DBT Week in Review - 2/6/2010

DBT WIR delayed by some evil frackin' animal flu....

DBT/Booker!

Now THAT is a handsome Mofo.

Hood proud of Grammy-winning collaboration | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"The Truckers played a show in Tuscaloosa on Saturday and Hood said he forgot about the Grammys when he arrived home in Athens, Ga.

Then he received a text message informing him that 'Potato Hole' had won a Grammy.

'I received another 20 in the next 15 minutes,' he said.

Hood said he and the Truckers have no problem whatsoever playing the role of the backing musicians.

'It feels great,' Hood said. 'I'm really, really, really thrilled for Booker. Of course, it's good for us, too, since we were definitely heavily involved with the record. Just getting to work with Booker was winning an award.'"

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GRAMMYS PHLOG | The People's Music:

"And of course, congratulations to Booker T and all the many, many more very talented artists who won and were nominated for untelevised awards. Except Michael Buble. He knows why."

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Nominees | GRAMMY.com- Best Pop Instrumental Album

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Drive-By Truckers keep on truckin':

"In February and March the band is playing the southeastern United States before heading to South by Southwest in Austin. The tour begins in earnest in April with a northeast run, followed by the Midwest and the West Coast. Then comes European festivals, U.S. festivals like Lollapalooza in Chicago and Mile High in Denver, and then a return to Europe to headline clubs and theaters."

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Q&A: Drive-By Truckers' Patterson Hood | Billboard.com

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Global Green USA:

"Global Green USA and supporter & actor Walton Goggins will be holding a very special fundraiser screening of 'That Evening Sun.' Nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards, the film stars Hal Holbrook, Ray Mckinnon, Walton Goggins, Mia Wasikowska and Carrie Preston. Learn more about the film here.

Funds will help Global Green collaborate with on the ground organizations to help rebuild green homes, schools and communities.Funds raised will also help provide emergency sustainable aid to Haiti including solar powered flashlights and water purification.

WHEN: Wednesday, February 10th

WHERE:
Harmony Gold
7655 W. Sunset Blvd."

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Music

A little STFU for Bono from Brian Johnson.

AC/DC's Brian Johnson: Bono Should Do Charity Work In Private

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Pot meet kettle. Paging Taylor Swift.

Nick Jonas: Bob Dylan Can't Sing (VIDEO):

"Jonas said the producers wanted Lil Wayne to sing the solo originally sung by Bob Dylan. 'He said, 'I can't sing,'' Jonas said. 'And I'm like, 'exactly. Perfect.''

'Nick Jonas says Bob Dylan can't sing,' Kimmel laughed."

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Radio Ink Magazine:

"January 28, 2010: The Prometheus Radio Project says the Local Community Radio Act -- which would open the door to potentially thousands of new low-power FMs -- is 'in the home stretch,' but there are still obstacles.

On the group's website, Prometheus says, 'In our fight to pass the Local Community Radio Act, every victory we celebrate comes with a new hurdle to overcome.' The group notes that the bill has passed out of committee in the Senate and must pass the full Senate to go to President Obama for signature, and that it still needs to be officially reported and filed."

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Like 52k is anyless 'monstrous'.

Judge slashes ‘monstrous’ fine in music piracy case | Raw Story:

"WASHINGTON — Condemning a two-million-dollar fine meted out to a Minnesota woman for illegally downloading music over the Internet as 'monstrous and shocking,' a judge has slashed the penalty to 54,000 dollars.

US District Court Michael Davis said the fine imposed by a jury on Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the town of Brainerd, veered into the 'realm of gross injustice.'"

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Let me answer this. Umm, hell no. 'Fixed' competition = collusion.

Ticketmaster, Live Nation Merger Approved: Will It Lead To Lower Ticket Prices?:

"LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department cleared the way Monday for concert promoter Live Nation and ticket-seller Ticketmaster to combine after imposing major conditions meant to create stronger competitors and lower ticket prices for consumers."

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This, I did no know.

'Ghosts' resurrects Kip Winger's career:

"When the grunge thing hit,' Kip Winger explains, 'it was like all the 1980s bands were gone. Overnight.'

It's a well-referenced piece of musical history. Nirvana's 1991 album 'Nevermind' sold 10 million copies, and Winger the band became an oft-used punch line.

That brutal ending was also the beginning for the artist, who is about to execute one of the all-time improbable musical resurrections. Winger, who spent much of the past 17 years studying classical music composition, on Tuesday will premiere his first symphonic piece with the San Francisco Ballet. He wrote the music for 'Ghosts,' featuring choreography by Christopher Wheeldon."

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DBT Week in Review - 11/13/09

Patterson/DBT!

40 Watt Shows have been announced!

Drive-By Truckers- Tour Dates

On sale tomorrow, 11/14 @ Noon.

Tickets for 1/14

Tickets for 1/15

Tickets for 1/16

3 Day Pass!

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Listen to Patterson Hood’s ‘Depression Era’ from ‘That Evening Sun’:

"A number of weeks ago I wrote about the original song “Depression Era” from Scott Teems’s “That Evening Sun.” It’s a breathy southern soul tune that, for my money, bests all other original song contenders this year. But considering the fact that the film will struggle to be seen, and the music branch isn’t likely to appreciate the song’s placement in the film (closing credits), I doubt an original song nomination is on the horizon."

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Patterson, Finn and Nichols. Onion A.V. folks are on top of it!

Who's the next Bruce Springsteen? | Features | | A.V. Milwaukee:

"Let’s dispense with an obvious disclaimer: There will never be another Springsteen, just as there will never be another Bob Dylan, Beatles, Zeppelin, insert your favorite classic rock band here. Furthermore, younger artists don’t need to be validated by being compared to a baby boomer favorite. Today’s musical heroes are just as valid as the legends of yesteryear. Okay, now that we’ve got that out of the way: I think the person most deserving of Springsteen’s mantle is Patterson Hood of Drive-By Truckers."

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Internet Archive: Free Download: Patterson Hood Live at Caledonia Lounge on 2009-11-04

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Patterson Hood takes up series at Caledonia - Variety:

"'A good bit of our 2000 live album, 'Alabama Ass Whuppin,' was recorded there [at the Caledonia], so we put this together as a way to say thank you to the Caledonia for 10 years of great rock here in Athens,' Hood said."

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Musicians sound call for the Louisiana coast:

"The letter (view here ) was signed by a wide range of musicians and music industry voices; from New Orleans own Neville Brothers, Dr. John, Galactic, and Funky Meters to internationally known acts like REM, Trent Reznor, Ok Go, Los Lobos and Bonnie Raitt. Voodoo performers the Drive-By Truckers, Gogol Bordello, JJ Grey & Mofro, the Knux, Parliment-Funkadelic, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Generationals, Warsaw, and many others added their support as well."

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Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

Here are a couple of pictures of JI400 during sound check at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco last Sunday. I should have a full post up next week with pictures and a few tales.

Posted this video of The Blue earlier this week, but this is a do over for better sound. Still working on better compression for the imaging, but sound has been much improved. May still be loading, so vid quality will improve.

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Photo essay: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit @ the Larimer Lounge | Reverb

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Preservation Hall and Sony RED Distribution Announce: 'Preservation, an Album Benefiting Preservation Hall and Its Music Outreach Program':

"The complete roster of artists includes: Louis Armstrong, Andrew Bird, Terence Blanchard, Pete Seeger, Dr. John, Blind Boys of Alabama, Brandi Carlile, Cory Chisel, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle, Merle Haggard, Richie Havens, Jason Isbell, Jim James, Angelique Kidjo, Amy LaVere, Anita Briem, Del McCoury, Bobby McFerrin, Buddy Miller, Paolo Nutini, and Tom Waits."

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Muscle Shoals Sound

Mac McAnally named musician of the year | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"“It was just a lucky piece of timing,” he said. “I’m just a part-time musician.”"

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Stars play auctioned guitars | TimesDaily.com | The Times Daily | Florence, AL:

"UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA - It takes seasoned guitarists such as Earl 'Peanut' Montgomery and Jimmie Johnson to notice the subtle differences in the two custom-made Benedetto guitars being auctioned by the University of North Alabama.

Johnson and Montgomery are among almost a dozen Shoals musicians who have come to Rogers Hall on the UNA campus to give the guitars a test run.

The guitars are the same model - electric hollow body Benedetto Bambinos handmade in Savannah, Ga."

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Dexateens

DEXATEENS t-shirt - all sizes - Peavy - - eBay (item 220506845914 end time Nov-13-09 17:18:21 PST)

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Music

Here's a quirky little group from the Bay Area.

Late Night Music Club: 'Beat It,' by Pomplamoose | Late Nite Music Club:

"Pomplamoose (it means 'grapefruit' in French) is a Bay Area indie jazz-pop band and is compromised made up of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who do what they call VideoSongs.

For those who don't know, a VideoSong is a new medium with (as Jack puts it) two rules:

1. What you see is what you hear (no lip-syncing for instruments or voice).

2. If you hear it, at some point you see it (no hidden sounds)."

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Whatever.

Joe Perry: Steven Tyler has quit Aerosmith - Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 | 4:03 p.m. - Las Vegas Sun

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Bee Gees interview - Telegraph:

"The two surviving members of this legendary trio (brother Maurice died suddenly, in January 2003, aged 53, of complications from a twisted intestine) have come together to celebrate a golden anniversary, 50 years in the music business, with a new compilation The Ultimate Bee Gees. It has been a quite extraordinary career, with two distinct periods of world-beating stardom, as Beatles-influenced soft rockers in the late Sixties (their classic hits included To Love Somebody, Words and How Can You Mend a Broken Heart and blue-eyed disco singers in the late Seventies (Stayin’ Alive, Jive Talkin’, Tragedy) with a twilight period as hitmakers for other artists, including Barbra Streisand (Woman in Love), Diana Ross (Chain Reaction), Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton (Islands in the Stream) and Dionne Warwick (Heartbreaker). Their catalogue of solid gold standards is rivalled only by Lennon and McCartney."

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The New York Music Project: Help Map The City In Song:

"Since its founding, New York has been an evergreen inspiration for musicians, from Gershwin to Dylan to the Beastie Boys. 'Empire State of Mind,' Jay-Z's love letter to the city, is just the latest, and perhaps greatest, in a long line of New York-inspired songs. But one day -- maybe soon, maybe not -- someone else will come along and pen a diddy about the city that never sleeps that will fully-encapsulate life in the five boroughs and Jay-Z's will be a worn-out standard, played while fans shuffle out of the new new Yankee Stadium.

So in honor of the long and vast history of New York in song, we're extremely pleased to introduce the Huffington Post New York Music Project. Essentially we are trying to discover, uncover, and map every single song lyric that name-checks a location, business, corner, monument, etc., in the city of New York. This can be as vague as George Cohan giving his regards 'to Broadway' to as specific as Lou Reed 'waiting for the man' on 125th and Lexington. We've put together 40 entries to start off with, but that just scratches the surface."

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Fun Stuff

Type yer birfday in:

Wolfram|Alpha

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Ambiguous Film Endings Resolved (VIDEO)

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Need to open a bottle of wine this weekend but don't have a cork screw?

Well, here you go:

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DBT Week in Review - 10/23/09

Patterson Hood/DBT

"Patterson Hood and Friends - 'In the Air Tonight'

Performed by Patterson Hood, Jay Gonzalez, Shonna Tucker, Brad Morgan & John Neff

Recorded at Smith's Olde Bar (5/1/09) for 500 Songs For Kids which supports the Songs For Kids Foundation, www.songsforkidsfoundation.org. Songs for Kids brings musicians to children's hospitals.

Please consider making a donation today!"

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Patterson Hood: Driving Solo : NPR

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that evening sun

THAT EVENING SUN is an amazing film that Patterson contributed original music for.

The film, THAT EVENING SUN has been winning film festivals the world over. It was written and directed by Scott Teems, stars Hal Holbrook (Academy Award nominee for Into ...The Wild) and is co-produced and co-starring Ray McKinnon and Walton Goggins (The Accountant, Crystal, Randy and the Mob). It has won about 8 festivals so far and is about to receive some wider release.

Patterson wrote and performed a brand new song called 'Depression Era' especially for it. He also performs a version of Jimmie Rodgers Blue Yodel #3 (I Hate To See That Evening Sun Go Down) which inspired the title. The film is based on a short story by William Gay."

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Jason Isbell

Jason and the 400 Unit will be back on the road soon. I'll be seeing them in the beautiful Great American Music Hall. Looking forward to the show.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Shows

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Jason recently performed for the first time on Muscle Shoals to Music Row.

The acoustic version of 'Try' is amazing.

Muscle Shoals to Music Row Live!

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Thanks to Elliot McPherson from the Dexateens for turning me on to Vulture Whale from Birmingham, AL.

Vulture Whale | Birmingham, Alabama

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Our girl Maddy is writing for her college's paper.

Check out some of her excellent work!

Vita Ordinario

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Music

Beth D (Lurleen) interviews CCR! Nice job, Beth!!

Jackson Free Press: Jackson, Mississippi - Music - Bad Moon Rises … Again:

"Creedence Clearwater Revisited formed in 1995. Tell me about that process.
A very good friend of mine, a great guitar player in Los Angeles, turned me on to Steve Gunner, who is our multi-instrumentalist, and then the guy that used to work for a company that I'd had a bass string endorsement with turned me on to his buddy John Tristao. I guess we'd auditioned five or six guys by the time we got around to John, and when we got to him, we just knew that he was the guy who we thought we could put the whole thing together with because he could really sing, and he could sing these songs especially well. There was no weakness. He could own them."

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Hell yeah!

Music Stars Demand Records On Bush Administration's Use Of Music For Torture:

'We have spent the past 30 years supporting causes related to peace and justice,' read a statement from REM, 'to now learn that some of our friends' music may have been used as part of the torture tactics without their consent or knowledge, is horrific. It's anti-American, period.'

Added the hip-hop band The Roots: 'When we found out that music was being used as part of the torture going on at Guantanamo, shackling and beating people -- we were angry. Just as we wouldn't be caught dead allowing Dick Cheney to use our music for his campaigns, you can be damn sure, we wouldn't allow him to use it to torture other human beings. Congress needs to shut Guantanamo down.'"

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Hilarious.

The Superficial - Lil Wayne gets year in prison for gun charges:

"You know, just once I'd like to see a rapper get busted for something original besides the stereotypical gun charges. I understand it's part of their record contract to do time, but would it hurt to spice things up a bit? Maybe ride a tiger to Starbucks. Or, shit, fire white babies out of a cannon, I don't care. Just show me some zazz!"

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Rock ain't rock without the fuck ups.

SFGate: Daily Dish : Wolfmother Star Slams Industry Drug Plans:

"Wolfmother frontman Andrew Stockdale has criticized music industry bosses over plans to withhold pay from artists who are addicted to drugs - insisting the scheme will never work.

A coalition of record label chiefs, led by Marc Marot, former head of Island Records, want to place a legal clause in artists' contracts denying them wages if they are unable to perform due to substance abuse or self harm."

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Surgery Left Phil Collins Unable To Play The Drums:

"HAMBURG — Phil Collins is drumming no more, for now.

The former singer and drummer for Genesis told a German newspaper that since he had surgery in April to repair a dislocated vertebra in his neck, he doesn't have feeling in his fingers and isn't able to pick up his sticks."

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They were still together?

A-ha announces break up | EW.com:

"A-ha is oh-ver. According to the BBC, the 25-year-old Norwegian pop group, famous for “Take On Me,” is splitting up just months after scoring a top ten album on the UK charts. The reason for the break up: The trio are quoted as saying they wanted to pursue “other meaningful aspects of life, be it humanitarian work, politics, or whatever else.”"

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Enter the weekend with some James McMurtry:

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