Beatles Announce Expanded 40-Song 'Abbey Road' Reissue Box Set (UCR)

The Beatles' next expanded box-set reissue, out next month, will focus on 1969's Abbey Road, their 12-times platinum penultimate album.

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Trey Anastasio on Derek Trucks: "Without Question My Favorite Guitar Player" (jambands.com)

As part of SiruisXM’s recently launched Phish Radio (ch. 29), members of the band sat in the studio and answered some questions on various subjects, and the streaming service released one highlight clip of guitarist Trey Anastasio’s interview in which the Phish frontman proclaimed Derek Trucks as his favorite axeman on the planet.






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UCR: The Story Behind Every Springsteen Song in 'Blinded by the Light'

Gurindha Chadha's new film Blinded By the Light tells the story of a British teenager of Pakistani descent whose life is altered when he's introduced to the music of Bruce Springsteen. In a rare move, Springsteen allowed 12 of his songs to be used in the soundtrack. They range from some of his biggest hits to live renditions to a song Springsteen has never released. Here's the story behind every song in Blinded By the Light.

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On the turntable this Sunday....The Horseshoe Curve

The Horseshoe Curve is Trey Anastasio's sixth studio album. It was his second release on his record label, Rubber Jungle Records.  The Horseshoe Curve is entirely instrumental apart from three cries of "Burlap Sack & Pumps" on track 3 of the same name. This album features the ten-member dectet that toured from 2002 to 2004. 

The album was primarily recorded at The Barn, Anastasio's recording studio near Burlington, Vermont, and Trout Recording in Brooklyn, New York. "The 5th Round" and the title track were recorded live during the band's summer 2002 tour.

The Grateful Dead Announce New 'Giants Stadium' Box Set (jambands.com)

Encompassing shows for 1987, 1989 and 1991, the new Grateful Dead Giants Stadium box set will be available on Sept. 27, 2019.

To get Deadheads excited for the comprehensive release, the band has released a new pro-shot video of “Uncle John’s Band” from 6/17/91, “one of only two shows in the Grateful Dead’s archive recorded to 48-track analog tape, providing spectacular and unprecedented audio quality.”

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2019/08/02/the-grateful-dead-announce-new-giants-stadium-box-set/#ixzz5vkmM8DND

The Strokes Schedule New Year's Eve Show in Brooklyn (jambands.com)

The Strokes have announced they will be ringing in the new year this winter with a hometown NYC show at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, returning to the city after being forced to cancel their headlining slot at this past spring’s Governors Ball

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Widespread Panic Close St. Augustine Run with First "Cortez The Killer" in 100+ Shows (jambands.com)

Closing a jam packed weekend, Widespread Panic played their third of three shows at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre on Sunday night, offering their seventh-ever version of Neil Young’s “Cortez The Killer.”

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John Mayer Brings "Friend of the Devil" Jerry Garcia Tribute to Detroit (jambands.com)

John Mayer continued his summer tour dates in the Midwest this weekend, including a show at Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena that featured a nod to the late Jerry Garcia, whose 77th birthday would have fallen the day before, during the encore.




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Trey Anastasio Shares Pro-Shot "Shadows Thrown By Fire" (jambands.com)

After performing with TAB at the Peach Music Festival and playing solo acoustic at Newport Folk Festival this weekend, Trey Anastasio looked back on this spring’s Ghosts of the Forest tour, sharing a pro-shot video of “Shadows Thrown By Fire”> “Wider.”

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On the turntable this Sunday...Stone Cold Rhymin'

Stone Cold Rhymin is the debut album by rapper Young MC. It was released in 1989 on Delicious Vinyl and was later re-issued by Rhino Records. The album reached No. 9 on the Billboard Top Pop Albums chart. The third track, "Bust a Move", was Young MC's biggest hit and is his best-known song, reaching No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the charts in Australia. His follow-up single, "Principal's Office", reached No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was also nominated for "Best Rap Video" at the 1990 MTV Video Music Awards.

Gov’t Mule Announce 11th “Island Exodus” Destination Event with Hot Tuna, North Mississippi Allstars and More (jambands.com)

From Jan. 19-23, 2020, Gov’t Mule will return to Runaway Bay, Jamaica for their 11th official “Island Exodus” destination event.

In addition to three full Gov’t Mule shows and a Warren Haynes “Q & Play” set, Island Exodus 11 will feature three Hot Tuna sets (two electric, one acoustic), two sets of North Mississippi Allstars and an “Exodus-Eve” pre-party by Melvin Seals and JGB on Jan. 18.

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2019/07/25/govt-mule-announce-11th-island-exodus-destination-event-with-hot-tuna-north-mississippi-allstars-and-more/#ixzz5uqPHXkRP

Robbie Robertson Announces New Studio LP, Shares First Single Featuring Van Morrison (jambands.com)

On Sept. 20, Robbie Robertson will release Sinematic, a new album inspired by two separate collaborations with Martin Scorsese; Robertson wrote the score for the forthcoming film The Irishman and sat for interviews as the subject matter of the highly anticipated documentary Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson And The Band. 





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Watch Trailer for Linda Ronstadt Documentary 'Sound of My Voice' (UCR)

As a singer, songwriter and political activist, Linda Ronstadt was a fearless trailblazer. The musician’s remarkable life will be captured in an upcoming documentary.

You can watch the brand new trailer for Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice @ Ultimate Classic Rock

My Morning Jacket Share Unreleased ‘Tennessee Fire’ Track “John Dyes Her Hair Red” (jambands.com)

This week, My Morning Jacket will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album, The Tennessee Fire, by releasing a deluxe edition of the effort, and today the band shares a previously unreleased track from the collection, “John Dyes Her Hair Red,” a lo-fi snippet from the early stages of the group.





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The Zombies 'Certainly Intend' to Perform at Woodstock 50 (UCR)

The Zombies' manager, Chris Tuthill, says his clients still hope to be part of Woodstock 50, despite the festival’s ongoing problems.

“We certainly intend to, as long as it moves forward, we’d like to be a part of it,” the manager said in a conversation with Pollstar.

The troubled music festival recently announced a new home, changing its location from upstate New York to Maryland after a series of permit issues with its originally planned venue.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock

Eric Krasno Shares New 'Telescope' Track (jambands.com)

Eric Krasno will release his new solo LP, Telescope, under the name KRAZ later this year, and today the Soulive guitarist shares the second single from the concept album, which chronicles the various characters living in a brownstone apartment building in Krasno’s former home of Brooklyn.






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ON the turntable this Sunday...Paul's Boutique

Paul's Boutique is the second studio album by the American hip hop group Beastie Boys. Released on July 25, 1989, on Capitol Records, it was produced by the Dust Brothers. Apart from the group's vocals, the album is almost entirely composed of samples. Recorded in Matt Dike's apartment and the Record Plant in Los Angeles from 1988 to 1989, and mixed at the Record Plant, Paul's Boutique did not match the sales of the Beastie Boys' debut album Licensed to Ill, and Capitol made little effort to promote it. As its popularity grew in the years following, it became recognized as breakthrough achievement and a classic hip-hop landmark. Its innovative lyrical and sonic style earned the Beastie Boys' a position as critical favorites within the hip-hop community. Sometimes described as the "Sgt. Pepper of hip-hop", the album's rankings near the top of many publications' "best albums" lists in disparate genres has given Paul's Boutique critical recognition as a landmark album in hip hop.

SiriusXM's Jam On Returns to Car Radio (jambands.com)

After SiriusXM announced that its Jam On channel would be permanently replaced with Phish Radio, fans expressed their disappointment that the former channel would only be available online and via the SiriusXM app, even circulating a petition to bring Jam On back to car radios, and now the radio service has complied, bringing back the jam-centric channel

Read more @jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2019/07/17/siriusxms-jam-on-returns-to-car-radio/#ixzz5uE2cXJ8f

Steve Harris: Remember Iron Maiden as a 'Bloody Good Live Band' (UCR)

Steve Harris said he’d like Iron Maiden to be remembered as a “bloody good live band” once they're gone, and enthused about the energy of playing onstage.

It’s been 40 years since the band recorded the Soundhouse Tapes demo; the latest North American leg of their Legacy of the Beast tour kicked off last week...

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Phish Share Pro-Shot, 38-minute "Ruby Waves" from Alpine Valley (jambands.com)

Much to the delight of their fans, Phish have released a pro-shot video of their 38-minute “Ruby Waves” from their celebrated third night at Winconsin’s Alpine Valley. 

“Ruby Waves” originally appeared as a part off of guitarist Trey Anastasio’s Ghosts of the Forest project, and it was debuted by Phish proper on June 18, 2019.

Read more and watch video @ jambands.com: https://jambands.com/news/2019/07/18/phish-share-pro-shot-38-minute-ruby-waves-from-alpine-valley/#ixzz5uE3FOTZG

New Doobie Brothers Music to Be Released in 2020 (UCR)

The Doobie Brothers have recorded a new five-track EP set for release next year, the band’s Tom Johnston said.

The material was created in collaboration with producer John Shanks – who's previously worked with Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, the Goo Goo Dolls and others – and the new way of working produced results that pleased everyone involved, the frontman noted.

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Capturing Trey: 'Between Me and My Mind's' Steven Cantor and Jamie Schutz (jambands.com)

When Between Me and My Mind director Steven Cantor and producer Jamie Schutz first met with Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio to pitch him on a documentary about his life, they figured it would be a brief chat. However, as Cantor and Schutz would soon discover, when Anastasio gets his creative juices going, he’s utterly unstoppable. Three hours later, the filmmakers were in business, and according to Schutz, “that conversation basically never ended for two and a half years.”









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David Lee Roth Has 'Always Hated' Van Halen Bandmates (UCR)

David Lee Roth didn’t pull any punches recently when asked to describe his relationship with Van Halen bandmates Eddie and Alex Van Halen.

“We have always hated each other, right up until the last phone call,” Roth asserted during an appearance on comedian Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast.

The singer went on to explain that hatred has been a continual part of his dynamic with Eddie and Alex. “There were always creative differences,” Roth insisted. “We’ve never gotten along. We started in rival bands. Bitter rivals. But we were thrown together and it was amazing.”

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On the turntable this Sunday...The Story of the Ghost

The Story of the Ghost is the seventh studio album by American rock band Phish, released by Elektra Records on October 27, 1998. The album features an emphasis on the jazz-funk influenced "cow-funk" style, which the group had been experimenting with in concert throughout 1997 and 1998. The album's first single was "Birds of a Feather", which was a Top 20 hit on Billboard magazine's Adult Alternative Songs chart. Much of the album originated during large-scale improvisation sessions. The band then took favorite moments from those in-studio jams and wrote songs around them, adding lyrics from a book of writings by long-time Phish lyricist Tom Marshall. Additional excerpts from the improvisational "Ghost Sessions" were also later released as The Siket Disc.

A few of the album's songs reflect the band's 1997 "cow-funk" sound, with bass guitarist Mike Gordon taking a more prominent role. Anastasio had coined the "cow-funk" term in the band's 1997 official biography The Phish Book, observing that "What we’re doing now is really more about groove than funk. Good funk, real funk, is not played by four white guys from Vermont." Much of the album, however, is defined by what Rolling Stone called an "unhurried vibe ... with airy, uncluttered grooves and relaxed vocals." Unlike Phish's previous albums, The Story of the Ghost does not include any instrumentals. "End of Session" was performed live for the first time on July 25, 2017. 

Early incarnations of several tracks from the album can be heard on the 2000 release Trampled by Lambs and Pecked by the Dove, a collection of song sketches recorded by frontman Trey Anastasio and lyricist Tom Marshall.

The album was recorded of the course of several sessions at Bearsville Studios in the village of Bearsville, New York, where the band had also recorded Billy Breathes. The band chose Andy Wallace to produce the album because of his work on Reign in Blood by Slayer, Nevermind by Nirvana and Grace by Jeff Buckley.

"Birds of a Feather", "Frankie Says", and "Shafty" (the latter song a reworking of Phish original "Olivia's Pool") were all debuted live during the "Island Tour", a brief run of shows the band played while taking a break from recording the album in April 1998. All four nights of the "Island Tour" were later released as part of the LivePhish Series.

In 2000, during the promotion for Farmhouse, many interviews saw Anastasio citing a certain disdain for the process of creating The Story of the Ghost. He was critical of the band's "socialistic" approach to the song selection for the album. "There were songs I thought should have gone on The Story of the Ghost album, that were better than the songs that got on there" Anastasio said in a 2000 interview. "if anyone didn't like a song it was out. But what happens with that approach is the material gets watered down. You end up with songs that everyone is fine with, but the best songs are usually those where one person is passionately for and one person really hates, because the best songs are those that arouse strong reactions".^[11]

Tom Marshall recalls that one of these stronger songs was omitted in favor of what he felt was a weaker track in "Fikus".^[12] Anastasio named "Bug" and "Twist" as two songs he was disappointed were cut from the album, and both later appeared on Farmhouse. In 2018, Marshall had Anastasio as a guest on his Under the Scales podcast to discuss the 20th anniversary of The Story of the Ghost, and both conceded they were now happy with the album as it was released, with Marshall revising his opinion of "Fikus" to a more positive one.

In February 2009, The Story of the Ghost was made available as a download in FLAC and MP3 formats at LivePhish.com.

The Peach Music Festival Confirms 2019 Daily Schedule (jambands.com)

The Peach Music Festival returns to Montage Mountain in Scranton, PA, later this month from July 25–28, and festival organizers have confirmed the gathering’s daily lineup.

Peach Fest kicks off Thursday, July 25, with music from The String Cheese Incident, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Aqueous and Billy Strings, followed by a Friday packed with two more String Cheese sets plus moe., Lotus, Blues Traveler, Dopapod, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Allman Betts Band, Cory Wong, Larkin Poe, Big Something, Southern Avenue, Andy Frasco & The U.N. and more.

Read more: https://jambands.com/news/2019/07/12/the-peach-music-festival-confirms-2019-daily-schedule/#ixzz5taVbaRsM

The String Cheese Incident and Keller Williams Announce Vinyl Release of ‘Breathe’ at Red Rocks (jambands.com)

To mark their upcoming Red Rocks collaboration, The String Cheese Incident and Keller Williams will release their 1999 joint LP Breathe on vinyl for the first time ever.

“As many of you know, Saturday night [July 20] at Red Rocks, SCI will be joined by our longtime compadre, Keller Williams,” the band wrote via Facebook. “As we celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Breathe record, which will be played in full… and we are pleased to announce that a limited run of Breathe vinyl will be available for the first time!”

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Blue Oyster Cult Sign Deal for New Album (UCR)

Blue Oyster Cult announced they've signed a deal with Frontiers Music Srl for the release of a new studio album in 2020, with half of the songs already written.

The as-yet-untitled LP will be their first since 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror, and will mark the first time that the current lineup of Buck Dharma, Eric Bloom, Richie Castellano, Danny Miranda and Jules Radino have worked together on a studio project.

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Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Add Dates to 30th Anniversary Tour (jambands.com)

Béla Fleck & The Flecktones have extended their 30th anniversary tour through 2020 with a new batch of dates across the Eastern United States.










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UCR's August 2019 New Music Releases

August is about to get live: Highly anticipated concert recordings from Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yes and Elvis Presley top our list of August 2019 new music releases.

CCR's entire performance at Woodstock, a long-sought-after collector's item, will finally be officially issued – five decades after they played the legendary music festival on Aug. 16, 1969.

Read more @ Ultimate Classic Rock 

Phish Open Alpine Valley Run with First-Set "Tweezer," 'Tube" Encore and More (jambands.com)

On Friday night, Phish began their second three-night run of Summer 2019 at the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, WI. The show followed suit with the rest of the tour, including interesting song placements, smooth transitions and focused, efficient jamming.






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On the turntable this Sunday...Slip Stitch and Pass

Slip Stitch and Pass is the second official live album by the American rock band Phish. It was released on October 28, 1997, by Elektra Recordsand has nine tracks from the band's March 1, 1997, show at the Markthalle Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany, which was part of Phish's 1997 European Tour.

The album marked the first time that concert staples "Mike's Song" and "Weekapaug Groove" had appeared on an official Phish release, despite both having been part of the band's repertoire since the 1980s. Three of the album's nine songs are cover songs: "Cities" from Talking Heads, "Jesus Just Left Chicago" from ZZ Top and the traditional a cappella standard "Hello My Baby".

In addition, during the final jam segment of "Mike's Song", the band quotes (or 'teases') Pink Floyd's "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and elements and lyrics from The Doors song "The End". The close of "Weekapaug Groove" interpolates the end section of the Rolling Stone's "Can't You Hear Me Knocking".

The jam on "Wolfman's Brother" is indicative of the band's foray into funk music, which dominated the group's improvisation over the next several years. The song also includes a tease of the band's own instrumental tune "Dave’s Energy Guide."

Renowned graphic artist Storm Thorgerson designed the album cover.