There’s no overarching theme today, just some old-fashioned bust outs. We’ve got plenty to share with you including a snippet of a surprise show out in the lot, a song revived after 13 years in hiding, a tune best known for its placement in a classic movie and some funkdafied Rolling Stones.

First and foremost, we’re headed to the Midwest back in 1994, including a parking lot in Bloomington where the good Reverend Mosier and the Phab Phour treated a lucky group of fans to a free parking lot bluegrass hoedown. Fortunately, there’s great quality audio of the whole thing, so we can all be there. I kick myself to this day; because I was not yet on board with the Phish back in ’94 and the whole run occurred right in back yard with three shows within a two-hour drive and one hometown gig. Damn.

READ ON after the jump for this week’s heady bust outs…

Looking back at last week’s Spanish Moon edition, Gov’t Mule has walked away with a narrow victory over Robert Palmer. In what was surely a coincidence: A day after last week’s Cover Wars, Mike Gordon welcomed one of last week’s contenders The Bridge to the stage during his encore at The Highline Ballroom for - you guessed it, Spanish Moon. Thanks for reading Cover Wars, Cactus!

This week, I have selected a track off of Derek & The Dominos 1970 release Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. If you don’t already know about Eric Clapton in the early 70’s, let’s just say it’s safe to assume the original recording was probably captured while Slowhand lay on the ground really high on heroin…and trying to steal away George Harrison’s wife.

As always, be sure to register/login to IMEEM so you hear entire songs and not just 30-second clips.

READ ON after the jump for the voting, some videos and more…

Remember the rumor that Sheryl Crow was going to be joining Fleetwood Mac for a world tour? Fortunately, it’s not gonna happen. Mac guitarist Lindsey Buckingham squashed those rumors during an interview with Gary Graff of Billboard, but admitted it had been discussed. According to Buckingham, after a nearly five year layoff Fleetwood Mac plans to get back on the road for a tour early next year sans Lance Armstrong’s ex-girlfriend. The Mac will head into the studio after the tour.

Here’s some other news of interest from the week that was:

• The Houston Chronicle lists four mistakes that killed the record industry
• Evan Levy of WNEW interviewed Andrew Bird at the Mile High festie
• Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour preps a new CD/DVD release, Live in Gdansk
• An Oregon man was busted for bringing 14,000 hits of LSD to Camp Bisco
• Gregg Allman seems happy and healthy after a long battle with HepatitisC
• Dinky Dawson profiles longtime Rolling Stones crew member Andy Topeka

Finally, HT Contributor Randy Ray sat down with Tea Leaf Green’s Josh Clark to discuss the band’s new album (Raise Up The Tent), the progression of their music, the effect of high gas prices and the beginning of the “Reed Era.”

You couldn’t ask for a nicer day of weather than we had this past Friday. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the real feel temperature at 7PM was a delightful 70 degrees. It was under these perfect conditions that Tea Leaf Green and the Dark Star Orchestra took the stage at Governor’s Island for an evening of blissful music.

[Photos by Rich Lieberman]

While I’ve lived in Manhattan for over eight years, I’ve never had a chance to make it out to Governor’s Island. The island, which is only about 700 yards off the coast of Battery Park, served as an army base for nearly 200 years before spending 1966 to 1996 as a Coast Guard installation. In more recent years Governor’s Island functions as a national monument that is open to the public on a seasonal basis. This summer the folks that run the Highline Ballroom have been tapped to throw three concerts on the 172-acre island including last Friday’s TLG / DSO affair.

I was warned that Tea Leaf Green would be going on at 6PM sharp, so I left my office near Wall Street at 5PM in an attempt to catch their whole set. Unfortunately the schedule posted on the Governor’s Island website was wrong and I wound up missing the first ten minutes of TLG’s set, even though I was at the ferry terminal by 5:30. I quickly forgot about the hassle once I reached the magnificent island.

READ ON for more of Scotty’s TLG/DSO at Governor’s Island review…

Billy Corgan reformed the Smashing Pumpkins last year for an extremely successful album and tour, but didn’t invite original bass player D’arcy Wretzky or original six-stringer James “Don’t Call Me Jimmy” Iha to join in on the fun. Now comes the long-expected announcement that the Pumpkins will celebrate their 20th anniversary with a handful of shows in August and September.

Billy Corgan told Billboard.com in March the group would hit Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, among other locales, and that guests will appear at some of the anniversary gigs. While the Pumpkins have always been about Billy’s lyrics and music, we hope he doesn’t forget about Wretzky or Iha’s major contributions to the band’s sound. Time heals all wounds or something, so let ‘em play!

• R.E.M. kicks off their tour in Vancouver with a few bust outs
• Look for Tea Leaf Green’s new album, Raise Up The Tent, on 7/22
• Stereogum unveils the Black Kids’ new video for Hurricane Jane
• Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Billy Powell undergoes emergency surgery
• Blame Canada: The CRIA orders a shutdown of torrent sites
• Panic compiles the best of Spring Tour for Driving Songs Vol. III

If you thought Jamband Fans were obsessive compulsive stat geeks, we’ve found a group of dudes who take it to the next level. A few extremely zealous record collectors have spent the last ten years working on The Whitburn Project in an effort to preserve and share high quality recordings of every popular song since 1890’s. Be sure to download this ridiculously complete spreadsheet they’ve come up with to track the chart progress of the tunes they’re collecting.

With disco lights a blazing Tea Leaf Green took to the stage at the Highline Ballroom on April 18. Leading the New York City division of the Green Apple Festival, the band warmed up with such favorites as Bootlegger, One Reason, and Devil’s Pay; but it was the trippy Panspermic De-Evolution that really stole the first set. Aaron Redner of Hot Buttered Rum String Band joined the band on fiddle for a rousing Ophelia before the band went to break.

Highlights of the 2nd set included Kali-Yuga, Criminal Intent (again with Redner sitting in) and a rousing Tequila to send the fanbase into the night. The biggest surprise of the night was the inclusion of Las Vegas and Deep River back into the cataloge, songs that haven’t seen the light of day since Ben Chambers left.

While Steve Adams (of ALO) did a fine job filling in on bass, (and was greeted warmly by the faithful with fake moustaches) I think the band was truly missing the spark that Reed Mathis provides. Hopefully Tea Leaf Green can bring in Mathis fulltime and regain the heights we saw at the Blender last September.

READ ON for more of Jeremy’s photos and links to audio of the shows…

Musicians aren’t usually known for having the best memories, so when they plan out which songs they want to play on a specific night they usually have their stage manager write down the setlist and tape it to the floor in front of each band member. Most of the time these stage setlists wind up in the hands of rabid fans after the gig, and other times they are lost forever to the garbage dump.

Recently scanned images of stage setlists from artists throughout nearly every genre have made it onto the ‘nets. Over the past few years photo and image search engines on the web have become much more sophisticated and include millions of new pictures each day. We spent all day yesterday using these search engines to find 60 stage setlists from our favorite acts. We’re gonna present 20 of these lists over three segments of the B List.

Here’s part one:

1. The Derek Trucks Band 06/24/07 Vancouver, BC:

[via Rock Music Daily]

Ross over at Rock Music Daily checked out the DTB at the Commodore Ballroom last summer and came back with the most beautiful stage setlist I’ve ever seen. Who has time to make something so visually stunning while on tour?

READ ON to check out stage setlists from U2, TLG, Springsteen, Cold War Kids, The Band, Arcade Fire, the Beastie Boys, Gov’t Mule, Metallica, Eric Clapton, Malkmus, Grace Potter, Kiss, GNR, LCD Soundsystem, and more….

It was a mere matter of time before the Beatles had to show up for a Bust Outs segment. Well, that day has finally come. Today, we are running through some stellar Beatles’ cover Bust Outs in video format. That’s right, you get a reprieve from from all that new wave, high-tech shit like Imeem and MediaFire. Today, it’s just good old fashion YouTubes of some incredible Beatles covers. Enjoy!

Yesterday - Ray Charles

Listening to Ray Charles take on Lennon/McCartney’s Yesterday, you can almost tell he is coming off the tail end of a China White bender involving a bevy of impure tour ladies. In other words, you can feel the man’s guilt. This performance takes place as part of a journey to Tel Aviv amidst visits to some of the holiest lands (Ray Charles: Soul of the Holy Land August 1973), where I’ve gotta believe he is in search of some redemption. Call me crazy, but during this heart string tugging rendition there’s some real weight on those shoulders.

Ray’s Yesterday actually follows a medley of Beatles covers, whereby he also has his way with other classics like The Long and Winding Road, Let the Good Times Roll and I Can’t Stop Loving You. Be sure to check ‘em out.

Read on for Beatles’ covers by Sting, the Dead, Gov’t Mule and more…

San Francisco’s Tea Leaf Green has spent the last six months looking forward after finding out that bassist Ben Chambers was leaving the band. New bassman Reed Mathis pushes Josh, Scott and Trevor to dizzying new heights in their improvisations on a nightly basis. But just as TLG prepares for the next stage of their career, they’ve decided to take a look back at what got them to this point.

On April 22 Tea Leaf Green will release their first ever box set, Seeds, which is a re-release of the band’s first three studio albums. Jambase’s Andy Gadiel, one of TLG’s most vocal supporters, put together a killer video for Kali Yuga to promote Seeds. The light and airy studio version of Kali Yuga, from 2003’s Living In Between, makes the perfect soundtrack for this cool mix of old photos and footage of a trip to the world’s most beautiful suspension bridge. Check it out:

• From Rock ‘n’ Roll Band: If It Wasn’t For The Money and One Reason
• Previously on HT: TLG: Processing a Three-Night Run at the Blender

The votes are in and we can say the mandate from last week’s Cover Wars belongs to…….Grateful Dead.

This week’s edition features a song so fantastic that dudes in many bands have no problem whatsoever citing the opening lyrics, “I am an old woman named after my mother”. Three-chord songs really are a thing of beauty. Wikipedia tells me that, Songwriter Harlan Howard once said “All you need to write a country song is three chords and the Truth.”

That’s all that original performerJohn Prine has here, and it is most certainly was an instant classic. Let’s take a look at a few renditions after the jump.