Radiohead, Großer Sendesaal des SFB, Berlin, Germany July 4, 2000

Radiohead's back on the road, and it's looking like I'm going to have to take a ride if I want to see them. Which I'm not going to do. Part of me thinks that this is the year that I really need to drop everything and go, but I can't. No time.

I have to write. Have books to finish. And it's Thom Yorke and company who are keeping my ass motivated. They stay on top by maintaining a sharp focus, and that's good enough for me.

I read that they're rehearsing 75 songs for their 2012 shows, including a bunch of new stuff written at rehearsals this winter.

I read that before the band wrote "Creep" they, "...rehearsed in some town hall every day, including Christmas Eve. It was insane. There was no concept. We were working on songs some nebulous future reason we had not clearly thought through."

I read something Thom Yorke said that really gets my blood pumping. He said, "I understand why we did all those shows. If we hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are."

I read something Jonny Greenwood said, that I try to remember when my motivation is low. "What's different about us was that right from the beginning our obsession was songs." 

And finally, I read something Ed O'Brien said that I think applies to writing as much as it does to music. "It wasn't a bunch of mates, more like a bunch of co-conspirators. We had this common goal. That's what it was all about, dreaming it up. All this stuff we have now--there was never any doubt it was going to happen. And it did, because the material world caught up."

More than once I've heard that writers can't compare themselves to musicians, that writing is not making music and selling books isn't the same as selling songs and I used to think Bullshit! because creation is creation. Over and over I keep getting sucked back toward musicians as sources of inspiration because they talk about creation, whereas writers talk a lot about writing. Verbs, nouns, techniques.... I went to school to learn all that, I want to hear what successful creators have done to get where they're at. Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, I don't know. Maybe it's because writing isn't as immediately exciting as music, and the process doesn't seem like it could possibly be as clever. Either way, I love pulling energy from guys like Radiohead and The Clash because so much is written about the way they CREATED.

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Radiohead
Großer Sendesaal des SFB
Berlin, Germany
July 4, 2000
STEREO VERSION

01. Optimistic
02. Morning Bell
03. Karma Police
04. The National Anthem
05. In Limbo
06. No Surprises
07. My Iron Lung
08. Dollars and Cents
09. Bishop's Robes
10. Talk Show Host
11. Kid A
12. You and Whose Army
13. Airbag
14. Lucky
15. How to Disappear Completely
16. Paranoid Android
17. Everything in its Right Place
ENCORE
18. Egyptian Song
19. Exit Music
20. Knives Out
21. Big Ideas (aborted due to tech problems) Nice Dream

Source: Appears SBD based on quality and separation of instruments / audience. If not SBD, then it's an excellent Audience recording. Received CDR as a trade>Converted through Rio Music Manager> FLAC. Best Source known.

This show was before the official release of Kid A.

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK: Joe Strummer, Filmore, San Francisco, July 6, 1999

"When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there."
-Joe Strummer

I owe a lot of what I got going on this year to thinking like Joe thinks. Thanks, man.

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Disc 1
Intro
Diggin' The New
London Calling
X-Ray Style
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Tony Adams
Straight To Hell
Rock The Casbah
Yalla Yalla
Brand New Cadillac
I Fought The Law

Disc 2
Techno D-Day
Tommy Gun
Junco Partner
Forbidden City
Bankrobber

Top 9: Yellow Submarine Clips

In honor of YELLOW SUBMARINE'S 1968 New York City premier.

YELLOW SUBMARINE'S Trailer.


9. YELLOW SUBMARINE


8. NOWHERE MAN


7. ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE


6. LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS


5. ONLY A NORTHERN SONG


4. ELEANOR RIGBY


3. SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND


2. IT'S ALL TOO MUCH


1. HEY BULLDOG

Download Yonder Mountain String Band, Cain's Ballroom, Tulsa, OK 01/29/05

     I reached into my pocket.
     "What’re you looking for?" Katy said.
     I showed her the long set of rattles I found in my dad’s closet. Jamie watched with keen interest, then said, "To keep the devil away, huh?"
     "Think I need it?" I gave him a half smile which he didn’t reciprocate. I dropped the rattles into an f-hole, then gave it a shake.
     Preston said, "Those don't always work, you know."
     "You hush up now, Preston." Jamie looked at me, "Hell Up Coal Holler, on three?"
     Jamie, Katy and I drew my bows like archers about to fire. When we released, sad triads floated into the valley. The syrupy notes that sprang from my f-hole stunned even my own ears. That unmistakable sound couldn’t be produced where Kentucky’s bluegrass sprouted. They were too busy with horses and basketball. And that sound couldn’t be produced in Tennessee’s Smoky hollows; they were too worried about Country and Western. That sad squeal was pure West Virginia. As I played I could feel the devil riding my bow.
     I had a real hard time keeping up with Jamie and Katy, who played these notes with well-practiced flourishes. These twelve notes, which journeyed with my pap’s grandfather over the gray North Atlantic when famine forced him from Ireland’s stony-green shore. These twelve notes, which sustained my grandmother’s grandmother when food couldn’t, when her trail led over frosty ridges into territory still haunted by ghosts of the first people. These few measures, which I played to announce my gratitude, to announce that my blood flowed for those who made me what I was, and for those who would speak of me when I was dead.

From the novel, HELLBENDER.

Banjos and Beatles. They said it would never work.

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Yonder Mountain String Band
01/29/05
Cain's Ballroom
Tulsa, OK

Source: SBD (xlr out) > UA-5 (Oade warm mod) > Nomad JB3 @ 44.1 khz
Transfer: Nomad JB3 > PC (via USB) > CD Wave > FLAC16
Taped, transferred, and converted by Phil Rollins (philrollins@hotmail.com)

*******Do not encode to MP3 or sell this recording*******
*******Please contact me if you are going to do any remastering of this
recording*******

Set I
Disc 1

1. Intro
2. Bloody Mary Morning
3. Half Moon Rising
4. Easy As Pie
5. Near Me
6. Old Plank Road
7. New Horizons>
8. Finally Saw The Light>
9. New Horizons
10. Rag Mama
11. Idaho>
12. Come Together>
13. Traffic Jam


Set II

Disc 2
1. Intro #
2. Ruby
3. What's Going On In The Head Of That Woman
4. Night Is Left Behind
5. Hit Parade Of Love
6. Sharecropper's Son
7. Train Bound For Gloryland> *
8. Little Rabbit> *
9. Granny Woncha Smoke Some *

Disc 3
1. Sometimes I've Won
2. You're No Good
3. Only A Northern Song>
4. Snow on the Pines>
5. Mother's Only Son
Encore:
6. Crowd
7. Reuben & Cherise

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Double Fantasy Working Version

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From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    Mick watched from his stool, arms crossed. After a moment to let me calm down he replied with sudden earnestness, "I suppose you have to ask yourself if it's worth it. You think I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan and went to bed that night dreaming about running a music shop? My band gigged five or six nights a week anywhere we could—roller rinks, amusement parks. But you know what? I met a girl and had some kids. Now I have grandkids. I figure my life's okay. Not what I'd hoped, but okay." Mick stiffened as a pair of high school students came in. They headed straight back to Stu's drum kit.
    "And at least once a day I ask myself, what if I'd have kept at it for another year more?" Mick waved me aside. Once his line of sight cleared he relaxed. "What if I'd have given it another year?"

Had a John Lennon dream this morning. First one ever, despite having written one into my book. It's a weird one, so hang on: Heidi and I were locked in the Uniontown Burger King after hours. There was a music festival across the street at Mt. St. Macrina, and we were hanging out with some type of R&B band before they went on, singing and playing guitar and fooling around. At first it was just the seven of us, but then the place got more crowded. John was sitting in a corner with Sean. John was wearing that silver puffy jacket from the late Seventies.

He showed me a few videos of Sean fooling around in the studio--the only thing I really remember was Sean holding a guitar and singing "Two of Us", except he changed the lyrics to "Three of us," a reference to him and John and Yoko. We sat there awkwardly for a moment, then I started telling him about my situation with my dad--how after not speaking to him for most of my adult life we finally reconciled. Then how just a year after that he had a stroke that would mean I'd never get him back the way I hoped.

The last bit we discussed was his new stuff, especially DOUBLE FANTASY. I asked how working with Yoko differed from working with Paul, or even just competing with Paul. John didn't acknowledge the comment except to say he felt the Seventies were a really creative time for him, and that being in the studio recently was a lot of fun.

That's all I can remember, try as I might to get a little more of the dream back.

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John Lennon and Yoko Ono
Double Fantasy Working Version
MBE CD
69 Minutes
CD/EAC/WAV/FLAC

1. Starting Over (Intro Session)
2. Starting Over
3. I'm Your Angel
4. Beautiful Boy (With Sean's "oyasuminasai" ("good night")
5. Don't Be Scared
6. Watching the Wheels
7. Everyman Has A Woman
8. I'm Losing You ***
9. Walking On Thin Ice
10 Dear Yoko
11 Woman
12 I'm Moving On (Cheap Trick Version)
13 Clean Up Time
14 Hard Times Are Over
15 I'm Stepping Out
16 I Don't Wanna Face It
17 Nobody Told Me
18 Borrowed Time
19 (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
20 Nobody Sees Me Like You Do

All Unreleased Nothing Official
***I'm Losing You was the Cheap Trick Version released on "John Lennon Anthology" so I replaced it with a unreleased version.

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Alison Krauss and Union Station, BBC Radio2 In Concert, Mermaid Theatre, London, May 12, 2011

Since today's a day when we think about what it means to be American, I found it appropriate to commemorate the holiday with some Americana. Maybe a hundred years ago, music like this would've been on the nation's collective setlist for an evening of fireworks and pie. Today you'd still hear it, and music descended from the same seeds as bands like Union Station. But, depending on where you live, you'd also hear cumbia, salsa, hip-hop, jazz...

Everybody has their idea of what it means to be American. With political season coming up, we're going to hear over and over what our Founding Fathers had in mind. But I'm certain Thomas Jefferson had no idea what the United States would look like over 200 years after he wrote The Declaration of Independence. (Saw an article in Newsweek that suggested he wouldn't even receive a party nomination, let alone win a presidential election if he were alive today.)

That's why summer vacations go so well with Independence Day. Get the hell out there and see what we have, that people in other countries are still dying for. Step into a national park--YOUR park and breath deep the air your taxes help to maintain. Step onto a national battlefield and be grateful for the fight to shape the country and hold it together. Rub elbows with your new brothers and sisters, people our great-grandparents wouldn't have recognized as American. No matter what you do, pursue happiness like only we can.

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ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION
BBC Radio 2 In Concert
Mermaid Theatre
London
Thursday 12th May 2011

FM radio broadcast > DR07> WAV > audio cleaning lab, edits, volume > TLH > flac 8

1. Paper Airplane
2. Dust Bowl Children
3. Instrumental
4. Lay My Burden Down
5. Sinking Stone (?) (Dan Tyminski)
6. Every Time You Say Goodbye
7. Baby, Now That I've Found You
8. Ghost in This House
9. Dobro instrumental (Jerry Douglas)
10. Hold Corn (Jerry Douglas)
11. Jacob's Dream
12. Rain Please Go Away (Dan Tyminski)
13. Sawing on the Strings

Alison Krauss - vocal, fiddle
Jerry Douglas - Dobro, Lap Steel, vocals
Dan Tyminski - Guitar, Mandolin, Lead Vocal
Ron Block - banjo, guitar
Barry Bales - bass, vocals

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Band, Complete King Biscuit Flower Hour, Carter Baron Amphitheatre, Washington DC, July 17, 1976

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    Jamie hemmed and hawed with his gear, speaking without looking at the old lady like he didn't want to call attention to her error, "I'm sorry. May, this is a friend of mine. I'm not sure you do know him." He unloaded jars of jam and a few books from his bag and laid them across the table.
    May said, "I feel like I should." She stood behind me with her hands on my shoulders, holding me into the chair.
    "Well then, this is Preston Black, he's from town."
    She pulled her hands from my shoulders and took a step back. She wiped her hands in her apron. "Well, I recon I don't know him then."
    I stood up to shake her hand, but she responded weakly, like I owed her money. "You know the song?" I asked.
    "I heard it but I don't know it." She drowned a battered teapot in the stream of spring water that dripped from the spigot. "But that song ain't of no account and you can honor my hospitality by not asking no more about it."

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Who doesn't love a good devil song?

I picked up my bag, I went looking for a place to hide;
When I saw Carmen and the Devil walking side by side.
I said, "Hey, Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."
She said, "I gotta go, but my friend can stick around."

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The Band
Complete King Biscuit Flower Hour
Washington DC
July 17, 1976
Carter Baron Amphitheatre, Washington DC
Broadcast August 29, 1976
SBD Pre FM King Biscuit discs and reels
Length 71:13 mins

01 Don't Do It 5:10
02 The Shape I'm In 4:08
03 It Makes No Difference 7:23
04 The Weight 4:44
05 King Harvest 3:45
06 Twilight 3:29
07 Ophelia 3:36
08 Tears Of Rage 5:58
09 Forbidden Fruit 6:11
10 This Wheel's On Fire 3:51
11 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down 4:04
12 The Genetic Method 3:57
13 Chest Fever 4:23
14 Up On Cripple Creek 5:59
15 W.S. Walcott Medicine Show 4:03

Comments:
William Keats wrote:
The new Last Waltz booklet indicates the DC show date was actually 16 August 1976 (see page 1 of the booklet). The PreFM copy that I have has this setlist, which is not the entire show, but everything that King Biscuit broadcast (from PreFM sources including reels, which is how the Biscuit used to get sent out)
I write:
However this date is known to be incorrect, the recording was most likely made on 17 July 1976

Personnel:
Robbie Robertson Guitars, Vocals
Rick Danko Bass, Vocals, Violin
Richard Manuel Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Levon Helm Vocals, Guitars
Garth Hudson Keyboards, Sax

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Dr. Ralph Stanley And The Clinch Mountain Boys, Skipper's Smokehouse, Tampa, FL 2009-12-06

Appalachia. Bluegrass. Copperhead. Dogwood. Elderberry. Fiddleheads. Ginseng. Hellbender. Indian pipes. Junco. Kingsnake. Laurel. Mountain lion. Newt. Opossum. Peeper. Queen Anne's Lace. Rattlesnake. Sharp-shinned Hawk. Tulip poplar. Upland Chorus Frog. Vole. White lightning. Yew pine.

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Dr. Ralph Stanley And The Clinch Mountain Boys
The Skipperdome
Skipper's Smokehouse
Tampa, FL
2009-12-06 Sunday

Taped and transferred by capnhook hooknshark@yahoo.com

d1t01 -intro-
d1t02 Hard Times
d1t03 -band introductions-
d1t04 Room At The Top Of The Stairs
d1t05 O Death
d1t06 I'll Answer The Call
d1t07 If I Lose
d1t08 Big Tilda
d1t09 How Mountain Gals Can Love
d1t10 Little Rosewood Casket
d1t11 The Soldier's Grave
d1t12 Little Maggie
d1t13 Pretty Polly
d1t14 Mountain Dew
d1t15 Stone Walls And Steel Bars
d1t16 White Dove
d1t17 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
d1t18 I'll Fly Away
d1t19 -it's time for a commercial-
d1t20 Rocky Island
d1t21 Man of Constant Sorrow
d1t22 John The Revelator
d1t23 Clinch Mountain Backstep
d1t24 John Henry
d1t25 Orange Blossom Special

encore:
d1t26 Think Of What You've Done
d1t27 -outro-

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Dr. Ralph Stanley - Vocals, Banjo
Ralph Stanley II - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Nathan Stanley - Mandolin
Dewey Brown - Fiddle, Harmony Vocals
James Shelton - Lead Guitar
Steve Sparkman - Banjo
Jimmy Cameron - Bass

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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Civil Wars, Live In Session On KCRW FM 2011-06-15

Not a new favorite, but I'm loving this show. Real singer/songwriters, and Joy Williams has an amazing voice. The show is crystal-clear, straight from the KCRW broadcast. Sounds like they're playing in your living room. And a Jackson 5 cover!

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The Civil Wars - Live In Session On MBE KCRW FM 2011-06-15

KCRW Radio FM Broadcast
Santa Monica, California.
Source: FM Broadcast

AIRED: Wednesday June 15th, 2011

STEREO CAPTURE

**** NOT FOR SALE **** PLEASE DO NOT DISTRIBUTE THESE FILES IN LOSSY FORMATS ****

Lineage: FM > Onkyo HT-R520 > Analog Out (2 - RCA Mono Out) > 2 - 1/4 Inch Mono Phone Jacks In > Zoom H4n 24bit-96KHz > USB2 > r8Brain dithering 16bit-44KHz > CD WAVE Tracking > Audacity fade last trk only > TLH Checksums Flac.8)->

Indie folk rock duo The Civil Wars are one of this year's biggest indie success stories. When you hear their gorgeous harmonies and see their onstage chemistry, it's hard to believe they're not a couple!

01.(=Intro=)
02.Poison & Wine
03.(-talking-)
04.20 Years
05.(-songintro-)
06.I've Got This Friend
07.(-talk-)
08.From This Valley
09.(=Interview=)
10.Barton Hollow
11.(-talking-)
12.Falling
13.(-talking-)
14.I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover)
15.(=Outro=)
16.(-songintro-)
17.Birds Of A Feather (incomplete)

Note:

The DJ stepped on the last track again, with mere seconds until they completed, Booo!

The Band:

Joy Williams - Vox, Piano,

John Paul White - Vox, Guitar, Dobro

Links:

Stream/Audition This Show @

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb110615the_civil_wars

Remember, The Streams Can Sound Very Lossy.

Setlist And Info Copied From KCRW's Website

They're Often Incorrect @

http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb

Other Related Links:

http://www.thecivilwars.com/

http://www.myspace.com/thecivilwars

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Civil_Wars

WIKI:

The Civil Wars is an indie folk duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. The duo met during a Nashville, Tennesee songwriting session and formed The Civil Wars. They gained national exposure when their song "Poison and Wine" was played on an episode of Grey's Anatomy in late 2009. The band got a boost when Taylor Swift tweeted about them in late 2010. During that period, their music video for Barton Hollow was added to the rotation at VH1 and CMT. The Civil Wars catalog includes a download-only album called Live at Eddie's Attic, an EP called Poison & Wine and a studio album titled Barton Hollow.

Background information:

Origin:
Nashville, Tennessee

Years active:
2009–present

Labels:
Sensibility Music

Genres:
Indie folk,
folk rock,
alternative country,
progressive bluegrass

Enjoy,
Nibbler

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Mumford and Sons, Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, Which Stage, Manchester, Tennessee, June 11, 2011

Sounds great! New songs and a big encore. Turn of the AC and it's just like Bonnaroo without the head lice.

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Mumford and Sons
2011-06-11
Which Stage
Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival
Manchester, Tenn.


Avantone CK-1 (cardoid) > Fostex FR-2LE (24/48)
FOB/DFC; mics at ~ 10' high
CF > HDD > Wavelab 6 > CD WAVE > FLAC > Traders' Little Helper

Taped by: willsfc
Transferred and Seeded by: MSTaper
*** A Team Dirty South Recording ***


Set List:

01 intro
02 Sigh No More
03 Roll Away Your Stone
04 Winter Winds
05 Below my Feet
06 White Blank Page
07 Timshel
08 Hopeless Wanderer
09 Little Lion Man
10 Lover of the Night
11 Thistle and Weeds
12 Lover's Eyes
13 The Cave
14 Awake My Soul*
15 Dustbowl Dance
16 encore break
17 Amazing Grace *^

Running Time: 1:24

* With Jerry Douglas
^ with members of Old Crow Medicine Show, Cadillac Sky and Apache Relay.


I watched this set and was very impressed with Mumford and Sons. They're one of those bands you have to see live to appreciate. I'm so glad willsfc taped this one, especially after seeing the "Amazing Grace" encore. I hear there were 19 musicians on stage. I was excited about seeing Apache Relay up there because they just played our town about two weeks ago.

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MSTaper

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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Clash, Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL 14 September 1979

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    I threw on an old Clash t-shirt, faded and thin like shirts from when you were a kid, worn to translucence because they had Darth Vader or Snake Eyes on them. Thinking about the cold made me add a layer. As I buttoned up the old flannel I looked for a hoodie and scrounged around my closet floor. In the pocket of an old gray sweatshirt I found a thin navy toboggan which I pulled over my ears. I threw the hoodie onto my guitar case and looked for gloves. But I couldn't remember owning any. I grabbed the record to show Jamie. As I tied my scarf I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. An ex-con if I ever saw one.

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The Clash
Aragon Ballroom
Chicago, IL
14 September 1979
WXRT FM Broadcast

01. Jimmy Jazz.
02. I'm so bored with the USA
03. Complete Control
04. London Calling
05. Clampdown
06. White Man in Hammersmith
07. Koka Kola
08. I fought the Law
09. Jail Guitar Doors
10. Police and Thieves
11. Stay Free
12. Clash City Rockers
13. Safe European Home
14. Capital Radio
15. Janie Jones
16. Garageland
17. Armagideon Time
18. Career Opportunities
19. White Riot

Lineage

Trade CDR `The Clash Chicago 1979’ (spacerabbit 2002) FM Broadcast (WXRT 93.1 Chicago) >
EAC > Soundforge 8 > CDWave 1.95 > FLAC 8

Notes
Removed WXRT Station tag after Trk 8 and minor edit between Trks 12-13.
Ran show through Soundforge Click & Crackle filter to remove some static and slight EQ to sound

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Pink Floyd, Boston Gardens, Boston,Massachusetts June 27th 1977

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    It was either July or August. One of those nights when an open window and a box fan only made things worse. I sat on my roof, crying or something. Probably crying. I had Pink Floyd Animals playing over and over. A full moon crept up over the mountains, shining a dense blue light bright enough to make nighttime shadows appear. Without wind I could hear every cricket for a thousand miles. A couple of hound dogs had a raccoon treed down by Deckers Creek.     And, for a moment, I felt like the only person on earth. Like all the loneliness manifested itself in the sudden disappearance of everything I'd ever known. The world, with just me in it, suddenly had felt like a very cold place.
    At some point the tape had flipped back to side one. "Dogs" came on, even if I didn't really notice it. And the humid air, an amplifier for all those non-human sounds, brought the crickets and the hound dogs right up to my roof. The moon came over the treetops, washing out the city lights below me. And the dogs—either the ones from the tape or real ones—got closer. The dogs were like a bridge between the tape and real life, and it became hard to tell which was which. Suddenly being alone really scared me. I don't really remember what happened after that.
    Even though that phase of my life ended that night, the details will always stick with me. The way the moon and the city looked. Individual trees, and the leaves just scattering the moonlight like a chrome bumper scatters brake lights. The feel of the shingles and the slope of the roof on my bare feet. I didn't know if it was the most dream-like experience I'd ever had, or the most life-like dream, but last night, up in Dani's apartment, felt just like that night on my roof.

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"Have A Cigar"
CA-2004015/16 Cannonball
Matrix Disc 1: CA - 2004015
Matrix Disc 2: CA - 2004016
(P) 2004 Made in Japan
Promotional Use Only - Not For Sale

SQ Scale (G+ VG- VG VG+ EX- EX EX+ SUP- SUP)
SQ Rating: EX+/SUP-

Pink Floyd
Boston Gardens
Boston,Massachusetts
June 27th 1977

Lineage: "Have A Cigar" My Silver > CDWave > Flac5

Disc 1: 50:38
1. Sheep 10:57
2. Pigs On The Wing Pt1 1:21
3. Dogs 17:47
4. Pigs On The Wing Pt2 2:20
5. Pigs 19:11

Disc 2: 70:29
1. Shine On Your Crazy Diamond Pt1-5 13:13
2. Welcome To The Machine 8:08
3. Have A Cigar 5:02
4. Wish You Where Here 6:49
5. Shine On Your Crazy Diamond Pt6-9 17:11
6. Money 12:09
7. Us And Them 7:53

Total Time: 121:07


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Have A Cigar (Cannonball CA-240015/16)

Boston Garden, Boston, MA - June 27th, 1977

Disc 1: Sheep, Pigs On The Wing (part 1), Dogs, Pigs On The Wing (part 2), Pigs (three different ones)

Disc 2: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5), Welcome To The Machine, Have A Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 6-9), Money, Us & Them

There have been many releases coming out of the east documenting tapes from Pink Floyd's In The Flesh tour, this being the fourth release in the past month (Pigs Fly Over America, Welcome To The Machine and Racial Violence being the other three). It is indeed a classic tour and the last time that the band truly toured the United States and Have A Cigar represents the final Boston concert with Roger Waters in the band. This is a superb sounding stereo audience recording made by the same one who made the second tape source of the 1975 show at the same venue.

Previous releases of this show include The Perfect Day on Ayanami, but this comes from the complete and unprocessed master that has recently been circulating. It is better sounding and longer than any other and is the definitive version of a spectacular show that is definitely worth having. This is Pink Floyd after touring for several months, so they are extremely tight, but before their frustrations began to surface in the New York concerts the following week. Waters shouts out "48" during "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" and comments at the end "The perfect end to a perfect day".

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK The Beatles, River Rhine Tapes 1969

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    To his credit, he let it go. Maybe he was right, and maybe I knew it, but now wasn't the time. So we did my third song, which I called "Twickenham." The mediocre mid-tempo riff sounded too much like Social D. I wrote it about George Harrison after seeing the abuse he put up with while recording Get Back.
    I considered doing the Preston Black song as a fourth cut, but by the time I changed my mind Jamie started transferring files and fiddling with levels and all that, so I figured we were done. He burned me a disc, then said we'd leave in a bit, and that Katy would meet us later.

"Nobody ever loved me like she does..." Don't Let Me Down, John Lennon.

For some reason I'm very partial to LET IT BE. I think it was because everybody else went for ABBEY ROAD or SGT. PEPPER. Little did I know when I picked the disc up I was catching a glimpse of a band in free fall. Yoko attached herself to John's hip and George had quit the band a few times. Paul's attempts to rebuild the band through live performances had the exact opposite effect--the others began to resent him for his pursuit of perfection.

The RIVER RHINE TAPES are a very clean set of outtakes from the LET IT BE rehearsals. If you're somebody who has overlooked this album because it's not ABBEY ROAD or the WHITE ALBUM, this is your chance to see what you've been missing. Highlights for me include Dig a Pony, Don't Let Me Down, the I, Me, Mine Waltz, and Across the Universe. It's a nice look at what could've been.


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The Beatles, River Rhine Tapes 1969

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01.Two of Us [03:39]
02.I Dig A Pony [03:55]
03.I Got A Feeling [03:53]
04.Dont Let Me Down [03:36]
05.I Me Mine Waltz [01:26]
06.Let it Be [03:37]
07.For You Blue [02:52]
08.One After 909 [03:19]
09.Long and Winding Road [03:47]
10.Get Back [03:48]
11.Oh Darling [02:42]
12.Across the Universe [03:22]
13.Dig it [02:17]
14.(Track Deletet) [01:51]
15.Good Rockin Tonite [01:43]
16.20 Flight Rock [02:09]
17.Her Majesty [01:43]
18.Maxwells Silver Hammer by John [01:10]
19.Maxwells Silver Hammer by Paul [03:39]
20.Suzy Parker [02:00]
21.Bad Finger Boogie [01:17]
22.Mean Mr Mustard [01:21]
23.All Things Must Pass [03:09]
24.The Walk [03:54]
25.River Rhine [04:20]
26.Billybeatle Boogie [05:18]

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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Johnny Cash and the Carter Family, Wembley Arena, London, U.K. 1986-03-31

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    "In the process I found out a little about the place where I was born."
    I took a deep breath and picked out a slow, soft "Wildwood Flower." At the 'I will dance I will sing' part Katy stepped up to the mic and joined me.
    Right then and there an amazing thing happened. In these kids who threw down Jäger by the pint every Friday night, I managed to induce images of the buckwheat cakes and the lonely hollows they went back to every Saturday morning. I had to let them know that I knew, and playing that song created a common ground. They were mountaineers not just in the hoodies and ball caps they wore to football games. That's why they sang "Take Me Home, Country Roads" every week at the top of their lungs. The hall stood frozen, like in an old photograph. It was so quiet Katy could've played unplugged.

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Johnny Cash.

He bridged the gap between traditional music and punk before Rick Rubin ever got the big idea to have Johnny cover Soundgarden and NIN.

Consider the following examples:

"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die." Johnny Cash, FOLSOM PRISON BLUES versus "Somebody got murdered, his name cannot be found. A small stain on the pavement, they'll scrub it off the ground." The Clash, SOMEBODY GOT MURDERED

"One morning at breakfast, I said to my wife, we been everywhere once and some places twice. As I had another helping of country ham, she said "We ain't never been to Vietnam,and there's a bunch of our boys over there." So we went to the Orient: Saigon." Johnny Cash, SINGIN' IN VIET NAM TALKIN'BLUES versus "Well you'll work harder with a gun in your back. For a bowl of rice a day, slave for soldiers, till you starve, then your head is skewered on a stake." Dead Kennedys, HOLIDAY IN CAMBODIA

"Well, I woke up Sunday morning, with no way to hold my head that didn't hurt. And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad,so I had one more for dessert. Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes and found my cleanest dirty shirt. Then I washed my face and combed my hair and stumbled down the stairs to meet the day." Johnny Cash, SUNDAY MORNING COMING DOWN versus "I went downtown to look for a job, I had no training, no experience to speak of. I looked at the holes in my jeans and turned and headed back." Social D, STORY OF MY LIFE

Okay, so this isn't exactly a doctoral dissertation, but I think I've made my case. With a longer attention span I could've done three or four more comparisons. But I don't have to--look at the picture! This is the man who kicked out the lights at the Grand Ole Opry, saying, "The band kicked off a song, and I tried to take the microphone off the stand. In my nervous frenzy, I couldn't get it off. That was enough to make me explode in a fit of anger. I took the mic stand, threw it down, then dragged it along the edge of the stage. There were 52 lights, and I wanted to break all 52, which I did."

Johnny's biggest contribution to punk is the idea that we can all be redeemed. Without redemption, or a shot of redemption, all that anger is for nothing. I think we all want a chance to scream at the top of our lungs, but we can only do this if we know somebody's going to listen, and that they're going to forgive us when we're done.

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Johnny Cash and The Carter Family
Wembley Arena, Wembley Country Festival, London, U.K.
1986-03-31

Johnny Cash : Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Bob Wootton : Lead Guitar
Earl 'Pool' Ball : Piano, Vocals
Jim Soley : Guitar
Joe Allen : Bass Guitar, Vocals
W.S. Holland : Drums
Jack Hale Jr: Trumpet, French Horn
Bob Lewin : French Horn

with:

Carter Family:
June Carter : Autoharp, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals
Anita Carter: Vocals
Helen Carter: Acoustic Guitar, Vocals

guest: John Schneider (Highwayman, Daddy Sang Bass), Carlene Carter (Elbow Room + more??)

June, Anita, Helen (and Carlene?) appear on more tunes (towards the end of the show) than indicated ... songs are shown as "with June" when June is more-or-less duetting, on other tunes she (and her sisters) share backing vocals.

Lineage: FM broadcast(taped, not live)>cassette>SW1000XG>wav>CEP (minor editing only, + normalisation)>CDWAV>CD.

CD#1 :
1. Intro Medley (Johnny Cash Band) (2:40)
2. Ring Of Fire (2:41)
3. Folsom Prison Blues (2:40)
4. Sunday Morning Coming Down (3:37)
5. Any Old Wind That Blows (2:44)
6. These Hands (2:35)
7. Here Comes That Rainbow Again (2:17)
8. Love Is The Way (2:00)
9. The Highwayman (with John Schneider) (2:43)
10. Big River (2:32)
11. I Guess Things Happen That Way (1:30)
12. Band Introductions (0:27)
13. Fairweather Friends (2:38)
14. Piano Solo (Earl 'Pool' Ball) (3:48)
15. One Piece At A Time (4:23)
16. Forty Shades Of Green (2:18)
17. Ghost Riders In The Sky (3:56)
Total Time : [51:07]

CD#2 :
18. If I Were A Carpenter (with June) (2:04)
19. Jackson (with June) (2:22)
Carter Family (June, Helen, Anita):
20. June Carter Introduction (1:28)
21. Wabash Cannonball (June Carter) (1:52)
22. San Antonio Rose (June Carter) (1:04)
23. Elbow Room (Carter Family with Carlene Carter) (3:23)
24. I'll Be All Smiles Tonight (Anita) (3:28)
25. Foggy Mountain Top (Carter Family) (2:38)
26. Will The Circle Be Unbroken (Carter Family) (3:52)
27. Wildwood Flower jam (Johnny Cash Band) (0:21)
28. Wreck Of The Old '97 (with June) (2:52)
29. A Thing Called Love (2:21)
30. The Ballad Of Ira Hayes (3:02)
31. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord (3:26)
32. Daddy Sang Bass (with John Schneider) (2:12)
33. Outro (Johnny Cash Band) (0:37)
34. Casey Jones (1:25)
35. Orange Blossom Special (3:35)
36. I Walk The Line (2:07)
Total Time : [49:16]

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Grateful Dead, Swing Auditorium, San Bernardino, CA, February 26, 1977

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    Jerry strummed a banjo. As he plucked he said, "Satan's already been defeated, he just don't know it yet. He'll soon get all he has coming to him. Woe to my children for the devil's coming down on you with great wrath, because he knows that he ain't got but a short time."
    In the hospital room the air kicked on, chilling the sweat that had formed on my skin. I folded my arms over my t-shirt, a shirt I had when I was little. Optimus Prime held up a laser pistol with one hand. With the other he waved with a half pointed finger, like Bumblebee, Jazz and Bluestreak would appear on the horizon any second to kick Megatron's whiny ass. The red shirt, worn thin and soft by thousands of washings had been my favorite.
    I asked, "What do I have to do? To save myself?"

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For so many years the Grateful Dead were summer to me. Probably had a lot to do with the moving of rafting operations from the Cheat in West Virginia to the Lower Yough in Ohiopyle. Being closer to home gave the guides more time to hang out and goof-off before and after trips. Life at the campgrounds was in full-swing. Days got warmer. Laurels bloomed. You saw the same group of guys over and over. The guys you worked with, and relied on, became your family.

This show opens with TERRAPIN STATION, which is my ultimate GD song. I can't listen to it in January unless I'm in a self-punishing type of mood. When I hear this song wildflowers burst open in wide, sunny mountain meadows. A giant moon rises over the pines followed by an even bigger Venus. Maybe there's a campfire. Tea is brewing.

From TERRAPIN STATION lyrics by Robert Hunter:

Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color,
Hold away despair.
More than this I will not ask, faced with mysteries dark and vast.
Statements just seem vain at last.
Some rise, some fall, some climb to get to Terrapin.

Counting stars by candlelight, all are dim but one is bright,
The spiral light of Venus, rising first and shining best.
On, from the northwest corner, of a brand new crescent moon,
Crickets and cicadas sing, a rare and different tune,
Terrapin Station.

This sbd sounds amazing. Worth a stream or download.

Grateful Dead Live at Swing Auditorium on 1977-02-26 (February 26, 1977)



1 Terrapin Station 10:57
2 New Minglewood Blues 04:56
3 They Love Each Other 07:05
4 Estimated Prophet 07:09
5 Sugaree 11:04
6 Mama Tried 02:44
7 Deal 05:50
8 Playin' in the Band 14:00
9 The Wheel 04:58
10 Playin' in the Band 05:31
11 Samson and Delilah 06:07
12 Tennessee Jed 08:42
13 The Music Never Stops 06:19
14 Help on the Way > Slipknot! 13:22
15 Franklin's Tower 13:23
16 Promised Land 04:13
17 Eyes of the World 11:45
18 Dancin' in the Streets 10:00
19 Around and Around 07:00
20 U.S. Blues 06:11

Collection: GratefulDead
Band/Artist: Grateful Dead
Date: February 26, 1977 (check for other copies)
Venue: Swing Auditorium
Location: San Bernardino, CA

Source: Soundboard
Lineage: SBD > Master Reel > PCM > DAT > CD-R
Transferred by: AlphaDog
Keywords: Live concert

Description

Terrapin Station, Minglewood Blues, They Love Each Other, Estimated Prophet, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Deal, Playing In The Band > The Wheel > Playing In The Band Samson & Delilah, Tennessee Jed, The Music Never Stopped, Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower, Promised Land, Eyes Of The World-> Dancin' In The Streets-> Around & Around, E: U.S. Blues

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Foo Fighters, Austin City Limits, September 29, 2008

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

     I took a deep breath.
     Maybe it was cliché to start soft and let it build, but that was what worked. "Stairway", "Everlong", "Two Step". I didn't really see myself having a choice. So I sang the first verse a capella. Just like Ernie Currence sang in his kitchen, except in tune. I slapped my knee with my hand. "I never knew my mom or a dad. No, I never knew my mom or dad. Didn't know when I was born, didn't know when I'd die, didn't know nothing about the how or why. Preston Black didn't know his mom or dad."
     The ironic thing was the way they ate it up. Their attentiveness was obvious, because I'd seen a lot of crowds who could give a shit. And I wondered how many of them believed my story, and how many of them thought it was bullshit, but liked it anyway.
     I continued a capella, but this time Katy played, squeezing out a dissonant drone from her fiddle like fingernails down a chalkboard. She twisted the minor key, giving the song a gothic stain.
     "Preston Black couldn't quench his thirst. Preston Black couldn't quench his thirst. But he'd go to the bar every night and be dry again by the morning light, Preston Black couldn't ever quench his thirst."
     Katy built on the song's melody, playing notes complementary to mine but never the same note. Her tones and my words filled the space above the crowd with strange, new chords. Smothered them with noise.
     While Katy played I turned around and eased the Twin's volume up. I looked for the sound guy, maybe trying to tell him I was about to drop bombs. When he nodded I got ready for the next verse.

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Foo Fighters

HD Digital Broadcast on KEDT-TV (Austin City Limits)
Captured on Motorola DCH 6416 Digital Video Recorder
Transferred via Zoom H2 (line-in via RCA jacks) at 44.1 kHz, 16 bit

Zoom H2 > wav file > Sony Soundforge 8.0 > Traders Little Helper > flac

Sony Soundforge was used to split the large wav file into tracks and to fade in at the beginning and fade out at the end. TLH was used to correct sector boundary errors and to convert to flac.

This show was originally broadcast on PBS Soundstage on January 17, 2009 but was recorded on September 29, 2008.

01. Young Man Blues 5:31
02. Skin and Bones 4:55
03. My Hero 5:30
04. But Honestly 5:35
05. Everlong 9:48
06. Monkeywrench 1:48
07. All My Life 4:31
08. Aurora 9:24
09. The Pretender 4:59
10. Interview 1:17

Band Credits
Dave Grohl – vocals, guitar
Taylor Hawkins – drums, vocals
Nate Mendel – bass
Chris Shiflett – guitar, vocals
Jessy Greene – violin, cello, vocals
Drew Hester – percussion
Rami Jaffee – keyboard, accordion, piano, mellotron
Pat Smear – guitar

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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Yonder Mountain String Band, Fillmore Auditorium April 17, 2004

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    "Okay. I made a mixtape for you."
     "You serious? It'd been years since anybody made me a mixtape, and this weekend I get two."
     "Well, a CD. Just some stuff you may have never heard. Sara Watkins, Yonder Mountain String Band, Uncle Earl." She handed it to me with an apologetic smile.
     "Thanks a lot. I'll listen to it today." I got my stuff from the back seat.
     "Yeah, right." Katy tooted as she drove away.
     I stood on the corner waiting for whatever would happen next. Walnut Street looked a lot different today than it did Friday night on my drunken stroll up High. The sidewalk felt a little slippy, so I shuffled my feet, my Tele acting like a counterweight to all of the material Jamie had loaded me down with.
     I thought about heading straight to Dani's, but remembered she said she'd be up at the library. Pauly's message that he'd be on the road for a few days reminded me I had the apartment to myself. My stomach growled. The easiest thing would be to take it into the diner to see mom. But she'd know I hadn't been talking to Pauly and ask a lot of questions and tell me how sin makes us a prisoner of Satan and all that. Seemed like a lot of trouble for a cheeseburger.

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Yonder is the band that delivered me to traditional music. This show sounds amazing, like you're riding the rail at the Fillmore. Great mix of songs--two Beatles covers and some Ozzy. (And The Misfits, too.) If you're afraid to commit, start listening at Troubled Mind and stayed tuned through the encores.


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Collection: YonderMountainStringBand
Band/Artist: Yonder Mountain String Band
Date: April 17, 2004 (check for other copies)
Venue: Fillmore Auditorium
Location: San Francisco, CA

Source: SBD > Lunatec V2 > Sony PCM-M1 (44.1khz)
Lineage: Sony PCM-M1 > Oade Active 7-pin > Hosa Coax > Delta DiO 2496 > WaveLab 4.0g (record, fades) > CD Wave v.1.92 (splits) > shntool > FLAC16 (level 8)
Taped by: Brad Leblanc
Keywords: Live concert

Set 1: No Expectations, Another Day, River*, Mental Breakdown, Sunday Afternoon, Left Me In A Hole, Crow Black Chicken^, Where They Do Not Know My Name^, Death Trip^, Near Me, Not Far Away, New Horizons > I'm Only Sleeping > New Horizons

Set 2: And Your Bird Can Sing > Sideshow Blues, Mossy Cow, Country Boy Rock & Roll, Sorrow Is A Highway, Troubled Mind > 20 Eyes, Kentucky Mandolin > Just The Same, Lord Only Knows (Part One) > Sometimes I've Won + > On The Run > Peace Of Mind > On The Run

Encore: 40 Miles From Denver, Crazy Train


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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Mumford and Sons, Electric Picnic Festival, Stradbally, 5 Sept 2010.

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

     "A few weeks ago I found a record at Isaac's up on Pleasant. Right next to Mick's. I was flipping through LPs and found this old record that had been pressed around the year I was born. On the back of the sleeve I saw my name. As a song title. I thought it meant something. I thought, maybe the songwriter was my dad just because we had the same last name. So I bought the record even though the track looked like a scratching post."
     I gave her an A.
     "So I started looking for the song. I had to know what the song said."
     From an open D string I hammered onto the E, then picked the C before strumming a few times.
     "In the process I found out a little about the place where I was born."
     I took a deep breath and picked out a slow, soft "Wildwood Flower". At the 'I will dance I will sing' part Katy stepped up to the mic and joined me.
     Right then and there an amazing thing happened. In these kids who threw down Jager by the pint every Friday, I managed to induce images of the buckwheat cakes and the lonely hollows they went back to every Saturday and Sunday. I had to let them know that I knew, and playing that song created a common ground. They were mountaineers not just in the hoodies and ball caps they wore to football games. That's why they sang "Country Roads" every week at the top of their lungs. The hall stood frozen, like in an old photograph. It was so quiet Katy could've played unplugged.

What is it about the old-timey stuff that keeps people coming back? Sometimes I think it's because, as Americans, we shed our ancestral identity to share in a national one. Some of our grandparents, or great-grandparents, took a lot of crap for speaking Czech or Croatian, or being Irish or Jewish. The melting pot began to taste like eggplant or tofu--any substance that absorbs flavors without releasing any of its own.

Then there's the guilt. Germans after World War Two. I'm sure the number of admitted German speakers dropped in the 40s and 50s. There's the slavery issue after the Civil War. And the ongoing mistreatment of Indians. Without getting to psychological, I wonder if we're celebrating this part of our culture because we can.

Folks who are into traditional music know there's been a scene for a hundred years. Through revivals and slumps it's never actually diminished in many places, but people on the outside of those worlds would never know that. I wonder why it took a group of outsiders (Brits) to bring this music to the mainstream.

Sometimes I think hipsters embraced Mumford and Sons because they let them have their 'ancestral' music back, without the trappings of Southern culture. Banjos without the Confederate flags. Songs about whiskey that doesn't come from Tennessee.

Maybe it's just because they write catchy tunes.

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Mumford and son Electric picnic Festival stradbally 5 Sept 2010 Main stage 7-10-8-00-pm.

Rte in concert radio one 88.5 fm tx 26 sept 2010, Rte radio 2 live from stage 5 sept 2010 interview phathom fm 105 .


In concert 26 Sept 2010.

01 intro.
02 Sigh no more.
03 Awake my heart.
04 roll away your stone.
05 Nothing is written.
06 little lion man.
07 lover of the light.
08 Thistle and weeds.
09 White blank page.
10 The cave.
11 outro.

Interview phathom fm 105 Dublin arera 18 July 2010.

12 interview (Short).

Jenny Houston show Live from stage 5Sept 2010.

13 Nothing is written.
14 Little lion man.
15 Love of the light.
16 Thistle and weeds.
17 White blank page.
18 The cave.

Segments end.

Please support mumford And son with online or hard copy buy and enjoy this music.

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i have included both broadcasts form the festival the live one cuts in at 30 mins or so and the later one has the full set.
i find that the live from stage broadcasts can be diffrent to the later ones as there is no time to alter the sound etc.

THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK Pearl Jam, Madison Square Garden, September 11, 1998

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THE MUSIC AND PRESTON BLACK: Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys 04/30/1967 Bean Blossom, Indiana

From THE DEVIL AND PRESTON BLACK:

    And digging deeper was pretty much what I was doing the day I found my LP misplaced behind Blizzard of Oz. On my way to return the record to the BLUEGRASS section the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen stepped out of the CLASSICAL stacks. She smiled. I smiled back. She asked what I had in my hand. On the cover a bunch of anonymous pickers sat in front of an old log cabin. The back of the record said Uncle Mason's Front Porch: Best of the Blackwater Sessions.
    And on the track list, between "Pretty Polly" and "Hangman's Reel" was a song called "The Sad Ballad of Preston Black", written by E. Black.
    I knew right then and there that if I could ever find the man who'd written that song, I'd have found my dad.

For me it's more about the date than the show. Tomorrow I'm celebrating my birthday in Bluegrass Country. All ready made my pilgrimage to Woodford Distillery. Dined on REAL KFC (and corn pudding and stewed tomatoes and mashed potatoes with white gravy....)

One of the things I love about bluegrass is the fluid interplay between musicians--banjo jumps from lead to rhythm as the mandolin takes over. The guitarist chucks along waiting for the nod that says it's his turn to take a lead. I like the organic way a song unfolds from a seed one of the players may have inadvertently dropped, almost as an aside. Just three or four notes that spark something in one of the other players who picks it up and runs with it. Bluegrass is about tragedy and love and heartbreak and cheeky humor. Here's a show to get you started. Best listened to with a nice glass of bourbon.

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Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys
04/30/1967
Bean Blossom Park
Bean Blossom, IN

Doug Green - Guitar
Byron Berline - Fiddle
Lamar Grier - Banjo
James Monroe - Bass

1. Watermelon on the Vine
2. Sally Goodin
3. Walls of Time
4. Bluegrass Breakdown
5. My Georgia Rose
6. Molly and Tenbrooks
7. Blue Moon of Kentucky
8. Brand New Shoes
9. Watson Blues
10. Rawhide
11. Uncle Pen
12. Whitehouse Blues
13. Little Cabin Home on the Hill
14. When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold
15. Dusty Miller
16. Is It Too Late Now? - (Red Allen)
17. There Must Be Another Way to Live
18. Tennessee Wagoner - (Shorty Sheehan)
19. Blue Eyes Cryin in the Rain

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Monroe Archival Project
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