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New Additions:
 Rusted Root - Stereo Rodeo CD - Their seventh album and first studio release since 2002's "Welcome To My Party" explores a variety of musical styles, crossing and merging genres. Says lead vocalist and guitarist Michael Glabicki, "Labeling is dangerous and limiting. We are a band made up of individual musicians who come together to create music. Call it what you want, but we are simply creating music that has a message." That message has been resonating with fans for nearly twenty years. $11.98
 Ozric Tentacles - The Yum Yum Tree CD - One of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK's festival scene return with a new studio album.The Ozrics layer ambient and ethereal landscapes with freeform dub trips, incredible rave grooves and psychedelic progressive rock. It's an open exploration of music and the soul. $17.98
 Buckwheat Zydeco - Lay Your Burden Down CD -The most ambitious, deepest and varied recording of Buckwheat Zydeco's career. Guests on the album include Sonny Landreth, Warren Haynes, Steve Berlin, JJ Grey and Trombone Shorty. In this, Buckwheat's first post-Katrina album, Louisiana's life-affirming jazz funeral philosophy of renewal - partying in the face of adversity - is on full display, with joyful, rhythmic dance music and deeper, more intense songs sharing the same celebratory bayou sprit. $17.98
 Ziggy Marley presents Family Time CD - Family Time is Ziggy Marley s third solo album and first full-length offering especially for children and families. With original songs newly-composed by Marley himself, the album features a variety of family and friends as guests including Rita Marley (Ziggy s mother), Cedella Marley (sister), Judah Marley (daughter), Paul Simon, Jack Johnson, Willie Nelson, Toots Hibberts (of Toots and the Maytals), Elizabeth Mitchell, Laurie Berkner, Paula Fuga and two stories narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis. $12.98
 Ben Harper & the Relentless 7 - White Lies for a Dark Time CD or CD/DVD Deluxe package - Tthe ninth studio album from acclaimed singer/songwriter and Grammy Award-winner Ben Harper. Harper has now reunited with band mates met when recording Both Sides of the Gun (2006) Relentless7. White Lies For Dark Times is a timeless Rock record, with a cohesive collection of music that is as raw, unrelenting and thunderous, as it is arrestingly haunting and emotional. CD $18.98 Deluxe w/DVD $24.98
Coming Soon:
May 12 - Jeff Bujak - Alive Like the Spine CD (pre-order)
Max Allen - Uphill CD
Trey Anastasio & Don Hart - Time Turns Elastic CD
Hallucinogen - In Dub Live CD
Hill Country Revue - Make A Move CD
May 19 - Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live at MSG CDs or DVDs
Chris Barron - Pancho & the Kid CD
OHMphrey CD
May 26 - The Radiators - The Lost Southlake Sessions CD
June 2 - Fillmore: The Last Days DVD
Woodstock - Original Soundtrack & More (2 CDs)
Woodstock Two (2 CDs)
Umphrey's McGee - Sound Stage Live DVD
Last Week's Additions:
 Zigaboo Modeliste & Gaboon's Gang - Funk Me Hard CD - An eclectic symposium of Zigaboo Modeliste's funk originals, recorded live at the Saenger Theater in New Orleans in 1980. This EP is a close peek at Zigaboo's musical evolution, as he was just departing from the Meters at the time of the recording. His songwriting genius is brilliantly present in these songs, resulting in a unique, funky musical experience. Funk Me Hard is a history-making timepiece, delivering the intensity of live performance, as well as a session in funk mastery. $8.99
 Moon Taxi - Live Ride CD - Nashville's Moon Taxi redeem the notion of a "jam band," a descriptor that's grown into an epithet in the larger musical world that implies endless, limp noodling and lack of compositional or vocal substance. Not so with Moon Taxi, who are a jam band in the same way Little Feat or Bob Marley & The Wailers are jammers. Like these ancestors, Moon Taxi synthesizes divergent elements into a cohesive, concert-ready rush. It's pumping hard onstage where the real animal emerges in such bands, which makes Live Ride (self-released) a prime intro to this vibrant group who incorporate roots rhythms, Latinismo, Phish-y riffs, complex fusion and gutbucket, blue collar rock (a la early Doobie Brothers, actually...) into a pretty enjoyable ball they hurl with serious gusto. - Dennis Cook, Jambase.com $9.99
 Skatalites - Stretchin' Out Vol 1 LP - Contains crucial extended jam sessions recorded at The Blue Monk Jazz Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica, Summer 1983. More than an hour of gooey, delicious ska from the original Skatalites in their prime! $12.98
 Ray Lamontagne - Trouble LP - Every once in a while a singer/songwriter comes down the pike in the grand emotive tradition of Neil Young and Van Morrison. In the early 2000s, the quietly intense folk of Iron & Wine and the rootsy-experimental stylings of Sufjan Stevens continued that lineage. Ray LaMontagne, whose impressive 2004 debut, TROUBLE, draws on alt-country, roots rock, and progressive folk in a unique, strikingly sincere way, seems a likely candidate for the keeper of the flame. $16.98
 Ray Lamontagne - Till the Sun Turns Black LP - Featuring lush, expansive soundscapes, Ray Lamontagne's Till The Sun Turns Black is an impressive artistic statement that transports his piercing lyrics and soulful vocals to lofty new heights. This, his second album of inspired, introspective songs, is as haunting and beautiful as his heralded debut and offers even more delectable sounds. Lamontagne's stunning talent is remarkable evident on Till The Sun Turns Black. $16.98
Upcoming Events:
May 17 - *Carolina Bluegrass Festival - Cary, NC
May 22-25 *StrangeCreek Campout - Greenfield, MA
May 23-24 Summer Camp - Chilocothe, IL
May 29-31 Mountain Jam - Hunter Mt, NY
June 4-7 Wakarusa - Ozark, AR
June 5-6 *Wanee - Live Oak, FL
June 11-14 - Bonnaroo - Manchester, TN
* Look for the HGMN booth at this event
Video of the Week:
The Station - live at the Loyal Earth Festival 4/16/2009 Seven songs!
Thanks for reading, go see some live music and have a great week!
Lee Crumpton |
