The Dancing Tree 07.21.08

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New Additions:

Tea Leaf Green - Raise Up the Tent CD - Their first new studio album in three years brings you a raw TLG sound with no wacky production getting in the way! Sharing some of the style and substance of musical contemporaries My Morning Jacket, Wolfmother, and The Raconteurs, Tea Leaf Green conjure 70s Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and The Grateful Dead, taking classic sounds and giving them a present-day polish. Raise Up the Tent is a party like no other! $15.99

The Avett Brothers - The Second Gleam CD and LP - Featuring six new tracks, The Second Gleam is the second in The Avett Brothers' The Gleam EP series and follows the release of 2007's excellent Emotionalism LP. This installment sings to the uncommon senses of the common man and walks calmly and powerfully among fragile and hard-learned themes of life and song. The North Carolina grass-punk trio, made up of Seth and Scott Avett and Bob Crawford, update rootsy American music with a gentle pop momentum. The simplicity of The Gleam series showcases the brothers' true talent for writing songs that speak straight to the heart. CD $6.99; LP $12.99

Medeski Martin and Wood - Zaebos: The Book of Angels Vol. 11 CD - Focused, ecstatic and wildly improvisational, the trio of Medeski Martin and Wood is one of the most popular and vibrant instrumental ensembles of the last few decades, playing to packed houses from Budokan to Bonnaroo and back again. Original members of the earliest Masada units (reaching back to 1993), they are a natural choice to interpret the lyrical Book of Angels, and here return to the fold like three prodigal sons. Ten exhilarating and creative arrangements of Masada/Zorn compositions that alternately groove, lope, shred and burn with a fiery passion. $15.98

Ozric Tentacles - Jurassic Shift CD/DVD set - Ozric's fourth proper album, Jurassic Shift is released here in re-mastered form with a bonus DVD. The DVD includes the video for "Vita Voom" plus live footage from the Glastonbury Festival and studio footage of the making of Jurassic Shift. $15.98

Dr. Dog - Fate CD and LP - Fate sees the Philadelphia-based quintet filtering the gamut of American popular music into its own idiosyncratic brand of blue-eyed, dilated-pupil soul. As ever, Dr. Dog makes magic from an enduring pop palette of intricate harmonies, shape-shifting melodies, and ramshackle audio ingenuity - all presented through the band's slightly skewed and utterly individualistic outlook. Fate is the record Dr. Dog were destined to make, a timeless yet contemporary distillation of the band's open-armed, big-hearted sound taken to new heights of craft and creativity. Inventive, magnificently realized, and absolutely irresistible! CD $15.99; LP $17.99

Walter "Wolfman" Washington - Doin' the Funky Thing CD - Doin' The Funky Thing is an impressive and consistently moving achievement by an artist in the fullness of his maturity and a big step forward for the Wolfman as a contemporary blues composer. This program presents Wolf at his very best in every category: writing, arranging, singing, playing guitar and directing the band. The horns whisper, punctuate, sing and shout like a natural extension of the Wolfman's musical personality. There's plenty of Grade-A Wolfman funk like "Tweakin," "Wolf Jazz" and the two-part dance-floor marathon "Shake Your Booty/Funky Thing" highlighted by the Roadmasters and their leader's fluid, effortlessly emotive guitar. $15.99

Slightly Stoopid - Slightly Not Stoned Enough to Eat Breakfast Yet Stoopid CD - Once a 6-song EP of which only 5,000 copies were printed, the demand for this material became so great that the band added 14 songs and called it an album. It includes the first ever studio version of "Sensimilla." $14.98

Sunfold - Toy Tugboats CD - Everything from jazz to electronic, folk to power pop and all psychedelic stops in between are found on this album from the members of Annuals! Consisting of all the members of Annuals, Sunfold is a musical endeavor headed by vocalist/guitarist Kenny Florence. The purpose of Sunfold is to rediscover the sense of uninhibited exploration of melody and harmony that is always present in the pioneering of a genre and mold it into a sound that is reflective of past and present musical paradigms, without getting stuck in any particular formula. Luckily, Kenny has found himself surrounded by a group of close friends and talented musicians who share his insistence on constantly moving forward. Florence's lyrics reflect a sincere fascination with nature and existence, being heavily influenced by Eastern mysticism and metaphysics as well as mathematical thought. $15.99

Sonny Moorman - Telegraph Road CD - The Sonny Moorman Group is a Cincinnati, Ohio-based Blues/Rock band in the classic "power trio" format, consisting of Sonny Moorman (guitar & vocals), Marc Hoffman (bass), and Dave Fair (drums & vocals). Sonny and the band are nine-time winners of CAMMY awards (Cincinnati Area Music awards). The band was formed in 1994 and was signed to its first recording deal by 706 Records/Sun Studio at the 1994 Crossroads in Memphis. Since then the band has played 300 nights a year and has performed at regional festivals and clubs and toured the US with Easyriders Magazine, performing at all their events. The Sonny Moorman Group was nominated for the 2005 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards in the Blues category. $12.00

Coming Soon:

July 29 - Zach Gill - Stuff CD (pre-order)

August 5 - Mike Gordon - The Green Sparrow CD (pre-order)
Phish - Walnut Creek (2 DVDs) (pre-order)
Phish - LivePhish CD releases:
5/8/93 Durham, NH (pre-order)
12/7/97 Dayton, OH (pre-order)
7/6/98 Prague (pre-order)
Brazilian Girls - New York City CD (pre-order)

August 12 - The Duhks - Fast Paced World CD (pre-order)

August 19 - Xavier Rudd - Dark Shades of Blue CD
Darrell Scott - Modern Hymns CD

August 26 - Little Feat - Join the Band CD (w/ Fleck, Gordon, Matthews, Buffett, more)

September 9 - Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers CD
Ray Lamontagne - Gossip in the Grain CD

September 16 - George Clinton & His Gangsters of Love CD

September 23 - BuzzUniverse - Live at the Donegal Saloon CD

Sept. 30 - John Brown's Body - Amplify CD
Oneside - First, To Last CD

October 21 - The Bridge - Blind Man's Hill CD



Last Week's Additions:

Drew Emmitt - Long Road CD
Jeff Coffin Mu'tet - Mutopia CD
Grateful Dead - Dead Is Better T-Shirt
Ryan Montbleau - Stages CD