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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1089
Week of August 3, 2009
Part 1 29:32
Introduction
Jemimah Puddleduck 6/30/09 exclusive studio concert
HALLELUJAH I LOVE HER SO
BAIT THE HOOK
WALK THROUGH THE FIRE
DON’T LET GO
MEMPHIS RADIO
Part 2 26:53
Jemimah Puddleduck 6/30/09 exclusive studio concert
OUT IN THE WOODS
I THINK IT’S GONNA RAIN TODAY
FOOLS IN LOVE
Conclusion of the exclusive Puddleduck show that started in last week’s program. Most of these songs also appear on Mark Karan’s solo CD Walk Through the Fire.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the dead.net exclusive release, Road Trips vol 2 no 3: Wall of Sound, featuring highlights from two June 1974 performances using the band’s legendary and crystal-clear sound system. Listening party, lots more information, discussion area, and more at dead.net
The Church of Universal Love and Music, presenting its remaining summer festivals in SW Pennsylvania with Medeski, Martin & Wood with DJ Logic, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Fred Westly, EOTO with Steve Molitz, CB-3 with Michael Kang, Boris Garcia, Cornmeal and many more. Complete festival dates and details are available at www.iLoveChurchMusic.com.
And from DamnFineDay.com, building your music collection one song at a time.
New old stuff in here
This blog has just expanded! My first blog was called playback, started at the behest (and with the great assistance) of my good friend Christian Crumlish. I more or less abandoned it when I started this one.
Recently xian informed me that the free server we were using would no longer be available. Rather than send all the old playback posts down the memory hole, I asked, could we move them over to the Cloud Surfing site? xian consulted with our friend Michael Zelner, who keeps this blog cooking, and the two achieved the transplant in short order.
So there are a couple of years’ worth of “new” posts here, on a variety of subjects. Drop a search term or two into the box and see if you find anything worth arguing about!
Or at least take a look at one of my favorite posts, which had to do with a song by the Incredible String Band and other matters.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1088
Week of July 27, 2009
Part 1 41:35
Introduction
Interview: Mark Karan
Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire
ROCK YOUR PAPA
Interview: Mark Karan
Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire
LOVE IN VAIN
Interview: Mark Karan
Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire
LOVE SONG
Interview: Mark Karan
Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire
LEAVE A LIGHT ON
Interview: Mark Karan
Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire
TIME WILL TELL
Interview: Mark Karan
Part 2 14:50
Jemimah Puddleduck 6/30/09 exclusive studio concert
EASY WIND
ANNIE DON’T LIE
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
Grateful Dead Productions, announcing the dead.net exclusive release, Road Trips vol 2 no 3: Wall of Sound, featuring highlights from two June 1974 performances using the band’s legendary and crystal-clear sound system. Listening party, lots more information, discussion area, and more at dead.net
Warner Home Video, presenting the 40th anniversary release of Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music – the director’s cut, on Special Edition DVD and Ultimate Collector’s Edition DVD and Blu-Ray. The Ultimate Collector’s Edition contains more than two extra hours of rare performance footage as never before seen. This footage features five artists who were at Woodstock but did not appear in any previous film version: The Grateful Dead, Paul Butterfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johnny Winter, and Mountain. Video clips and complete information at www.WoodstockOnDVD.com.
The Church of Universal Love and Music, presenting its remaining summer festivals in Southwestern Pennsylvania with Medeski, Martin & Wood with DJ Logic, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, Fred Westly, EOTO with Steve Molitz, CB-3 with Michael Kang, Boris Garcia, Cornmeal and many more. Complete festival dates and details are available at www.iLoveChurchMusic.com.
Review: Donna Jean Band at Vibes
Donna Jean Godchaux Band at Gathering of the Vibes 7/23/09
Jeff Mattson had surgery a few weeks ago to correct a long-time problem with his lungs. He seems almost like a new man now; he has always been a powerful guitar player, but there was an exuberance in his playing last night that I found thrilling. And the rest of the band is right there with him – so much tighter and more entrained than they were at their debut in April.
This being the Vibes, their set had more Dead songs and fewer originals than they would normally present, but it was exactly the right thing for the occasion. They opened with “New Speedway Boogie” followed by “Sugaree,” and Jeff played the first of several jaw-dropping solos in the latter song. Donna’s song “Don’t Ask Me Why” was next, and very well received by the crowd.
“Eyes of the World” was another instrumental tour de force, with Jeff leading the charge. His solos in the song proper were astonishing; David Mackay played a kick-ass solo leading out of the song, and the band executed that ’74 post-Eyes thing with precision and awesome power. I don’t gush like this often, folks.
What came next was mind-blowing. Jeff led them gently into a groove on a D chord with an open E at the top, and then fleshed it out into a chord sequence that I quickly recognized as the Youngbloods’ “Darkness, Darkness.” What a great call, and the band did it justice and then some! Great jam in the middle, from which emerged an ensemble passage based on the solo in the original (on the album Elephant Mountain, a classic). Donna Jean’s singing on this was powerful and dark, as required by the text.
Another wonderful highlight was the return of “You Ain’t Woman Enough to Take My Man,” a Loretta Lynn hit that the GD did in ’73. This time around they laid into it with a nasty rock’n’roll beat.
Along the way we heard plenty of find keyboard work from Mark Adler, who I think has come to this style of music relatively recently (he does movie music in LA for a living) and now he has it in his veins like the rest of us. And Joe Chirco is always a monster on the drums!
I was just thinking the other day that it’s been a long time since I got them ol’ chills at a live performance, and I got ’em during “Darkness, Darkness.” But the whole set was a thrill. Go see the Donna Jean Godchaux Band!