The Stew 07.19.11 (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD) -
Little bit of a different show this week. My computer’s head phone jack is officially shot (so says the Mac store), so I have had to switch up some of my routine in the studio. This week my show sounds a little more like the shows of old, though I was still unable to use the comp. Also, I found this track listing to be a little different than normal… but that’s a good thing.
Hazmat Modine- The Tide
God Street Wine- Red and Milky White
William Elliot Whitmore- Everything Gets Gone
Deertick- The Sad Sun
Monsters of Folk- Baby Boomer
Paper Bird- By the Wind, Sailor
Bon Iver- Beth, Rest
The Head and The Heart- Heaven Go Easy on Me
WILCO- Country Disappeared
CCD & The Luminescent Orchestrii- Short Dress Gal
Yonder Mountain String Band- Fine Excuses
Drew Emmitt- Get Er Rollin
The Infamous Stringdusters- All The Same
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers- Yellow-Backed Fly
Railroad Earth- Day on the Sand
Hot Buttered Rum String Band- Idaho Pines
Gillian Welch- The Way That It Goes
Band of Horses- Evening Kitchen
String Cheese Incident- Rhythm of the Road
Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Bob Dylan- Suze (The Cough Song)
Some goslings taking a stroll by the creek.
Almost finished reading this here story. It’s inspiring, truly. Eustice Conway embodies what we are missing in this world. I highly recommend the read.
Project Junkyard Greenhouse is underway. I will be video-documenting the process as well, and will share some updates in due time. Edible plants underway so far are multiple tomato varieties, strawberries, and a variety of herbs. We are pumped to get the greenhouse in so we have the space for greens, peppers, beans, eggplant, cucumber, and some more tomatoes.
So I am slightly delayed in my reporting about this on The Chronicles. I started a taxi service, and I named it The Grateful Cab Company LLC. It took some time to get things up and running, and the details are still getting ironed out, but I am pumped to have The Grateful Cab in operations. Thanks to all those that have helped me in this process. Servicing Jackson Hole and the surrounding areas and doing it with the greatest band of all time backing us! What could be better. So if you find yourself traveling out to Jackson Hole this summer, holler at me. Below is the website, check it out.
The Stew 06.07.11 (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD) -
I’d say there’s a good chance that this is the first show of mine that I have not played a single live track. I did, however, play some live tracks as backing music while I spoke. I really enjoyed this show, and I hope that you do too!
Toubab Krewe- Beacon
Binky Griptite & The Mellowmatics- The Stroll Pt.2
Euforquestra- Mandolin Medley
My Morning Jacket- Holding on to Black Metal
Cake- Got To Move
The Beatles- She Said, She Said
Clovis Mann- Big Sky
Gregg Allman- Blind Man
Warren Haynes- Rivers Gonna RIse
Anders Osborne- Acapulco
Paul Simon- Love & Blessings
Bob Marley- Acoustic Medley
Screen Door Porch- Light Through The Pines
Jeff Tweedy- Simple Twist of Fate
Chris Thile & MIchael Daves- Bury Me Neath the Willows
Thomas Galloway- Scoundrel Like Me
Railroad Earth- Day On the Sand
Tony Rice- Greenlight On the Southern
Carolina Chocolate Drops & Luminescent Orchestrii- Short Dress Gal
Hazmat Modine- Child Of A Blind Man
The Funk Ark- Katipo (The Spider)
Budos Band- Unbroken, Unshaven
The Stew 05.31.11 (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD) -
Tons of new music on this week’s show for your pleasure (21 out of 27 tracks to be exact)…. Hope you enjoy!
Grateful Dead- Brown Eyed Women> Jack Straw
Deertick- Sad Sun
Uncle Tupelo- New Madrid
Greg Brown- Freak Flag
Drive-By Truckers- The Thanksgiving Filter
Fleet Foxes- Grown Ocean
Iron and Wine- Half Moon
Head and the Heart- Winter’s Song
WILCO- She’s A Jar
The Decembrists- If I Could Only Win Your Love
Band of Horses- On My Way Back Home
The Elected- Babyface
Hazmat Modine- I’ve Been Lonely For So Long
Carolina Chocolate Drops & Luminescent Orchestrii- Knockin’
Clovis Mann- Dig Deep
7 Walkers- 7 Walkers
Warren Haynes- Hattiesburg Hustle
Booker T Jones- Everything is Everything
Paul Simon- Dazzling Blue
Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra- Nao Vacila
Dennis Coffey- All Your Goodies Are Gone
Foster the People- Pumped Up Kicks
The Echocentrics- Esclavo Y Amo
The Funk Ark- El Beasto
Garage A Trois- Earl Harvin
Galactic ft. Cyril Neville- You Don’t Know
So I come cruisin up on my bike the other afternoon to Murphy (my dog) barking his head off. Something was off. Murph almost never barks, and certainly never continuously howling like this. As I come into view, its pretty immediately obvious as to what the commotion was all about. There’s this moose (the one you see above) slowly making its way down the creek while munching on some buds on the trees. The moose could not have cared less that some dumbass Golden Retriever was howling not ten feet away on the bank. Completely at ease. So I got the mutt inside at went to snap a pic. We hadn’t spotted a moose yet in our stretch of creek, being as close to town as we are, though we had heard they’d show their faces from time to time. I snatched a shot and proceeded to go chill inside and leave the thing to peace, after all it had been so patient with Murph for who-knows-how-long while I was out. Before I went inside I watched the moose climb up the opposite bank of the creek, just past the beaver and muskrat’s dwelling that lies right across the water from our cabin. I assumed it was an attempt to skirt the small bridge that this downriver escapade had brought upon her. Not ten minutes passed before my landlord knocked on the door. He proceeded to inform us that some moose had just had a baby in the yard, that is of course, this same moose! Wow, I didn’t see that coming.
Living on this little creek now for a year I have witnessed all sorts life come and go. I have come to regard this space as my Walden Pond, a place of vast reflection and education. I have watched the seasons come and go now and I have watched the creatures do the same. I can see the subtleties in this space, and they really amaze me to no end. This stretch of creek has become very very special to me. The other afternoon, as this whole story unfolded, I couldn’t help but find myself deep in the moment, to see myself immersed in this natural world around me. There was a freshness in the air, the birds sang, the creek ran, the ducks roamed in pairs, and the sun shown. As I stepped outside again I could literally feel the new life in the breeze. I stood and took it all in. Inhaled, exhaled. It was a moment of true inner and outer peace. I find it hard to put to words.
This world is a beautiful and a wonderful place. Moments like these can grab you and realign you. They ground you. The moment passes in real time but stays with you for hours, days, years. Relish these moments on your dog people, relish.
Happy Birthday Dad, and Dylan!
Today, May 24, is the birthday of some pretty special people in my life, my father being the most prominent of them. What I found out today, however, was that it is the birthday of Bob Dylan as well. Bob Dylan has had a pretty big impact on me over the years, and I venture to say I may have never started writing had it not been for his lyrical prowess. How in all my years I have never put together that my father and BobbyD have the same birthday is beyond me. I have been listening to Dylan for a long time now at above average levels, I read his book, hell, I even took a seminar class on him in college, but never did I make this connection. When I found this out halfway through my radio show this morning it quickly became imperative that I dedicate the rest of the show to the legend. Unfortunately, with all sorts of things beyond my tech understanding going on with the systems at the station, my show did not record (I DO KNOW it was not for lack of my pressing record). Shame, I thought it was a pretty good mix of tunes. I also got to play an extra half hour at the end of my regularly scheduled block for some Dylan tribute which was fun. Here’s the play log, apologies for not having the audio this week. I’ll try to compensate with some audio postings at some point.
WILCO- The Lonely One
Fleet Foxes- Blue Spotted Tail
Elephant Revival- What Is Time
Carolina Chocolate Drops- Cornbread and Butterbeans
Hazmat Modine- Two Forty Seven
Chris Thile & Michael Daves- Rain and Snow
Ralph Stanley- That Home Far Away
Steve Martin and The Steep Canyon Rangers- Women Like to Slowdance
Old & In The Way- Land of the Navajo
Drew Emmitt- Get Her Rollin’
Railroad Earth- Bird In the House
Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard- One Fast Move Or I’m Gone
Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Del McCoury & Preservation Hall Jazz Band- One More Fore I Die
Jerry Garcia Band- My Sisters and Brothers
Bob Dylan- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
Warren Haynes Band- Everyday Is Like A Holiday
Willie Nelson and Calexico- Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)
Gregg Allman- Please Accept My Love
Bob Dylan- The Levee’s Gonna Break
Garage A Trois- Omar
Bob Dylan & The Band- Orange Juice Blues
Million Dollar Bash
Calexico and Iron & Wine- Dark Eyes
Dylan and The Dead- Queen Jane Approximately
Bob Dylan- Catfish
Paths of Victory
Suze (The Cough Song)
Bear Mountain Picnic
Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright
With God On Our Side
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
The Stew 05.17.11 (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD) -
Cake- Federal Funding
Clovis Mann- No More
The North Mississippi Allstars- Jellyrollin’ All Over Heaven
The Head and the Heart- Down In the Valley
Band of Horses- Dilly
The Drive-By Truckers- Used to be a Cop
Company- New Tradition
Carolina Chocolate Drops & The Luminescent Orchestrii- Short Dress Gal
Hazmat Modine- The Tide
Elephant Revival- Cosmic Pulse
Paper Bird- Boxcars & Thistles (live)
Deertick- 20 Miles
Iron & Wine- Half Moon
Bob Dylan- Kingsport Town
Jackie Greene- Don’t Let the Devil Take Your Mind (live)
Warren Haynes- End of the Line (live)
Anders Osborne- Echos of My Sins
Little Feat- Sailin Shoes (live)
Booker T. Jones- Walking Papers
Galactic & The Soul Rebels Brass Band- Boe Money (live)
Phish- Gumbo (live)
Soulive- The Swamp
Calibro 35- Summertime Killer (extended version)