With over an hour of performances, “Live Mind” was recorded in February and March 2024 at the Troubadour in Los Angeles, Ventura Music Hall in Ventura, CA, and The Kessler Theater in Dallas, TX. Produced by Dave Alvin and Victor Krummenacher, the album was mixed and mastered by Craig Parker Adams at Winslow Court, Los Angeles, CA.
This live album recorded at The Third Mind concerts in California and Texas, captures the band doing what they do best – going wherever the moment takes them musically. If you have yet to attend one of their acclaimed live shows, this album is an opportunity to hear what all of the fuss is about.
“…onstage is where its spontaneous mastery goes off the rails in the best way.” – Magnet,
“…Live Mind” supplies what too few of us got to see; The Third Mind’s uncanny, exquisitely sympathetic synergy at work in front of a live audience, the place the band’s collaborative abilities was made for.” – Rock & Blues Muse.
“With this record, Dave and company take the listener on a kaleidoscopic ride. To paraphrase Ralph Waldo Emerson, It’s not so much the destination, as the journey.” – Coachella Valley Weekly
“Doralee” was the first song I wrote for my band Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter. There had been a huge flood in Skagit Valley, Washington, and I knew Doralee —who lived on the flood plains. She was a tough country woman — seemingly unfazed by the potential destruction of the coming waters. She seemed to understand how transitory everything is and had a knowingness that it was all part of a larger grand plan. I wanted her to be witnessed in this context—in the face of nature’s relentless violence and disconcerting solitude, where there was a quiet grace in facing imminent catastrophe. She left a deep impression on me and I’m glad she lives on forever, inside this song. –J.Sykes
Jesse Sykes: acoustic guitar, vocals Dave Alvin: guitar Michael Jerome: drums Mark Karan: guitar Victor Krummenacher: bass
released February 14th, 2025
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