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GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV with the COLORADO SYMPHONY – “The Stable Song”

Posted: December 19, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Few people in the UK are aware of the talents of this man. An accomplished singer/songwriter who understands composition and production as well as musicianship. I have followed his career after stumbling upon the album That Sea, The Gambler, and have been increasingly continuously impressed. The orchestration on this album is wonderful, the songs familiar, yet refreshed.  “The Stable Song” is a slice of Americana that is head and shoulders above anything his more well-known contemporaries have produced in recent years. The acoustic guitar and banjo remain in the forefront and his vocals are as warm as a mid-western prairie on a summer day. The orchestration is both beautifully subdued and lush. When he sings the lines “And I ran back to that hollow again/The moon was just a sliver back then/And I ached for my heart like some tin man/When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang…oh it’s ringing”

A collaboration with The Colorado Symphony, the eleven track record features favourite songs from Isakov’s previous albums, as well as ‘Liars’, written by Ron Scott. Isakov will embark on an extensive US tour this next year and summer, including performances with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and the National Symphony Orchestra. Club shows will feature Isakov and his band. Recorded at Boettcher Concert Hall in Denver, as well as at Starling Farm in Boulder, Gregory Alan Isakov with The Colorado Symphony was co-produced by Isakov and his longtime collaborator, Jamie Mefford, and was arranged by Tom Hagerman (DeVotchKa) and Jay Clifford (Jump Little Children), and conducted by The Colorado Symphony’s Scott O’Neil. The new album follows

The new album follows The Weatherman, which debuted at #1 on iTunes’ Singer/Songwriter chart and received widespread acclaim including critical notice at NPR’s Weekend Edition, NPR Music, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Boston Globe, etc. Isakov has toured alongside musicians such as Iron & Wine, Passenger, Brandi Carlile, The Lumineers and Nathaniel Rateliff. Gregory Alan Isakov – a South-African born, Colorado-based musician make a compilation of his work to date and underpin it with an orchestra. He is not the first artist to perform such a feat with Joni Mitchell and Mary Chapin Carpenter releasing albums with full chamber backing. What is special about Isakov and the Colorado Symphony is that his beautiful acoustic songs still maintain their delicacy without the orchestra overwhelming or intruding.

BOB DYLAN – ” Hard Rain ” 23rd May 1976 US TV Broadcast

Posted: September 14, 2018 in MUSIC
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Bob Dylan: Hard Rain US TV Broadcast Version – Full Video (May 23rd, 1976)

42 years ago today (9/13/76), Bob Dylan released his true to late 70’s form live album Hard Rain. The album was recorded during the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue and was partly recorded on May 23rd, 1976, during a concert at Hughes Stadium in Fort Collins, Colorado. The concert was also filmed and later broadcast by NBC as a one-hour television special in September. The Rolling Thunder tour is most distinguishable by the white face paint Dylan wore and that he chose to play a series of small venues with a revolving cast of musicians that included  Joan Baez, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott and Roger McGuinn. Watch Dylan perform “One More Cup of Coffee” from the Rolling Thunder Revue tour live in ’75.

In pouring rain, Bob Dylan plays the open air Hughes Stadium at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He has elected to film this show to replace the aborted TV special from Clearwater. In the longest set of the tour, there are several highlights, not all appearing in the TV special. … Included in the TV special, although in a most peculiar order, are second encore “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” the entire Dylan/Baez set (“Blowin’ in the Wind,” “Railroad Boy,” “Deportees,” and “I Pity the Poor Immigrant”); three songs from the first set (“Maggie’s Farm,” “One Too Many Mornings,” and “Mozambique”); and three from the last set (two tremendously powerful readings of songs from Blood on the Tracks, “Idiot Wind” and “Shelter from the Storm” and a faded “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”). Despite the storm clouds raging, the crowd appears to be very enthusiastic, even singing “Happy Birthday” for Dylan before the second encore.
~Clinton Heylin (Bob Dylan: A Life in Stolen Moments Day by Day 1941-1995)
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Hughes Stadium
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado
23 May 1976

  • Bob Dylan (guitar & vocal)
  • Scarlet Rivera (violin)
  • T-bone J. Henry Burnett (guitar & piano)
  • Steven Soles (guitar)
  • Mick Ronson (guitar)
  • Bobby Neuwirth (guitar & vocal)
  • Roger McGuinn (guitar & vocal)
  • David Mansfield (steel guitar, mandolin, violin & dobro)
  • Rob Stoner (bass)
  • Howie Wyeth (drums)
  • Gary Burke (percussion)
  • Joan Baez (shared vocal on 2-5)
  1. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
  2. Blowin’ In The Wind (Duet with Joan Baez)
  3. Railroad Boy (Duet with Jaon Baez)
  4. Deportees (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Duet wit Joan Baez)
  5. I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Duet with Joan Baez)
  6. Shelter From The Storm
  7. Maggie’s Farm
  8. One Too Many Mornings
  9. Mozambiqu
  10. Idiot Wind
  11. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Edited)

GASOLINE LOLLIPOPS – ” Montreal “

Posted: February 20, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Colorado based Gasoline Lollipops released their latest album title “Soul Mine” at the very back end of last year. The band effortlessly manage to meld the sincerity of dirt-floor folk with the energy and rebelliousness of punk  It’s an all-new incarnation of alt-country that’s both high-energy and heartfelt, like the American highway’s soundtrack. “One part rockabilly and one part alternative rock, the Gasoline Lollipops have carved out a space for themselves in the Boulder music scene with a sound and feel that is all their own”

“Montreal” is the single release taken from the Gasoline Lollipops album “Soul Mine,” available everywhere Released December 15th, 2017

Band Members;
Clay Rose (vocals & acoustic guitar), Donny Ambory (electric guitar), Brad Morse (upright bass), Adam Perry (drums)

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LAST OF THE EASY RIDERS – ” Unto The Earth “

Posted: February 10, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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From high in the Rocky Mountains, Last of the Easy Riders descend with “Unto the Earth”, its new psych-infused country-rock long-player.

While the Easy Riders’ first outing exhibited the band’s kaleidoscope of trippy guitar sounds and production techniques, Unto the Earth unveils the band’s earnest songwriting chops and knack for genuine Bakersfield-Sound country. Though, the guys certainly didn’t abandon its lysergic-leanings, especially on the mind-warping title track – which also serves as the lead single.

With no shortage of jangly guitars, piano and pedal steel, the LP no doubt echoes Clarence White-era Byrds, but it doesn’t stray far from the band’s Southwestern-rock ‘n’ roll roots. The early-‘70s AM rock sounds of “Free Wheelin’,” the opening track, reverberates the band’s nomadic lyrical tendencies, while promptly setting up the sonic road trip Unto the Earth delivers. “Turn the Tide,” which closes Side A, melds brilliantly modest Tom Petty-esque guitar riffing with the Easy Riders’ signature vocal harmonies – which soar across both sides of the wax.
Being the first full-length for the band, the members – whom all share songwriting credits – were able to stretch out and laydown some lengthy and tastefully-stacked arrangements. From the fiery doors-esque jamming on “Woodland Echoes” to the ominous western guitar lines of “Shadow Cruiser,” numerous moods freely wander across the nine-song track list.

Last of the Easy Riders are 4 songwriters playing a mix of raw Midwestern treble and passionate deep-south rhythm and bass. Culminating in original High Country Folk Rock and Southwestern Psych.

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The band’s co-founder Christopher Minarik (guitar/backing vocals) is joined by the lineup heard on the LP is bassist/vocalist Dan Duggan, guitarist Bradley Grear and drummer Mitch Mitchum. Unto the Earth was recorded in March 2017 in Lansing, Michigan by producer/songwriter George Szegedy – who also offered up his own song for the disc, the twangy-and-wistful “It Won’t Be Long” After five months of mixing and fine-tuning, the Last of the Easy Riders were ready

GLEEMER – ” Anymore “

Posted: December 1, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Gleemer is a project which has come a long way in a fairly short period of time. Starting out as a solo endeavour for Colorado born Corey Coffman (then resident in New York), as his songs started gain an audience, it fleshed out into a full band which took him back home to the Rockies to focus properly on it. As Gleemer’s membership has gained a clearer identity, perhaps inevitably so too has their music.

This really started to become apparent on 2015’s Moving Away, when the tumultuous noise which was one of most prominent features of much of their previous work started to drift into the background. In its place, the inherent melody of their songs began to emerge into the light, as did Coffman’s vocal, thick with emotion.

Anymore sees Gleemer striding further down this road, and their confidence in their work is plain to see, from the beautifully melodic opening one-two of Basketball Casino and Soothe Me. It sometimes feels like a bit of a back-handed compliment to praise how well-constructed a rock record feels because it suggests a lack of thrills, but there’s plenty for those of us who get our kicks from pandemonium to latch on to. Come Down brings chaos from the get-go, and Dryness is one of several songs which bursts invigoratingly into life.

All round, Anymore is an excellent record and an ideal soundtrack to the colder season. Many bands wear the slightly interchangeable tags of shoegaze, dream-pop and noise-pop, but few do so quite as immaculately as Gleemer.

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New album “Anymore” out 11.17.17 on Other People Records

The YAWPERS – ” Boy In A Well “

Posted: June 19, 2017 in MUSIC
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Led by dynamic young singer-songwriter Nate Cook, Boulder quartet the Yawpers recall a grittier version of Wilco, with as much raw country sensibility as twisted indie imagination. Equally akin to Deer Tick, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan and Elvis, The Yawpers give a fresh blend of indie-country and rock ’n’ roll. The Band has just released its debut, full-length record,

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PATRICK DETHLEFS – ” Beauty In The Unknown “

Posted: January 19, 2017 in MUSIC
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Beauty In The Unknown was recorded in the mountains of Colorado at Hideaway Studios. It was tracked mostly live and to tape over the first weekend of September. This collection of 6 new songs by Patrick Dethlefs features Jeff Rady on pedal steel, Blake Stepan on bass and David Barnes on drums. Marc Benning also played an intregal role as co-producer and engineer. The album was mastered by David Glasser in Boulder, Colorado.

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats – Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Posted: July 21, 2016 in MUSIC
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Before Nathaniel Rateliff put together his new soul band the Night Sweats, the Denver musician was regarded as a latter-day folk singer on the fringes of Mumford & Sons’ neo-roots revival. Given his music, the designation was understandable, but it was also incomplete. There’s always been more than a little soul coursing through his songs, too. The Night Sweats, then, isn’t a new direction for Rateliff so much as a reconnection to music he’s been singing at least since it helped him pass the hours when he worked on a Denver loading dock before becoming a full-time musician. It’s a natural sound for Rateliff, so much so that this 11-song collection found a home on Stax, the revived Memphis label that was such a big part of soul music in the 1960s and ’70s. Indeed, these tunes have a vintage air about them in the trebly guitar riffs, bright sprays of brass and punchy basslines, circling tightly around rock-solid drums. Atop such a powerful engine, Rateliff glories in his role as soul shouter. And while the singer and his band are drawing on a classic form, their interpretation makes for an exciting and contemporary sound.

He wowed Jimmy Fallon with his confessional song “S.O.B.” on The Tonight Show, his life has been a blur of festival appearances and headlining dates at venues that seem to get bigger every week. He’s barely had a single day off from the madness and none are coming up in the foreseeable future. “We never expected to be received in such a way,” he says as his bus makes its way across the English countryside. “And we’re going work as hard as we can.”

LOU REED – ” Dealing On The Boulevard ” Live At The Paramount Theatre 12th April 1989

Posted: January 1, 2016 in MUSIC
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Lou Reed, buoyed & rejuvenated by the response to the urban apocalypse suite of the just released New York album, hits the road…..Chronicling his grotesque & rotten home town ‘Big Apple’, whilst taking no prisoners, offers up wry & fragile hope among the decaying ruins. Does he succeed? Listen & hear……Tracklist includes

01/ Dirty Blvd. 02/ Endless Cycle 03/ Last Great American Whale 04/ Beginning Of A Great Adventure 05/ Busload Of Faith 06/ I Love You, Suzanne 07/ One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 08/ Doin’ The Things That We Want To 09/ Rock ‘N’ Roll 10/ Video Violence 11/ The Original Wrapper 12/ Sweet Jane

BOB DYLAN – ” Shelter From A Hard Rain ” Fort Collins Colorado 1976

Posted: August 28, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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“SHELTER FROM A HARD RAIN” deluxe vinyl available from plastichead.com order link below

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This recording captures Bob Dylan live at the Fort Collins Stadium in Colorado on May 23rd 1976, on the penultimate date of the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Review.
Playing alongside Dylan were Mick Ronson, T Bone Burnett, Steven Soles and David Mansfield all on various guitars – although T Bone also handled keyboard duties – with Rob Stoner on bass, Howard Wyeth on drums and Scarlet Rivera on violin.
Joan Baez was on-board too of course and the four cuts (Blowin’ In The Wind, Railroad Boy, the unrecorded Woody Guthrie number, Deportee, and I Pity The Poor Immigrant) on which she duets with Bob Dylan are amongst the show’s highlights.

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SIDE A
1. A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall
2. Blowin’ In The Wind
3. Railroad Boy
4. Deportee
5. I Pity The Poor Immigrant
SIDE B
6. Shelter From The Storm
7. Maggie’s Farm
8. One Too Many Morning
9. Mozambique
10. Idiot Wind

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