5708 - KAN'NAL - Dreamwalker (2005)

KAN'NAL
''DREAMWALKER''
SEPTEMBER 20 2005
58:29

1/Gypsy /6:02
2/All Things Change /4:36
3/Desert Flower /6:36
4/Oxlahun /4:46
5/Time /3:57
6/Iris /9:56
7/Animal Angel (Live) /9:00
8/Sun And Moon (Live) /9:18
9/Dreamwalker (Live) /6:58

Kan'Nal is an authentic Rock & Roll band. Formed through natural evolution across 4 countries, 6 years, and 10's of thousands of miles traveled. The sound is rock & roll infused with a primal tribal core. Tribal Psychedelic Rock.
The core 5 members of Kan'Nal came together over a 2 year period between 2002 - 2004. All were on solo backpacking missions though Mexico and Central America when their paths crossed. First Lead Singer/Songwriter TZOL met TIERRO (lead guitarist) in a small town in Guatemala. Cut off from the outside world, San Marco, Atitlan was the perfect spot for the two to work on their musical direction. The 1st Cd was conceived and later that year delivered in a studio in Toronto Canada.
Tzol and Tierro returned to that same town in Guatemala almost 1 year later to the day and met Rodolfo (BASS) and Teresita (Performance act/vocals) soon to be core members of the growing tribe. Later that year the 4 headed to the states for a small tour and recruited Rodolfo's life time friend Gilly Gonzalez from San Antonio, TX for drums. Aaron Jerad joined up in the Yucatan Mexico as a didgeridoo player/percussionist.
The band was set... Traveling by foot, hitching, car, jeep, van, bus and plane, the group has now played over 500 concerts since their inception. Highlighted by performances in the ancient Mayan city of Tikal in Guatemala, river side in the jungle palace of Palenque Mexico and high profile rock festivals across America including SXSW, High Sierra, Wakarusa, Earthdance, Burning Man and many more.
Their talent, drive and potential was recognized by Colorado producer Dik Darnell (John Denver, Earth, Wind and Fire, Caribou records) in 2005, and his contributions helped push Kan'Nal up to the next level. New CDs were made, and bigger and better tours were taken on. That same year Akayate (performance artist, dancer and costume designer) joined the crew, and the bands stage presence was now at seven performers.
Today in 2007 the band Kan'Nal has a hungry passionate fan base across 15 states. Over 10,000 CD's sold, a 6000 plus true fan mailing list, and supporters from all walks of life. The group is about to launch a new CD, a DVD, and a summer tour to back both. ALL 100% independent. 100% authentic. 100% true to creativity. 100% passionate for music. 100% passionate for life.

The Band
Tzol: Vocals, lyrics, and rhythm guitar.
Tzol's voice ranges from angelic to primal, powerfully expressing the vision and inspiration he finds from a deep connection to the earth and nature.
Tierro: Lead guitars.
Blending Spanish gypsy, native trance and psychedelic leads, Tierro is a world traveler and an artist of sound.
Rodolfo: Bass.
Captain of Fun and king of the groove. If you're not dancing, then Rodo's going to have to use his super powers on you.
Teresita: Performance.
Part gypsy dancer and part fire dragon, Teresita lights the stage with her ceremony, poetic flows and performance art.
Gilly: Drums and percussion.
Somewhere in-between Animal and Zakir Hussain, Gilly drives an intense tribal beat embellished with intricate middle eastern flavor.
Aaron: Didgeridoo, percussion, and samples.
Offers foundational rhythm and deep presence carried in the hypnotic sound of the didge.
Akayate: Performance and design.
A seeker of balance in both movement and design, Akayate is subtle and precise, a ninja of dance theater.

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5707 - NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS - World Boogie Is Coming (2013)

NORTH MISSISSIPPI ALLSTARS
''WORLD BOOGIE IS COMING''
SEPTEMBER 3 2013
58:19

1 /JR feat. Robert Plant
Junior Kimbrough/2:40
2 /Goat Meat feat. Robert Plant
Luther Dickinson / Steve Malcolm/3:45
3 /Rollin 'n Tumblin
Traditional/2:35
4 /Boogie
Traditional/3:53
5 /Get the Snakes Out the Woods
North Mississippi Allstars / R.L. Burnside/0:37
6 /Snake Drive
R.L. Burnside/2:47
7 /That Dog After That Rabbit
North Mississippi Allstars / Otha Turner/0:32
8 /Meet Me in the City
Junior Kimbrough/4:36
9 /Turn Up Satan
Luther Dickinson/4:41
10 /Shimmy
Otha Turner/3:01
11 /My Babe
Willie Dixon/1:26
12 /Granny, Does Your Dog Bite
Shardé Thomas / Otha Turner/2:00
13 /World Boogie
Bukka White/4:04
14 /Goin' to Brownsville
Sleepy John Estes / Furry Lewis/6:51
15 /I'm Leaving
Junior Kimbrough/3:45
16 /Jumper on the Line
R.L. Burnside/10:03
17 /Cuttin' Shorty
Cody Dickinson / Steve Malcolm/1:01

The Babies
Kenny Brown
Duwayne Burnside
Garry Burnside
Chris Chew
Cody Dickinson
Luther Dickinson
Alvin Youngblood Hart
Lightnin' Malcolm
The London Souls
Robert Plant
Sid Selvidge
Steve Selvidge
Shontelle
Shardé Thomas
Otha Turner

REVIEW
North Mississippi Allstars announce the release of their new career-defining record, ''World Boogie is Coming,'' on September 3. This is the seventh studio record for the band recently crowned “Americana music luminaries” by National Public Radio. They produced it themselves at their own Zebra Ranch Studios in Coldwater, MS, aside from a day in the studio with Robert Plant (and his harmonica) at Memphis’ legendary Royal Studios.The Dickinson Brothers did it with the help of long-time friends, Lightnin’ Malcolm, Duwayne and Garry Burnside, Kenny Brown, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Sharde Thomas, Chris Chew, Sid and Steve Selvidge, Plant and others.
World Boogie is Coming is the record that perfectly ties it all together, fusing the elements that have made the Allstars special while pushing the band’s sound further into the future than ever before.

BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Huey
Moving into much rootsier territory than their former punk band DDT, brothers Luther (guitar, mandolin, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, sampling) formed the North Mississippi Allstars in 1996 with bassist Chris Chew. The sons of legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson were born in Fayette County, TN, and their family later moved to northern Mississippi, where the boys soaked up the country blues sound of the region from artists like Mississippi Fred McDowell and R.L. Burnside. That became the chief inspiration for the Allstars, but the group also mixes in a rock edge, an alternative aesthetic (comparable to outfits like the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and the Black Keys), and a road-ready rock & roll sensibility akin to jam bands like Phish. After touring as an opening act for a variety of artists and honing their chops as a unit, the North Mississippi Allstars issued their debut, Shake Hands with Shorty, in the spring of 2000. The album was a significant success, earning a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album, as did their 2001 sophomore set, 51 Phantom. Later in 2001, the North Mississippi Allstars teamed with John Medeski and pedal steel player Robert Randolph to form the Word, an instrumental gospel-blues band, for an album and tour.
The North Mississippi Allstars regrouped with the addition of guitarist Duwayne Burnside, the son of R.L., for 2003's Polaris, which was followed by the concert album Hill Country Revue: Live at Bonnaroo in late 2004. Electric Blue Watermelon, which featured guest spots by Lucinda Williams, Robert Randolph, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Otha Turner, and others, appeared in 2005 from Ato Records and earned the band its third consecutive Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Also in 2005, the group spent time supporting John Hiatt, who showcased the Allstars on his 2005 album Master of Disaster. This was the first of many extracurricular activities for the Allstars: in 2007, Luther Dickinson became the lead guitarist for the Black Crowes, juggling those duties with leading the Allstars, and while Luther was with the Crowes, Cody Dickinson and Chris Chew pursued their own side project, Hill Country Revue. The core trio of the Dickinson brothers and Chew returned in 2008 with Hernando, the first release on the band's own Songs of the South label. A year later in 2009, the Allstars issued Do It Like We Used to Do, a two-disc set of live performances that also included a third disc featuring a video documentary on the band.
Luther and Cody's father, producer Jim Dickinson, passed away in late 2009. The brothers and fellow NMA member Chris Chew gathered in March of 2010 at the family-owned Zebra Studios to record a tribute. The band had help from a number of family friends who included Ry Cooder, Mavis Staples, Spooner Oldham, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Jack Ashford. The end result was Keys to the Kingdom (on Songs of the South), a collection of new songs with a lone single-chord blues cover of Bob Dylan's "Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again)" added to the mix. The set was released in early 2011. In the summer of 2012, James Luther Dickinson''s posthumous I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone was released. Recorded live in Memphis in 2006, it featured the NMA as his backing band.

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5706 - TODD WOLFE BAND - Miles To Go (2013)

TODD WOLFE BAND
''MILES TO GO''
AUGUST 13 2013
45:38

1. Nuthin' but You /4:18
2. Sunnyvale /4:03
3. Locket Full of Dreams /4:29
4. Forty Four /6:02
5. Day to Day /4:41
6. I Stand Alone /4:22
7. Stay with Me Baby /4:37
8. Against the Wall /4:28
9. Come What May /4:04
10. The Inner Light /4:34

Todd Wolfe/Vocals, All Guitars, Mandolin
Roger Voss/Drums, Percussion and Backing Vocals
Justine Gardner/Bass and Backing Vocals
John Ginty/Organ & Piano,
Steve Guyger/Harmonica,
Sweet Suzi/Backing Vocals

ABOUT
Todd began playing on the New York scene back in 1979 with his band, Troy & the Tornados performing in rooms such as the Lone Star Cafe, The Ritz, My Father's Place, Lamour's, The Chance, Tramps, Rodeo Bar and probably any hole in the wall in the NYC area that would book the Tornados.
Todd or 'Troy' and company opened for a bevy of acts such as, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower, The Neville Bros., Son Seals, Dickey Betts, Omar & the Howlers, Gregg Allman, The Outlaws, Smithereens, Zebra, and his first opener back in 1980 , Albert Collins!
Todd decided to head west in 1990 to write and record a demo with a then unknown backup singer named Sheryl Crow. After having that demo passed on by some major labels and not generating much interest after one show case performance, Todd decided to stay in Los Angeles to record and tour with former Textone, Carla Olson. Todd continued to record and perform with Carla and gig with his own blues trio and kept busy scoring soundtracks for the Playboy Channel. Sheryl in the meantime, had finished her first album, 'Tuesday Night Music Club' and needed a guitarist for her touring band which she put together in June of 1993 so, Todd came on board and remained until February of 1998.
In 1996, Todd relocated back to the NYC area and with Eric Massimino, Mike Lawrence and Crow band mate Scott Bryan founded A & M Record's MOJOSON, a modern blend of psychedelic Rock and Blues. Since the Universal takeover of the Polygram group left new A & M acts like Mojoson in limbo, Todd elected to leave the label and dissolve Mojoson, putting his energies into Wolfe, which was born during the downtime from Sheryl Crow tours. Todd and his band, plays aggressive and daring blues tinged jam-rock reminiscent of the bands of the sixties and seventies. Now, with his newest band Todd Wolfe picks up where he left off 10 years ago with his original Bluesadelic-jamming sounds! "Borrowed Time", Todd's fifth album just released by Blues Leaf Records in North America and soon to be released in Europe by Hypertension Music is mostly comprised of original songs including "California" a song that Todd wrote with Sheryl Crow. Also included on the upcoming release is "Baby I'm Down" a Felix Pappalardi song from the first Leslie West album "Mountain". Todd is joined by Leslie on guitar and vocals for the remaking of this song making it a new classic! Also joining Todd and the band on the new disc is Susan Cowsill and Mary Hawkins. Todd's songs have been covered by a diverse range of artist such as, Deborah Coleman, Larry McCray, Faith Hill & Stevie Nicks.

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5705 - GORDON STONE - Night Shade (2009)

GORDON STONE
''NIGHT SHADE''
JULY 25 2009
44:56

1. Night Shade /6:50
2. Snakehouse /4:29
3. Jelly Cake Rag /1:41
4. Champ's Reel /3:40
5. Stone's Throw /4:05
6. Well You Needn't /6:19
7. Slidewinder /4:09
8. Blackberry Lane /3:58
9. Scratchin' The Surface /4:23
10. Kaki Lambe /5:22

ABOUT
Seven Days’ “Best Instrumentalist 2009” and Emmy Award winner Gordon Stone.
The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting.
He and his Vermont-based, world-traveling band, combine bluegrass and jazz with African, world beat, and funk… in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions. With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece sweeter than the last.
Gordon Stone’s latest disc, “Night Shade” was called “excellent… profoundly so” by Seven Day’s. Recorded in longtime friends, Phish’s barn here in Vermont, Taking a break from the Phish’s summer touring schedule, Page McConnell lends his B3 sounds to the title track and Mike Gordon says of Gordon Stone: “Clearly, he’s an inspiration.”
“Stone has always pushed the limits of his main musical weapons, taking the pedal steel and banjo to places no mere humans normally tread. On Night Shade, however, he pushes things further than ever, lashing world rhythms and out-of-this-world melodic ideas together." - Jambands.com
Gordon has been awarded a Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council which will go to support the rehearsal, performance and promotion of a collection of new songs by Gordon Stone that reflect Vermont’s ethnic diversity.

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5704 - GORDON STONE BAND - Rhymes With Orange (2005)

GORDON STONE BAND
''RHYMES WITH ORANGE''
2005
36:32

1. Batik /Gordon Stone/3:57
2. Nice Feet /Gordon Stone/4:52
3. Bill Cheatum /Trad./3:06
4. Upstart /Aram Bedrosian, Mike Barnet/3:42
5. Slapioca /Aram Bedrosian/1:57
6. Swami River /Gordon Stone/5:16
7. Funky Joe Clark /Trad./4:55
8. Buffalo Blues /Gordon Stone/2:51
9. Nightshade /Gordon Stone/5:56

Aram Bedrosian /Bass
Gordon Stone /Banjo, Pedal Steel

ABOUT
Seven Days’ “Best Instrumentalist 2009” and Emmy Award winner Gordon Stone.
The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting.
He and his Vermont-based, world-traveling band, combine bluegrass and jazz with African, world beat, and funk… in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions. With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece sweeter than the last.
Gordon Stone’s latest disc, “Night Shade” was called “excellent… profoundly so” by Seven Day’s. Recorded in longtime friends, Phish’s barn here in Vermont, Taking a break from the Phish’s summer touring schedule, Page McConnell lends his B3 sounds to the title track and Mike Gordon says of Gordon Stone: “Clearly, he’s an inspiration.”
“Stone has always pushed the limits of his main musical weapons, taking the pedal steel and banjo to places no mere humans normally tread. On Night Shade, however, he pushes things further than ever, lashing world rhythms and out-of-this-world melodic ideas together." - Jambands.com
Gordon has been awarded a Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council which will go to support the rehearsal, performance and promotion of a collection of new songs by Gordon Stone that reflect Vermont’s ethnic diversity.

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5703 - GORDON STONE (2002)

GORDON STONE
''GORDON STONE''
JUNE 1 2002
69:10

1. Southwind/4:07
2. Monkey Wrench/4:42
3. Happy Landings/4:35
4. Fraction/2:08
5. Dread Banjo/4:00
6. Touch and Go/13:46
7. Close Enough/5:12
8. Yesterday's Coffee/5:59
9. Major Breakdown/3:19
10. Cahboss/6:50
11. Half Creek/4:31
12. Red Room/5:10
13. Hammock Time/4:51

ABOUT
Seven Days’ “Best Instrumentalist 2009” and Emmy Award winner Gordon Stone.
The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting.
He and his Vermont-based, world-traveling band, combine bluegrass and jazz with African, world beat, and funk… in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions. With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece sweeter than the last.
Gordon Stone’s latest disc, “Night Shade” was called “excellent… profoundly so” by Seven Day’s. Recorded in longtime friends, Phish’s barn here in Vermont, Taking a break from the Phish’s summer touring schedule, Page McConnell lends his B3 sounds to the title track and Mike Gordon says of Gordon Stone: “Clearly, he’s an inspiration.”
“Stone has always pushed the limits of his main musical weapons, taking the pedal steel and banjo to places no mere humans normally tread. On Night Shade, however, he pushes things further than ever, lashing world rhythms and out-of-this-world melodic ideas together." - Jambands.com
Gordon has been awarded a Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council which will go to support the rehearsal, performance and promotion of a collection of new songs by Gordon Stone that reflect Vermont’s ethnic diversity.

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5702 - GORDON STONE - Even With the Odds (1998)

GORDON STONE
''EVEN WITH THE ODDS''
APRIL 1 1998
50:52

1. Pachysandra /2:53
2. Duck500 /4:10
3. Dublin /6:04
4. Hubbleville /5:37
5. Medley:Time Reel/Abdul's /9:06
6. Even With the Odds /8:30
7. Hoggin' the Spotlight /7:06
8. Sunday Driver /3:47
9. Tiramisu /3:39 /

ABOUT
Seven Days’ “Best Instrumentalist 2009” and Emmy Award winner Gordon Stone.
The music that comes from Gordon Stone's imagination is simply uplifting.
He and his Vermont-based, world-traveling band, combine bluegrass and jazz with African, world beat, and funk… in tunes ranging from laid back grooves to high energy musical excursions. With Gordon on pedal steel and banjo, backed by drums and bass, you'll hear everything from mesmerizing banjo exotica to kick-up-your-boots barn dance numbers, to genre bending audio alchemy, with each new piece sweeter than the last.
Gordon Stone’s latest disc, “Night Shade” was called “excellent… profoundly so” by Seven Day’s. Recorded in longtime friends, Phish’s barn here in Vermont, Taking a break from the Phish’s summer touring schedule, Page McConnell lends his B3 sounds to the title track and Mike Gordon says of Gordon Stone: “Clearly, he’s an inspiration.”
“Stone has always pushed the limits of his main musical weapons, taking the pedal steel and banjo to places no mere humans normally tread. On Night Shade, however, he pushes things further than ever, lashing world rhythms and out-of-this-world melodic ideas together." - Jambands.com
Gordon has been awarded a Community Arts Grant from the Vermont Arts Council which will go to support the rehearsal, performance and promotion of a collection of new songs by Gordon Stone that reflect Vermont’s ethnic diversity.

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5701 - CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PLEASANTS - All Hat And No Cattle (2013)

CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS
''ALL HAT AND NO CATTLE''
JULY 30 2013
27:41

1 /Guitar Pickin' Man
Don Rich/2:46
2 /Good Time Charlie's
Jerry Chesnut/2:09
3 /Pop a Top
Nat Stuckey/2:37
4 /Happy Part of Town
Danny Diff / Carolyn Sue Penick/2:50
5 /Skid Row
Merle Haggard/2:00
6 /Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
Joe Allison/2:42
7 /Playboy
Robert Bateman / Brian Holland / William Stevenson/3:04
8 /King of Fools
Buck Owens / Red Simpson/2:56
9 /A Woman Like You
Jeff Gross / Mitch Marine / Chris Shiflett / Derek Silverman / Luke Tierney/2:38
10 /Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?
Waylon Jennings/3:59

Jeff Gross /Bass
Mitch Marine /Drums
Marty Rifkin /Pedal Steel
Chris Shiflett /Guitar, Vocals
Derek Silverman /Keyboards, Piano
Luke Tierney /Guitar, Vocals
Brian Whelan /Vocal Harmony

REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Chris Shiflett -- best-known as the lead guitarist of the Foo Fighters -- got nice and mellow on his 2010 debut Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants, a record that showcased a tasteful alt-country singer/songwriter with a penchant for the progressive country of the '60s and '70s. He and the Dead Peasants get a lot wilder on their second album, 2013's All Hat and No Cattle. Dispensing with good taste and, for the most part, original tunes, the Dead Peasants dive headfirst into a deliriously fun tribute to Bakersfield country, spiking it with just the slightest hint of Texas honky tonk. Shiflett doesn't choose the obvious Buck and Merle songs -- "King of Fools" from Owens, "Skid Row" from Haggard -- choosing Jim Ed Brown's "Pop a Top," Faron Young's "Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young," and Waylon Jennings' "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" as the familiar tunes to anchor the album, and some of the pleasure of All Hat and No Cattle is the casual display of deep knowledge, as the Dead Peasants dig deep for strong, forgotten '60s country, excavating such gems as the Buckaroos' "Guitar Pickin' Man," Del Reeves' "Good Time Charlie's," Wynn Stewart's "Happy Part of Town," and Dwight Yoakam's "Playboy," then throwing in a sharply written original of their own with "A Woman Like You." But most of the pleasure here derives from the loose, swinging performance of the Dead Peasants, who play with passion but little reverence. This isn't a by-the-numbers tribute where authenticity trumps all, this is a labor of love that feels like a swinging party.

BIOGRAPHY
by Gregory Heaney
A native of southern California, guitarist Chris Shiflett has established himself as a prominent sideman in the alt/punk world. Shiflett began his career as a member of the Santa Barbara glam punk outfit Lost Kittenz, which featured Steve Sherlock (who would go on to form Nerf Herder) and Marko DeSantis (of Sugarcult fame). In 1995, Shiflett joined No Use for a Name, playing guitar as a part of their rotating lineup up until 1999’s More Betterness!. Around the same time, Shiflett was also recruited by Swingin’ Utters singer Spike Slawson to play guitar for the punk supergroup and cover band extraordinaire Me First & the Gimme Gimmes. In 1999, Shiflett left No Use for a Name to take over guitar duties for the Foo Fighters, replacing short-lived guitarist Franz Stahl (who had previously replaced the Germs’ Pat Smear). He made his album debut with the band on 2002’s One by One, and continues to play with them. Looking for an outlet for his own songwriting, Shiflett has also created a number of side projects. In 2003, he formed the punk band Jackson United with his brother, Scott Shiflett, and Pete Parada (both of Face to Face). After recording two albums with Jackson United, Shiflett decided to explore some of his other influences. In 2010, he released his first album under his own name, the country-influenced Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants on le Coq Napoleon. Three years later, Shiflett & the Dead Peasants returned with All Hat and No Cattle, an album that pushed the band into hardcore '60s honky tonk territory.

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5700 - CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PLEASANTS (2010)

CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS
''CHRIS SHIFLETT & THE DEAD PEASANTS''
JULY 9 2010
34:26

1. Helsinki /3:49
2. Get Along /4:23
3. Bandaged /4:14
4. God Damn /4:21
5. Burning Lights /3:25
6. An Atheists Prayer /5:02
7. Not Going Down Alone /1:58
8. Baby, Let It Out /4:33
9. Death March /2:41

Stevie Blacke /Mandolin, Violin
Paul Bushnell /Bass
Davey Faragher /Bass
Dan Lavery /Vocals
Greg Leisz /Pedal Steel
John Lousteau /Drums
Audra Mae /Vocals
Eddie Perez /Guitar
Chris Shiflett /Bass, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
Derek Silverman /Keyboards
Heather Waters /Vocals

REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stepping outside of his main gig as lead guitarist of the Foo Fighters -- he, like Taylor Hawkins, had to find some way to pass the time while Dave Grohl busied himself with Them Crooked Vultures -- Chris Shiflett threw himself into Americana with his band the Dead Peasants. It’s a departure from his pre-Foo résumé, when he played in the punky Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, but it fits right alongside the relaxed Californian shimmer of Hawkins' work, albeit something of a distant cousin. Shiflett and the Dead Peasants work up a pleasing rustic groove throughout their eponymous 2010 debut, never pushing too hard but never succumbing to laziness. Unlike most alt-country singers, Shiflett favors the genre-bending Americana of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s to stark, stripped-down purity; it’s a mellow mood album, usually colored by steel guitars but sometimes getting its flair from a 12-string chime. Frankly, that contrast works in Shiflett’s favor: too many Americana bands are concerned about authenticity but the Dead Peasants are all about vibe, all about band interplay, so their album winds up as quite pleasing in a low-key way.

BIOGRAPHY
by Gregory Heaney
A native of southern California, guitarist Chris Shiflett has established himself as a prominent sideman in the alt/punk world. Shiflett began his career as a member of the Santa Barbara glam punk outfit Lost Kittenz, which featured Steve Sherlock (who would go on to form Nerf Herder) and Marko DeSantis (of Sugarcult fame). In 1995, Shiflett joined No Use for a Name, playing guitar as a part of their rotating lineup up until 1999’s More Betterness!. Around the same time, Shiflett was also recruited by Swingin’ Utters singer Spike Slawson to play guitar for the punk supergroup and cover band extraordinaire Me First & the Gimme Gimmes. In 1999, Shiflett left No Use for a Name to take over guitar duties for the Foo Fighters, replacing short-lived guitarist Franz Stahl (who had previously replaced the Germs’ Pat Smear). He made his album debut with the band on 2002’s One by One, and continues to play with them. Looking for an outlet for his own songwriting, Shiflett has also created a number of side projects. In 2003, he formed the punk band Jackson United with his brother, Scott Shiflett, and Pete Parada (both of Face to Face). After recording two albums with Jackson United, Shiflett decided to explore some of his other influences. In 2010, he released his first album under his own name, the country-influenced Chris Shiflett & the Dead Peasants on le Coq Napoleon. Three years later, Shiflett & the Dead Peasants returned with All Hat and No Cattle, an album that pushed the band into hardcore '60s honky tonk territory.

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5699 - BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS - Watcha Playin', Disc Two (2009)

BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS
''WATCHA PLAYIN', DISC TWO''
JULY 28 2009
92:03

DISC ONE
1. Need /12:41
2. The Park /4:11
3. Bellybuttons T&A /5:02
4. The Day Before Adidi /6:13
5. Dibby Dibby Sound /2:32
6. Work It Out /6:11
7. For a Few Dollars More / Faya /8:10
8. Dance Free Night /4:47

DISC TWO
1. Wendell Wedding /5:33
2. S-Curved /7:47
3. My Jamaican Girl /5:20
4. Rude Boy Shuffle /6:38
5. The Park (Matthias "Matty" Heilbronn Club Mix) /8:47
6. S-Curved (Nicole Moudaber Dub Mix) /8:11

Backing Vocals – Awa Manneh
Drums, Backing Vocals – Yancy Drew
Guitar – Masa Shimizu
Guitar, Organ, Backing Vocals – Desmond Foster
Keyboards, Trumpet, Backing Vocals – Iwan Van Hetten
Percussion – Philippe Monrose
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Other [Band Leadership] – Lati Kronlund
Vocals – Everton Sylvester, Hanifah Walidah, Papa Dee

BIOGRAPHY
by Jason Ankeny
Acid-jazz collective Brooklyn Funk Essentials was first conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist/musical director Lati Kronlund; by the following year, the group was a staple of the New York City club scene, with early lineups also including singers Joi Cardwell, Sha-Key, and Papa Dee, poets Everton Sylvester and David Allen, DJ Jazzy Nice, keyboardist Yuka Honda, (soon to co-found Cibo Matto), trumpeter Bob Brachmann, trombonist Joshua Roseman, saxophonist Paul Shapiro, drummer Yancy Drew, and percussionist E.J. Rodriguez. Brooklyn Funk Essentials' debut album Cool and Steady and Easy followed in the summer of 1994, scoring an underground hit with its rendition of Pharoah Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan"; when Caldwell exited to mount a solo career, she was replaced by vocalist Stephanie McKay. In the Buzz Bag followed in 1998, and two years later, the group returned with Make 'Em Like It.

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5698 - BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS - Watcha Playin', Disc One (2009)

BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS
''WATCHA PLAYIN', DISC ONE''
JULY 28 2009
92:03

DISC ONE
1. Need /12:41
2. The Park /4:11
3. Bellybuttons T&A /5:02
4. The Day Before Adidi /6:13
5. Dibby Dibby Sound /2:32
6. Work It Out /6:11
7. For a Few Dollars More / Faya /8:10
8. Dance Free Night /4:47

DISC TWO
1. Wendell Wedding /5:33
2. S-Curved /7:47
3. My Jamaican Girl /5:20
4. Rude Boy Shuffle /6:38
5. The Park (Matthias "Matty" Heilbronn Club Mix) /8:47
6. S-Curved (Nicole Moudaber Dub Mix) /8:11

Backing Vocals – Awa Manneh
Drums, Backing Vocals – Yancy Drew
Guitar – Masa Shimizu
Guitar, Organ, Backing Vocals – Desmond Foster
Keyboards, Trumpet, Backing Vocals – Iwan Van Hetten
Percussion – Philippe Monrose
Bass, Guitar, Keyboards, Other [Band Leadership] – Lati Kronlund
Vocals – Everton Sylvester, Hanifah Walidah, Papa Dee

BIOGRAPHY
by Jason Ankeny
Acid-jazz collective Brooklyn Funk Essentials was first conceived in 1993 by producer Arthur Baker and bassist/musical director Lati Kronlund; by the following year, the group was a staple of the New York City club scene, with early lineups also including singers Joi Cardwell, Sha-Key, and Papa Dee, poets Everton Sylvester and David Allen, DJ Jazzy Nice, keyboardist Yuka Honda, (soon to co-found Cibo Matto), trumpeter Bob Brachmann, trombonist Joshua Roseman, saxophonist Paul Shapiro, drummer Yancy Drew, and percussionist E.J. Rodriguez. Brooklyn Funk Essentials' debut album Cool and Steady and Easy followed in the summer of 1994, scoring an underground hit with its rendition of Pharoah Sanders' "The Creator Has a Master Plan"; when Caldwell exited to mount a solo career, she was replaced by vocalist Stephanie McKay. In the Buzz Bag followed in 1998, and two years later, the group returned with Make 'Em Like It.

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5697 - ALBERTO MARSICANO - Quintessence (2001)

ALBERTO MARSICANO
''QUINTESSENCE''
JANUARY 1 2001
46:23

1/Terra (Earth)/8:30
2/Água (Water)/11:40
3/Fogo (Fire)/6:20
4/Ar (Air)/10:31
5/Éter (Ether)/9:14

BIOGRAPHY
By Philippe Blache
Marsicano Rodrigues is a Brazilian musician, citarista, writer who after an education in Sao Paulo questioned himself on the foreign philosophies, on the different way of thinking human being. For this reason he left his country many times, learnt numerous languages (Chinese, Latin, English, Greek.) obtaining a diploma in philosophy. His musical career also started in consequence of his travels. He met Ravi Shankar in London and had lessons with him. He also studied with Krishna Chakavarty, professor of the University of Benares. After his revelation for India music he decided to go back to his native country, starting a professional career as musician and teacher. With devotion and passion he divulges his knowledges in India music in several places, sometimes playing with others musicians. He recorded his album of poetries called "galaxies" with Arnaldo Antunes. He progressively conquered the attention and respect of many Brazilian musicians and the faithful of a public interested in India classical music. In parallel to his musical career he has written many books on legendary personalities (William Blake.) and articles on several countries as Japan, India. During the 90's until today he experimented the world of electronic rock music to the traditional Brazilian music and eastern influences. The album "electric sitar" and his "electric sitar experience" introduce him in the universe of progressive music, playing rock "covers" and original compositions for sitar with electronic treatments.

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5696 - AL & THE TRANSAMERICANS - This Day & Age (2008)

AL & THE TRANSAMERICANS
''THIS DAY & AGE''
DECEMBER 16 2008
46:20

1. Somewhere in Kansas (feat. Allie Kral) /4:21
2. Grass is Greener /4:14
3. Everything Here /3:39
4. Another Home /4:06
5. Time /4:19
6. Blue Eyed Angel /2:21
7. Waiting for the Rain (feat. Allie Kral) /5:08
8. Light of the Moon /5:34
9. When You Were Beautiful /4:39
10. Some of the Parts /5:07
11. Promised Land /2:52

Al Schnier/Guitar, Keyboard, Vocals
Vinnie Amico/Drums
Erik Glockler/Bass, Vocals
Kirk Juhas/Keyboard, Vocals
Stone/Banjo, Pedal Steel Guitar

REVIEW
By Randy Ray
On This Day & Age, Al Schnier, moe. guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist, along with the Transamericansmoe. drummer Vinnie Amico, Strangefolk’s bassist/vocalist Erik Glockler, Okemah’s keyboardist/vocalist Kirk Juhas, and Gordon Stone on banjo and pedal steel guitar deliver an engaging work which, yes, never strays too far away from its alt.country roots, but also never forgets melody, nuance, and rich songwriting.
Indeed, not to get all T-Bone Burnett on all y’all, but the five new Schnier songs on this 11-track album have a visual Americana quality rarely found in moe.’s material. “Grass is Greener” features a sharp hard rock riff within a patient country tune. A drifting hammock-filled repose slumbers its way into “Somewhere in Kansas.” A gospel passage frames the roots-rock portrait on “Everything Here.” And “Blue Eyed Angel” provides a sharp hook within a rolling thunder beat, while good old-fashioned bluegrass stomps throughout the closing “Promised Land.”
Elsewhere, “Some of the Parts” is a thing of beauty with a great closing bit of pathos, “Time” manages to arc and lift one almost into a 1970s Todd Rundgren soundscape, Juhas’ “Light of the Moon” jumps off the Presley “Mystery Train,” before heading off with a Bruce Hornsby strut, and “Another Home” tumbles out The Band’s barroom door with dignity intact. Influences and cultural motifs aside, This Day & Age points the way backwards and forwards for this talented group of collaborators as the answers sought during those challenging nine-to-fivers can sometimes be found on lunch hour with tunes that appear to always have been around, floating on some distant highway horizon.

BIOGRAPHY
By Wikipedia
Al and the Transamericans is a side project band formed by guitarist Al Schnier of moe. Hailing from the Northeast, the band is best described as a roots rock, alt country, Americana group. The music is a nice blend of bluegrass, country, and rock. All of the musicians have 'day jobs' in other bands (moe., Strangefolk, Okemah, the Gordon Stone Trio). These guys all come to this simply for the love of playing a good three chord song. Their shows typically feature everything from straight up acoustic bluegrass barnburners to balls out rock.
The band was started as a side project by Schnier in January 1999. They played four shows in the Northeast with their first show being at the Pontiac Grill in Philadelphia, PA. The first incarnation of the band featured Schnier on guitar and vocals; Kirk Juhas of freebeer&chicken on keyboards, banjo, harmonica, and vocals; Jim Loughlin of Yolk on bass and vocals; Ted Marotta of Ominous Seapods on drums and vocals; and Rolf Witt of the Merry Danksters and Sonic Garden on mandolin, fiddle, and guitar.
They would not perform again until March 2000, when they played three shows in the Northeast. The lineup remained the same except Vinnie Amico of moe. replaced Marotta on drums. A few months later, in June 2000, the band played three more shows making their way across Upstate New York (Buffalo, Utica, Albany). The last show, in Albany, included a guest appearance by Marotta on drums. Their final show of 2000 was played at the first annual moe.down festival in Turin, NY. The festival is hosted by Schnier's band moe. over Labor Day weekend. Marotta once again made a guest appearance during this performance.
Over a year later they would make their next appearance playing a moe. aftershow. The show, at the Lion's Den in New York City on Thanksgiving weekend, featured the same lineup minus Rolf Witt. In 2002 they played BerkFest, moe.down, and two other shows in the Northeast.
The bands most active year was in 2003 when they played over twenty shows throughout the year. During this time the band was augmented; Al, Kirk (now of Okemah), and Vinnie remained, while Gordon Stone took over for Witt on banjo and pedal steel, and Erik Glockler from Strangefolk took over bass duties from Loughlin. Schnier's wife, Diane, also provided vocals from time to time. After moe.down IV, the band performed a series of dates in the Northeast in both the beginning of September and December. The tour was in support of their newly released album Analog, which was released on September 9, 2003.
In late March 2004 the band did a small seven show tour that started in Austin, TX and went through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Eventually the tour made its way North and ended in Hoboken, NJ. Later that same year in late May they played four more shows in the Northeast. Eventually they would finish the year with a performance at moe.down V. During this show, Jay Barady of Woodenspoon sat in on mandolin since Gordon Stone was unable to appear. This performance also featured three songs written by Diane Schnier, who also played keyboards and drums. The songs would later appear on her first album Before Cowboys.
For the only time since its inception, the band did not perform in 2005. However, Al, Kirk, and Vinnie along with Diane, Kenny Juhas, and Shannon Lynch performed as Before Cowboys. The band performed songs written by Diane Schnier at three separate shows throughout the year, including a set at moe.down VI. The Transamericans would return for one night in 2006, on July 15 they played at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. Before Cowboys also made one appearance in 2006, once again playing a set at moe.down VII.
Both bands would appear together on May 11, 2007 at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. Later that month the Transamericans would play another annual moe. festival, Summer Camp in Chillicothe, IL, over Memorial Day weekend. A return trip to the Electric Company for a moe. after show in July was followed by two Northeast dates in mid-August. Once again their last show of the year was a set at moe.down VIII.
On October 31, 2008 Basemental Records officially released the band's second studio album This Day & Age. The new album features five brand new songs and is a limited edition series of only 1000 copies. Each copy is signed and numbered by Al Schnier. The album features the most frequent incarnation of the band; Al Schnier, Vinnie Amico, Erik Glockler, Kirk Juhas, and Gordon Stone. The band kicked off a tour to support the new album with a release party on Halloween night at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. The tour consisted of dates in the Northeast and lasted midway through November.

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5695 - AL AND THE TRANSAMERICANS - Analog (2003)

AL AND THE TRANSAMERICANS
''ANALOG''
SEPTEMBER 16 2003
37:37

1. Guitar /3:33
2. Old Friend /4:49
3. Me & Pat & Bill & You /3:21
4. I Will /3:00
5. Waiting For The Punchline /6:20
6. Red Hill Rd. /2:40
7. Banks Of The Ohio /3:48
8. Lost & Found /4:06
9. 20th Century Man (feat. David Lowery) /4:39
10. Guitar (orig. 1995 Demo) /1:21

Vinnie Amico /Drums
Erik Glockler /Bass, Vocals
Kirk Juhas /Keyboards, Vocals
Daniel Lowery /Vocals
Al Schnier /Arranger, Guitar, Mandolin, Vocals
Diane Schnier /Vocals
Gordon Stone /Banjo, Pedal Steel
Miguel Urbiztondo /Percussion

BIOGRAPHY
By Wikipedia
Al and the Transamericans is a side project band formed by guitarist Al Schnier of moe. Hailing from the Northeast, the band is best described as a roots rock, alt country, Americana group. The music is a nice blend of bluegrass, country, and rock. All of the musicians have 'day jobs' in other bands (moe., Strangefolk, Okemah, the Gordon Stone Trio). These guys all come to this simply for the love of playing a good three chord song. Their shows typically feature everything from straight up acoustic bluegrass barnburners to balls out rock.
The band was started as a side project by Schnier in January 1999. They played four shows in the Northeast with their first show being at the Pontiac Grill in Philadelphia, PA. The first incarnation of the band featured Schnier on guitar and vocals; Kirk Juhas of freebeer&chicken on keyboards, banjo, harmonica, and vocals; Jim Loughlin of Yolk on bass and vocals; Ted Marotta of Ominous Seapods on drums and vocals; and Rolf Witt of the Merry Danksters and Sonic Garden on mandolin, fiddle, and guitar.
They would not perform again until March 2000, when they played three shows in the Northeast. The lineup remained the same except Vinnie Amico of moe. replaced Marotta on drums. A few months later, in June 2000, the band played three more shows making their way across Upstate New York (Buffalo, Utica, Albany). The last show, in Albany, included a guest appearance by Marotta on drums. Their final show of 2000 was played at the first annual moe.down festival in Turin, NY. The festival is hosted by Schnier's band moe. over Labor Day weekend. Marotta once again made a guest appearance during this performance.
Over a year later they would make their next appearance playing a moe. aftershow. The show, at the Lion's Den in New York City on Thanksgiving weekend, featured the same lineup minus Rolf Witt. In 2002 they played BerkFest, moe.down, and two other shows in the Northeast.
The bands most active year was in 2003 when they played over twenty shows throughout the year. During this time the band was augmented; Al, Kirk (now of Okemah), and Vinnie remained, while Gordon Stone took over for Witt on banjo and pedal steel, and Erik Glockler from Strangefolk took over bass duties from Loughlin. Schnier's wife, Diane, also provided vocals from time to time. After moe.down IV, the band performed a series of dates in the Northeast in both the beginning of September and December. The tour was in support of their newly released album Analog, which was released on September 9, 2003.
In late March 2004 the band did a small seven show tour that started in Austin, TX and went through Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Eventually the tour made its way North and ended in Hoboken, NJ. Later that same year in late May they played four more shows in the Northeast. Eventually they would finish the year with a performance at moe.down V. During this show, Jay Barady of Woodenspoon sat in on mandolin since Gordon Stone was unable to appear. This performance also featured three songs written by Diane Schnier, who also played keyboards and drums. The songs would later appear on her first album Before Cowboys.
For the only time since its inception, the band did not perform in 2005. However, Al, Kirk, and Vinnie along with Diane, Kenny Juhas, and Shannon Lynch performed as Before Cowboys. The band performed songs written by Diane Schnier at three separate shows throughout the year, including a set at moe.down VI. The Transamericans would return for one night in 2006, on July 15 they played at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. Before Cowboys also made one appearance in 2006, once again playing a set at moe.down VII.
Both bands would appear together on May 11, 2007 at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. Later that month the Transamericans would play another annual moe. festival, Summer Camp in Chillicothe, IL, over Memorial Day weekend. A return trip to the Electric Company for a moe. after show in July was followed by two Northeast dates in mid-August. Once again their last show of the year was a set at moe.down VIII.
On October 31, 2008 Basemental Records officially released the band's second studio album This Day & Age. The new album features five brand new songs and is a limited edition series of only 1000 copies. Each copy is signed and numbered by Al Schnier. The album features the most frequent incarnation of the band; Al Schnier, Vinnie Amico, Erik Glockler, Kirk Juhas, and Gordon Stone. The band kicked off a tour to support the new album with a release party on Halloween night at the Electric Company in Utica, NY. The tour consisted of dates in the Northeast and lasted midway through November.

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5694 - ABI WALLENSTEIN & JOJA WENDT - Good Morning Blues (1995)

ABI WALLENSTEIN & JOJA WENDT
''GOOD MORNING BLUES''
JULY 15 1996
63:17

1 - Can't be satisfied/5:51
2 - Rocking Shoes/4:01
3 - Good morning Blues/3:40
4 - The thrill is gone/4:24
5 - Mojo Boogie/4:23
6 - Same old Blues/2:56
7 - Kiss/2:52
8 - Sunny land blow/4:25
9 - Killing floor/4:44
10 - Alabama/6:37
11 - Keep your hands off her/4:14
12 - Kansas City/3:13
13 - Shake your Boogie/3:56
14 - Boogie man/2:28
15 - Got my mojo working/4:56

Abi Wallenstein (guitar, vocals)
Joja Wendt Baker (piano)
Christoph Buhse (snare)
Anselmo (perc, progr

Abi Wallenstein can be called the "living legend" of Hamburg's music scene. No German musician within the last 30 years plays the blues so authenticly. Since 1966 the "father of the Hamburg blues scene" played in several bands (Pussy, Bad News Reunion) and with some famous musicians like Vince Weber, Inga Rumpf, Axel Zwingenberger and others.
Abi had his first performing expierences during the early 60's in North-Rhine-Westphalia where he played in several rock bands. In the mid-60's he moved to Hamburg and started to play on his own with his 12-string guitar in Danny's Pan, Jazzhouse and Onkel Pö. Later he was joined by harmonica player Tiny Hagen and keyboardist Peter Urban. Soon he started to play in rhythym-and-blues bands with Gottfried Böttger and Vince Weber, to name a few.
Throughout the years Abi developed a characteristic guitar style wich combines rhythmic blues lines with chord and melody lines at the same time. His guitar playing seems to be simple but at a closer look it proves to be very complex and multi-layered. There is a swinging groove, wich makes you forget about normal rhythm sections like bass and drums.
Even though it could be an awkard cliché to label the voice of a white singer "black", Abi sings the blues naturally overdoing it. He captures the audience in no time because of his magnetic stage presence. When he's not touring he plays in the streets. "The street is his own testing ground and practica area" Uli Lemke writes in the liner notes of Abi's new CD "Blues Avenue". He is the only famous European musician who is constantly looking fot the closest contact to his audiance on toughest stage of the world.
He's played many blues festivals like Ascona Jazz Festival, Gaildorf Blues Festival, Lahnstein SWF Blues Festival, Kemptener Jazzfrühling, Lehrter Blues Festival, Unna Blues Festival, Breminale to name a few. He is also a well liked guest on TV and radio shows. He opened up very successfully for Joe Cocker, Christie Moore, Daniel Lanois, Fats Domino, Robben Ford, George Thorogood und Jonny Winter.

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5693 - CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN - Santana & Mclaughlin Live At Mountreux 2011, Disc Two (2013)

CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
''SANTANA & MCLAUGHLIN LIVE AT MONTREUX 2011, DISC TWO''
AUGUST 19 2013
135:18

DISC ONE
1 - Echoes of AngelsIntroductions/5:11
2 - The Life Divine/7:04
3 - Medley_ Peace on Earth; A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall; Stairway to Heaven; Our Prayer/8:54
4 - Right Off/11:20
5 - Vuelta Abajo/6:19
6 - Vashkar/7:06
7 - The Creator Has a Master Plan/13:02
8 - Naima/3:23
9 - Lotus Land Op. 47, No. 1/5:33

DISC TWO
1 - Downstairs/6:57
2 - VenusUpper Egypt/10:12
3 - Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord/13:06
4 - Black Satin/9:17
5 - Cindy Blackman Santana Drum Solo/2:27
6 - A Love Supreme/9:43
7 - Shake It Up and Go/15:06

Carlos Santana/Lead Guitar, Vocals
John McLaughlin/Lead Guitar, Vocals
Cindy Blackman Santana/Drums
Dennis Chambers/Drums
David K. Mathews/Keyboards
Tommy Anthony/Guitar, Vocals
Raul Rekow/Conga, Percussion
Etienne M’Bappé/Bass
Benny Rietveld/Bass
Tony Lindsay/Vocals
Andy Vargas/Vocals

REVIEW
By Dan Harr
This unique concert, featuring the guitar talents of Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, includes most of the tracks from their classic 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender. Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 also features the late Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, playing harmonica on the final track.
On July 1st, 2011 Montreux hosted the reunion of two master-guitarists Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin-with their Invitation To Illumination concert. Both musicians have been regulars at Montreux across the years, but this was the first time they headlined their own concert together. The show features compelling performances of the beloved tracks from 1973’s Love Devotion Surrender, as well as inspired songs that have influenced Carlos & John’s incredible careers, including songs by Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker. This show is an incredible display of guitar virtuoso by two of the most prolific guitarists to ever grace the world stage.
The evening was a showcase of supreme musical virtuosity and spirituality and typified the approach of these two great artists. Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 captures an incredible night of live music and is certainly a performance not to be missed.

BIOGRAPHY (CARLOS SANTANA)
by William Ruhlmann
Mexican-born American guitarist Carlos Santana is best known as the leader of the band that bears his last name, which has toured and recorded successfully since the late '60s. He has also recorded a series of exploratory solo albums and collaborations with other musicians that expand upon his basic musical style.
Carlos Santana grew up in Mexico, the son of a father who was a mariachi violinist. He took up the violin at five, but at eight switched to the guitar. The family moved to Tijuana, where he began playing in clubs and bars. In the early '60s, the family moved to San Francisco. Santana at first remained in Tijuana, but he later joined them and attended Mission High School, graduating in June 1965. In 1966, he was one of the founders of the Santana Blues Band. Despite the name, the group was at first a collective; it was required to name a nominal leader due to a provision of the musicians union. The name was eventually shortened to Santana and the band debuted at the Fillmore West theater in San Francisco on June 16, 1968. That September, Carlos played guitar at a concert held at the Fillmore West by Al Kooper to record a follow-up to the Super Session album that had featured him with Mike Bloomfield and Steve Stills. The result was The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, which marked Santana's recording debut.
Meanwhile, Santana was signed to Columbia Records and recorded a self-titled debut album. At this point, the group was a sextet consisting of Carlos (guitar), Gregg Rolie (keyboards and vocals), David Brown (bass), Michael Shrieve (drums), Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), and Michael Carabello (percussion). Santana toured the U.S. prior to the release of the album, including a notable appearance at the celebrated Woodstock festival in August 1969 that was filmed and recorded. Santana was released the same month, and it became a massive hit, as did its follow-ups Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971). After completing recording and touring activities in connection with Santana III, the original Santana band broke up.
Carlos retained rights to the group's name and he proceeded to lead a band called Santana from then on, though it consisted of himself and a constantly changing collection of hired musicians. His first recording after the breakup of the original group was a live show performed in Hawaii with singer and drummer Buddy Miles, released in June 1972 as Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! Consistent with the success of the Santana band, the album reached the Top Ten and eventually went platinum. Following the release of the Santana band album Caravanserai (1972), Carlos formed a duo with John McLaughlin, guitarist for the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The two shared a spiritual leader in guru Sri Chinmoy, who bestowed upon Carlos the name Devadip, meaning "the eye, the lamp, and the light of God." Devadip Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin's duo album Love Devotion Surrender was released in June 1973. It reached the Top 20 and eventually went gold. After releasing another Santana band project, Welcome, Carlos next teamed up with another religious disciple, Turiya Alice Coltrane, widow of John Coltrane, for a third duo album. Their collaboration, Illuminations, was released in September 1974; it spent two months in the charts, peaking in the bottom quarter of the Top 100.
Carlos focused on the Santana band for most of the rest of the 1970s, releasing a series of gold or platinum albums: Borboletta (1974), Amigos (1975), Festival (1976), Moonflower (1977), and Inner Secrets (1978). In February 1979, he finally released his first real solo album, the half-live, half-studio Oneness/Silver Dreams -- Golden Reality, actually credited to Devadip. Like Illuminations, it spent a couple of months in the charts and peaked in the bottom quarter of the Top 100. After another gold Santana band album, Marathon (1979), he returned to solo work with the double-LP jazz collection The Swing of Delight in August 1980. Featuring such guests as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Ron Carter, it sold a little better than his previous solo album. Two more Santana band albums, Zebop! (1981) and Shango (1982), followed before Carlos released a more pop-oriented solo effort, Havana Moon, in April 1983. Featuring Willie Nelson, Booker T. Jones, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the album reached the Top 40, actually a better showing than the next Santana band album, Beyond Appearances (1985). In 1986, Carlos undertook his first musical score, writing music for the Ritchie Valens film biography La Bamba. He then made another Santana band album, Freedom (1987), and followed it in October 1987 with a solo album, Blues for Salvador. The album did not sell well, but the title track won Carlos his first Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. After a final Santana band album for Columbia Records, Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (1990), Carlos left the label and signed to Polydor, which gave him his own custom label, Guts and Grace. The first Santana band album for the new company, Milagro, was followed by what was projected to be a series of releases of tapes from Carlos' own collection of his favorite musicians, Live Forever: Sacred Sources 1, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and John Coltrane. Then came a Santana band live album (Sacred Fire - Live in South America, 1993) and in September 1994, Carlos released Santana Brothers, a trio album also featuring his brother Jorge Santana and their nephew, Carlos Hernandez. It charted briefly and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Carlos spent almost five years away from recording, not returning until June 1999 when he issued Supernatural on Arista Records. The Santana band album featured many tracks co-written by guest stars such as Rob Thomas of matchbox 20, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, and others. Paced by the number one singles "Smooth" and "Maria Maria," the album became the biggest hit of Santana's career, selling upwards of ten million copies. It also won Santana eight Grammy Awards.

BIOGRAPHY (JOHN MCLAUGHLIN)
by Steve Huey
One of fusion's most virtuosic guitar soloists, John McLaughlin placed his blazing speed in the service of a searching spiritual passion that has kept his music evolving and open to new influences. Whether shredding on electric or simmering quietly on acoustic, McLaughlin's intensity and underappreciated versatility have nearly always kept his playing vital, and his best moments -- whether as a solo artist or bandmember -- represent some of fusion's greatest recordings.
McLaughlin was born January 4, 1942, in Yorkshire, England, and began playing guitar at age 11. Initially attracted to blues and swing, he worked with British artists like Georgie Fame, Graham Bond, Brian Auger, and Ginger Baker. McLaughlin formed his own band in 1968, and recorded the excellent debut Extrapolation in early 1969. Later that year he moved to New York to join Tony Williams' groundbreaking fusion band Lifetime, and appeared on the classic Emergency! Through Williams, McLaughlin was invited to join Miles Davis' band, and became an important part of fusion landmarks like In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. In 1970, wanting to explore acoustic and Eastern music, McLaughlin recorded the classic My Goal's Beyond; he soon left Davis, and after one further solo album, Devotion, McLaughlin spent some time woodshedding.
He re-emerged in 1971 as leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a seminal band that did much to define and popularize early jazz-rock fusion, as evidenced by the albums The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, and Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Pausing to record Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos Santana in 1972, McLaughlin led Mahavishnu until 1975. Returning to spiritual preoccupations on My Goal's Beyond, he then formed Shakti, which fused acoustic jazz with Indian music over the course of three albums. McLaughlin returned to his solo career in the late '70s, forming a backing outfit called the One Truth Band, and also recording the guitar trio albums Friday Night in San Francisco and Passion, Grace & Fire with fellow fusion burner Al di Meola and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. As the '80s went along, McLaughlin experimented with classical-jazz hybrid composing; there was also a short-lived Mahavishnu reunion in the mid-'80s.
In the 1990s McLaughlin continued to record steadily in both electric and acoustic groups. He signed to Verve, where he would remain for 13 years. Some of the more notable albums from that period include the acoustic Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans in 1993; After the Rain with Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco in 1995; and 1996's The Promise, which featured the guitarist in a number of settings, including a reunion with his acoustic trio partners di Meola and de Lucia, and a trio with DeFrancesco and drummer Dennis Chambers. The drummer was also a part of McLaughlin's final album of the decade, Heart of Things, a furious bout of electric jazz.
The 21st century found McLaughlin in another nostalgic mood, releasing Remember Shakti: The Believer, a live set featuring the guitarist (playing electric guitar) with electric mandolinist U. Shrinivas, kanjira and ghatam player V. Selvaganesh, and legendary tabla player Zakir Hussain. While it wasn't a Shakti album proper, it nonetheless echoed that group's intricate and amazing rhythmic and harmonic breakthroughs. The group toured and released Saturday Night in Bombay a year later. McLaughlin's Euro-classical-leaning Thieves and Poets appeared in 2003. In 2004, WEA in Germany issued the massive 17-CD box set of McLaughlin's Montreux Concerts, which featured performances recorded between 1974 and 1996. Industrial Zen, released in 2006, was a mixed-bag recording where the guitarist's ambitions ran wild. It was his final album for Verve.
In 2008 McLaughlin issued Floating Point, an extension of many of the concepts on Industrial Zen, on the Abstract Logix imprint. The final track on that album was entitled "Five Peace Band"; it served as the name for a supergroup assembled by McLaughlin and Chick Corea for a one-off world tour. The other members were saxophonist Kenny Garrett, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, and bassist Christian McBride; an album of the same name was released in 2009 on Concord. To the One, a studio album with his 4th Dimension band, was released on Abstract Logix in the spring of 2010. McLaughlin resurfaced two years later with Now Here This, featuring new 4th Dimension drummer, Ranjit Barot.

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5692 - CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN - Santana & Mclaughlin Live At Mountreux 2011, Disc One (2013)

CARLOS SANTANA & JOHN MCLAUGHLIN
''SANTANA & MCLAUGHLIN LIVE AT MONTREUX 2011, DISC ONE''
AUGUST 19 2013
135:18

DISC ONE
1 - Echoes of AngelsIntroductions/5:11
2 - The Life Divine/7:04
3 - Medley_ Peace on Earth; A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall; Stairway to Heaven; Our Prayer/8:54
4 - Right Off/11:20
5 - Vuelta Abajo/6:19
6 - Vashkar/7:06
7 - The Creator Has a Master Plan/13:02
8 - Naima/3:23
9 - Lotus Land Op. 47, No. 1/5:33

DISC TWO
1 - Downstairs/6:57
2 - VenusUpper Egypt/10:12
3 - Let Us Go Into the House of the Lord/13:06
4 - Black Satin/9:17
5 - Cindy Blackman Santana Drum Solo/2:27
6 - A Love Supreme/9:43
7 - Shake It Up and Go/15:06

Carlos Santana/Lead Guitar, Vocals
John McLaughlin/Lead Guitar, Vocals
Cindy Blackman Santana/Drums
Dennis Chambers/Drums
David K. Mathews/Keyboards
Tommy Anthony/Guitar, Vocals
Raul Rekow/Conga, Percussion
Etienne M’Bappé/Bass
Benny Rietveld/Bass
Tony Lindsay/Vocals
Andy Vargas/Vocals

REVIEW
By Dan Harr
This unique concert, featuring the guitar talents of Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, includes most of the tracks from their classic 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender. Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 also features the late Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, playing harmonica on the final track.
On July 1st, 2011 Montreux hosted the reunion of two master-guitarists Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin-with their Invitation To Illumination concert. Both musicians have been regulars at Montreux across the years, but this was the first time they headlined their own concert together. The show features compelling performances of the beloved tracks from 1973’s Love Devotion Surrender, as well as inspired songs that have influenced Carlos & John’s incredible careers, including songs by Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker. This show is an incredible display of guitar virtuoso by two of the most prolific guitarists to ever grace the world stage.
The evening was a showcase of supreme musical virtuosity and spirituality and typified the approach of these two great artists. Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 captures an incredible night of live music and is certainly a performance not to be missed.

BIOGRAPHY (CARLOS SANTANA)
by William Ruhlmann
Mexican-born American guitarist Carlos Santana is best known as the leader of the band that bears his last name, which has toured and recorded successfully since the late '60s. He has also recorded a series of exploratory solo albums and collaborations with other musicians that expand upon his basic musical style.
Carlos Santana grew up in Mexico, the son of a father who was a mariachi violinist. He took up the violin at five, but at eight switched to the guitar. The family moved to Tijuana, where he began playing in clubs and bars. In the early '60s, the family moved to San Francisco. Santana at first remained in Tijuana, but he later joined them and attended Mission High School, graduating in June 1965. In 1966, he was one of the founders of the Santana Blues Band. Despite the name, the group was at first a collective; it was required to name a nominal leader due to a provision of the musicians union. The name was eventually shortened to Santana and the band debuted at the Fillmore West theater in San Francisco on June 16, 1968. That September, Carlos played guitar at a concert held at the Fillmore West by Al Kooper to record a follow-up to the Super Session album that had featured him with Mike Bloomfield and Steve Stills. The result was The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper, which marked Santana's recording debut.
Meanwhile, Santana was signed to Columbia Records and recorded a self-titled debut album. At this point, the group was a sextet consisting of Carlos (guitar), Gregg Rolie (keyboards and vocals), David Brown (bass), Michael Shrieve (drums), Jose "Chepito" Areas (percussion), and Michael Carabello (percussion). Santana toured the U.S. prior to the release of the album, including a notable appearance at the celebrated Woodstock festival in August 1969 that was filmed and recorded. Santana was released the same month, and it became a massive hit, as did its follow-ups Abraxas (1970) and Santana III (1971). After completing recording and touring activities in connection with Santana III, the original Santana band broke up.
Carlos retained rights to the group's name and he proceeded to lead a band called Santana from then on, though it consisted of himself and a constantly changing collection of hired musicians. His first recording after the breakup of the original group was a live show performed in Hawaii with singer and drummer Buddy Miles, released in June 1972 as Carlos Santana & Buddy Miles! Live! Consistent with the success of the Santana band, the album reached the Top Ten and eventually went platinum. Following the release of the Santana band album Caravanserai (1972), Carlos formed a duo with John McLaughlin, guitarist for the Mahavishnu Orchestra. The two shared a spiritual leader in guru Sri Chinmoy, who bestowed upon Carlos the name Devadip, meaning "the eye, the lamp, and the light of God." Devadip Carlos Santana and Mahavishnu John McLaughlin's duo album Love Devotion Surrender was released in June 1973. It reached the Top 20 and eventually went gold. After releasing another Santana band project, Welcome, Carlos next teamed up with another religious disciple, Turiya Alice Coltrane, widow of John Coltrane, for a third duo album. Their collaboration, Illuminations, was released in September 1974; it spent two months in the charts, peaking in the bottom quarter of the Top 100.
Carlos focused on the Santana band for most of the rest of the 1970s, releasing a series of gold or platinum albums: Borboletta (1974), Amigos (1975), Festival (1976), Moonflower (1977), and Inner Secrets (1978). In February 1979, he finally released his first real solo album, the half-live, half-studio Oneness/Silver Dreams -- Golden Reality, actually credited to Devadip. Like Illuminations, it spent a couple of months in the charts and peaked in the bottom quarter of the Top 100. After another gold Santana band album, Marathon (1979), he returned to solo work with the double-LP jazz collection The Swing of Delight in August 1980. Featuring such guests as Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Ron Carter, it sold a little better than his previous solo album. Two more Santana band albums, Zebop! (1981) and Shango (1982), followed before Carlos released a more pop-oriented solo effort, Havana Moon, in April 1983. Featuring Willie Nelson, Booker T. Jones, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the album reached the Top 40, actually a better showing than the next Santana band album, Beyond Appearances (1985). In 1986, Carlos undertook his first musical score, writing music for the Ritchie Valens film biography La Bamba. He then made another Santana band album, Freedom (1987), and followed it in October 1987 with a solo album, Blues for Salvador. The album did not sell well, but the title track won Carlos his first Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. After a final Santana band album for Columbia Records, Spirits Dancing in the Flesh (1990), Carlos left the label and signed to Polydor, which gave him his own custom label, Guts and Grace. The first Santana band album for the new company, Milagro, was followed by what was projected to be a series of releases of tapes from Carlos' own collection of his favorite musicians, Live Forever: Sacred Sources 1, featuring Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and John Coltrane. Then came a Santana band live album (Sacred Fire - Live in South America, 1993) and in September 1994, Carlos released Santana Brothers, a trio album also featuring his brother Jorge Santana and their nephew, Carlos Hernandez. It charted briefly and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Carlos spent almost five years away from recording, not returning until June 1999 when he issued Supernatural on Arista Records. The Santana band album featured many tracks co-written by guest stars such as Rob Thomas of matchbox 20, Eric Clapton, Lauryn Hill, and others. Paced by the number one singles "Smooth" and "Maria Maria," the album became the biggest hit of Santana's career, selling upwards of ten million copies. It also won Santana eight Grammy Awards.

BIOGRAPHY (JOHN MCLAUGHLIN)
by Steve Huey
One of fusion's most virtuosic guitar soloists, John McLaughlin placed his blazing speed in the service of a searching spiritual passion that has kept his music evolving and open to new influences. Whether shredding on electric or simmering quietly on acoustic, McLaughlin's intensity and underappreciated versatility have nearly always kept his playing vital, and his best moments -- whether as a solo artist or bandmember -- represent some of fusion's greatest recordings.
McLaughlin was born January 4, 1942, in Yorkshire, England, and began playing guitar at age 11. Initially attracted to blues and swing, he worked with British artists like Georgie Fame, Graham Bond, Brian Auger, and Ginger Baker. McLaughlin formed his own band in 1968, and recorded the excellent debut Extrapolation in early 1969. Later that year he moved to New York to join Tony Williams' groundbreaking fusion band Lifetime, and appeared on the classic Emergency! Through Williams, McLaughlin was invited to join Miles Davis' band, and became an important part of fusion landmarks like In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, and A Tribute to Jack Johnson. In 1970, wanting to explore acoustic and Eastern music, McLaughlin recorded the classic My Goal's Beyond; he soon left Davis, and after one further solo album, Devotion, McLaughlin spent some time woodshedding.
He re-emerged in 1971 as leader of the Mahavishnu Orchestra, a seminal band that did much to define and popularize early jazz-rock fusion, as evidenced by the albums The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, and Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Pausing to record Love Devotion Surrender with Carlos Santana in 1972, McLaughlin led Mahavishnu until 1975. Returning to spiritual preoccupations on My Goal's Beyond, he then formed Shakti, which fused acoustic jazz with Indian music over the course of three albums. McLaughlin returned to his solo career in the late '70s, forming a backing outfit called the One Truth Band, and also recording the guitar trio albums Friday Night in San Francisco and Passion, Grace & Fire with fellow fusion burner Al di Meola and flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucia. As the '80s went along, McLaughlin experimented with classical-jazz hybrid composing; there was also a short-lived Mahavishnu reunion in the mid-'80s.
In the 1990s McLaughlin continued to record steadily in both electric and acoustic groups. He signed to Verve, where he would remain for 13 years. Some of the more notable albums from that period include the acoustic Time Remembered: John McLaughlin Plays Bill Evans in 1993; After the Rain with Elvin Jones and Joey DeFrancesco in 1995; and 1996's The Promise, which featured the guitarist in a number of settings, including a reunion with his acoustic trio partners di Meola and de Lucia, and a trio with DeFrancesco and drummer Dennis Chambers. The drummer was also a part of McLaughlin's final album of the decade, Heart of Things, a furious bout of electric jazz.
The 21st century found McLaughlin in another nostalgic mood, releasing Remember Shakti: The Believer, a live set featuring the guitarist (playing electric guitar) with electric mandolinist U. Shrinivas, kanjira and ghatam player V. Selvaganesh, and legendary tabla player Zakir Hussain. While it wasn't a Shakti album proper, it nonetheless echoed that group's intricate and amazing rhythmic and harmonic breakthroughs. The group toured and released Saturday Night in Bombay a year later. McLaughlin's Euro-classical-leaning Thieves and Poets appeared in 2003. In 2004, WEA in Germany issued the massive 17-CD box set of McLaughlin's Montreux Concerts, which featured performances recorded between 1974 and 1996. Industrial Zen, released in 2006, was a mixed-bag recording where the guitarist's ambitions ran wild. It was his final album for Verve.
In 2008 McLaughlin issued Floating Point, an extension of many of the concepts on Industrial Zen, on the Abstract Logix imprint. The final track on that album was entitled "Five Peace Band"; it served as the name for a supergroup assembled by McLaughlin and Chick Corea for a one-off world tour. The other members were saxophonist Kenny Garrett, drummer Vinnie Colaiuta, and bassist Christian McBride; an album of the same name was released in 2009 on Concord. To the One, a studio album with his 4th Dimension band, was released on Abstract Logix in the spring of 2010. McLaughlin resurfaced two years later with Now Here This, featuring new 4th Dimension drummer, Ranjit Barot.

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5691 - KAYAK - Letters From Utopia, Disc Two (2009)

KAYAK
''LETTERS FROM UTOPIA, DISC TWO''
2009
81:03

1/Rhea
Scherpenzeel
2/Because I...
Koopman
3/Turbulence
Scherpenzeel
4/Before The Angels Fell
Scherpenzeel
5/Breaking The News
Reekers*, Koopman
6/For All The Wrong Reasons
Scherpenzeel
7/Under The Radar
Scherpenzeel
8/Had Work
Oudshoorn*, Koopman
9/Nobody Wins
Koopman

DISC TWO
1/Circles In The Sand
Scherpenzeel
2/Never Was
Scherpenzeel
3/Glass Bottom Boat
Scherpenzeel
4/Horror In Action
Reekers
5/A Whisper
Scherpenzeel
6/Parallel Universe
Scherpenzeel
7/Let The Record Show
Koopman
8/Brothers In Rhyme
Koopman
9/When The Love Has Gone
Scherpenzeel
10/Letters From Utopia
Linders, Scherpenzeel

Bass/Jan van Olffen
Drums/Pim Koopman
Guitar/Joost Vergoossen
Arranged By Pim Koopman, Ton Scherpenzeel

BIOGRAPHY
by Paul Collins
With their instrumental prowess and keyboardist Ton Scherpenzeel's facility at writing lyrics in English, you might be forgiven for mistaking Kayak for a bunch of clever proggers from London. But this Dutch band began in 1968 in the city of Hilversum, where Scherpenzeel and drummer Pim Koopman attended a music conservatory. After the addition of guitarist Johan Slager, bassist Cees van Leeuwen, and vocalist Max Werner, the group solidified by 1972 and commenced recording. Stylistically they featured the instrumentation and chops of progressive acts like Yes and Genesis, but the pop song structures of Supertramp and the Alan Parsons Project; as time passed they increasingly favored the pop side of the equation. Royal Bed Bouncer, the most even balance between these two styles, was to be a commercial and artistic high point for the band. They continued to meet with minor success throughout the '70s on a variety of record labels, and in 1974 toured in support of Queen -- a move that influenced the flavor of their later work.
Like most progressive bands, Kayak never had a terribly stable lineup; at one point they went through three bassists in as many years. With Scherpenzeel as the sole constant, Kayak's first lineup also proved to be their finest; but Koopman's asthma forced him to retire in 1976, and Werner was so tortured by stage fright and unfounded doubts over his singing ability that he demanded the vacated drum chair for himself, leaving the vocal duties to new member Edward Reekers. Scherpenzeel's central role in the band eventually wore on the others, and Kayak fell apart in 1980. Scherpenzeel continued on to work with the English band Camel and then compose primarily for the theater. Koopman and Reekers worked in music production and performance; Werner left the stage to become a postal worker; and van Leeuwen became -- of all things -- a prominent lawyer. The band reunited in 1997 for a Dutch TV special, though no new recordings have yet emerged.

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