Week of March 5, 2007
Part 1 29:28
Jim Lauderdale 1/20/07 American Beauty Project, New York City
BLACK PETER
Sex Mob 1/21/07 American Beauty Project, New York City
NEW SPEEDWAY BOOGIE->
UNCLE JOHN’S BAND->
RIPPLE
Part 2 26:52
Grateful Dead 12/31/90 Oakland Coliseum Arena
DRUMS->
SPACE
The American Beauty Project was a wonderful two-day free event at the Winter Garden in Manhattan. David Spelman assembled an impressive collection of musicians to interpret all the songs from Workingman’s Dead (Saturday) and American Beauty (Sunday), with some extra non-album performances in between. The Sex Mob piece included here was one of the interludes, and it was a show-stopper – not only was the audienc eon its feet at the end, but there were a dozen or more of their fellow performers going nuts just offstage, too. (I did get one cranky call when I played it on the KPFA Marathon last month – see my note in the playlist entry. – but hey.) The whole weekend was pretty fine. David Spelman was kind enough to allow me to run around with my little recording device, interviewing performers, and he also provided multitrack mixes of several songs after the fact. You’ll hear Jorma Kaukonen’s “Operator” in next week’s show, and I expect I’ll be featuring more of this music in the weeks to come. (Thanks also to emcee John Schaefer of WNYC, whose onstage interviews with the performers are included here.)
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
The Suwannee SpringFest, a festival of American roots music March 22nd through 25th at the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida, just across the Georgia line. Performers include Jorma Kaukonen, Donna the Buffalo, Peter Rowan and Tony Rice, Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks, The Duhks, Jim Lauderdale, and many many more. Information is available at 904-249-7990 and www.magmusic.com
Fantasma Productions, presenting the Wanee Festival April 13 and 14 at The Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Allman Brothers Band, Government Mule, The Derek Truck Band with Susan Tedeschi, Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Keller Williams, Nickel Creek & many more, on two stages. The Wanee Festival, April 13 and 14 in Northern Florida. Information can be found at www.waneefestival.com.