If there was a such thing, keyboard wiz Nate Wilson would’ve won the 2007 Warren Haynes Award for being able to balance two time consuming gigs in the same year. The strain of fronting his own band and performing with Assembly of Dust seems to have caught up to Wilson, as he has decided to stop touring with the AOD after the upcoming fall tour to focus on the Nate Wilson Group full time.
While Nate won’t be adding his frenetic organ runs to the AOD live show anymore, he’ll stay involved with AOD on a creative level in their song writing efforts.
Let’s see what else is happening this Monday morning…
- Page McConnell sat in with Mike Gordon’s solo band on Friday night in VT
- Lifehacker thinks you can learn from the secret of Ryan Adams’ success
- You may only be able to buy Guns N Roses’ new album at a big box store
- My Morning Jacket busts out some gems for their loyal Louisville fans
- U2 plans to release their new album, No Line On The Horizon, on Nov. 18
- The Independent ponders whether album art can survive in the iPod Era
On the eve of the Democratic and Republican conventions, Blender polled Barack Obama and John McCain for their top 10 songs. Then they enlisted trusted sages Randy Newman and Girl Talk to analyze their picks.