Widespread Panic ended a three-night stand at the ExploreAsheville.com Arena in Asheville, North Carolina on Sunday evening. The band worked The Rolling Stones and Traffic covers they hadn’t played since 2019 into last night’s setlist. The sextet opened with “Coconut,” one of their oldest originals. Next up was a take on Talking Heads’ “City Of […]
Widespread Panic’s first set on Sunday at Red Rocks consisted entirely of Bloodkin covers. The show wrapped a sold-out, three-night run at the outdoor venue near Denver. Widespread Panic has a long association with Bloodkin — who also formed in Athens, Georgia — and has covered many of the Bloodkin’s songs. Bloodkin co-founder Daniel Hutchens […]
Umphrey’s McGee debuted a cover of Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” on Friday night in Red Rocks outside Denver. The operation was that the opening night of this group ’s three-show run in the scenic outdoor place. “JaJunk” has been selected to open the initial set and soon resulted in the […]
One of the latest pro-shot videos rolled out by Widespread Panic features a cover of the Grateful Dead‘s “New Speedway Boogie.” Panic’s performance of the GD classic was filmed on April 16, 2011 at Oak Mountain Amphitheatre in Pelham, Alabama. Widespread Panic premiered their “New Speedway Boogie” cover on January 12, 1987 at Uptown Lounge […]
Kevin Morby shared a cover of Justin Townes Earle’s “Harlem River Blues.” Earle died of a suspected drug overdose at the age of 38 on August 20 in Nashville. Morby, who is currently playing a series of opening sets for Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats at socially distanced shows at Red Rocks, is also […]
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead’s setlists are almost always constructed from songs regularly played by the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir. “Almost always” means JRAD incorporates songs by other musicians into their live shows, often drawing from the realm of classic rock With more than 300 Joe Russo’s Almost Dead videos available to view […]
The Disco Biscuits closed out a three-night Colorado run last night at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Prefaced by two solid nights at the Ogden Theater in Denver, night three featured the debut of an instrumental cover of Blondie’s “Rapture” and an encore bust out of “The City.” The quartet kicked off set one with a “Hope” […]
Words & Images by: Andrew Bruss Turkuaz:12.31.18:The Palladium Worcester, MA Turkuaz brought 2018 into a close before a yearlong audience west of Boston using a set of opening acts that that took time gaining speed but kept its foot on the gas well into the new year. The nine-person outfit erupts in 2016 opening for […]
Earlier this year Ryley Walker released his fourth studio album Deafman Glance via his longtime label Dead Oceans. The Chicago-based singer-songwriter announced an unlikely follow-up as he will put out The Lillywhite Sessions — his interpretation of the famed and much-bootlegged shelved studio album recorded by Dave Matthews Band — which is due out on […]
