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I am not speaking to any family members at all anymore. My Mom became a fundamentalist evangelical Christian and my only sibling an ultra-orthodox Catholic about 30 years ago, so our relationship has been hanging by a thread for decades. They all voted Trump and its the last straw for me. There is nothing there worth salvaging or working for. My family is now my wife, my stepboys and my friends whom I have always liked to call my chosen family. I've never seen anything like this, obviously, and I can't fucking believe this is happening. This article by Chris Hedges is mostly terrifyi

And I'd encourage all fans of Sturgill and classic country to check out Courtney Granger from Louisianna. Now this guy can sing some classic country! Yeah, his album is all covers and he's sounding ALOT like George Jones to the point I can see many criticize him for mimicry, but I never buy into that originality argument. George Jones and Merle Haggard are dead and you can't see them live any more. Anyone who can do what Courtney can do is someone I want to listen to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI2lZUzNAa0 http://www.valcourrecords.com/cds/courtney-granger-beneath-still-waters

There is a lot to love about Sturgill with his classic country revival sound combined with his philosophical but grounded psychedelic point of view. and I'm thrilled with the soul influence he's brought in with the horns and Hammond. I'm not crazy about his overly clipped, choppy ennunciation in his singing, though. I love a solid country drawl in the vocals of country music as much as anybody, but I think the style he's adopted is too much. He didn't used to do it as much. Check out the difference in this earlier video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNV16tz1NK0

https://www.yahoo.com/music/video-premiere-the-magpie-salute-performs-comin-home-live-173242207.html And its going to get even better with John Hogg on vocals. He can sing the shit out of stuff like the Faces. Eddie will be sorely missed, though. Look at the way his fingers are just dancing over the keys. He was an incredible talent all the way to the end, even with as much as he put his body through with drugs and his lifestyle.

I saw that tour, expecting that Rich would be the only guitarist and take all the solos and they'd do a bunch of Free songs. I was sorely disappointed, none of that happened. No Rich solo, the other guy who was not Mick Ralphs took all the solos and leads, not a single Free song was played and it was pretty lame. Joe Walsh with Waddy Wachtel opened the show and that was far better to me. Luckily, Rich started his solo tour soon after that and they killed it, playing their asses off with no repeats between two two-set shows in Austin and San Antonio. Rich is both and tone- and riff-meister

Thanks for those desperately needed words of encouragement and optimism, Donna! It'd didn't feel very happy at midnight last night, even out dancing to good music with my wife. 2016 sucked and 2017 is looking even worse. Its a struggle to find the positives which are mostly of the "it could be worse" variety. Its going to take a determined effort to stay positive this year, so I can use all the encouragement I can get so thank you. I will look to the thinkers and visionaries and role models who can see all these troubled times in a greater context to provide some calm and soothing persp

I get what you are saying, jw. There is no hit, or watershed song or signature riff from Derek yet. There may never be. You could say the same thing for SRV, too, perhaps and he is definitely one of the greats in my book. But for me, that doesn't really matter. Its the emotional response i have to his playing that makes him so great to me. He's a virtuoso in the true sense of the word, his blinding technique is there, but he uses it humbly and soulfully to give the listener and the other musicians an emotional an perhaps even transformative experience and he's a master at that, I think.

This does sound promising, but I'm still not holding my breath for a full on rarities tour. While nothing is definite at the moment, Petty is into the idea of playing the title track to 1978's You're Gonna Get It (unplayed since New Year's Eve 1978) and the mournful "Room at the Top" from 1999's Echo, while Tench wants to play the title track to Echo, the Damn the Torpedoes classic "Louisiana Rain" and "Stories We Could Tell," an Everly Brothers song they released on their 1985 live album Pack Up the Plantation. Guitarist Mike Campbell, meanwhile, hopes to convince the group to break out bre

Me, too. Or the Echo tour that Benmont mentioned! Echo, No More, Lonesome Sundown, Room At The Top, Swingin', Free Girl Now, Billy The Kid, it was a really good album although kinda dark, but powerful. I think it has aged very well. They played very little of it when they toured around that time in 1999, probably because it was deemed too dark and depressing for live shows.

My biggest complaint about TP is that the setlists have basically not changed in 15 years! That's an exaggeration, of course, but they have certainly been stagnant, in my view, especially for a songwriter of his calibre with a huge repertoire of amazing songs. His "rarities" shows at the Fonda in LA a couple years ago were pathetic compared to what they could've been. One or two nuggets does not make a show a rarities show, IMO. Imagine what he could do, like a two set show with a true sit-down acoustic set playing stuff like The Wild One Forever, You Can Still Change Your Mind, The Best

Thanks, Lammy. Sounds like a fun time, I'd have enjoyed having a drink or two with Brent as well, I think. And in New Orleans, no less!

In 1992 or so, after he had sat in with the Dead a couple times, a lot of Deadheads went to see Branford Marsalis at Yoshi's in Berkeley. He was doing two shows a night and in between shows he was hanging out at the bar meeting fans, about a dozen lined up to see him. He talked with every fan lined up, one at a time, for several minutes each, what a cool guy. He was very gracious in accepting the praise the Deadheads showered him with and was also happy to talk about what it was like to play with the Dead even at his own show.

You can't NOT tell us Deadheads now with a teaser like that!!! Even if its not flattering to Brent I still wanna hear it.

1. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pueblo Colorado 1986 Out of all 9 times I was lucky to see SRV live, this was the best: a little rodeo grounds in an out of the way Colorado town, Gregg Allman Band opening on his I’m No Angel tour. Standing in the dirt of the infield, we watched with our mouths hanging open in amazement as SRV came out and immediately ripped into several of his instrumentals at an absolutely blistering pace. Later he blew us away with Mary Had A Little Lamb, Texas Flood, Couldn’t Stand the Weather and Voodoo Child. Not rare songs, but the intensity, mastery and inspiration with whi

i have ticket stubs in shoeboxes, too, got about 3 stuffed to overflowing now. And that doesn't inlcude all the club shows that there weren't printed tickets for. The Grateful Dead ~100 shows The Mother Hips ~ 75 shows The Black Crowes ~ 35 shows Jerry Garcia Band ~ 30 shows (many at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco) Wilco ~ 15 shows Richard Thompson ~ 15 shows The Allman Brothers ~ 15 shows Tom Petty ~ 15 shows My Morning Jacket ~15 shows The Jayhawks ~10 shows Bob Dylan ~ 10 shows U2 ~ 11 shows Stevie Ray Vaughan - 9 shows (just missed the cut for 10 times, but still notable to me)

I would agree that the Winterlude shows could have more variation than the Beacon run. Take a look at the variation between the three Los Angeles shows earlier this year on the Schmilco tour. My guess is it'll be about the same for the Beacon, about 6-8 songs different each night, but plenty of repeats and a good number of songs played at all 4 shows. Hopefully there will be fewer repeats for Winterlude!

I think you already sold these, correct? I really need two together anyways, thanks though!

If anybody has a pair of tix to unload for the Saturday show of Winterlude at Chicago Theatre, I'd happily buy them from you! Its our first time seeing Wilco in Chicago and my wife's birthday the night before, so we'd be extra thrilled and appreciative if you do. shug909@yahoo.com covered, thx

Thank you, kind sir!

only got a pair of far back floor tix for Wed. Anybody get the Ticketmaster presale code? Gotta try tomorrow and Fri for the other two nights....

20 year old kid from South Carolina, a Warren Haynes protoge, he can play his ass off! Allman Brothers and Tedeschi Trucks Band fans will most likely love this. I'm going to see him live in 10 days, I can't frickin' wait!!! http://www.marcuskingband.com/bio/

The "two drummers" comment Rich made in his press release would indicate that he wants Steve and has probably asked him. i would guess that Steve has not committed yet. He might show up as special guest or join the band later, like he did for the 2005 reunion.

For those that know, this speaks volumes. I knew this was coming, hallelujah! Rich Robinson—singer-songwriter-guitarist and co-founding member of The Black Crowes—has announced the formation of THE MAGPIE SALUTE. It’s an exciting new band that brings together four key members of The Black Crowes—Rich, guitarist/vocalist, guitarist Marc Ford, keyboardist Eddie Harsch, and bassist Sven Pipien—with members of Rich’s own band: drummer Joe Magistro, keyboardist Matt Slocum, and backing vocalists Adrien Reju and Katrine Ottosen, along with some other friends. THE MAGPIE SALUTE will be unveiled

I noticed it at the show and I'm hearing it again on the recording of Los Angeles night 3, but when did Theologians become a balls out rocker with those dirty guitars and killer Stones-y groove? I'm loving it!

Either Way - War On War - Reservations - Impossible Germany looks really good, as does Wishful Thinking - Misunderstood - Company In My Back from Sept 2nd.