Dead & Company have released a statement concerning their upcoming show in Charlotte, NC, and the recent passing of HB2, the controversial “bathroom law” that prohibits transgendered individuals from using the restroom of their choosing. The group has decided to go ahead with their performance despite their objections to the bill.
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As you’ll see in the above list of bands with no original members, not everybody can be ZZ Top or U2. While those two sturdy groups have never reshuffled bandmates, others have experienced so much change over the years that they share no connection at all with their co-founding lineup.
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Natty Dread is a 1974 reggae album by Bob Marley & The Wailers. An important transition in Marley's discography, Natty Dread was the first album released as Bob Marley & the Wailers (as opposed to The Wailers) and the first recorded without former bandmates Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer. It is also the first album recorded with the I-Threes, a female vocal trio that included Bob's wife, Rita Marley, along with Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt.
Natty Dread peaked at No. 44 on Billboard's (North America) Black Albums chart, and at No. 92 on the Pop Albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 181 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Natty Dread is a spiritually charged political and social statement. It opens with a blues-influenced positive celebration of skanking, reggae and sex, "Lively Up Yourself", which Marley used to open many of his concerts, in order to get the audience worked up; American R&B star Prince used it for the same purpose. The original and still unreleased demo of the Island version of "Lively up Yourself" was recorded in 1973.
"No Woman, No Cry", the second track, is probably the best known recording on the album. It is a nostalgic remembrance of growing up in the impoverished streets of Trenchtown, the ghetto of Kingston, Jamaica, and the happiness brought by the company of friends. The song has been performed by artists as diverse as Boney M. (sung by Liz Mitchell), The Fugees, Pearl Jam, Jimmy Buffett, Rancid and Gilberto Gil. Songwriting credit for "No Woman, No Cry" went to V. Ford. Vincent Ford, better known as "Tartar" to his friends and neighbors, had been a kind friend of Marley as a child in Trenchtown. Marley claimed he would have starved to death on several occasions as a child if not for the aid of Tartar. The original version of the song was in gospel style, featuring Peter Tosh and some unknown female backing vocals and was cut for Island in 1973.
"Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)" is a warning against allowing a nation's poor to go hungry, with the prophetic warning "a hungry mob is an angry mob", while "Talkin' Blues" and "Revolution" go deeper into controversial political commentary. "Rebel Music (3 O'Clock Roadblock)" is a reflection on the potential impact of reggae music on Jamaican society. The song was written after Marley had been stopped by a night-time police carcheck. The influence of Marley's increasing devotion to Rastafari can be heard in religious-themed songs like "So Jah S'eh", "Natty Dread" and "Lively Up Yourself", while Marley's reputation as a romantic is confirmed with smooth, seductive songs like "Bend Down Low". The title track of the album takes its title from an idealised personification of the Rastafari movement, Natty Dread.
In 1975, this album was mentioned in a few audio magazines as being ready to be released on Quadraphonic 8-track tape. This never happened. However, the Quadraphonic mixes of "Lively Up Yourself" and "No Woman No Cry" have been bootlegged from the master tapes and are available on the internet. In 2001, a re-mastered edition of Natty Dread was released by Universal Records containing a bonus track. In 2003, the album was ranked number 182 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter covered the entire album in his 1997 Blue Note release of the same name.
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Thursday night, Hunter, NY’s Mountain Jam kicked off its 2016 run with a headlining act from Umphrey’s McGee that featured sit ins from a couple of the festival’s other acts in Warren Haynes and Marco Benevento.
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Umphrey’s McGee
Mountain Jam Hunter Mountain, NY
Set I: Similar Skin, Rocker 2, Attachments, Little Gift > Higgins*, Linear > Booth Love > Breathe^ > Mulches Odyssey
Set II: Bridgeless > Upward, Speak Up, The Triple Wide, Educated Guess, Conduit, Thunder Kiss Relax
Enc: Hajimemashite > Bridgeless
Notes: *with Warren Haynes ^with Marco Benevento
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Dave Matthews Band’s tour continued with its most guest-heavy show of the run thus far as the band’s Lakewood Amphitheatre show in Atlanta featured guest spots from Widespread Panic’s Jimmy Herring and saxophonist David Sanchez.
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Dave Matthews Band
Lakewood Amphitheatre Atlanta, GA
Warehouse, The Song That Jane Likes, Squirm, Death On The High Seas, Why I Am, Minarets, Samurai Cop, Crush, Raven*, Satellite*, Sugar Will*, Grey Street, Crash Into Me, Jimi Thing^ > Sexy M.F.^, Bob Law, You and Me, You Might Die Trying
Enc: Ants Marching > Halloween
Notes: *with Jimmy Herring ^with David Sánchez
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