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<lastBuildDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:11:02 -0800</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>DJ Fundi</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>DJ Fundi</itunes:name><itunes:email>djfundi@podcastcafe.org</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:category text="music"/><itunes:keywords>live concert bootlegs</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>From the concert vaults of DJ Fundi</itunes:subtitle><item><title>Radiohead &#x2a; 8.28.08 &#x2a; Santa Monica</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Rock</category><dc:date>2008-12-11T15:47:33-08:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/e0b39a26dcdd9add96be95a5dacd7390-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/e0b39a26dcdd9add96be95a5dacd7390-15.html#unique-entry-id-15</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/Radiohead082808.m4a" length="76041700" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi / www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>From the mind-blowing &#x22;In Rainbows&#x22; worldwide tour&#x21;</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Fleet Foxes on BBC Radio 2</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Folk</category><dc:date>2008-10-19T22:01:15-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/57c6bc985b461d907f9a8e2c6f4ad10d-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/57c6bc985b461d907f9a8e2c6f4ad10d-13.html#unique-entry-id-13</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/FleetFoxes_BBCRadio2_061808.m4a" length="27486897" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>Fleet Foxes</itunes:author><itunes:keywords>fleet foxes, fleetfoxes, podcast cafe, podcastcafe</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>www.PodcastCafe.org/LiveArchive</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Fleet Foxes &#x2a; 7.25.08 &#x2a; Washington&#x2c; DC</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Folk</category><dc:date>2008-10-19T12:14:56-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/9a7dcceb1b8a4c8ed99c14f2336bbb6c-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/9a7dcceb1b8a4c8ed99c14f2336bbb6c-12.html#unique-entry-id-12</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Lead singer Robin Pecknold made several references to the size of the crowd, telling the sold-out audience he'd never seen so many people packed together.  This brought a loud cheer from the roomful of fans who otherwise spent most of the night standing in slack-jawed awe over the band's breathtaking harmonies.

After a tentative start, Fleet Foxes seemed to find their collective voice, opening with "Sun Giant," the title track to the band's EP, released earlier this year on the Sub Pop label.

...The members of Fleet Foxes like to say they're not much of a rock band, but they are one of the year's breakout acts.

...Fleet Foxes' sound can be traced directly to the music the band members' parents played: The Beach Boys, Simon and Garfunkel, The Zombies, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash.

...The band has described it as "baroque harmonic pop." The choral-like vocals have drawn comparisons to My Morning Jacket, a band that has, itself, borrowed heavily from the past.

..."All we strove for with this record was to make something that was an honest reflection of who we are, citizens of the western United States who love all kinds of music and above all else love singing."

...After playing a number of live shows, and with the help of credit cards a tip money, they recorded and self-released an EP that same year.  They followed in Feb. 2008 with the EP Sun Giant and their full-length debut in June, both on Sub Pop."]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/FleetFoxes072508.m4a" length="58824118" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>www.PodcastCafe.org/LiveArchive</itunes:author><itunes:summary>&#x22;From the moment they took the stage at Washington&#x2c; DC&#x27;s Black Cat&#x2c; Fleet Foxes seemed surprised by all the attention. Lead singer Robin Pecknold made several references to the size of the crowd&#x2c; telling the sold-out audience he&#x27;d never seen so many people packed together. This brought a loud cheer from the roomful of fans who otherwise spent most of the night standing in slack-jawed awe over the band&#x27;s breathtaking harmonies...&#xa;&#xa;Fleet Foxes&#x27; sound can be traced directly to the music the band members&#x27; parents played: The Beach Boys&#x2c; Simon and Garfunkel&#x2c; The Zombies&#x2c; Joni Mitchell&#x2c; Bob Dylan&#x2c; Crosby Stills and Nash. &#x22;We grew up listening to the music of our parents&#x2c;&#x22; says Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold. &#x22;Every perennial &#x27;60s band you&#x27;d expect to find in the record collections of baby boomers.&#x22; It&#x27;s easy to hear these influences in Fleet Foxes&#x27; earthy tones&#x2c; jangling&#x2c; acoustic guitars and pastoral imagery. The band has described it as &#x22;baroque harmonic pop.&#x22;&#x22;&#xa;&#xa;-- from NPR&#x27;s &#x22;All Songs Considered.&#x22; More info at www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive.</itunes:summary></item><item><title>Pearl Jam &#x2a; 6.15.08 &#x2a; Bonnaroo &#x2a; set two</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Rock</category><dc:date>2008-09-07T16:17:25-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/66fc8c407be2ab70bb022b680e519a53-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/66fc8c407be2ab70bb022b680e519a53-11.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["...let it be known that everyone seemed in fine fettle as they took the stage to a deafening roar at the end of a beautiful day.  The lovely "Hard to Imagine" bled into "Corduroy," then the outtake "All Night" showed up for the first time in history to test the song-recognition skills of everyone present....  was its usual en masse effort (Hel-LOOOOOOOO), and by the time things reached "Severed Hand"-- a newish track now warm and familiar-- Ed was coated in sweat, his Boy Scout uniform shirt soaked through as he reached out, imploring the audience to join him on whatever emotional plane he'd found.  On "1/2 Full," he pulled out my favorite Vedder trick: using his guitar as a mirror to reflect a stage spotlight out into the crowd, holding the exploding beacon above his head like He-Man's rock n' roll sword.

From the platform above the stage, the crowd was a literal rainbow of orange, red, yellow, green lights, faces and arms outstretched all the way back to the arch that marks the farthest spot on the mainstage field, at least a three-minute golf cart ride away....  do they have the hand gestures up and running?-- and amazingly, I think most in attendance were just here because it's Bonnaroo, and Pearl Jam are something to see....  "Music cannot make change," he said at one point, saying it was instead the right and responsibility of each and every one of us to change our world.

...Further snippets from the show stand out: the cover of "Reign O'er Me" that got me psyched for VH1 Rock Honors, and whose violent beauty I have decided to rename "Rain On Me" and dedicate to MMJ; the 4-minute breakdown in the middle of "Rearviewmirror" that reminded me the second word in this band's name is, after all, "jam"; Ed comparing the crowd to Amsterdam ("If you told me to f--- off in Dutch right now, I wouldn't be surprised"); hearing "W.M.A."...  Eventually, because I am an extraordinarily lucky girl and the Pearl Jam staff are the nicest people on the planet, I found myself on the side of the stage, able to look out from the band's perspective and gasp at the sea of lighters that appeared during the opening chords of "Betterman."]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/pearljam61508bonnaroo2.m4a" length="73145047" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi @ www.PodcastCafe.org</itunes:author><itunes:keywords>music podcast, dj podcast, pearl jam podcast, bonnaroo podcast</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>The second set from Pearl Jam&#x27;s epic performance at Bonnaroo 2008&#x2c; featuring &#x22;Black&#x2c;&#x22; &#x22;Porch&#x2c;&#x22; &#x22;Crazy Mary&#x2c;&#x22; &#x22;Alive&#x2c;&#x22; &#x22;All Along the Watchtower&#x22; and more.&#xa;&#xa;Set one and a solo concert by Eddie Vedder available for download or stream at www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive. Feedback: djfundi@podcastcafe.org.</itunes:summary></item><item><title>Pearl Jam &#x2a; 6.15.08 &#x2a; Bonnaroo &#x2a; set one</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Rock</category><dc:date>2008-07-30T10:01:48-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/73b05cff0801bf4f6f431deab8631493-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/73b05cff0801bf4f6f431deab8631493-10.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[If the previous night saw fellow headliners Metallica sticking to its vintage, pre-1992 material, Pearl Jam toured its catalog and then some.  The band wowed fans with a fiery take on the Who's "Love, Reign o'er Me," and during "Daughter" Vedder even threw in a portion of the English Beat's "Save It for Later."

...Pearl Jam's appearance at Bonnaroo marked just its second U.S. festival date since nine fans were crushed to death during its 2000 set at Denmark's Roskilde Festival.  Without specifically mentioning the event, Vedder referred to the tragedy when expressing his awe at how so many people could come together peacefully.

...With Pearl Jam having just begun a short U.S. tour that was built around Bonnaroo, Vedder expressed shock at picking up the daily newspapers in each city and finding little to no media coverage of the war in Iraq.

He later dedicated the song "No More" to friend Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq War vet featured in the new film "Body of War."  Amid the war continuing, Young's health has taken a turn for the worse in the past couple of weeks, and Vedder admitted that has made it "a lot harder to be happy" these days.

But the band still drew and sustained one of the biggest main-stage crowds ever seen at Bonnaroo, the masses stretching well beyond those who showed up to see Metallica the night before....  In between songs, when he glimpsed just how far back the crowd extended, he thanked the audience a second time for listening.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/pearljam61508bonnaroo1.m4a" length="116675750" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>From the concert vaults of DJ Fundi</itunes:author><itunes:category text="music"/><itunes:keywords>pearl jam, pearljam, bonnaroo</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Esbjorn Svenson Trio &#x2a; 12.01.07 &#x2a; Gamla Theatern&#x2c; Sweden</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Jazz</category><dc:date>2008-06-21T09:33:40-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/0da597935be4f4fa2ed8489e531bb15e-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/0da597935be4f4fa2ed8489e531bb15e-9.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[His mother was a classical pianist and his father a keen jazz enthusiast, and the boy grew up with an equal love for both genres, as well as for rock.

...Quite soon he met another schoolboy, Magnus Ostr&ouml;m, who did have some drums and they began playing together: "We had no idea how to play, but it was a lot of fun ...

...At 16 Svensson gained a place at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, going on later to study Music at Stockholm University.

...Their first album, When Everyone Has Gone (1993), scored an instant hit in Scandinavia, with Svensson being nominated as Swedish Jazz Musician of the Year.

Since at least the end of the Second World War jazz has held a small but serious place among the performing arts in the Nordic countries.

...They introduced electronics into the mixture to produce what one American critic described as a "fusion of American post-bop, synthesised abstractions and Nordic cool".

EST began making in impression on the American audience with the albums Good Morning Suzie Soho (2000) and A Strange Place For Snow (2002), the latter released to coincide with their first tour of the United States.

...The albums Seven Days Of Falling (2003), Viaticum (2005) and Tuesday Wonderland (2006) achieved the rare distinction of being listed in both the pop and jazz charts.  In May 2006 the trio became the first European jazz group to be featured on the cover of Down Beat, America's oldest and most prestigious jazz magazine.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/est_GamlaTeatern_120107.m4a" length="95258099" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:subtitle>A tribute to Esbjorn Svensson</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Neil Young &#x26; Pearl Jam &#x2a; 1993 &#x2a; MTV VMA</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Rock</category><dc:date>2008-06-13T10:01:58-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/7b3788013227714a96c3168751418db8-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/7b3788013227714a96c3168751418db8-7.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/video/PJAM_MTV_VMA_93.mp4" length="82244134" type="video/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi</itunes:author><itunes:category text="music video"/><itunes:keywords>pearl jam, neil young</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Neil Young &#x26; Pearl Jam rip through &#x22;Keep on Rockin&#x27; in the Free World&#x22; at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Eddie Vedder &#x2a; 4.7.08 &#x2a; Berkeley&#x2c; CA</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Rock</category><dc:date>2008-05-19T11:23:44-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/8fe4fdc251277ec412238fb1bf227382-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/8fe4fdc251277ec412238fb1bf227382-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Sitting on a gorgeous set with actual decoration and design (old suitcases, projection machine, gold lam&eacute; wings, a backdrop facade with abstract buildings of wood, later lifted to reveal blue skies) Vedder strolled out, hung his coat up on a hook like he was entering his living room, and sat down with us for over two hours.

...Accompanied with an arsenal of guitars, ukuleles, a banjo, and an amplified footboard, Vedder's set was a far-reaching collection of solo tunes from the Into The Wild soundtrack, unreleased songs and covers, with only a handful of standard Pearl Jam tunes -- and many of those deep cuts from the back catalog.

...I would have liked to see a little bit more changeup from night to night, as there are so many great songs he could have explored, but I am not complaining.

The soaring "I Am Mine" is a favorite song, and it was gorgeous to hear early on in the night, as was the rare "Dead Man" from the Penn film soundtrack (Sean Penn was there both nights, I hear)....  The rarely heard "I'm Open" from 1996's No Code was played as a modified version that left out the spoken word bit about a man lying in bed in a room with no door (good call there, Ed).

...During the explanation of the West Memphis Three situation (tickets were auctioned off for each show to support their legal defense fund), Ed led into the extremely rare song "Satellite" that I had never even heard before Monday night, saying it was written for the wife of one of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols.

...Despite Ed's requests for mitigation of the constant barrage of comments from the small crowd, the living room feel proved too enticing for many who wanted a chance to converse with their idol in that quiet setting.  Vedder first quoted Tom Waits in a gruff imitation, saying Waits had once revealed to him that "silence is like a blank piece of paper," then later telling the yellers a bit more blatantly to "shut the fuck up," to little avail.

...One guy did yell after "Guaranteed" that Ed should've won an Academy Award, to which Ed humorously mused that he had been watching VH1 'I Love the 80s' special recently, and had seen that the Ghostbusters theme won an Oscar in 1985.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/EddieVedder_040708.m4a" length="84950543" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi @ www.podcastcafe.org</itunes:author><itunes:category text="music"/><itunes:keywords>eddie vedder</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>Solo performance at Zellerbach Hall at UC-Berkeley</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>The B-52&#x27;s &#x2a; 1982 &#x2a; Montego Bay&#x2c; Jamaica</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Other</category><dc:date>2008-04-02T20:21:13-07:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/e78a852c659e29b2e3f1d2426a83b4bd-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/e78a852c659e29b2e3f1d2426a83b4bd-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[As a bonus, we've included three tracks from "Funplex" at the end of the concert, as well as another archival track, the terminally weird song "Quiche Lorraine" from 1980's "Wild Planet."

The New York Times has a good story called "The Return of the Rock Lobsters" on the making of Funplex and the general B-52's mojo.  You can read it here.  Feedback much appreciated: djfundi@podcastcafe.org]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/B52s_MontegoBay1982.m4a" length="78237057" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi</itunes:author><itunes:category text="music"/><itunes:keywords>b-52s, rock lobster, bootleg</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>&#x22;I&#x27;ll give you fish&#x2c; I&#x27;ll give you candy&#x2c; I&#x27;ll give you everything I have in my hand.&#x22;</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Sharon Jones &#x26; the Dapp Kings &#x2a; 2007 &#x2a; KCRW</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Funk/R&#x26;B/Soul</category><dc:date>2008-02-12T20:10:07-08:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/bdea120d1eeb186404e26f2b8e5ea985-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/bdea120d1eeb186404e26f2b8e5ea985-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[By the sound of them, you would think Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings started making funk-threaded soul music together in the 1960s....  Few singers as skilled as Sharon Jones at stuffing notes with ache and meaning might be willing to invest in a sound so fully occupied by the likes of Bettye LaVette and Tina Turner in the Ike years, too.  But what Jones brings to the funkified table has legs of its own -- eight of them, to be exact -- and they belong to Binky Griptite, Bugaloo Velez, Homer Steinweiss, and Dave Guy -- her Dap-Kings.

Jones, like James Brown, was born in Augusta, GA; there she sang in her church choir, and from fellow parishioners picked up the kind of back-patting she needed to convince her to go mainstream.  As a teenager, she moved with her family to Brooklyn, where she immersed herself in 1970s disco and funk with an eye toward cutting a record of her own.  Instead, studios came calling and with them steady work -- by her twenties, Jones was turning in backup vocals for gospel, soul, disco and blues artists, most of it uncredited.

In the '80s, however, Jones' sound was deemed unfashionable, and instead of pushing ahead with her soul diva's dream she went back to church singing....  With that label's house band, the Soul Providers, Jones released several singles in the late '90s; their warmth and genuineness propelled the act across the Atlantic, and Jones picked up a moniker -- the queen of funk -- that stuck.  Jones released her first full-length with the Dap-Kings, Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, after signing with Daptone Records in 2002.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/SharonJonesDappKings_2007KCRW.m4a" length="31964457" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi</itunes:author><itunes:keywords>sharonjones, funk, soul, dappkings</itunes:keywords><itunes:subtitle>More goodies from the Podcast Cafe&#x27;s Live Archive</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Iron &#x26; Wine &#x2a; 11.4.07 &#x2a; Bellingham</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Folk</category><dc:date>2007-12-28T19:13:00-08:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/b89093fcfd1c8910a323ff9ebbdda711-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/b89093fcfd1c8910a323ff9ebbdda711-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/IronWine_11407.m4a" length="98164530" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi &#x26; Sunnyland Soundsystem</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Iron &#x26; Wine at the Mount Baker Theater in Bellingham&#x2c; WA on Nov. 4&#x2c; 2007 touring behind &#x22;The Shepard&#x27;s Dog&#x22;</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Beastie Boys &#x2a; 7.14.07 &#x2a; St. Poelten</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Hip-Hop</category><dc:date>2007-11-28T18:05:46-08:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/b4d987ed3abad04ce586cce882fea5ed-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/b4d987ed3abad04ce586cce882fea5ed-2.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/beastieboys71407.m4a" length="105525948" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:subtitle>Beastie Boys perform live in Austria&#x2c; July 2007</itunes:subtitle></item><item><title>Bill Frisell &#x26; Greg Leisz &#x2a; 2/14/07 &#x2a; Bellingham</title><dc:creator>DJ Fundi</dc:creator><category>Americana</category><dc:date>2007-11-26T22:58:29-08:00</dc:date><link>www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/7b8bf77be67fa9a9f0bcc9fe57f79fa6-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/files/7b8bf77be67fa9a9f0bcc9fe57f79fa6-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Quaint yet bracingly stimulating, guitarists Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz have developed a rapport that appears to envelope all the good things about instrumental duets.  They back each other up, present fascinating melodic passages, echo each other's lines, push each other to the outside of a tune and then rein each other in -- these two do everything except flashy solos....  gigs often are not on a mainstream routing map), Frisell may have found the best place possible to present his eclectic yet often hushed music.

Their program of largely improvised music displayed an indebtedness to 1930s country, '60s rock, '70s experimentalism and a few periods in between, with Frisell alternating between electric and acoustic guitars while Leisz played several guitars held on the lap and played flat with a slide.

After starting with sounds that alternated between church bells and derivations of a busy phone signal, Frisell switched his guitar to a more standard sound, allowing Leisz to sweep in on pedal steel and provide a Hawaiian cowboy texture.  Each piece had its own exotic combination of flavors -- a little distortion, a rumbling reverb, a very bright use of the dobro -- as the men countered each other's moves with gentleness and elegance.

...It's not far from Frisell's bailiwick -- even though he was once named artist of the year by jazz publication Down Beat -- and it should be a stunner on par with his "Nashville" disc....  sessions, joined Frisell's quintet for 1999's "Good Dog, Happy Man" and his presence here certainly accounted for the abundance of country flavorings.  It has long been a mystery why Leisz, who plays so many instruments so well, hasn't been inked to a solo deal, even if only for one record like, say, the L.A.]]></content:encoded><enclosure url="http://www.podcastcafe.org/livearchive/enhanced/Frisell_Leisz_21407.m4a" length="86648456" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>DJ Fundi &#x26; Sunnyland Soundsystem</itunes:author><itunes:category text="music"/><itunes:subtitle>Guitar wizards Bill Frisell &#x26; Greg Leisz make mellow magic together at this intimate Valentine&#x27;s Day show</itunes:subtitle></item></channel>
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