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They've taken down one of the Gorge dates.  They are playing two nights instead of three.

This is a pretty stellar double bill! Hopefully they bring this one to the North East:
 
4/27/16  - Oklahoma City, OK - The Criterion (w/ The Barr Brothers)
4/28/16  - Houston, TX - Reinvention Music Center (w/ The Barr Brothers)
5/12-13/16 - Louisville, KY - Iroquois Amphitheater (w/ Twin Limb)
5/13-15/16 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival
5/26/16 - Indianapolis, IN - Farm Bureau Insurance Lawn (w/ The Barr Brothers)
5/28/16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater (w/ Fruit Bats)
5/29/16 - Morrison, CO - Red Rocks Amphitheater (w/ The Barr Brothers)
 
http://mymorningjacket.com/events

Pretty cool story here..
 
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/New-photo-of-bluesman-Robert-Johnson-unearthed-6703035.php
 
A newly-analyzed photo purportedly shows Robert Johnson, the mysterious blues legend whose meager recordings became a groundwork for American popular music.
 
Only two such photos have been unequivocally confirmed, and the prospect of another is held as a holy grail in blues society.
 
Johnson was an influential early blues singer and guitarist whose songs have been covered by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Fleetwood Mac and countless others. He also infamously is alleged to have made a deal with the devil, who personally tuned Johnson's guitar at a crossroads in Mississippi, thus giving him his extraordinary guitar skills in exchange for his soul.
 
He wandered the South and earned acclaim picking guitar tunes, but he made just two recordings—in San Antonio in 1936 and in Dallas in 1937.
 
The identification comes from Lois Gibson, award-winning forensic artist for the Houston Police Department and professional analyst of historical photographs. She also announced identification of a Johnson photo in 2008; that one was accepted by the Johnson estate but widely contested by blues historians.
 
The new photograph turned up in an antique Winthrop desk, filled with odds and ends, bought in a 2013 auction by Donald Roark, a 64-year-old retired lawyer and professor in Pensacola, Florida.
 
In a cluttered draw was a three-by-five inch photo of four people seated at a public table, the man in question on the left.
"I guess it was because of the hat," Roark said, recalling his first glimpse of the picture, and his memory of the photo cover of the Robert Johnson album he owns. "I chuckled and thought that guy kind of looks like Robert Johnson."
 
When he asked his wife who the man looked like, she said Robert Johnson. He sat on the suspicion for two years, until reaching out to Gibson's manager online for a professional take on the photograph.
 
It was one of the five-or-so requests for a photo identification Gibson gets each month, she said.
 
"Ninety-nine percent of them I look at and well, I don't laugh in their face, but I shrug it off," she said.
 
But the purported Johnson photo gave her pause. Gibson, who spent the last three decades analyzing and reconstructing faces, said she recognized Johnson's face. But the scene offered further evidence—three people who Gibson identified as known acquaintances of Johnson: Calletta Craft, Johnson's wife from 1931, who bears a marked eye condition; Estella Coleman, who housed Johnson since 1933; and her son Robert Lockwood Jr.
 
That crowd would set the purported image in the mid 1930s, before Johnson made a name as a nomadic guitar player and blues singer, and before was afforded the privilege to record.
 
Two years after his first session, Johnson died in 1938 at age 27 (making him the first great musician in the notable company of the "27 Club," alongside Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain).

Pretty cool story here..
 
http://www.chron.com/entertainment/music/article/New-photo-of-bluesman-Robert-Johnson-unearthed-6703035.php
 
A newly-analyzed photo purportedly shows Robert Johnson, the mysterious blues legend whose meager recordings became a groundwork for American popular music.
 
Only two such photos have been unequivocally confirmed, and the prospect of another is held as a holy grail in blues society.
 
Johnson was an influential early blues singer and guitarist whose songs have been covered by the likes of The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, Fleetwood Mac and countless others. He also infamously is alleged to have made a deal with the devil, who personally tuned Johnson's guitar at a crossroads in Mississippi, thus giving him his extraordinary guitar skills in exchange for his soul.
 
He wandered the South and earned acclaim picking guitar tunes, but he made just two recordings—in San Antonio in 1936 and in Dallas in 1937.
 
The identification comes from Lois Gibson, award-winning forensic artist for the Houston Police Department and professional analyst of historical photographs. She also announced identification of a Johnson photo in 2008; that one was accepted by the Johnson estate but widely contested by blues historians.
 
The new photograph turned up in an antique Winthrop desk, filled with odds and ends, bought in a 2013 auction by Donald Roark, a 64-year-old retired lawyer and professor in Pensacola, Florida.
 
In a cluttered draw was a three-by-five inch photo of four people seated at a public table, the man in question on the left.
"I guess it was because of the hat," Roark said, recalling his first glimpse of the picture, and his memory of the photo cover of the Robert Johnson album he owns. "I chuckled and thought that guy kind of looks like Robert Johnson."
 
When he asked his wife who the man looked like, she said Robert Johnson. He sat on the suspicion for two years, until reaching out to Gibson's manager online for a professional take on the photograph.
 
It was one of the five-or-so requests for a photo identification Gibson gets each month, she said.
 
"Ninety-nine percent of them I look at and well, I don't laugh in their face, but I shrug it off," she said.
 
But the purported Johnson photo gave her pause. Gibson, who spent the last three decades analyzing and reconstructing faces, said she recognized Johnson's face. But the scene offered further evidence—three people who Gibson identified as known acquaintances of Johnson: Calletta Craft, Johnson's wife from 1931, who bears a marked eye condition; Estella Coleman, who housed Johnson since 1933; and her son Robert Lockwood Jr.
 
That crowd would set the purported image in the mid 1930s, before Johnson made a name as a nomadic guitar player and blues singer, and before was afforded the privilege to record.
 
Two years after his first session, Johnson died in 1938 at age 27 (making him the first great musician in the notable company of the "27 Club," alongside Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain).

I've got a US address so I ship there and bring things into Canada duty free with ease on work trips.
 
If you're ever in a jam, message me and I can help out.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/grateful_dead_tour_book_being_turned_into_show
 
By Alex HudsonPublished Dec 15, 2015We're still waiting for that Martin Scorsese-backed 50th anniversary documentary about the Grateful Dead, but now there's yet another filmic examination of the legendary jam rock band on the way. This one, it seems, will be a biographical television series for Amazon Studios.

As The Hollywood Reporter explains, the show will be based on Steve Parish's 2003 book Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead, which documented the decades the roadie spent touring with the group. Parish will executive produce, as will Grateful Dead member Bob Weir (who is also overseeing the music).

It seems that the project is still in its very early stages, since there isn't a scriptwriter yet. The folks behind the series will be apparently searching for one in the coming weeks.

This team-up with Amazon Studios marks a departure for Weir, since the documentary The Other One: The Long Strange Trip of Bob Weir was exclusive to Netflix. It was released this past May.

Here in Canada, Amazon shows often end up on Shomi.

These guys are destroying the Deads music in an amazing way right now, check them out live if you can before they aren't doing it, which I fear is soon.
 
Watch this whole video and look for Benevento's solo and how the band hops back in, so damn fresh to my dead ears.
 


 

The funeral.

You heard it here first!
 
http://ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/local-arts/blue-rodeo-release-seething-anti-harper
 

 
 

For fifty bucks, you can get a personalized video message from the Hacksaw himself. Hilarious. I just got one for my buddy's wedding:
https://www.celebvm.com/video/a1xJDi

Agreed, this list does suck as much as the Argos. 

ARGOS SUCK!

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/125401/Couch-Tour-Alert-Red-Bull-Bonnaroo-Webcast
 
Bonnaroo 2015 Red Bull Webcast Schedule (All times CT, subject to change)

Thursday, June 11:

Channel 1 
Unlocking the Truth 7:15 p.m.
DMA's 8:15 p.m.
Temples 9:00 p.m. 
Courtney Barnett 11:15 p.m,

Channel 2 
Ryn Weaver 7:15 p.m. 
Iceage 8:00 p.m.
Dopapod 9:00 p.m.
The Growlers 10:30 p.m.
Benjamin Booker 11:15 p.m.


Friday, June 12:
Channel 1 
Royal Blood 5:05 p.m.
Dawes 6:15 p.m.
Guster 7:15 p.m. 
Alabama Shakes 8:15 p.m.
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals 11:00 p.m.
deadmau5 12:45 a.m. (6/13)

Channel 2
SOJA 5:05 p.m.
Against Me! 6:05 p.m.
Tears For Fears 8:30 p.m.
Ben Folds & yMusic 9:45 p.m.
Run the Jewels 11:15 p.m.
Earth, Wind & Fire 12:15 a.m. (6/13)

Channel 3
Between the Buried and Me 5:05 p.m.
Unknown Mortal Orchestra 6:05 p.m. 
Moon Taxi 7:15 p.m. 
Sylvan Esso 8:15 p.m.
Atmosphere 9:15 p.m. 
Medeski, Scofield, Martin & Wood 11:15 p.m.
Mac DeMarco 12:15 a.m. (6/13)


Saturday, June 13:
Channel 1
Rhiannon Giddens 5:05 p.m.
Bleachers 6:45 p.m.
My Morning Jacket 8:00 p.m.
Hozier 10:15 p.m.
Mumford & Sons 11:30 p.m.

Channel 2
Trampled By Turtles 5:05 p.m. 
Jamie xx 6:15 p.m.
Gary Clark Jr. 7:30 p.m. 
Belle & Sebastian 8:30 p.m.
ODESZA 9:45 p.m. 

Channel 3
Bahamas 6:00 p.m. 
SZA 7:00 p.m.
Atomic Bomb! Who is William Onyeabor? 8:15 p.m. 
Gramatik 9:45 p.m. 
SBTRKT 10:45 p.m. 
Tycho 12:15 a.m.(6/14)


Sunday, June 14:
Channel 1
Twenty One Pilots 5:05 p.m..
AWOLNATION 6:30 p.m. 
Robert Plant & The Sensational Space Shifters 8:00 p.m.
Billy Joel 9:30 p.m.

Channel 2
Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear 5:05 p.m. 
Brandi Carlile 6:15 p.m. 
Spoon 7:45 p.m.
D'Angelo and The Vanguard 9:00 p.m. 

Channel 3
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn 5:05 p.m. 
Jerry Douglas Presents Earls of Leicester 6:15 p.m. 
Rudimental 7:15 p.m. 
Punch Brothers 8:30 p.m..
The Bluegrass Situation 9:30 p.m. 
Caribou 10:45 p,m.
 

As heard on Conan O'Brien:
 
"The Grateful Dead announced today that they will be releasing an 80 CD boxed set. No word yet on which song it will be."

We've been working hard putting the finishing touches on the Jamland documentary film. Here's the official 2 minute trailer. Please give it a watch and let us know what you think! The film premieres at the Original Princess Cinema in Waterloo on Thursday June 11. Visit www.jamland.tv for more info.
 

 

On Thursday, May 21, 2015, Sisters Euclid will be playing at 3030 Dundas West in Toronto, ON. 8pm doors, $10 cover. I think this is a release party for their new CD.
 
http://www.3030dundaswest.com/events/2015/5/21/the-sisters-euclid-cd-release-party-featuring-kevin-breit-mark-lalama-ian-desouza-gary-taylor-doors-8pm-show-10pm
 
Aloha,
Brad

Anybody going from Ottawa to Toronto next Friday for the MSMW show?  Let me know!  Also, we likely have two extras available.

Love both the Rheostatics, and Joni Mitchell, and respect them both immensely. 
 I don't think Joni's music requires her to be a politician. Unlike Bidini, and his every-man/every-fan union leader position in Can-Rock. Joni doesn't require the same nice-ness, or approachable enthusiasm, or the explicit artist-audience interaction that defines Bidini's career, because her songs are that good, and her career is that unique. Sometimes assholes make the best art, so I guess deal with it. He has no right to make suggestions about her personality, or opinions- and this piece definitely comes across as desperate, or something... Maybe this is an intentional error in judgement which will eventually act as the opening chapter in a new book about Joni Mitchell? One where after this article, a public feud, and eventual teary reconciliation at the Junos, Bidini is finally invited to meet her for an extensive retreat/interview at her B.C. home, and thoughtfully reflects on stories from her career, and his own, while driving his Chrysler LeBaron across Canada.

I caught set two, sounded great!

Blind and dirty...

Blind and dirty...