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Get Yourself Outside is Yonder Mountain Strinband’s latest release, their first since 2017s “Love. Ain’t Love”. Since that time, there has been a personnel change, a global pandemic, and a coming of age for a band that has been at the bluegrass, jamgrass thing for over two decades. I caught up with Adam Ajala and newest member Nick Piccininni to talk about the new record and more. First song: If Only Second song: Into The Fire See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Featured Songs: 00:38 - 01-18-22 - Beside Myself - The Commonwealth Room - Salt Lake City, UT 05:12 - 01-20-22 - Out of the Pan > Into the Fire - The Newberry - Great Falls, MT 10:10 - 01-21-22 - If You’re Ever in Oklahoma - The Pub Station - Billings, MT 14:53 - 01-22-22 - 40 Miles from Denver - The Elm - Bozeman, MT 18:53 - 01-23-22 - Pockets - The Wilma - Missoula, MT See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If there is a silver lining to what has been a very difficult couple of years during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s likely all the great music that’s been made by some of our favorite musicians and bands. In fact, some bands like the Infamous Stringdusters took that concept to the extreme, with each member contributing a solo project and album. With the release of band’s last album Toward the Fray, out today, we’ve noticed a culmination of all of the work the guys have put in individually and colle...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - 01-22-22 - Black Elk - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY 09:29 - 01-26-22 - I Didn’t Know - The Flynn Theatre - Burlington, VT 13:24 - 01-27-22 - Stones Unturned - The State Theatre - Portland, ME 18:36 - 01-28-22 - Planets - House of Blues - Boston, MA 25:49 - 02-02-22 - Hard Line - Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christone “Kingfish” Ingram isn’t just another blues guitar prodigy. He has proven now, after releasing his sophomore album 662 on Alligator Records, that he is a bonafide, skilled and absolutely talented player that has phenomenal range not just in his playing but also in his singing. We caught up with the now 23 year old Kingfish to talk about his fairly active and prolific career just over a decade in the making. Our conversation started when I asked if he ever imagined being nominated for a ...

Featured Songs: 00:38 Widespread Panic - 01-22-22 - Ride Me High - Hard Rock Hotel - Riviera Maya, MEX 19:39 Goose - 01-28-22 - The Way It Is - The Fonda Theatre - Los Angeles, CA 32:07 Railroad Earth - 02-04-22 - Long Way To Go - Thalia Hall - Chicago, IL 38:06 Billy Strings - 02-05-22 - Shady Grove - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY 42:37 Dopapod - 02-06-22 - Happy Song - Fefe Music Hall - Providence, RI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Earlier this year, Dead & Company drummer Bill Kreutzmann had to bow out of the band's performances at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Filling the kit so to speak was noted and accomplished drummer Jay Lane. So just who is Jay Lane. Well, to start with, the San Francisco native has been drumming since the tender age of nine while attending the Blue Bear School of Music in San Francisco. Since then, he has gone on to great acclaim performing first with several local now defunct bands, but then with the l...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Eggy - 01-21-22 - Time Escaping - Cleveland, OH 10:02 - Infamous Stringdusters - 01-22-22 - Scarlet Begonias - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY 18:58 - Goose - 01-26-22 - Jive I - The Marquee - Tempe, AZ 28:58 - Greensky Bluegrass - 01-28-22 - Miss September - House of Blues - Boston, MA 33:05 - Umphrey's McGee - 01-29-22 - Come As Your Kids - The Fillmore - Detroit, OH See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tom Hamilton Jr. recently MORE! Live from the Ballroom a 6 song set that you have to hear. This project isn't a new one for Tom Hamilton Jr. of Ghost Light, Lacuna and Joe Russo's Almost Dead, but instead a rebirth if you will, as he reassembled members of the original Brothers Past line-up to jam in his newly minted studio nicknamed the Ballroom. I sat down with Tom to get the skinny on MORE! and as per usual with Tom, our conversation went everywhere... First song: Silent Lady, Artful Dodger S...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Eggy - 01-14-22 - Wayless - Soundcheck Studios - Pembrooke, MA 10:26 - Gov't Mule 01-18-22 - Soulshine - Island Exodus 12 - Runaway Bay, Jamaica* 17:38 - Widespread Panic - 01-22-22 - And It Stoned Me - Panic En La Playa - Riviera Maya, Mexico 24:47 - Greensky Bluegrass - 01-22-22 - Fixin' to Ruin - Capital Theatre - Port Chester, NY** 33:23 - Umphrey's McGee - 01-23-22 - Women Wine and Song - Penn's Peak - Jim Thorpe, PA * with Ron Holloway on Saxophone ** Jeremy Garret ...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Goose - 12-31-21 - One More Saturday Night - Riviera Theatre - Chicago, IL 07:10 - Greensky Bluegrass - 01-07-22 - Broke Mountain Breakdown - The Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO 28:01 - Lotus - 01-13-22 - Gilded Age - Milwuakee, WI 34:39 - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - 01-14-22 - Somethin For Ya -> Something About Us - Brooklyn Bowl - Philadelphia, PA 47:43 - Gov't Mule - 01-16-22 - Maggot Brain - Island Exodus 12 - Runaway Bay, JA See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy info...

As this pandemic and it’s multiple waves hopefully slowly wind down, we’re finding out what artists in our community have been up to. Aside from zoom performances and playing small acoustic gigs, Rob Derhak of moe., was quietly creating an album of songs commissioned by fans. The 8 song collection is very different from what you’d imagine the moe. bassist would be a part of, so we tracked him down to talk about “Songs for Other People” and a few other things on our mind. See omnystudio.com/liste...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Joe Russo’s Almost Dead - 10-08-21 - Ramble on Rose - The Wellmont Theater - Montclair, NJ 08:49 - Eggy - 10-17-21 - Detroit Rock City - The Magic Stick - Detroit, MI 24:52 - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - 12-30-21 - Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough - The Orange Peel - Asheville, NC 44:44 - The Disco Biscuits - 12-31-21 - Thank You For Being A Friend - The Fillmore - Philadelphia, PA 48:34 - Greensky Bluegrass - 01-08-22 - Who is Frederico - The Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO ...

Featured Songs: Set 1: Billy Strings - 02-24-21 - Help on the Way > Slipknot > Franklin’s Tower - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY Kitchen Dwellers - 04-01-21 - Bertha - Cerventas - Denver, CO Disco Biscuits - 05-30-21 - I Know You Rider - Red Rocks Amphitheater- Morrison, CO Yonder Mountain String Band - 06-10-21 - Brown Eyed Women - Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater - Vail, CO Warren Haynes - Comes A Time - 07-09-21 - Palm Theatre - Telluride, CO Goose - Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo -...

Featured Songs: Billy Strings - 03-25-21 - City of New Orleans (Willie Nelson) - Tipitina’s - New Orleans, LA Tedeschi Trucks Band - 03-25-21 - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (The Allman Brothers Band) - Fireside Sessions - Florida Tauk - 03-27-21 - Tom Sawyer (Rush) - Tauk Request Live - Long Island, NY Lettuce - 04-10-21 - Finders Keepers (Garcia/Saunders) - Suwannee Rising - Live Oak, FL Spafford - 04-21-21 - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac) - Marquee Backyard - Tempe, AZ Gov’t Mule (Anne Wilson) - 05-02-...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Joe Russo's Almost Dead - 09-24-21 - Saint of Circumstance - Salvage Station - Asheville, NC 12:34 - Orebolo - 12-04-21 - Atlantic City - Spruce Peak - Stowe, VT 18:36 - Billy Strings - 12-12-21 - China Doll - The Eastern - Atlanta, GA 27:45 - Greensky Bluegrass - 12-12-21 - What You Need - Strings & Sol - Puerto Morelos, MX (Guido Batista on the Vibraslap) 34:45 - Yonder Mountain String Band - 12-12-21 - If You're Ever in Oklahoma.mp3 See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Goose - 11-21-21 - Rockdale - Mission Ballroom - Denver, CO 15:39 - Twiddle - 11-27-21 - Tiny Dancer - The Capitol Theatre - Port Chester, NY 22:32 - Dopapod - 12-04-21 - Crazy Fingers - High Noon Saloon - Madison, WI 40:18 - Billy Strings - 12-04-21 - Wargasm - The Factory Deep Ellum - Dallas, TX 48:59 - Umphrey’s McGee - 12-05-21 - Baba O’Riley - Holidaze - Puerto Morelos, MEX See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last year, on Christmas Day 2020, we lost the great Tony Rice. He was an influential acoustic guitar player not just for the bluegrass community but for the folk and acoustic jazz worlds as well. He was undoubtedly one of the best acoustic players at his peak, and likely since. His credits are too numerous to mention here, but some career highlights include playing in the Bluegrass Alliance, the New South and collaborations with Ricky Skaggs, David Grisman Bela Fleck and Jerry Garcia to name a f...

Mother Hips co-founders Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono have been at it now for 30 years. The pandemic allowed the pair to work on their record Glowing Lantern a great representation of their career to date. Master songwriters, players and Tim and Greg continue to be great ambassadors for the Bay Area and it’s music scene. With Glowing Lantern available now everywhere you listen to music, I thought it was a good time to catch up with Tim and Greg. First song: I Don’t Want To Drive You Away Second so...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Eggy - 11-06-21 - Golden Gate Dancer - Park West - Chicago, IL 13:04 - Kitchen Dwellers - 11-06-21 - Baby, Don’t Do It - Portland House of Music and Events - Portland, ME 18:58 - Widespread Panic - 11-19-21 - Disco - The Chicago Theatre - Chicago, IL 26:09 - Greensky Bluegrass - 11-26-21 - Get Back - Kalamazoo State Theatre - Kalamazoo, MI 30:51 - The Disco Biscuits - 11-26-21- I Man - Wellmont Theatre - Montclair, NJ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Admittedly, I’ve gotten to the Jake Shimabukuro story a little late. For those unaware, Jake is the Jimi Hendrix of the ukulele. That is to say, many play his instrument, but few have the skill, dexterity and finger strength to carry off equally incredible playing of such a small instrument. This prowess is evident in the company he keeps, the career he’s had and the continued touring and music he’s making. His latest effort, a few years in the making, is a compilation of terrific tunes and coll...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Warren Haynes - 07-09-21 - Comes A Time - Palm Theatre - Telluride, CA 07:04 - Spafford - 10-31-21 - The Other One - Castle Theatre - Bloomington, IL 16:27 - Greensky Bluegrass - 11-17-21 - Shakedown Street - Midtown Ballroom - Bend, OR 27:41 - Infamous Stringdusters - 11-19-21 - Terrapin Station - The Elm - Bozeman, MT 39:30 - Billy Strings 11-21-21 - Help On The Way > Slipknot > Franklins Tower - The Fillmore - Detroit, MI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Featured Songs: 00:38 - Eggy - 10-31-21 - Love The One Your With - Castle Theatre - Bloomington, IL 17:42 - Steve Kimock and Friends - 11-14-21 - Les Brers In A Minor - The Stone Church - Brattleboro, VT 26:23 - Goose - 11-16-21 - ScoMule - Tower Theatre - Oklahoma City, OK 35:53 - Greensky Bluegrass - 11-20-21 - Chalkdust Torture - The Showbox - Seattle, WA 45:31 - Billy Strings - 11- 20-21 - Midnight Rider - The Fillmore - Detroit, MI See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

If you know Winnipeg, Manitoba, the thought of that city producing an instrumental psychedelic jazz infused rock band is pretty crazy. Located in central Canada, Winnipeg is generally known for two things; cold winters and buggy summers. It was where Neil Young got his start and where The Guess Who began their iconic careers but those are rock artists, not Psychadelic Jam Bands. So when I heard that ostensibly a Jam Band born out of the tundra of Winnipeg were releasing their third EP A Relatio...