Equaleyes

New Additions:

The Radiators - The Lost Southlake Sessions CD - Recorded in the early 90's during one of the most creative periods in the band's long history. The sessions were discovered while researching tracks for last years 30th Anniversary Compilation, Wild & Free. Six of the fourteen tracks have never been previously released. $11.98

Hallucinogen - In Dub Live CD - Featuring Ott, Posford, Youth, Jackson & David Nock, it is a beautiful acoustic performance of the classics you know and love under a new arrangement from the live performance. There are also several new tracks. You have got to love those virgin DUB remixes. A solid hour of heavy grooves and upbeat psychedelic sofa monsters. Complete with crowd noises, this release will bring the energy of the event into your living room. The excitement felt by thousands as they watched these seasoned professionals firing out their electro-acoustic meanderings. $13.98

Coming Soon:

June 2 - Umphrey's McGee - Sound Stage Live DVD
New Riders of the Purple Sage - Where I Come From CD
Ween - All Request Live CD
Fillmore: The Last Days DVD
Woodstock - Original Soundtrack & More (2 CDs)
Woodstock Two (2 CDs)

June 9 - Infected Mushroom - The Legend of the Black Shawarma CD
Nathan Whitt - Anticipation CD

Last Week's Additions:
New Monsoon - Live (2 CDs) - Recorded during an epic 3 night run in Texas last September and features the powerhouse current line-up of drummer Sean Hutchinson, bassist Marshall Harrell and founding members Bo Carper, Jeff Miller and Phil Ferlino. New Monsoon Live captures the band reaching one of it's highest emotional, technical, and musical peaks. Building upon their most successful studio album to date, New Monsoon V, this live two-CD set is the first official release from the current 5-piece line-up, and their first live album since 2004. $16.98

Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood - Live at MSG CDs or DVDs - History rocked and rock made history during a sold-out three-gig stand at Madison Square Garden in late February 2008 when icons Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood performed a concert together for the first time since their all-too-brief days in the legendary Blind Faith in 1969. Whether they will ever team again is unknown. But with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood Live From Madison Square Garden, fans everywhere are able to experience the sound and the glory of a performance on that famous stage by two of rock's greatest artists. CDs $24.98, DVDs $27.98

Chris Barron - Pancho & the Kid CD - Chris Barron is best known as the lead singer for the Grammy nominated band, Spin Doctors, who sold like, fifty-two gazillion records or something. They were on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and opened for the Rolling Stones (or vice versa). Chris Barron cooks a mean meatloaf, wrote the songs, "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong" and "Two Princes" both of which went to Billboard's top five, he likes kids and dogs, and keeps his gold and platinum records in his bathroom. "Pancho and the Kid" is a collaboration with his long time friend, Jeff Cohen of Pancho's Lament. It is a song-oriented mixture of American musical forms that showcase the beauty, versatility, subtlety and raw emotional power of Barron's voice. $16.98

OHMphrey CD - OHMphrey, the brainchild of three members of the Chicago-based rock-band Umphrey s McGee along with two members of OHM, unleashes their improv-heavy self-titled debut. $17.98

Buddy Greene - Happy Man CD - The pickin' party that began with "RUFUS" continues with HAPPY MAN, Buddy's latest offering of old and new favorites. This acoustic feast includes bluegrass, folk, Irish jigs, Cajun, and of course good ol' gospel served up by an impressive line up of instrumental and vocal talent. Caution to all curmudgeons: contents could make you happy. $14

Grateful Dead - Spiral Bears Babydoll Tshirts - Ladies, show your true colors on tour or at your favorite concerts and festivals with this Grateful Dead Spiral Bears Tie Dye Babydoll T by Liquid Blue
Sizes: Small-XL. 100% Cotton. $19.99

Upcoming Events:

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

June 18-21 - Telluride Bluegrass Festival - Telluride, CO

June 26-28 - Sonic Bloom - Bellvue, CO

* Look for the HGMN booth at this event

Video of the Week:
Equaleyes perform an acoustic version of the unreleased song "Idaho" at the MoBoogie Loft in Denver, CO 5-12-09.

Thanks for reading, go see some live music and have a great week!
Lee Crumpton

New Additions:

TR3 featuring Tim Reynolds - Radiance CD - "Fully capable of peeling off lightening fast runs up and down the neck of the guitar, Reynolds' style encompasses more than speed shredding. His melodic and rhythmic sensibilities set him apart and imbue his music with equal amounts of soul and technical brilliance." --High Country Press

After Reynolds relocated to the Outer Banks he had a chance encounter with two gifted musicians--bassist Mick Vaughn and drummer Dan Martier. These three talented players convened a few rehearsals, several stealth appearances, and the rest is history. Reynolds quickly realized that it was time to get back to the basics of rocking out and his electric trio, TR3, was reignited. The fifteen tracks on this new CD "Radiance" dish out a steady diet of progressive, funk-infused rock , feature a number of Reynolds' originals, an eclectic cover from Chris Whitley and a bonus track. Catch Tim on tour this summer playing lead guitar for the Dave Matthews Band. $13.99

ToasT - The Mad Science CD - In 2009, after 5 years of preparation and development, Toast's long-anticipated studio album The Mad Science is released. Recorded by Austin's own Grammy-winning triple-platinum engineer, Stuart Sullivan (Sublime, Butthole Surfers, Meat Puppets) and Joey Benjamin.

The album is an experimental journey covering everything from riff-based, jazzy funk to Reggae mixed with politically charged Afro-beat rhythms. Not to mention, the progressive rock doesn't stop short of cleverly written lyrics. The album has something for everyone and offers an exclusive eccentricity that stems from a creative source yet unheard by the public ear. ToasT is James Pate (guitar/vocals), Russell Dobda (keyboards/saxes), John Brown (bass/mandolin), Vincenzo Loechel (percussion/vocals). Guest appearances by Leah Zeger (violin), Tony Alexander (Tenor Sax), and Lea Dobda (Trumpet). $12.99

John Scofield - Piety Street CD - It is a rare artist that can explore more than one kind of music with true fluency, virtuosity and sincerity. Guitarist John Scofield can, and he s proven it once again with Piety Street - a powerful collection of Gospel renditions.

Playing with John on this recording: Born in Kent, England in 1964, Jon Cleary is known for his salty-sweet voice, masterful piano/ organ skills. Cleary is best known as a member of Bonnie Raitt's band and his own group Jon Cleary & the Absolute Monster Gentlemen.

Sharing a 26 December birthday with Scofield, George Porter, Jr. was born in Louisiana in 1947. Few bass players in the history of modern New Orleans music are as storied as George Porter Jr. During the course of a career spanning four decades, Porter earned recognition as one of America's most iconic and elite bass players as a member of The Meters.

Born in Durban, South Africa in 1952, Ricky Fataar started playing drums at age nine. Fataar appeared in film The Rutles, All You Need is Cash, playing guitarist Stig O'Hara. Stateside by the early 70's, he joined the Beach Boys, touring and recording as their drummer. He has been Bonnie Raitt's drummer since 1979. Multi-instrumentalist, Ricky also writes music for films.

Born into a seventh generation Lousiana, singer John Boutte lives and breathes the heart and soul of New Orleans. Boutte works with a wonderful amalgam of styles -- from torchy jazz to soul and African-American gospel.

Also native to New Orleans, drummer and percussionist Shannon Powell, 43, is both a traditional jazz and modern jazz musician. Powell is widely recognized for his six years in Harry Connick Jr. s band. $15.98

Equaleyes - Girls & Guys T shirts $15.99 each

Coming Soon:

April 7 -Grateful Dead - To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (3 CDs) pre-order
Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (9 CD box) pre-order

April 14 - Medeski Martin & Wood - Radiolarians 2 CD
Jake Shimabukuro - Live CD
Easy Star All Stars - Lonely Hearts Dub Band CD

April 21 - John McLaughlin & the 4th Dimension - Live at Belgrade DVD
Sex Mob Meets Medeski - Live in Willisau CD
Jorma Kaukonen & Vital Parts - Rockpalast: West Coast Legends DVD

Last Week's Additions:

Carolina Chocolate Drops & Joe Thompson - Live at Merlefest 2008 CD - Joe Thompson is said to be the last traditional old-time fiddler around. The Drops were trained under his guidance. Performances from the 90 year-old are rare and this one was caught live at Merlefest with one of the hottest young old-time bands around! $14.99

Carolina Chocolate Drops presents Colored Aristocracy: Sankofa Strings CD - "Listening to them is like dropping the needle on a Victrola record." --Mitch Teich, Arizona Public Radio

Sankofa Strings came into being as a result of the first Black Banjo Gathering, held in Boone, NC in April 2005. Sule and Dom flew in from Arizona, and when they hooked up with Rhiannon, they knew great music was to be made! Two months later, in Arizona, they played their first gigs, and as they say, the rest was history. Four months later, after moving from AZ to NC, Dom joined Rhiannon and NC native Justin Robinson to form the Carolina Chocolate Drops, another proud exponent of the Black String Band Revival. $14.99

BeauSoleil - Live From JazzFest 2008 CD - This recording WON a GRAMMY in the Best Cajun/Zydeco Album category for the 2008 Grammy Awards! Recorded in New Orleans LA - April 27, 2008 $17

Del McCoury Band - Live from JazzFest 2008 CD - Recorded live at JazzFest on April 27, 2008. Nominated for a Grammy in the Best Bluegrass Album category! $17

Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys - Live at JazzFest 2008 CD - Recorded live in New Orleans on May 1, 2008. This CD was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Cajun/Zydeco Album category. $17

Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - Tangled Tales CD - "Tangled Tales" mashes the outlaw swing music, insightful charm, and brilliant melodies that have endeared Dan to audiences and fellow artists for four decades with his signature understated melancholy that could only be born from a creative genius. Featuring a world-class collection of musical talent including instrumental virtuosos David Grisman, Charlie Musselwhite, Bruce Forman, and slide-guitarist Roy Rogers, and produced by Grammy-winning roots music producer Chris Goldsmith, "Tangled Tales" delivers 8 great new original tunes that feel like instant Dan Hicks classics (and some choice cover tunes too). This album is calculated to keep your toes tappin' and your synapses zappin'. $13.98

Eric Lindell - Gulf Coast Highway CD - Recorded at Balance Studio in Mandeville, Louisiana, Gulf Coast Highway, will capture the attention of music lovers all over the globe. Featuring 12 original songs and three inspired covers - Buck Owens ("Crying Time"), Delbert McClinton ("Here Come The Blues Again") and Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson ("I Can Get Off On You") -- Gulf Coast Highway finds Lindell reaching new performing and songwriting heights. His soul-drenched mix of roots-rock, sinewy blues, swampy R&B and a hint of honky-tonk soul permeates each and every song, and have led critics to make comparisons to Van Morrison and Delbert McClinton. With musical help from some of the Crescent City's finest players, including the Galactic rhythm section of ROBERT MERCURIO and STANTON MOORE on eight tracks, Lindell has created his most fully realized lyrical and musical statement yet. $17.98

Upcoming Events:

April 16-19 - Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival - Pittsboro, NC

April 16-19 - Signal Fest - Chapel Hill, NC

Video of the Week:
The New Mastersounds - Hole In the Bag - Live at MoBoogie 3/28/09

New Additions:

The New Mastersounds - Plug & Play CD - The sixth album from the UK Funk maestros. What you get on Plug & Play is: their trademark infectious energetic grooves, warm vintage production by guitarist Eddie Roberts, and successful forays into sub-genres like Psychedelic Afro-funk, CTI-era Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz and classic Soul. Though the NMS wear their musical roots on their sleeve, this ain't no retro copycat band: each track sounds unmistakably like The New Mastersounds. And in Dionne Charles they have found a vocalist who can do justice to the phenomenal soulfulness of the music. $13.98

Equaleyes - While I'm Alive CD - Formed as a power trio in early 2006, Equaleyes began touring through Idaho, Utah & Colorado with a blend of rock, funk & bluegrass. When the group brought onboard a fourth voice with keyboards and accordion in late 2007 they infused a pop-electronic sound to their already diverse repertoire. Armed with their sophomore album, While I'm Alive (7/22/08 release), Equaleyes is attracting both young & old to the dance floors each time they light up the stage. With a rapidly growing fan base Equaleyes has found opportunities to play such venues as the Knitting Factory (Boise, ID) and Fox Theatre (Boulder, CO) along with opening for larger acts like The Wailers and The Jerry Garcia Band. $12

Bourgeois Gypsies - Faulty Fairytales CD - From stripped down, gritty hillbilly sounds to slinky swamp ballads, Faulty Fairytales hearkens back to country and blues records of old with definite shades of Bakersfield and soul. "If you hate the blandness in your music then this delicately seasoned and ever so slightly offbeat album will make you very happy." ~ Bluesbunny $12

Toubab Krewe - Live at the Orange Peel CD - Since forming in 2005, this exciting instrumental quintet has developed their unique sound over the course of numerous extended trips to Mali, Guinea, and the Ivory Coast, where they immersed themselves in local musical culture. But their roots are in Asheville, NC, where they recorded this, their sophomore album. These songs continue to mix American rock with West African musical traditions. Along the way, they explore the worlds of surf and zydeco fusing it into one of the most innovative voices in music today. $12.98

Fareed Haque & the Flat Earth Ensemble - Flat Planet CD - "Hindustani music swings!" says Fareed Haque, leader of the Flat Earth Ensemble (and member of Garaj Mahal). A jazz and classical guitar virtuoso, Haque's latest project is the culmination of years of study and innovation, a blending of Hindustani folk rhythms and groove jazz. "All my life I've loved the rhythms of South Asian folk music - the folk music from northwestern India and Pakistan, that is the basis for much of what is today called "Bollywood" film music, Qawwali, Bhangra. All of these are styles of South Asian music that GROOVE with hypnotic, high energy, danceable rhythms...much the same as the African-American gospel that is the basis of so much popular American music". In South Asia, as on the South Side of Chicago, 'charismatic music' - music that builds to an emotional and many would say spiritual climax - is at the core of traditional culture and the basis for much in popular culture...simply put Punjabi folk music is to India what gospel is to America - funky, fun, danceable and spiritual. $15.99

Terry Eckard Band - Rebel on the Highway CD - The Terry Eckard Band is a blues based power trio out of Hickory NC. Driving backbeats and ripping slide guitar give them a sound all they're own. His driving boogie style, sweet blues and slide playing set him apart from rest. Add lyrics that send ya back..."ya been there" and you'll be hooked!!! Rebel on the Highway, Terry's latest CD is a none stop ride down a winding mountain road...you'll want to jump right back on at the end!!! Raised in North Carolina, Terry's writing comes from his own years on the road, traveling and gigging throughout the south. You just try to dance non-stop to either album... then you'll know why Terry Eckard is the King of Southern Boogie!!!!

Coming Soon:
March 17 - Return to Forever DVD
Les Claypool - Of Fungi & Foe CD
John Brown's Body - Re-Amplify CD
MGMT- Time to Pretend CD
Old School Freight Train - Six Years CD
John Scofield - Piety Street CD

March 24 - Dan Hicks & the Hot Licks - Tangled Tales CD
Eric Lindell - Gulf Coast Highway CD

March 31 - John Scofield - Piety Street CD pre-order

April 7 -Grateful Dead - To Terrapin: Hartford '77 (3 CDs) pre-order
Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (9 CD box) pre-order

Last Week's Additions:
Phish - The Clifford Ball (7 DVD box set) - The Clifford Ball was the first of a series of seven now legendary weekend-long concert events hosted by Phish (the last was Coventry in 2004) and was named for the aviation pioneer. On each of the two show days, August 16-17, Phish performed three sets and an encore to a crowd of over 70,000 fans, making it that year's biggest concert and temporarily making rural Plattsburgh the ninth largest city in New York state and Phish was the only band on the bill. This phenomenal festival was captured on film, and now unfurls on a new 7-DVD set from Rhino featuring over nine hours of incredible footage and inspired jams including a bonus disc packed with rarities, interviews, and more. Bonus Disc presents choice rarities including a soundcheck from August 15, their "Flatbed Jam" performed in the wee hours of the morning on the back of a truck, an interview with longtime Phish artist Jim Pollock, interviews with Phish, and more. $79

Widespread Panic - Valdosta 1989 (2 CDs) - Recorded live at The Armory in Valdosta, GA on April 8,1989, this very special 2-track recording features the original 4 members: Bell, Houser, Nance and Schools. Recorded by the Oade brothers and recently mastered by John Keane. $16.98

Bela Fleck - Throw Down Your Heart, Tales from the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3: Africa Sessions CD - Throw Down Your Heart chronicles banjo virtuoso and 18 time Grammy award winner Bela Fleck's musical journey to Africa to explore the little known African roots of the banjo. Bela's boundary-breaking musical adventure takes him to Uganda, Tanzania, The Gambia, and Mali, and provides a glimpse of the beauty and complexity of African music. Using his banjo, Bela transcends barriers of language and culture, finding common ground and forging connections with musicians from very different backgrounds. $17.98

Alison Brown - The Company You Keep CD - "I've been writing, recording and performing my own tunes for nearly 20 years now," Brown reflects. "And as I thought about the progression of my sound - our band sound - I began to think about what a collaborative effort this musical journey has been. After 15 years of recording, performing and philosophizing about music with (pianist) John R Burr and (bassist) Garry West, I really wanted to draw that collaborative spirit to the forefront on this album." The Company You Keep features the musicians she has spent most of the past 15 years performing with: John R. Burr (piano), Garry West (bass), David Grisman Quintet alum Joe Craven (fiddle/mandolin/percussion) and Larry Atamanuik (drums) alongside guests John Doyle (guitar), Stuart Duncan (fiddle) and Kenny Malone (drums) on a set of engaging, upbeat and melodic tunes, many of which were co-written by Brown and Burr. $17.98

The Boston Horns - Shibuya Gumbo CD - THE NEWEST CD FROM THE BOSTON HORNS! A full length studio recording featuring vocals by Barrence Whitfield, Sam Kininger on alto sax, and Yahuba on percussion. $12

Upcoming Events:

Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival - April 16-19 - Pittsboro, NC

Video of the Week:
Phish - "Fluffhead" from the Clifford Ball DVD. Phish opened with the same tune at this past weekend's Hampton reunion. What a blast!

Thanks for reading, and have a great week!
Lee Crumpton