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So I’m looking down the barrel at one hell of a fun couple of weeks. While my luck didn’t grant me the privilege to head down to Orlando this weekend for the Nerdapalooza festivities, it has tossed me a few bones to compensate.
First up, this Saturday is the DC (actually Vienna, VA) stop on [...]

So I’m trying to clean out my bloglines account of all the various posts that I’ve saved for later. I did an initial hack and slash earlier today and got rid of most of it, but I saved a couple of posts that I really wanted to mention, so here they are,
First up, we [...]

So, after the last post I spent the next couple of days listening to Grace Potter’s debut album, Nothing But The Water. Great album!
I was just poking around Youtube on this hot lazy Sunday and came across a bunch of cool Grace Potter videos, so I thought I’d share.
First up, a pair of videos [...]

While I was reading over that last post before hitting the submit button I started listening to this show from Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. The second song is just starting…
I’m liking this a lot. Good bluesy/gospel/southern rock feel to it. They’re a four piece band with Grace singing and playing hammond [...]

I’ve had a couple of people ask me over the last couple of months to tell some stories about my time in the proto-jamband scene. Since it doesn’t look like I have anything else to talk about, I guess I might as well.
Before I get into that, a little introduction into nomenclature. You’ll [...]

Artist: Leftover Salmon
Track: Let’s Give A Party
Album: Live (pronounced ‘Liv’)
So I finally got around to finish watching Years In Your Ears a documentary about the Colorado band Leftover Salmon. It was pretty decent. Could have may be a little shorter and may be a little more focused, but over all [...]

Artist: The Recipe
Album: Jubilee
Genre: Jamband/Jamgrass
Jubilee is an album with a history, both public and private. The Recipe were the last group associated with the jamband scene that I followed before finally deciding that, for the sake of my own personal growth, I needed to make a total break with the scene. Even then, [...]