*
Miss Mary*
Elberton Fair*

*Bonus Tracks

Drunk Tracklist
Side 1

Sleeping Man
Bourgeois And Biblical
Intro
One Of Many
Supernatural
When I Ran Off And Left Her

Side 2
Dodge
Gluefoot
Untitled
Drunk
Naughty Fatalist
Super Tuesday
Sleeping Man (Syd Version)

Side 3
Kick My Ass
Cutty Sark*
Lillian Gish*
Arthur Murray*
Bad Boy Town*
Great Buffet*

Side 4
Intro*
Aunt Avis*
Intro*
Gravity Of The Situation*
Intro*
I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine*
Intro*
Naw*

*Bonus Tracks

Is The Actor Happy? Tracklist
Side 1

Gravity Of The Situation
Sad Peter Pan
Strange Language
Untitled
Onion Soup
Doubting Woman

Side 2
Wrong Piano
Free Of Hope
Betty Lonely
Untitled
Thumbtack

Side 3
Thailand
Guilty By Association
Assist*
What Surrounds Me*
Duck In A Tree*

Side 4
Parameters*
Thailand (early Version)*
Fun Party / Shoestring Store*

*Bonus Tracks

Silver Lake Tracklist

Side 1
I’m Through
Stay Inside
Band Camp

Side 2
Girl’s Say
2nd Floor
Styrofoam

Side 3
Zippy Morocco
Sultan, So Mighty
Wren’s Nest

Side 4
Fa-La-La
In My Way, Yes

Ghetto Bells Tracklist
Side 1

Virginia
Little Caesar
What Do You Mean?

Side 2
Got To Me
Ignorant People

Forthright

Side 3
To Be With You
Vesuvius
Rambunctious Cloud

Side 4
The Garden
Gnats

 

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