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Put It In My Pocket |Vulfpeck and Lockn Audience (we just learned the song!) | #LOCKN #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers #vulfpeck (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kVeeGhBob/?igshid=xntvatbc3ryo

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Bob Weir and Wolf Bros feat. Susan Tedeschi - “Angel from Montgomery/Sugaree” (Live, Aug. 25, 2019)

Though it’s only mildly rehearsed and parts of it were made up on the spot, Susan Tedeschi’s cameo singing “Angel from Montgomery/Sugaree” with Bob Weir and Wolf Bros at Lockn’ is the kind of one-time-only gem that makes the Virginia festival so intriguing.

Playing electric rhythm guitar and handling lead vocals, Tedeschi is the ideal sibling to fill out Wolf Bros’ minimalist sound. For 13 minutes, she leads the trio-cum-quartet through the John Prine/Grateful Dead amalgamation that’s a standard part of Tedeschi Trucks Band setlists and keeps the loose performance from unraveling when Weir switches from acoustic to electric guitar mid-song and when he tries to sing words he’s unfamiliar with.

Train-wrecky on the one hand, this sit-in is ultimately and absolutely charming, particularly toward the end when Tedeschi pulls Weir, drummer Jay Lane and bassist Don Was back from the brink and answers Weir’s don’t you tell them that you know me thusly:

I won’t tell ’em that I know your name Bobby Weir, no I won’t now, she sings in her trademark rasp before the occasionally bumpy performance comes in for a smooth landing.

Grade card: Bob Weir and Wolf Bros feat. Susan Tedeschi - “Angel from Montgomery/Sugaree” (Live - 8/25/19) - A-

8/28/19

[wheredowegofrom-here]

Lockn’

[mkblionsden]

Credit to from @bobbymaxwell2 - #marcusking #lockn #VAisForMusicLovers #lockn2019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2O1ZkrDbuV/?igshid=6g4urjzv8624

[nateduval]

Always a please working with @treyanastasio on ANYTHING and this poster was certainly no exception! If you’re at @locknfestival be sure to hit the merch booth early today as this groovy poster AND a very limited rainbow foil variant are there waiting for you to take them home. Tonight’s show is a special one, as Derek Trucks will be sitting in for a guitar playing clinic set for the ages. Trey and Derek’s guitar headstock butterflies seen here fluttering together in harmony through the psychedelic summer sunshine will hopefully be reminiscent of what’s to come tonight... Like a lot of my work from this past year, this was Entirely hand drawn on my IPad Pro in @procreate and it’s still very exciting for me to be creating work in this new-to-me way. #nateduval #treyanastasioband #treyanastasio #phish #derektrucks #lockn2019 #psychedelicart #bandmerch #illustration #procreate (at LOCKN' Festival) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1g4fV8HJKr/?igshid=1ho0po6jjgber

[mountaingirlclothing]

Who remembers the MGC festival waist packs?They’re coming back this spring! It’s been a few years right? 🤩 #fesivalseason #fannypack #hippack #festivalgear #lockn2019 https://ift.tt/2U66cui

[krispyweiss]

Song Review: Tedeschi Trucks Band feat. Trey Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II - "Little Wing" (Live, Aug. 24, 2019)

Give the Tedeschi Trucks Band credit for allowing Trey Anastasio some time in the spotlight; however, hearing the Phish frontman sing when he's sharing a stage with Susan Tedeschi, Mike Mattison, Alecia Chakour and Mark Rivers is a tough sell.

Yet that's just what happened with the 12-piece TTB morphed into the 14-piece TTABB with the addition of Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II at Lockn' and the expanded ensemble played "Little Wing" during its full-album performance of Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.

Even with Chakour backing him up, Anastasio was unable to do the Jimi Hendrix-via-Eric Clapton number justice and this was only magnified when Tedeschi and Chakour took the second verse. Still, the playing is exceptional as Derek Trucks, Bramhall, Anastasio and Trucks again trade solos and add sterling rhythm work while or one the other takes over.

Unlike the previously reviewed "Layla" from the same set, this number sounds under-rehearsed and the horn section just doesn't fit. Sound Bites wouldn't have walked away had he had the good fortune to witness this, but "Little Wing" might have been a good opportunity to fly to the concession stand.

Grade card: Tedeschi Trucks Band feat. Trey Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II - "Little Wing" (Live - 8/24/19) - B-

8/28/19

[krispyweiss]

Neal Casal Appears on Two New, Posthumous Releases

Neal Casal stayed busy right up until his death in August, finishing Circles Around the Sun recordings, doing session work for friends and playing with CATS and Dead & Company bassist Oteil Burbridge at Lockn’ in the days leading up to his suicide.

Having already appeared posthumously on Vision Explored’s “Be the Light,” Casal’s guitar and voice are back again on wildly divergent tracks, both as bandleader on CATS’ ironically titled “When I Was at Peace” and as session man on Greg Lociacono’s “Chamberlain’s Trunk.”

The former, on streaming platforms, is an instrumental, trance-space groove - the bookend to the previously released “Peace Reprise” - off Circles Around the Sun Meets Joe Russo, the EP from CATS and the Almost Dead and Furthur drummer that arrives Oct. 18. Improvised on the spot, it’ll take you out there if you’re already on your way: however, “When I Was at Peace” will never be cited among CATS’ most-affecting material.

“Chamberlain’s Truck” is a tender, acoustic single from Lociacono, of Mother Hips and Chris Robinson’s Green Leaf Rustlers. A wistful tale of addiction, it’s another song with extra heft in the wake of Casal’s death.

I won’t care until you want me to, Casal sings with Lociacono, as his electric guitar adds a country lilt to the track, which was released on the video above.

I’ll be there when you want me to.

Taken together, these songs - with their respective title and subject matter - seem like harbingers that were missed. Now it’s Casal who’s missed; thankfully his memory and music - that already released and that still to come - continue to embody and bolster his legacy.

10/14/19

[krispyweiss]

Sound Remembrance: Neal Casal 1968-2019

Though he’s most remembered as a band guy, Neal Casal was also a prolific solo artist, releasing 12 albums under his own name in the course of his career, which is now, like his too-short life, tragically over.

For many musicians, a dozen LPs is the whole shebang; for Casal, a dozen LPs was moonlighting.

An in-demand producer and session player who backed everyone from Willie Nelson to Shooter Jennings, Casal got his start playing with a reconstituted version of Blackfoot before moving on to Ryan Adams’ Cardinals and co-founding Circles Around the Sun, the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Hard Working Americans and the Skiffle Players.

Casal committed suicide Aug. 26 after appearing the previous weekend at Lockn’. His death prompted an outpouring of grief and remembrances from his fellow musicians, friends and colleagues, all of whom made a point of saying that on top of his deep talent, Casal was just a really, super, nice guy.

They were deeply impacted by his death and Sound Bites has been surprised by how much it stung him, too.

The blog was only tangentially aware of the guitarist when Mr. and Mrs. Sound Bites were first exposed to CATS over the Soldier Field PA system at Fare Thee Well. But once word got around those irresistible, infectious grooves were Casal’s doing, we were in on the secret and Interludes for the Dead has been a go-to release in the time since.

A few months later, the Sound Biteses found themselves at an HWA show. And though Todd Snider was who drew us there, Casal was the guy who kept blowing our minds. In that moment, it was obvious he was a force.

Just a few months ago, Sound Bites fulfilled a half-decade-long dream and saw CATS up close and personal in a hometown bar. The performance was astounding and Casal and company lived up to the expectations that have been building since 2015.

CATS’ career came full circle with a set at Lockn’ 2019 - some of which is streaming above - where the band played its first show in 2016. Two days later, Casal took the stage one last time with a one-time band called Oteil & Friends. After that, he returned home from the festival and the man who had a CATS EP in the bag (Circles Around the Sun Meet Joe Russo), another band LP in the works and was readying to produce a record for Kenny Roby was gone.

His music remains.

The world is better for that.

And the world will be even better if Casal’s suicide - paired with Jeff Austin’s earlier this year - causes people to reach out to loved ones who may be hurting.

As Bob Weir, who played with Casal in his final gig, said: “If you ever feel like giving up, please call the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255.”

8/29/19

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Tedeschi Trucks Band | Lockn #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kci6bBF3c/?igshid=oaimeqdjiyzt

[deadheadland]

Jessica | Oteil and Friends w Duane Betts #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers #remberthefirsttimedickeymeltedyourface #allmanbrothers #happybirthdayoteil #bluesky (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kPm8GBq71/?igshid=3tj9ruswmkpn

[deadheadland]

Bob Weir doing his best to control the weather... Weather Report Suite Prelude Part 1 Part 2 (Let It Grow) Oteil and Friends | Lockn #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers #happybirthdayoteil #weireverywheredept #bobweirismyspiritanimal #bobweircontrolstheweather (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1kPAF7h90q/?igshid=sv5x340nekpx

[deadheadland]

Trey Anastasio and Derek Trucks #lockn2019 #trucksanastasio #tab (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1h_lzShKMi/?igshid=1nr405br5qi8y

[deadheadland]

China Cat Sunflower | Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 🐺 Tonight's setlist so far... I Jack Straw > bw jl @ Cassidy @ sound check> Only a River @ Peggy-O @ Friend of the Devil @ Loser > ~ The Other One v1 > Throwing Stones Set II Me and Bobby McGee ^ @ bw st Don't Think Twice, It's Allright ^ @ st bw Angel From Montgomery > ^ @ st bw Sugaree ^ @ st bw A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall ^ bw st Turn On Your Lovelight ^ st bw Days Between > % Bird Song % > China Cat Sunflower 🌻 % *bw acoustic ^ w Susan Tedeschi ~switch to electric midsong % w Mikaela Davis #LOCKN #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers (~);} |DHL #nevermissasundayshow #nevermissasundayatlockn #sundayfunday #grateful #sogladyoumadeit #bestisyettocome #weireverywheredept #iloveyou #IWANTMYDHLTV! #doubleewaterfall (at Infinity Downs Farm) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nPdqOBEMt/?igshid=zos61imo2p0h

[deadheadland]

Turn On Your Lovelight | Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 🐺 Tonight's setlist so far... I Jack Straw > bw jl * Cassidy * sound check> Only a River * Peggy-O * Friend of the Devil * Loser > ~ The Other One v1 > Throwing Stones Set 2 Me and Bobby McGee ^ * bw st Don't Think Twice, It's Allright ^* st bw Angel From Montgomery > ^ * st bw Sugaree ^ * st bw A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall ^bw st Turn On Your Lovelight ^ st bw ♥ 💡 *bw acoustic ^ w Susan Tedeschi ~switch to electric midsong #LOCKN #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers (~);} |DHL #nevermissasundayshow #nevermissasundayatlockn #sundayfunday #grateful #sogladyoumadeit #bestisyettocome #weireverywheredept #iloveyou #IWANTMYDHLTV! #makemeaposter #turnitonandkeepiton https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nLjo9hjR2/?igshid=pjg25128f7uz

[deadheadland]

A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall | Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. 🐺 Tonight's setlist so far... I Jack Straw > bw jl * Cassidy * sound check> Only a River * Peggy-O * Friend of the Devil * Loser > ~ The Other One v1 > Throwing Stones Set 2 Me and Bobby McGee ^ * bw st Don't Think Twice, It's Allright ^* st bw Angel From Montgomery > ^ * st bw Sugaree ^ * st bw A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall bw dt *bw acoustic ^ w Susan Tedeschi ~switch to electric midsong #LOCKN #lockn2019 #locknisforlovers (~);} |DHL #nevermissasundayshow #nevermissasundayatlockn #sundayfunday #grateful #sogladyoumadeit #bestisyettocome #weireverywheredept #iloveyou #IWANTMYDHLTV! #makemeaposter #gunsandsharpswords https://www.instagram.com/p/B1nKSTTBnXg/?igshid=11c2vl9n30dyz