Nina Simone Live at Montreux 1976 - I Wish I Knew

Nuff said!

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This is just plain awsome!

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Live

Just scored my ticket for Sheffield and Manchester!!!

The Band/Dr. John - Such a Night

Such a beautiful song!

Bye, bye 2008!

The end of the year 2008 has come and the beginning of 2009 is a fact. What it will bring? What will I forget about it, what will I take with me for the rest of my life? I don't know?

2008 was a good year for me. I traveled quiet a lot. I've been multiple times to London and have been to, Dublin, Nottingham, Florence, Pescia and Beirut.

In 2009 I hope to go to Damascus (Syria), England and maybe even Tokyo or Bangkok. Besides that pay a visit to the U.S.A. to see a few shows of The Black Crowes, the Allman Brothers Band, Derek Trucks Bands or Gov't Mule. But we will see.

Back to 2008, I've seen The Black Crowes twice, met some wonderful people who've I've befriended, met a very nice woman where I eventually broke up with. I still think that Marc Fantastic Motherfuzzin' Kung Fu Ford is the best guitarist for the Black Crowes, I'm looking forward to the new album off the Derek Trucks Band and can't wait to finish the project for The Black Crowes Bootleg Project. Last year was a repetitious year professionally speaking, I think that dull would be the best way to describe it. That's why I started to do some things when I was bored!

In 2009 I hope to find new inspiration to express myself in better ways that fit me. Plus find more challenging things on my path, 2008 was boring!!! Meet more interesting people. And what do I mean with that? Chris Robinson has a good name for them. He call's them illegal people. People who dare to question the status quo, that don't live by tradition but rather create their own and meanwhile don't make other people live by those rules.

This Town Needs Guns - 26 Is Dancier Than 4

I've had this song on my mind all day! Just wanted to share it!

Already Free - The new Derek Trucks Band Album

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The new DTB single “Down in the Flood” will be available through iTunes and all major digital music providers Nov. 4, a little taste for those of you eagerly awaiting the new dTb studio album Already Free (due in stores Jan ‘09).

Already Free was self-produced by Derek at his new home studio in Jacksonville. In addition to the core members of the dTb, the album offers collaborations with a close circle of family and friends including Doyle Bramhall II, Oteil Burbridge, Susan Tedeschi, Duane Trucks and more. The album came to life organically in Derek's backyard as friends stopped by to write and rehearse in the new studio. Derek explained in a recent interview: “When we went in the studio originally it was just to write and kind of get comfortable in the space. It wasn’t to do a record, so there was no pressure. There were some times when everybody would go out to dinner and I would stay behind. If I got an idea, I would run into the control room, hit ‘play,’ then run out into the recording room and set up a mic. You’d hear this thing banging around and then this guitar part comes in. A lot of the album was completely done by the seat of our pants, and a lot of the sounds we got, it was just so in the moment.’”

Original material makes up a major part of this record, largely due to a luxury Derek isn’t used to: time off. His hectic schedule finally opened a window for Derek to write at home with band mates and friends. “Everyday I would get up, and me or Susan would drive our two kids to school,” Derek says. “I’d come back, have some coffee and then head to the studio and start messing around with a guitar and hope a song idea appeared. Somehow without fail, there was at least a song written every day, or some great cover idea that came to us and we recorded it. So there was a good three or four-week period where every day we were writing and recording a song. That was different for me.” In addition to the wealth of original material on Already Free there are some choice cover songs interpreted and revived as only the dTb can do, including the single being released in November. “Down in the Flood,” from Bob Dylan and the Band’s Basement Tapes, is a tune that may have more portent now than when Dylan wrote it in 1967. “That was one that was kind of an afterthought,” admits Derek. “We just went in and tracked it. I think it really turned out to be one of the most powerful songs on the album. Lyrically, it’s pretty timely. Crash on the levee, down in the flood, are significant post-Katrina. They are good metaphors, as there are in most Dylan tunes.”

Already Free - Track listing
01. Down In The Flood
02. Something To Make You Happy
03. Maybe This Time
04. Sweet Inspiration
05. Don't Miss Me
06. Get What You Deserve
07. Our Love
08. Down Don't Bother Me
09. Days Is Almost Gone
10. Back Where I Started
11. I Know
12. Already Free

Songs performed Live at University at Buffalo, Center for the Arts, on November 2, 2008

Or listen to a stream of 'Down in the Flood' and the whole gig!


Woohoo! I can't wait for it and to hear the complete record it live!

Before The show! A Danish Duo!

A band that uses my Dead Birds Don't Poop illustration! It's cool to see them play! Here is their MySpace Page!

Paladins! Please reunite!

The title of this article says enough!

I gotta have more Cowbell Baby! White Cowbell Oklahoma!

I gotta have more Cowbell Baby! ... Monster railroad by White Cowbell Oklahoma is downloadable here!

R.I.P. Mitch Mitchell

Jimi Hendrix talks about music and his drummer Mitch


ITCH MITCHELL Drum Solo Sweden, January 9, 1969


Bye Mitch! i enjoyed your drumming:)

The Band - It Makes No Difference

What a beautiful song on of my favorites performed by The Band!

China White - Lowell George

Lowell Thomas George, my favorite songwriter ever! Enjoy this clip!

She S A Boy!

She S A Boy. Still a band to watch out for, I know I wait for a record. Click here or the picture to go to their MySpace!

Liam Gerner at Paradiso Amsterdam

I've wrote about him before and I like his songs. Especially 'Clear Mind'. I was also fortunate enough to meet him after he opened for Ryan Bingham at Paradiso in Amsterdam in July '07. He's a good guy, we chatted abit because we spoke on MySpace before. Now you can can listen to his work on Fabchannel while he opened for Amy McDonald. Enjoy folks!

'Cheek To Cheek' by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Beautiful song sang by beautiful people!

Calexico at Paradiso in Amsterdam!

I was there, I enjoyed it, but I do like a bit more rockin' and rollin'!

MARC FORD New 2007 Weary & Wired CD

Taken from a press release!

"New 2007 Solo CD for Black Crowes Guitarist Marc Ford. Ford put his stylized guitar stamp on the Black Crowes' records "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion,""Amorica" and "Three Snakes and One Charm" as well as making two additional records with the band, "Tall" and "The Band" which were recorded in the 90's and were previously unreleased until 2006. This new 2007 Solo CD shows Marc's strength as a singer/songwriter, fueled by large doses of his phenomenal guitar work that brings to mind such masters as Clapton, Hendrix and Beck."

Tracklisting:

1. Featherweight Dreamland
2. Don't Come Around
3. It'll Be Over Soon
4. Dirty Girl
5. The Other Side
6. 1000 Ways
7. Smoke Signals
8. Greazy Chicken
9. Currents
10. Just Take The Money
11. Medicine Time
12. Same Thing
13. Running Man Blues
14. The Big Callback
15. Bye Bye Suzy

Cheers

Marc Ford - Weary and Wired

Okay, in the spirit of religion I forgive him for believing, lol. On the other hand it seems that after splitting with the Black Crowes again he hasn't been a lazy dog. The samples on his MySpace page don't lie and show his musicianship ones again. For one I really like Featherweight Dream! Go over to his MySpace page and have a listen. There also seems to be a bit of rumbling going on over at his other shack at www.marcford.net let's hope it will be rockin' and a rollin'.

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