A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Saturday, May 17, 6:30 pm: David Gans plays a KFCF benefit at the Town Hall in North Fork CA. Tickets are $10 ($5 for low-income); home-made soup dinner for $5 more. For tickets or information call the FFCF office at 559-233-2221 or Sue Kern at 559-877-5800
(This is the email they’re sending out.) Hey now Deadheads, Hippies and Kind Folks, DON’T MISS THIS REAL GOOD TIME!!! We welcome you to the Grateful Garcia Gathering 2008 at beautiful Legend Valley (formerly Buckeye Lake Music Center) in Ohio! “There Ain’t Nothing Like A Grateful Garcia Gathering”. Artists: Jackie Greene, Melvin Seals & JGB, … Read more
Bob Minkin posted some nice photos of the May 7 Rubber Souldiers show at the Iron Springs Pub in Fairfax. Sixteen images in all. Chris Rowan showed up unable to speak, let alone sing, so we sent him home. It was Lorin Rowan, Robin Sylvester and me, with some vocal help from my friends Eric … Read more
Listen to this clip of John McCain on The Daily Show Wednesday 5/7. “I think that [Hamas] is a transcendent evil that wants to destroy everything we stand for and believe in, and I don’t think it’s based on, frankly, individuals, as it is that they are just the exact mirror opposite of everything we … Read more
Pre-order the latest Donna the Buffalo release now at donnathebuffalo.com and automatically be entered to win all-access tickets to The Finger Lakes Grassroots Festival this summer in Trumansburg!! Silverlined (Sugar Hill Records, July 8 release date) was co-produced by Joe Blaney (The Clash, Shawn Colvin) and Mixed by Jim Scott (Lucinda Williams, Dixie Chicks). Guest … Read more
Phil Lesh & Friends will take to the road this summer as their Summer Jamboree 2008 will find them performing at most of the major musical festivals: Bonnaroo, Milwaukee Summerfest, Rothbury, All Good, 10,000 Lakes, and the Gathering of the Vibes, along with stops in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, St. Louis, and Myrtle Beach, S.C., and … Read more
News from Railroad Earth: Amen Corner Pre-Order Campaign Railroad Earth and SCI Fidelity Records are pleased to announce the Amen Corner Pre-Order Campaign. Beginning on May 7th, 2008, the first 750 Amen Corner CDs purchased through RREs own Earthmerch.com website will include a Special Limited Edition DVD of all seven videos (compiled in one set) … Read more
Reminder: we’re posting a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archive on dead.net every Wednesday. This morning’s journey through the past is GD Hour #519, with David Grisman interviewed live on KPFA July 29, 1998 introducing the Garcia-Grisman CD So What.
The results of the Indiana primary may have rendered it moot, but Hillary Clinton lost me for good when George Stephanopoulos asked her to name a single economist who thinks a “gas tax holiday” would work, and she replied: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.” This country is in terrible, terrible … Read more