The Dancing Tree 07.07.2009

New Additions:

Drive By Truckers - Live in Austin, TX (CD&DVD)- This release features the entire performance on both CD and DVD. There is over an hour of music on each disc. This DBT performance on Austin City Limits was an instant classic. Recorded during their Brighter Than Creation s Dark tour, the band line-up featured is Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, John Neff, Brad Morgan and Jay Gonzalez. $18.98

Nathan Whitt - Anticipation CD - Bred out of the classic singer/songwriter mold, Nathan Whitt combines his unique original material with the live performance of a soulful band and his trademark, danceable backbeat. Born in California and raised in Ohio, Nathan surrounds himself with an all-star band that includes session players and established pop/rock and r&b musicians. Together, they create an innovative musical formula that is a cross between pop/rock artists such as John Mayer and Gavin DeGraw and funk/jam bands like Robert Randolph and Little Feat. $9.98

Soulive - Up Here CD - No matter how you listen to Up Here, it sounds like you’re listening to vintage vinyl. One of the most difficult things about making a record with a great live band is capturing all that live energy while still making the record that’s about songs. Up Here does as good a job as any record could in accomplishing this. “Straight up,” says drummer Alan Evans, “this is the first Soulive album that I can say every tune on it is my favorite on the album.” $12.98

Del McCoury - By Request CD - For 50 years, Del's music defined authenticity for hard core Bluegrass fans as well as a growing number of fans among those only vaguely familiar with the genre. And while By Request, provides an opportunity to look back on a unique legacy, it's also one that Del McCoury's rolling past with a wave and a grin and some of the best music he's ever made. By Request is a collection of what Del and his sons feel are the 14 most requested songs during Del's live shows (as most of you know, Del never had a set list, but plays audience requests). $12.98

Odd Meters - Uncommon Denominator CD - Odd Meters debut studio release featuring Jeff Sipe, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Seal and Stephen K. Wilson. This all instrumental release showcases the band's dynamic song-writing ability and unique odd time grooves. Styles vary from jazz to funk to world to latin. Typically performing as a duo, the Odd Meters use the studio with this release to bring in talented musicians that help fully demonstrate the potential of the music. This is the beginning of a whole new genre of music that allows the listener an opportunity to easily find the groove in all styles of odd time music. $12

Coming Soon:

July 14 - 10ft Ganga Plant - Bush Rock CD

July 21 - Assembly of Dust - Some Assembly Required CD

Rev Payton's Big Damn Band - The Whole Fam Damnily CD

August 4 - MMW - Radiolarians III CD

Last Week's Additions:

Black Crowes - Warpaint Live DVD - The Black Crowes are one of the all-time great live rock bands. Their shows are legendary and regularly sell out in record time wherever in the world they play. This new live DVD was filmed on March 20, 2008 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles during the tour in support of their critically acclaimed new studio album "Warpaint". The concert features live versions of the whole of the "Warpaint" album plus a mixture of previously unreleased cover versions and some of their own classics. $14.98

Jefferson Airplane - Flight Box (3 Live CDs) - 3CD set from the first Rock group from San Francisco's Psychedelic music scene to achieve national and commercial success. The legendary concerts featured in this set were recorded at famous venues in their hometown and capture the group at the peak of their powers. The first concert was recorded at Golden Gate Park on July 5th, 1969. The second concert was the group's last-ever performance which took place at the Winterland Arena on September 22nd, 1972. The songs featured were drawn mainly from the group's last two studio albums, Bark and Long John Silver. They also included a sprinkling of old favorites such as "Crown Of Creation" and "Somebody To Love", the rarely-performed "The Son Of Jesus" and several numbers from recent albums by Papa John Creach and the JA spin-off group Hot Tuna. $28.98

Mark Karan - Walk Through the Fire CD - Bob Weir & RatDog lead guitarist Mark Karan's first solo recording, Walk Through The Fire, is a testament to his successful bout with cancer in 2007. The record's distinct Americana feel is a nod to country blues ala Elvin Bishop with the clarity and truth of Ry Cooder's best work. Walk Through The Fire features some of Mark's amazing friends as The Persuasions, Billy Payne (Little Feat), The Rowan Brothers, and the first posthumous recorded release of rock legend Delaney Bramlett. $14.98

Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Rockpalast: 30 Years of Southern Rock (2 DVDs) - Dickey Betts and Great Southern were the third highlight at the Rockpalast Festival on March 4th/5th, 1978. On those evenings, they played for the first time in Europe in front of an enthusiastic audience at the Gruga-Halle in Essen/Germany and millions of viewers on television. Dickey Betts is not unknown to those who are familiar with American rock music. He was one of the original members of the Allman Brothers Band and formed his own band Great Southern in 1976. Nowadays, Dickey Betts and Great Southern are considered to be one of the most important and influental southern rock bands of all time. $24.97

Warren Haynes - Acoustic Slide and the Art of Electric Improvisation DVD - This is Warren's follow-up to his first extremely successful Hot Licks release, Electric Blues and Slide Guitar. In this DVD, Warren teaches the country blues of Son House and Robert Johnson, different slides for different sounds, open-tuning licks in G and E tunings, using vibrato to correct pitch, damping for a cleaner sound, Muddy Waters' standard tuning style, switching off between the slide and fingers, "call and response" improvisation and so much more. As an extra bonus, many of the examples are illustrated with Warren's band, Gov't Mule! Don't miss this opportunity for yet another blues guitar "tour de force" with the great Warren Haynes. $24.95

Upcoming Events:

July 9-12 *All Good - Masontown, WV

July 16-18 - Camp Bisco - Mariaville, NY

July 22-25 - 10,000 Lakes - Detroit Lakes, MN

July 23-26 - *FloydFest - Floyd, VA

July 23-26 - *Gathering of the Vibes - Bridgeport, CT

July 31-Aug 2 - Muddy River Jam - Morrisville, PA

August 13-15 - *Camp Barefoot - Gore, VA

August 12-15 - Mulberry Mountain Harvest Music Festival - Ozark, AR

* Look for the HGMN booth at this event

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Thanks for reading, go see some live music and have a great week! I'll see some of you at All Good!
- Lee Crumpton