While most musicians would use an unexpected break in their schedule to take a well deserved rest, Luther Dickinson isn’t most musicians. Earlier this week, the Black Crowes announced that they were canceling the rest of their shows this month due to “an unexpected illness within the band.” Dickinson, the Current Crowes guitar player, is heading off to Colorado next weekend to join two of his North Mississippi Allstars band mates for a special show at the Ogden Theatre in Denver.
On September 27, Dickinson will sit in with both southern rockers the Hill Country Revue and JJ Grey & Mofro for their tour stop at the Ogden. Both bands are currently touring the country together behind the latter’s soul-shaking album, Orange Blossoms. Those hitting the show at the Ogden get the added bonus of a NMAS mini set. To purchase tickets for this special performance, and for a full list of shows, head over to Mofro Ticketing.
Dean Ween continues to provide outrageously brown content on his NING blog. Just yesterday Deaner shared some amazing shots from his photo collection. Where else can you see photos of Deaner with 1980 U.S. Hockey Coach Herb Brooks, or a head shot from the girl on the Chocolate & Cheese cover? Keep up the good work Deaner – the world needs more celebrity blogs that don’t suck.
Let’s start the final day of the week off with a fresh batch of links:
Amy Winehouse denied visa; will not trainwreck at the Grammys
Martin Scorsese’s Shine A Light debuted in Berlin yesterday
The North Mississippi Allstars are giving away their new live CD
Billy Joel beat out Yo La Tengo for the rights to play the last gig at Shea
Rockwell in Boulder recaps a busy night at the Fox Theatre
It looks like a new venue is opening in Brooklyn soon
Finally, the Daily Swarm clued us in on a terrific list detailing 10 Examples of Auto-Tune Abuse in Pop Music. We Believe Cher is totally to blame for this horrible fad, so we’re shocked that song didn’t make the list.
The New York Football Giants shocked the world by pulling off an incredible victory over the heavily favored Patriots in what was one helluva game — it was actually kinda hard to sleep last night in New York City thanks to the roar of the fans celebrating in the streets. Guess you can’t win ‘em, all Boston fans. We rank Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers’ rapid fire parade of hits atop the non-football highlights, followed by the Prince Caspian commercial and the talking Tide stain.
Let’s see what’s cookin’ as we pretend we don’t have the world’s worst hangover:
Four More Albums: U2 avoids free agency by resigning with Universal
NMAS’ Luther Dickinson sure knows how to make a room shake
Ted Rockwell shares his thoughts on a recent Mars Volta show in Boulder
moe.’s Rob Derhak speaks to the Boston Herald about Sticks and Stones
The Duo wouldn’t sound like The Duo without Dirty Jerz
As always Neddy delivers a list of the NYC shows of the week
Finally, Filter Magazine sent Pat McGuire on the road with Band of Horses to document one of their recent tours of the West Coast. The road journal McGuire came back with features many interesting anecdotes and factoids from the road.
If Tea Leaf Green replacing Ben Chambers with Reed Mathis was a steal, then the Black Crowes replacing Paul Stacey with Luther Dickinson will go down as the best deal this side of the Louisiana Purchase. The Crowes announced the move on Tuesday as they spilled the beans on details about their new album. Warpaint will be released via the Crowes’ new imprint Silver Arrow Records on March 4th.
Dickinson makes his Crowes recording debut on Warpaint and will join the band on a world tour supporting the album throughout 2008. Before anyone starts scouring Northern Mississippi for another Allstar, keep in mind that Luther will probably keep his role in NMAS. At least that’s what Mike Greenhaus thinks, and we trust him. This won’t be the first time a Robinson brother will be in a band with Luther Dickinson, as Rich played in the short lived Circle Sound with Luther last year. Read on for more about the Crowes big move…
My sister just gave birth to her second son. One of the first things she said to me about having two sons was “now they can form a band.” Over the course of rock history there have been many pairs of brothers that have achieved major success. So this week’s B List looks at our 10 favorite pairs of brothers who jam together.
10. The Evans Brothers [Soulive]
The Evans brothers with band mate Eric Krasno
Neal [organ] and Alan [drums] Evans make up two thirds of the soulful trio known as Soulive. The Evans boys cut their teeth by playing with Moon Boot Lover in the mid ’90s before forming Soulive with Eric Krasno in 1999. Neal is an incredibly percussive musician who plays organ with one hand and a bass keyboard with the other. Alan is the king of inventive fills, always thinking of new ways to push the music. Soulive recently released No Place Like Soul on the revamped Stax label.
Read on after the jump for nine more pairs of musical brothers, sans Smothers…
As far as I know, JamBase hasn’t cornered the worldwide market on posting straight press releases. So let’s take a look at a couple from the inbox today…
The North Mississippi Allstars are set to release their first live concert DVD on June 26th — the new disc will be called Keep On Marchin’:
Six Hi-Definition cameras beautifully capture the November 11, 2005 performance at the Higher Ground. The show was one of many the band did in support of their Grammy-nominated sixth record, “Electric Blue Watermelon.”
And the good people behind Nugs.net are releasing Rock the Earth, a benefit album to support environmental conversation in these United States:
Nugs.net’s artist partners donated the recordings for this compilation, including an exclusive release from Jack Johnson. Other artists contributing to the benefit compilation include Dave Matthews Band, Grateful Dead, Phish, Widespread Panic, The String Cheese Incident, The Disco Biscuits, The Radiators, Trey Anastasio, Gov’t Mule, STS9, Zero, Umphrey’s McGee, moe., and ALO.
Read on for a full tracklist for that cool-lookin’ Nugs.net hippie compilation…
