‘Tis The Season for jamband reunions. Don’t get confused, the inclusion of From Good Homes and Miracle Orchestra does not mean we set the time machine for Last Week’s Sauce 2000 like did earlier this year, these bands played shows last week. We lead off with a selection of Beatles songs from The Black Crowes’ farewell-for-now Fillmore Run. We sprinkle in some Shoegaze courtesy of God Speed You Black Emperor!, mix in the fusion sounds of Kung Fu and a slice of a San Francisco superjam featuring Will Bernard and Marco Benevento. Getting on a plane? Going for a long car ride? Take this 75 minutes of music with you by clicking below for all the audio in this week’s piece.

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The Black Crowes – You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away, Yer Blues, I Wanna Be Your Man
Date & Venue: 2010-12-14 – The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
Taper & Show Download: Fillmore Crowe

As ScottyB recapped, the Black Crowes paid tribute to their influences in the encore slots of their six shows at The Fillmore in San Francisco. Only two of the shows have shown up on bt.etree.org, this encore is from Tuesday night’s Beatles tribute. No tape yet of the run-closing Rolling Stones segment.

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A portion of The Band tribute encore from Friday:

READ ON for tracks from From Good Homes, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Kung Fu, Marco Benevento & Will Bernard and Miracle Orchestra…

As I was watching the tapes roll in this week from recent shows, I had two thoughts about possible themes for this week’s edition: 1) Acoustic Performances/Sets 2) The Warren Haynes Christmas Jam. Not wanting to choose, we’re going to have a jumbo-sized Last Week’s Sauce and bring you six performances. We start out with three from the acoustic section: The Black Crowes, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds and Jeff Tweedy [with a little help from his friends]. Then, we’ll switch into high gear with some highlights from Asheville with help from Steve Miller, Umphrey’s McGee with John Bell and the brand-spanking-new Warren Haynes Band. This is a good one, so set aside some time and maybe even download the podcast if you want to take all of this audio with you.

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The Black Crowes – She Talks To Angels, My Morning Song
Date & Venue: 2010-12-12 The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
Taper & Show Download: Fillmore Crowe

The Black Crowes have only three shows left before they start their next indefinite hiatus – three more shows at San Francisco’s historic Fillmore Auditorium. And they have already played three shows there so far. The locals are expecting big things this weekend in terms of special guests and I’m sure the Crowes will not disappoint. Recently, it’s been a formula of Acoustic Set I and Electric Set II and this run of shows has been no exception. These two hits closed Sunday’s first set.

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More acoustic action from Sunday’s show:

READ ON for tracks from Dave & Tim, Jeff Tweedy & The Autumn Defense, Steve Miller Band, Umphrey’s McGee, and The Warren Haynes Band.

Two of the five bands featured in today’s edition of Last Week’s Sauce offer acoustic performances from acts that normally rely heavily on electric guitars. Furthur contributes a track that has been 40 years in the making, we’ve got a very jazzy Beatles cover and close it out with a fantastic live recording of Pavement.

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The Black Crowes – My Morning Song, Miracle To Me
Date & Venue: 2010-09-19 Thomas Wolfe Auditorium – Asheville, NC
Taper & Show Download: Gordon Wilson

The Black Crowes played an acoustic first set in Asheville this past Sunday and it is incredible. The two songs embedded below close the set. If you are a fan of this band I recommend downloading the entire acoustic set and adding it to your collection. The Crowes play tomorrow at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre in Houston, TX.

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Morning Song from the electric 2nd set:

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Last week, our guest Cover Wars author Andy Kahn mentioned that many people incorrectly think that Jeff Buckley penned Hallelujah when in fact it is the work of Leonard Cohen. Similarly this week, I’m sure there are a large number of people who think The Band wrote Don’t Do It when in fact it was originally recorded by Marvin Gaye in 1964. Alright, I’ll admit it – I was one of those people until somewhat recently. This song was written by the legendary songwriting team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, more on them later.

The Contestants:

The Band released this under the name of simply Don’t Do It, not exactly sure why they dropped the “Baby Don’t You”, maybe one of our readers knows. This was first released on the live album Rock of Ages which was recorded during the last four days of 1971. Don’t Do it was also on the live release The Last Waltz recorded in 1976. A studio version was released by way of a bonus track for the 2000 Deluxe Edition of Cahoots, an album by The Band from 1971. Source: Rock Of Ages

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Happy Thanksgiving. The encore from The Last Waltz:

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More than half of this week’s selections come from the first Hangout Beach, Music, and Arts Festival in Gulf Shores, AL. The reviews coming in from those in attendance have been overwhelmingly positive and many more had the luxury of watching many of the headliners live, or almost live, via a free iClips webcast. Beyond the jambands featured from Hangout Fest, we round out our selections with two very different piano-playing-frontmen.

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And we continue to take all the selected tracks, normalize them, create some simple fades and put it into one easy to download MP3 for you.

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Artist & Title: Ben Folds – Annie Waits, My Philosophy, Such Great Heights
Date & Venue: 2010-05-16 The Warfield – San Francisco, CA
Taper & Show Download: star curtain

Picking three tunes from the Ben Folds concert was easy, well the categories were easy anyway. One solo tune, one Ben Folds Five tune, and one cover of The Postal Service. This is very crisp sounding tape, fans of his should definitely add this show to their collection. Ben Folds next performs July 17th with the Utah Symphony as part of the Deer Valley Music Festival.

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From the same show, Ben riffs on Heaven On Their Minds from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar

READ ON for tracks from the likes of The Black Crowes, Gov’t Mule, Marco Benevento, and Trey Anastasio & Classic TAB…

This was originally supposed to publish last Tuesday, where it would have been nice and topical, but time got away from me as I took a little vacation to the West Coast, but I’m back. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, numbers which multiply together to equal 420 in case you never went to college, is the opening track on Bob Dylan’s 1966 release Blonde On Blonde.

The Contestants:

The Black Crowes: In addition to performing the song live, The Black Crowes also contributed a studio take to this 1995 disc for NORML that also includes Gov’t Mule performing Don’t Step On The Grass, Sam, and Widespread Panic’s studio take of And It Stoned Me, amongst other tracks. Source: Hempilation: Freedom is NORML

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The Black Crowes announced the second and third legs of their Stuck Inside Utopia Tour and I can’t remember the last list of tour dates I’ve seen as ambitious as this one. The Crowes hit the road on August 25 and pretty much tour straight through the beginning of December when they rap things up with a five night stand at The Fillmore in San Francisco.

In other Crowes news, the band is offering a free MP3 download of a track from their latest album, Before The Frost…, which hits stores on September 1. The song, I Ain’t Hidin’, has a bit of a Disco feel to it while still kicking ass like any good Crowes’ rocker should. Check it out.

Here’s some other links of interest to help you get over the hump…

• TicketsNow has to shell out $50,000 over deceptive practices
• Bruce Hornsby’s new album contains a song by Robert Hunter
• Topper Headon talks about just how he got fired from The Clash
• Fark.com users discuss and list their 10 Most Hated Music Genres
• Here’s six lessons the Grateful Dead can teach us about writing
• Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet team up for an album of covers

Finally, Dave Anderson pointed us in the direction of the New York Times’ profile on the brand-spanking-new Brooklyn Bowl venue that Relix Publisher and former Wetlands owner Peter Shapiro is about to open. The space sounds and looks amazing and we’re almost more excited to bowl and watch The Last Waltz on a powerful audio/visual system than to see a show.

[Originally Published: May 13, 2008]

Moving on to this week, we’ve got ourselves another classic album from a different legendary songwriter (with an equally unique singing voice) and that’s Bob Dylan’s 1965 release Highway 61 Revisited. This album was Dylan’s fifth and his first recorded entirely with a full rock band.

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Like a Rolling Stone (Zero): This gentle rendition of perhaps the most popular tune on the album clocks in at 15 minutes. The entire track is full of the tasteful guitar work you would expect from Steve Kimock as well as some beautiful sax solos from Martin Fierro. Check out this great on-stage tape of the whole show on The Archive.

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We envy Taylor Hawkins. Not only does the guy have a cushy job as the Foo Fighters’ drummer, but he’s gotten to live out his childhood dreams. Hawkins spent the majority of his time growing up in Fort Worth, Texas listening to Queen and Rush records. A few years back Taylor got to play with Queen’s Roger Taylor and Brian May, and Saturday night he jammed with Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson at a Foo Fighters gig in Toronto. That’s one lucky dude.

Geddy and Alex joined the Foo Fighters an hour into their set just as Taylor Hawkins started his drum solo. The trio improv’d for a bit before busting out a killer YYZ that showed off Hawkins’ prowess on the kit. Check out the crowd’s reaction on this decent video of the YYZ.

Here’s a look at what else went down this weekend:

• You can watch the Black Crowes’ recent Unplugged taping on VH1.com
• Ultimate Guitar unveils the first inductees to the Groupie Hall of Fame
• Jimmy DeRo finds out why Ticketmaster isn’t so necessary of an evil
• R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe talks to Billboard about the making of Accelerate
• It’s time for yet another classic rock lyrics quiz [via Here Comes TFlood]
• Girl Talk’s Greg Gillis discusses the “leak” of the Night Ripper follow-up
• Joshua Redman delivers on the promise he showed as a young phenom
• Find out why Bob Marley’s heirs are jamming the Weinstein Brothers
• Miss Cellania finds photos of nearly every Abbey Road parody ever made

We loved the lo-fi feel of the Black Kids demos that made the rounds a few months ago, so we were a little worried that the band would overproduce their Almost Gold debut. Well perhaps we should spend less time worrying and more time writing, because the re-recorded version of I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You sounds pretty fuckin’ good.

Read on after the jump for the deliciously bizarre video for the single…

SXSW has finally wrapped up in Austin, and sadly Hidden Track didn’t have any correspondents on the scene. Luckily, almost every single blogger and their brother attended the schmoozefest, so there were plenty of reports from Texas. The Daily Swarm did the best job of rounding up the important news each day with their comprehensive You’re Not There features.

Let’s see what else happened this weekend:

• The schedule is out for GUTML’s Awesometown Festival
  
• Indie labels take e-commerce into their own hands
• David Oppenheimer shares his incredible photos from Langerado
• Coldplay, Tom Petty and Jay-Z to headline Live Nation’s Pemberton Festival on July 25-27 near Whistler in British Columbia
• Steve Winwood talks to Billboard about playing with Clapton and Petty
• Rush plans to switch up the setlist for the next leg of their tour
• Sheryl Crow and Fleetwood Mac aim to colloborate
• Austin City Limits is on the move after 33 years
• Dean Ween blogs about Ween’s Hawaiian tour
• TG, TB and the Unknown lists the 11 best Black Crowes related albums

Finally, we were sad to hear that Martin Fierro passed away late last week. The fiery saxophone player is best known for his brilliant work with both Legion of Mary and Zero. Our friend Brian Bavosa wrote a beautiful eulogy for The Meester.

Armed with a new record and a new guitarist, The Black Crowes brought their “One Night Only” tour to a capacity crowd at the Park West on Friday. For seven nights across the country, the Crowes will perform the new Warpaint record in its entirety along with a brief set of classics and covers.

In times of change, the band always seem to revert back to a club tour to get their bearings. They had a similar setup on the East Coast to kick off 2005’s reunion, and this run proved to be a similar situation – allowing the band the comforts of intimacy while road-testing the material before delving into their usual outdoor summer plans.

These shows also provide a means for new recruit, Luther Dickinson, to ease himself into the mix – a transition that is more than already under way. Luther’s stamp is all over Warpaint, making it a surprisingly focused record whose weak link appears to be Chris Robinson’s lyrics. The songs themselves are the most interesting to come from the Brothers Robinson since 1996’s Three Snakes and One Charm, something which Dickinson and bassist, Sven Pipien can be given a lot of credit for. Pipien finally seems comfortable in his role, and is downright assertive on the new material – a welcome change from his playing during the awkward By Your Side days. Read on for more…

For five days in August Medeski, Martin and Wood are offering their musician fans a once-in-a-lifetime learning experience called Camp MMW. Eighty campers will gather at the Full Moon Resort in the Catskill Mountains for five days of intensive workshops and seminars, as well as musical exploration with the band.

If it’s anything like my summer camp experience you’ll also master the art of the late night raid, figure out how to smoke out of an apple and learn the definition of Bug Juice. Camp MMW costs $1750, and takes place on August 5 – 10.

We’ve got a jam-packed week scheduled, but let’s start with some links:

• NPR will broadcast a number of SXSW performances including those by My Morning Jacket, R.E.M., Vampire Weekend and Yo La Tengo
• The Chicago Tribune lays out Wilco’s Riviera residency in chart form
• Scott Sowers ponders the change in Bonnaroo’s booking strategy
• The winning bid for the world’s largest music collection was bunk
• Jambase’s Dennis Cook talks to The Black Crowes about Warpaint
• The Lemonheads will perform It’s A Shame About Ray in its entirety
• Don’t expect to see Prince added to any festival lineups this year

Finally, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Eddie Vedder have all contributed tracks to the soundtrack of Body of War: Songs That Inspired An Iraqi War Veteran. Look for the album in stores on April 18.

In my brief experience writing about music, I’ve made plenty of mistakes. Just a few days ago I incorrectly referred to Dumpstaphunk’s drummer as Anthony Webber instead of the proper Raymond Webber. Shit happens, and all you can do is try to keep the errors to a minimum before you lose all credibility. But there are a few mistakes that are just totally inexcusable. Maxim’s David Peisner reviewed the Black Crowes’ Warpaint, and gave the album two and a half stars out of four. Problem is, Peisner admittedly never heard the album. The Crowes quickly called out Peisner on his biff-tastic maneuver. Maxim’s defense is that the Crowes didn’t give out advance copies of Warpaint, and they wanted to make sure they had coverage of this major release. Have these guys ever heard of a preview?

Enough about other’s shoddy journalism, here’s some of HT’s:

• Bust Outs reviewed a few kick ass Grateful Dead covers
• Some Dude’s Better Than Noodling looked at the Sam Roberts Band
• Luke Sacks fell in love with David Bowie all over again
• The B List started our Langerado preview coverage
• We kicked off Cover Wars with Abbey Road’s Sequence
• I Love Bad Music tackled a Ronstadt/Neville classic
• And as usual we had plenty of links to dump on you in Hors d’Oeuvres, Intermezzo, Bloggy Goodness, Tour Dates and Leftovers

Did you ever wonder what happened to the stars of classic music videos from the days when MTV actually played music? You know the bee girl from the No Rain video, the janitor from Smells Like Teen Spirit and Rosanna from well…Rosanna. The guys over at YesButNoButYes went about finding out where are they now.

Let’s end the week right where we started with a hot batch of links:

• The Roots have recruited one helluva lineup for their new album
• Les Claypool looked to some jamband legends for help with material for his Quest For Festeroo soundtrack
• The Green Apple Festival expands to eight cities in 2008
• We finally get to hear Jerry Garcia as a sideman 30 years after he recorded an album with Bill Cutler
• Paul McCartney denies media reports that he had angioplasty
• Booker T and the MGs, Issac Hayes and other classic soul artists deliver Stax Does The Beatles on the 26th
• We’d like to wish Largehearted Boy a very Happy Sixth Birthday. How does David keep on doin’ it?
• Download Wisely: Lifehacker’s Top Ten Bit Torrent Tools and Tricks
• Breakfast On Tour reviews a Cornelius/Benevento Russo show

Finally, when we heard that the Black Crowes produced a video for Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution, we were excited to see what the camera-shy Robinson brothers came up with. Let’s just say we weren’t expecting a photo collage reminiscent of one of those video yearbooks they sold at my high school. Take a look after the jump and judge for yourselves…

Rolling Stone’s David Fricke sat down with John Paul Jones for an exclusive interview about Led Zeppelin’s reunion show. The big news out of the article is that the members of the band are gonna meet later this month to discuss the future. Is there any chance in hell this reunion tour doesn’t happen?

Jones only offers lukewarm praise for Jason Bonham’s efforts on the drums, which only further fuels speculation of a new drummer coming on board for the tour. So read that, and then let’s end the week with some heady, heady linkage:

• The promoters of Wakarusa announce the initial lineup for 2008
• Lefsetz praises Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemaker’s free download
• Filter TV’s lastest episode features the boys in MGMT
• Chicago Reader feels Umphrey’s McGee is ahead of the music biz
• Live Nation aims to take over Chicago and Amsterdam
• Fricke also goes inside the studio with the Black Crowes
• Bill Graham Presents: Phil Lesh and Jackie Greene headline a night of duets dedicated to the legendary promoter
• Neddy and Terri review week one of Marco Benevento’s residency
• The Greenhaus Effect examines the state of the scene

Finally, let’s end the week with a brand spanking new video — check out The Avett Brothers’ Paranoia In B Flat Major, courtesy of the folks at Spinner.