A Celebration of Life, Love and Ambition that Outlasts Obstacles
Got a request from Ric for some Chris Smither ages ago and it’s taken a while but here it is. I’m excited for his new record Time Stands Still that comes out at the end of the month. I’ve always loved Doc Watson’s blues / folk finger-picking and someone told me to look up [...]
This one goes out to Glenn who requested this show because he was there. This is an act with Emmylou Harris, Patty Griffin, Shawn Colvin and Buddy Miller sharing the spotlight. Singing songs and telling stories. It’s a decent audience recording that gets a little loud with the audience between songs. Glenn mentioned that the [...]
This show is for the kind folks that hang out over at the Unofficial Martin Guitar Forum. If you play guitar and don’t yet have a Martin, spend sometime there and before long you will have one! I love the Grateful Dead acoustic sets that they did. This sets features a number of rare tunes [...]
This one was a request from my buddy Wilder. I was going to post it anyway, but after I smoked him 6 – 0 in Tennis the other day I figured I should do it for him. Alison is playing with a different configuration of Union Station than the one she shot to super stardom [...]
This is a decent FM recording Jessi doing a brief opening set and coming out to duet with Waylon later on. Its Waylon’s birthday and there is some humorous husband / wife banter between the two of them. Waylon was responsible for some really great tunes, and the gems that were recorded with Willie Nelson [...]
Pictured here playing their Texas – Mexican Bluegrass music at a different festival in 1979. I was pumped to find this picture! While listening to the show I was curious about the guitar that Peter was playing. Looks like a pre-1979 Martin D-28. With some inspired fiddling from Tex and first rate picking from the [...]
Continuing in the Los Lobos Fillmore run from 1998, here is the second night. Plenty of guests come out to jam on this one. A couple weeks ago I saw Los Lobos play a street concert in the suburbs of Chicago. They had a bunch of young kids come out to play with them. Which [...]
Los Lobos shows at the Filmore in December are an annual tradition. The shows at the Fillmore are usually pretty special, and the ones from 1998 don’t disappoint. The band released a great CD Live at Filmore which won album of the year from me in 2005. The live DVD from that Los Lobos show [...]
While cruising the Willie Nelson fan blog Still Is Still Moving today, which is part of my daily routine, I got excited about a new Willie CD that will be released next month American Classic. If you are not checking this site daily you need to, because Linda updates it very frequently and you don’t [...]
By request from Mile High Bobby, who was at Rockygrass this last week and reported the Darrell Scott Band stole the festival. Pictured here playing a G chord on his priceless 1957 Gibson Les Paul, which he plays on a few songs on this recording. He plays this Wintergrass set with John Cowan, Nick Forester [...]