Happy 70th Steve Winwood.

https://www.npr.org/event/music/610049897/bela-fleck-and-abigail-washburn-tiny-desk-concert

"Over the Divide"
"Bloomin' Rose"
"Take Me To Harlan"
"My Home's Across the Blue Ridge Mountains"

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A very pregnant Abigail Washburn points to Bela Fleck at the Tiny Desk and says "and just so you know, this is his fault." I won't spoil the video by telling you his response.

Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn are two American musical treasures. This husband-and-wife banjo duo write original tunes steeped in the roots of folk music. Their playing is sweetly paced with melodies interweaving through their intricate, percussive picking all while Abigail soars above it all with her discerning, yearning voice.

Their first tune, "Over the Divide," was written at the height of the Syrian Refugee Crisis. They'd read a story about a Jewish, yodeling, Austrian sheep herder who helped Syrians out of Hungary, through the backroads that likely only sheep herders know.

The second tune, "Bloomin' Rose," is a response to Standing Rock and the Dakota pipeline that is seen as a threat to water and ancient burial grounds. The intensity and thoughtfulness in Bela Fleck's and Abigail Washburn's music is why it will shine for a good long while, the way great folk tunes stay relevant over the ages.

For the third tune, Abigail waddled over to a clogging board. And before she began her rhythmic patter, told us all that "my doctor said that what I'm about to do is ok! I have compression belts and tights on that you can't see." They then launched into "Take Me To Harlan," another one of their songs from their 2017 album Echo In The Valley.

Both Bela and Abigail have come to the Tiny Desk separately in different musical configurations: Bela with Edgar Meyer on bass fiddle and Zakir Hussain on tabla, and Abigail with her band celebrating both American and Chinese traditions. But together they are a timeless power that must be witnessed.

"I certainly hope the young fans of Mister Roger's Neighbourhood aren't staying up to watch this bloody travesty"

 More venues for live music is always a good thing in my opinion. As long as politics and religion are kept separate.

Video at link below:

https://www.jambase.com/article/pro-shot-full-show-video-steve-kimock-friends-featuring-bob-weir-celebrate-wavy-gravy-sweetwater-music-hall

Set One: Shakedown Street *, Queen Jane Approximately *, Jack Straw *, Row Jimmy *, Dark Star * > Crazy Fingers * > Dark Star *, Easy Answers *, Terrapin Station *

Set Two: Tangled Hangers, Tongue ‘n’ Groove, Ice Cream > LA Fiesta style jam > Ice Cream, One For Brother Mike $, 5B4 Funk $

Encore: Many Rivers to Cross $

• * with Bob Weir
• $ with Miles Kimock

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-01/buffett-s-distaste-for-crypto-fails-to-thwart-heinz-s-bacon-coin

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Kraft Heinz Co.’s Oscar Mayer unit is issuing a limited number of digital tokens called Bacoins that can be exchanged for the company’s bacon. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is part of the investor group controlling the food giant. A Bacoin traded for 11 slices of bacon at noon Tuesday in New York, according to a website for the marketing gimmick.

Grateful Dead

Clark University

Worcester, MA

1969-04-20

SBD

Morning Dew, Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Doin' That Rag, Dark Star > St. Stephen > The Eleven > Death Don't Have Mercy; Encores: Dupree's Diamond Blues > Mountains Of The Moon

https://archive.org/details/gd69-04-20.sbd.lutch.4992.sbeok.shnf/gd69-04-20d1t03.shn

..oddly enough

The edit option is there again.  Much appreciated. Cheers.

No problem. I tried to edit my above post to remove the pic, but I'm not seeing an edit button. "Options" only shows delete. Not sure if thats intended or not, but thought I'd mention it.

Cheers Mike.

You may or may not know this already, but the forum header is displaying your full name.

The Band
Borough Of York, Toronto, Ontario
August 21, 1971

The Band:
Levon Helm - drums, mandolin, vocals
Robbie Robertson - lead guitar
Garth Hudson - organ, tenor sax
Rick Danko - bass, vocals
Richard Manuel - piano, drums, vocals

Set list:
01 WS Walcott Medicine Show
02 Time To Kill
03 The Weight
04 King Harvest
05 Stage Fright
06 I Shall Be Released
07 Up On Cripple Creek
08 Look Out Cleveland
09 The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
10 Across The Great Divide
11 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
12 Chest Fever

Total Time = 43:11 min

Cheers man. Its a great version that's for sure.

Stumbled across this guy last week, been enjoying what I hear.

For anyone interested...

Larry Campbell & Teresa Williams
February 21, 2018 (Wednesday)
Hamilton
Live
Washington, D.C.

http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=598321

Ha. For a few seconds before noticing the date of the thread, I had some minor stress that my account had been accessed/hacked.

https://pitchfork.com/news/grateful-dead-lyricist-john-perry-barlow-dead-at-70/

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Barrow was also a retired Wyoming cattle rancher and cyberlibertarian political activist

 

John Perry Barlow, the writer who penned lyrics to several Grateful Dead songs, has died. Barlow—who was also a retired Wyoming cattle ranger and a cyberlibertarian political activist—passed away quietly in his sleep, according to a statement from Electronic Frontier Foundation, the non-profit digital rights group he co-founded. He was 70 years old. Barrow’s death follows a near-fatal 2015 heart attack, in which he flatlined for eight minutes. Barrow was born in Sublette County, Wyoming, to his parents Norman Barlow, a Republican state legislator, and his wife, Miriam. He grew up on the 22,000-acre Bar Cross Ranch, founded by his great uncle.

At age 15, Barlow became a student at the Fountain Valley School in Colorado, where he met Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir. He later graduated from Wesleyan University in 1969 with an honors degree in comparative religion. Barlow began co-wroting songs with Weir in 1971, following a feud between Weir and then-resident Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Together, Barlow and Weir penned “Cassidy,” “Mexicali Blues,” “Black-Throated Wind,” and many more songs until the Dead’s dissolution in 1995. The same year Barlow became a Dead collaborator, he also began operating his family’s ranch, until he sold it in 1988.

In 1990, Barlow founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation along with fellow digital-rights activists John Gilmore and Mitch Kapor. In 1996, he published his well-known cyberlibertanian manifesto, “Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace,” advocating for an internet free of government rule. In 2012, Barlow helped co-found the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which funds and supports free speech in the press. His writing has been published in Wired, the New York Times, Nerve, and more.