A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
I think it’s the best thing that has ever been on television. A brutal, clear-eyed, compassionate, profound, and deeply affecting work of fiction that tells some immense truths about the state of American society. It’s The Wire, and its fifth and final season begins today on HBO. Heather Havrilesky at Salon: The fifth and final … Read more
Our “Water Textures” photo exhibit at the Nomad Cafe gets a “Don’t miss” in today’s San Francisco Chronicle 96 Hours magazine. One of Rita’s photos is included (click on the thumbnail to enlarge), and it looks great! Here’s a link to all the images on flickr – but you really need to see ’em printed … Read more
This is one of my occasional pleas for direct listener support. The Grateful Dead Hour continues to plug along in the radio business, adding a station here and losing a station there. We just lost WXRT, our biggest affiliate, after nearly 20 years on the air. That’s a big one. We’re also about to lose … Read more
I did another of my Mutilaudio experiments last night, exploring the musical commonalities of “US Blues” and “Scarlet Begonias”. It needs a title. Suggestions welcome.
For those of you that were unable to make it, we will be webcasting the Donna the Buffalo show from Huntsville Alabama starting at 10 pm cst. The chatroom will open early, and you can listen at www.haveyouherdradio.com Please bear with us as we work thru any technical issues that may arise. Have a Safe … Read more
Last night we saw a terrific documentary on Jug Band music, “Chasin’ Gus’ Ghost” by Todd Kwait. Anyone who is interested in the Grateful Dead will want to see this film, because the Grateful Dead began as a jug band and retained a lot of material from that era throughout their career – “Viola Lee … Read more
WG53B, originally uploaded by grant_gouldon. There are several “group pools” of Dead-related photos on flickr, my online photo home. This morning I found a stash of images from Watkins Glen (July 1973) posted by Grant Gouldon. Click on the previous sentence or the image above and poke around a bit! Gouldon’s collection is great – … Read more
One of my favorite musicians in the world, Jeb Puryear of Donna the Buffalo, has a new solo CD, Hopes and Dreams. From Robert Chrismer: We will be doing a videocast of the Jeb Puryear CD release party at the T.I.C.C. Owego, NY. 12-28-2007 Show starts at 7 pm EST, video feed should be active … Read more
I was poking around the net looking for info on “Lady of Carlisle” (getting ready to play an Ian and Sylvia recording of it on the radio), and I found this: (excerpt) Then up spoke this fair young lady, Saying “I can’t be but one man’s bride But if you’ll come back tomorrow morning, On … Read more
Everyone should see Once. An Irish film, shot in Dublin, written and directed by John Carney, with original music by the two stars, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. A beautiful musical story. Two broken-hearted musicians meet and make beautiful music together. Literally. No cliches. The most unrealistic part of the story was how well the … Read more