2009
Bill Frisell, Brian Blade & Sam Yahel * 2005
07/Dec/2009 Filed in: Jazz
May 2005 * Jazz Alley, Seattle, WA
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BlindWineTrapper : freak folk on stage
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
This is a 2 hour mix of my favorite recent NPR "All Songs Considered" live concert podcasts. It features Blind Pilot, Iron & Wine, Blitzen Trapper, Feist, Bon Iver and The Decemberists. All but the Iron & Wine concert, which is from 2005, are recent concerts from the past few months. I love the freak folk renaissance of acoustic-based music with lots of moodiness, wit and beauty, and these bands are just about the best in that genre. Enjoy!
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Iron & Wine * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
While Iron and Wine has evolved from its bedroom beginnings to full ensemble status, the warmth of Sam Beam's songs remain. (That is, if by warmth you mean bleak heartbreak, dark realizations and uncomfortable vulnerability.) Iron and Wine continues to wring inventive sounds and compelling emotions out of the American folk-music form, as it demonstrated at Folk Festival 50 on Saturday.
Iron and Wine's latest collection, Around the Well, compiles two discs' worth of B-sides, soundtrack and compilation tracks and previously unreleased goodies. Even though Beam's debut album, The Creek Drank the Cradle, was released only seven years ago, the new album is a reminder of just how far Iron and Wine has come. It's easy to hear the progression from self-recorded four-track folk to full-blown rock, especially in the unexpected likes of the Middle Eastern-inspired "Arms of a Thief."
Set List
"Such Great Heights"
"Woman King"
"Resurrection Fern"
"Sodom, South Georgia"
"Godless Brother in Love"
"Upward Over the Mountain"
"Naked as We Came"
"Peace Beneath the City"
"Love Songs and Some Verses"
"He Lays in the Reins"
"The Trapeze Swinger"
"Glad Mouth River"
"Flightless Bird, American Mouth"
"Sunset Soon Forgotten"
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
It wasn't clear that Gillian Welch was even going to make it in time to the Newport Folk Festival's Fort Adams stage to perform her set. Her plane was five hours late, and she hit a traffic jam coming into Newport. Enter a police escort that found her car and escorted her all the way backstage, with roughly 30 seconds to spare. That wasn't long enough for Welch to put in her contact lenses, so she went without. She faced the blurry, 9,000-plus crowd — and the boats anchored in the distance — with her longtime performing partner David Rawlings beside her.
It's been years since Welch has put out a new album or performed frequently, but she's a fixture at the Newport Folk Festival no matter what. With Rawlings at her side Saturday, Welch treated fans to many of her classics — each drenched in the pair's trademark close harmonies — and threw in a reverb-drenched cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" for good measure.
Welch first surfaced on the pop-cultural radar with her 1996 debut, Revival, which transported fans back to the 1920s while maintaining a foot in the present. Producer T-Bone Burnett kept the album's focus on Welch and Rawlings. She followed that album with more full-length releases, as well as appearances on several soundtracks, such as Songcatcher and the chart-topping O, Brother, Where Art Thou? Both albums placed Welch and Rawlings squarely in the middle of the traditional American folk revival.
Set List
"I Want to Hear That Rock 'n' Roll"
"Elvis Presley Blues"
"My First Lover"
"No One Knows My Name"
"It's Too Easy"
"Miss Ohio"
"The Way It Will Be"
"Red Clay Halo"
"Dear Someone"
"White Rabbit"
"Orphan Girl"
"Revelator"
"I'll Fly Away"
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Fleet Foxes * Newport Folk Festival 2009
08/Aug/2009 Filed in: Folk
The Fleet Foxes' self-titled debut was one of 2008's most critically adored records. The Seattle band pairs layers of harmonized vocals — the sort of sound that could have emerged from the 1920s or the 1970s — with shuffling drums and finger-picked guitars. In keeping with the band's name, the record's song titles ("Meadowlarks," "Blue Ridge Mountains," "Ragged Wood") suggest a bucolic vision of nature, though lead singer Robin Pecknold's lyrics occasionally hint at violence ("And Michael you would fall / and turn the white snow red / as strawberries in summertime," from "White Winter Hymnal").
Fleet Foxes' members spent the majority of 2008 on the road before taking a break to work on a follow-up to their debut. The band's performances in 2009 have been fewer but higher in profile: It played Saturday Night Live in January and Coachella in April. Currently on tour, Fleet Foxes played the All Points West festival at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., the day before taking the stage at Newport.
Set List
"Sun Giant"
"Sun It Rises"
"Drops in the River"
"English House"
"Bedouin Dress"
"White Winter Hymnal"
"Ragged Wood"
"Your Protector"
"Oliver James"
"Mykonos"
"Blue Ridge Mountains"
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Michael Jackson * 9.27.87 * Yokohama
27/Jun/2009 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
Michael Jackson
1959-2009
Long live the King of Pop!
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The Dead * 5.16.09 set II * The Gorge
25/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
Set two from a most excellent Dead show at the Gorge in eastern Washington on May 16, 2009:
Passenger > Hell in a Bucket, Althea, Eyes of the World > Drumz/Space (edited) > Days Between > Dark Star (Reprise) > One More Saturday Night, encore: Box of Rain
Set one from the Gorge 2009 concert is available right over here, a smokin' show from Cal Expo 1992 is here and here and other grateful goodies are on the Fundiblog. A decent review of the show here. Enjoy the goodies.
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The Dead * 5.16.09 set I * The Gorge
20/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
The Gorge in Eastern Washington at sunset, just before The Dead took the stage. Photo by me.
My first Dead show in 13 years was an astounding success. My gawd. The venue, the weather, the posse I was rolling with, the reunions with old friends, the gathering of the tribe and, most surprisingly, the band and the music were all TOPS!!! My batteries are fully recharged and I'm a born-again Deadhead all over again. Thank you boys!
I went to the Gorge show thinking it would be my last time with Phil, Bobby, Billy and Mickey -- a bookend to my "career" of seeing live Dead -- but now, post-show, I'm wishing their were more concerts on the horizon. I think I'd hit the road and jump back on tour. A few west coast shows at least. That's not too much to ask, is it?
Enjoy this stellar, sunset-ty, surprising first set (Dark Star in the first set? Van Morrison cover? Dire Wolf???) The second set will be posted in a few days....
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Grateful Dead * 5.21.92 set II * Cal Expo
10/May/2009 Filed in: Grateful
As promised, here is the gorgeous set two from one of the best Dead shows I ever got to be a part of! (Set one is here.) This is the second in a series of live Dead sets released in anticipation of me seeing them play, for the first time post-Jerry, at the Gorge Amphitheater in eastern Washington in mid-May, along with the Doobie & Allman Bros!
Scarlet > Fire, Estimated > He's Gone > Drumz/Space > Watchtower > SOTM > Lovelight. E: Gloria!
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Grateful Dead * 5.21.92 set I * Cal Expo
26/Apr/2009 Filed in: Grateful
Set one from Cal Expo 5.21.92 -- one of the best all-around magical live Dead experiences I ever had -- wait until you hear set two!
Touch of Grey
Wang Dang
Row Jimmy
Me & My Uncle >
Maggie's
Bird Sond
A series of Dead shows released in anticipation of me seeing them play, for the first time post-Jerry, at the Gorge Amphitheater in eastern Washington, along with the Doobie & Allman Bros!
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Maceo Parker * 2007 * Germany
10/Apr/2009 Filed in: Funk/R&B/Soul
"This live set from the summer of 2007 finds famed ex-James Brown horn man Maceo Parker cutting loose with Germany’s incredible WDR Big Band. The concert shoots the intensity up several notches with Parliament-Funkadelic alumni Dennis Chambers (drums) and Rodney "Skeet" Curtis (bass) driving the energy to uncommonly soulful and sweaty peaks. The concept of playing hard funk with a brassy big band in tow is somewhat unusual, but the results smash all preconceptions. Parker’s dueling alto battle with Karolina Strassmayer on "To Be or Not to Be" and a rousing 17-minute version of the J.B.’s classic "Pass the Peas" are just a few highlights of this rollicking, electrifying set."
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Keep Reading...Charlie Hunter * 6.1.09 * KPLU FM
20/Feb/2009 Filed in: Jazz
"Guitarist Charlie Hunter appeals to a lot of music fans on a lot of different levels. His amazing technique and improvisational skills have earned praise from straight-ahead jazz critics and fans. His willingness to experiment musically is looked upon with great favor by devotees of the avant-garde. And his ability to dig into a big, nasty groove and then run away with it has made him a favorite with jam-band audiences.
No matter what sort of music he plays, his amazing technique has been Hunter's calling card since he started recording in the mid-1990s. Armed with a seven-string guitar, he possesses the unique ability to sound like at least two guitarists at once, as he seems to play bass lines, melody lines, chords and improvisational passages at the same time.
However, as he tells KPLU's Nick Francis in this session, he feels that he's taken technique as far as he can. Hunter jokes that, at a certain point in the recent past, he felt that the only thing he could do to outdo himself on stage would be to set himself on fire. Since he was understandably hesitant to take such a drastic step, he began to re-think the music he was playing and the reasons he wanted to play music in the first place.
His conclusion, as you'll hear, was that he'd spent enough of his career in the service of technique — and that it was now time to serve the music. The solo guitar pieces he plays in this interview clearly demonstrate the fruits of Hunter's new path."
--88.5 KPLU FM
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Bon Iver * 9.10.08 * MySpace Transmission
15/Feb/2009 Filed in: Folk
\Loving all-things-Bon-Iver these days, and his debut album For Emma, Long Ago, is just too short! It is a perfect and complete recording that satisfies me in so many ways, but at less than 40 minutes, I am always left wanting more when the last track fades. So, in my search around the internets for more Bon Iver music, I came across this excellent 4-song live set that MySpace was giving away for free. I downloaded it, mixed it in to one track, added chapters and artwork -- voila!
We here at the Podcast Cafe's Live Archive hope you enjoy it.
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Radiohead encores * 8.28.08 * Santa Monica
12/Feb/2009 Filed in: Rock
The encores from Radiohead's concert supporting "In Rainbows", from the summer of 2008, at the Santa Monica Bowl in Cali.
First Encore
Cymbal Rush
House of Cards
Paranoid Android
Go Slowly
Everything in Its Right Place
Second Encore
Videotape
Lucky
Idioteque
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First Encore
Cymbal Rush
House of Cards
Paranoid Android
Go Slowly
Everything in Its Right Place
Second Encore
Videotape
Lucky
Idioteque
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