Over the Rhine: 20th Anniversary Celebration - The Taft Theatre/Cincinnati 12.19-21-2008

friday, december 19th - reunion of the original over the rhine (karin bergquist, linfird detweiler, brian kelley, ric hordinski)

there is so much to say about this band, this weekend, this show, their fans (my friends) that i know i won't do justice to it all.

first of all, what a brilliant, wonderful, and rocking evening of music. i think many "lesser" bands, that hadn't played together in over 12 years might have played it "safe" on this kind of "one-off" reunion gig.

OtR, did not play it safe. in fact, they stepped out.

they covered the bases with the tunes that were "expected" (ie: "required") by long time fans, but surprised many with the inclusion of; "conjectures, daddy, i painted..., a gospel number." in an evening of highlights, for me the standouts were; how does it feel (w/reprise), june, like a radio, and the incredible second set ending "if i'm drowning" with the classic one-by-one stage exits.

the band sounded excellent, it was hard to believe that they had not played together in front of an audience for well over a decade. there was a great vibe on stage, lots of smiling, laughing, great stories.

i'm not expecting for this to happen again anytime soon, but if it does, i sure as hell planning on being there.

SET ONE
Eyes Wide Open
How Does It Feel?
How Does It Feel? (Reprise)
Within Without (with Kim Taylor)
Like a Radio
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
June (with Kim Taylor, Jake, Kenny Hutson, and Julie Lee)
Circle of Quiet (with Kim and Julie)
Daddy Untwisted (with Kim and Julie)

SET TWO
Paul and Virginia (L&K with Jake, Kenny, Mickey, Kim, and Julie)
Poughkeepsie (same minus Mickey)
Mary's Waltz (L, K, Paul Patterson)
Silent Night (Duet) (L, K, Paul, Julie)
Faithfully Dangerous (with Jake)
A Gospel Number (with Jake, Kim, Juli)
All I Need Is Everything (with Jake, Kim, and Paul)
If I'm Drowning

ENCORE NUMBER ONE
My Love Is a Fever
I Painted My Name (with Kim and Julie)

ENCORE NUMBER TWO
Latter Days (L & K)
What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love, and Understanding? (with Jake)


saturday, december 20th

set one:
-born
-waste
-all i ever get
-white horse
-here it is
-world can wait
-message from jack
-if nothing else
-roll
-trumpet
-kiddin'

set two:
-ohio
-pro day
-bpd
-happy birthday to kim and kenny
-darlin'
-snow angel
-pull through
-northpole man
-tom
-when i go
++
-c&p
-changes come
++
-hush
-new redemption song

*the setlist shows bpd as the set opener and ohio as the second song, wonder if she just changed her mind?

great damn night of music.

and...Sunday, December 21, 2008
St. Elizabeth Church - Norwood, OH

I Want You to be My Love
Long Lost Brother
Suitcase
Anything At All
We're Gonna Pull Through
Bothered
[Kim Taylor] Days Like This *
[Julie Lee w/Jake & Kenny] Does the Road Wind Uphill **
Paul and Virginia
Poughkeepsie
Goodbye Charles
[Q and A]
Hush Now
Jack's Valentine
Cruel and Pretty

Karin Bergquist - vocals, guitar
Linford Detweiler - piano, guitar, vocals, bell
Kenny Hutson - guitar, dobro, mandolin, pedal steel
Jake Bradley - upright bass
Mickey Grimm - drums, percussion
Kim Taylor - vocals, guitar
Julie Lee - vocals, guitar
Nick Radina - congas

This show was the last of 3 concerts staged as part of Over the Rhine's 20th Anniversary and Christmas celebration.

this was truly a wonderful weekend of music, friendship and fun.

my year in music [concerts 2008]

my year in music, 34 shows, 6 states…

02.10 - cat power @ the vic (chicago)
02.23 - over the rhine w/ben sollee @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
03.07 - tift merritt @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
03.11 - grace potter and the nocturnals @ headliner’s (louisville)
03.14 - over the rhine @ the ryman (nashville)
03.27 - cowboy junkies w/mary gauthier @ the clifton center (louisville)
04.17 - kathleen edwards @ headliner’s (louisville)
04.25 - over the rhine (w/julie lee) @ canal street tavern (dayton)
04.26 - over the rhine (w/julie lee) @ canal street tavern (dayton)
05.25 - over the rhine / ohio: in concert (cincinnati)
05.30 - over the rhine w/mary gauthier @ the variety playhouse (atlanta)
06.11 - alejandro escovedo (w/ben sollee) @ headliner’s (louisville)
06.13 - ellery @ the rudyard kipling (louisville)
06.14 - over the rhine @ the rapp granary (new harmony, IN)
07.05 - tom waits @ the fox theatre (atlanta)
07.18 - missy higgins @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
07.18 - missy higgins w/teneia sanders @ the phoenix hill tavern (louisville)
07.23 - over the rhine @ the fraze pavilion (dayton)
07.31 - wild sweet orange @ ear x-tacy (louisville)
09.13 - tift merritt @ the original highlands street fair (louisville)
10.04 - mieka pauley @ perkfection (jeffersonville, IN)
10.09 - eilen jewell @ the player’s pub (bloomington)
10.11 - over the rhine @ elk creek winery (owenton, KY)
10.12 - louisville songwriter’s showcase w/johnny berry, mickey clark, danny
flanigan, john gage, tim krekel, teneia sanders, leigh ann yost @ the
bomhard theatre (louisville)
10.12 - the watson twins @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
10.21 - david byrne @ the palace theatre (louisville)
11.15 - john prine @ indiana university auditorium (bloomington)
11.23 – ralph stanley @ the CEA’s emery theatre (cincinnati)
12.11 – ben sollee, neva geoffrey, daniel martin moore @ the dame (lexington)
12.12 - over the rhine @ the bomhard theatre (louisville)
12.14 - grace potter @ the 20th century (cincinnati)
12.19 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
12.20 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
12.19 – over the rhine @ st. elizabeth’s (norwood/cincinnati)

top 5 non-OtR
07.05 - tom waits @ the fox theatre (atlanta)
10.21 - david byrne @ the palace theatre (louisville)
02.10 - cat power @ the vic (chicago)
11.15 - john prine @ indiana university auditorium (bloomington)
06.11 - alejandro escovedo (w/ben sollee) @ headliner’s (louisville)

top 3 OtR
12.19 – over the rhine @ the taft theater (cincinnati)
05.25 - over the rhine / ohio: in concert (cincinnati)
06.14 - over the rhine @ the rapp granary (new harmony, IN)

New Music/CD Releases - December 30, 2008

none, nada, zip, zilch.


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WFPK Winter Fundraiser - From the Jayhawks: Gary Louris & Mark Olson

WFPK Winter Fundraiser - From the Jayhawks: Gary Louris & Mark Olson

91.9 WFPK is proud to present Gary Louris and Mark Olson at Phoenix Hill Tavern on Sunday, February 15th at 8pm. This is a rare opportunity to catch Jayhawks frontmen Gary Louris and Mark Olson as they reunite in Louisville for the first time in more than ten years to benefit 91.9 WFPK.

Louris and Olson last shared a Louisville stage at Phoenix Hill Tavern in 1995. It is fitting that the two return to Phoenix Hill’s Saloon stage in support of their new collaboration “Ready for the Flood”.

Tickets for An Evening with Gary Louris and Mark Olson go on sale Saturday, December 20th at 10am at www.ticketweb.com, and ear X-tacy. Tickets will be available here at 619 South Fourth Street and at Phoenix Hill Tavern beginning Monday, December 22nd. Tickets are $15.00 (plus applicable service fees when purchased at www.ticketweb.com or ear X-tacy). Patrons must be 21 years old to attend.

For more information on 91.9 WFPK, please visit www.wfpk.org . For information on this event or for artist interviews, please contact Billy Hardison at bhardison@louisvillepublicmedia.org or (502) 814-6518.

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

1. This Tornado Loves You
2. The Next Time You Say Forever
3. People Got A Lotta Nerve
4. Polar Nettles
5. Vengeance Is Sleeping
6. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth
7. Middle Cyclone
8. Fever
9. Magpie To The Morning
10. I'm An Animal
11. Prison Girls
12. Don't Forget Me
13. The Pharaohs
14. Red Tide
15. Marais La Nuit

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone

Neko Case will follow up 2006's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood," the best-selling album of her career, with "Middle Cyclone," due March 3 via Anti-.

New Music/CD Releases - December 23, 2008

BILL'S PICK OF THE WEEK
Well, like last week, there isn’t one. Looks like a good week to go back and catch up on a release you may have missed earlier…

21 December Tuesday
Fear The State - Against The Ropes
Savage - Savage Island
Sterling Simms - Yours, Mine & The Truth
Stephanie Smith - Not Afraid
Various Artists - Slumdog Millionaire [Soundtrack]

and remember, whenever possible buy your music directly from the artist(s) or your local independent record store. both could become endangered without your support.




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Grace Potter and The Nocturnals @ The 20th Century/Cincinnati (12.13.2008)

oh. my. god.

what a show this girl and her band puts on. they are excellent musicians, a consumate high energy rock & roll/blues band and more than anything else, they absolutely love what they do, and that fun just flows off the stage and into the crowd. amazing.

this was my second experience of grace, and it isn't just a show, it is an experience. she spent most of the night behind her hammond b-3, coming out from behind it to play electric guitar on 4 or 5 numbers, but it didn't matter where she was, she totally controlled the joint. and what a voice, in my opinion, there is no female doin' the blues better than her right now.

on top of her originals, towards the end of the show they paid some respect to their obvious influence and kicked into a cover of "paint it black" that would make mick and the boys jealous in their heyday. in my opinion, the student surpassed the teacher. and they sent us home with another cover, a brilliant and rousing finale of zepplin's "your time is gonna come," doing plant, page, jones and bonham proud.

set list:
Watching you
(Feedback into)
Aint no time
Treat me right
Be my husband
Ah Mary
Mastermind
Apologies
Gate
Joey
Sweet Hands
Sugar
Paint it
Paris
Nothing But the Water
(Band ends)
Stop the Bus
Your time

the nocturnals are:
Grace Potter - Vocals, electric guitar, keyboards
Scott Tournet - lead guitar
Bryan Dondero - electric bass
Matt Burr - drums

go see this band if you get the opportunity.

New Music/CD Releases - December 16, 2008

BILL'S PICK OF THE WEEK
Well, looking at the list below, There isn’t one. Looks like a good week to go back and catch up on a release you may have missed earlier…

16 December Tuesday
All-American Rejects - When The World Comes Down
Brooks & Dunn - Playlist
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Mile High Music Festival
Dave Matthews Band - Live Trax Vol. 13
The Dream - Love vs. Money
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Ghostface Killah - Ghostdeini The Great
Jamie Foxx - Intuition
Keyshia Cole - A Different Me
Piles - Da REAList
Saliva - Cinco Diablo
Soulja Boy - iSouljaboytellem

and remember, whenever possible buy your music directly from the artist(s) or your local independent record store. both could become endangered without your support.




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Over the Rhine (w/Jim Bianco) @ The Bomhard Theatre (Louisville, KY), December 12, 2008

a beautiful show last night @ the bomhard theatre in the kentucky center for the performing arts. a theatre worthy of what happens on it's stage, great sightlines throughout and amazing acoustically, and juicy worked it to perfection., the sound was pristine.

the band was in great spirits and having a lot of fun, coming off a successful west coast swing and getting in a week's rest before yesterday's shows here. the wonderful and lighthearted "WFPK live lunch" got the day started off right and the followed it up with a full-throttled gig @ the bomhard last night. the show had a great feel from the start, when a couple of songs in, karin announced that they were dedicating the "whole show" to patrick and sara (some local fans). as she said "they know why" and that was good enough for her, so i'll leave it at that too.

also, since karin's birthday is today, and in an effort to surprise her...between "northpole man" and "don't wait for tom" on the setlist, linford snuck in a surprise happy birthday wish for karin, the band and audience sang happy birthday to her and i was privledged to take her cake out to her on stage to blow out the candles. (that stage, the lights, all the people, is a scary place)

the set was at times; quiet then rockin', spiritual and bluesy, funny followed by emotional. they hit all of the bases, and hit it out of the park. by far, the best show OtR show i've seen this year...and i've seen a few really (really) good ones.

jim bianco, who opened on the recent west coast leg opened and did a nice job. nice music and a very funny guy...seemed he was "enjoying" being in the heart of "bourbon" country. a lot.


"darlin' christmas is coming" on WFPK Live Lunch earlier in the day

Ben Sollee w/Neva Geoffrey & Daniel Martin Moore @ The Dame (12.11.2008)

excellent night of music @ the (new) dame. i really enjoyed neva geoffrey, i liked daniel martin moore but his set never seemed to catch much fire and the audience was rude and never seemed to get involved which really made it tough to connect with him and his music.

ben, on the otherhand was completely amazing and had the audience in the palm of his hand from the opening note of "how to see the sun rise".

more later...

Over the Rhine - WFPK "Live Lunch" - Friday 12.12.2008 @ Noon

once again, louisville's most excellent public broadcasting radio station WFPK will be featuring OtR on it's LIVE LUNCH broadcast.

they will be playing a live set @ noon ('til 1:00) on WFPK 91.9FM or you can stream it for FREE @ wfpk.org

look for me on the radio, for i shall be there.

then they play @ the lovely kentucky center for the performing arts, bomhard theatre @ 8:00 on friday evening.

The Best of 2008 - CD's

here is my list, in alphabetical order...

alejandro escovedo – “real animal”
ben sollee – “learning to bend”
bob dylan – “tell tale signs - rare and unreleased 1989-2006”
carrie rodriguez – “she ain’t me”
cat power – “jukebox/dark end of the street"
cowboy junkies – “trinity revisited”
david byrne & brian eno – “everything that happens will happen today”
johnny cash - “johnny cash at folsom prison: legacy edition”
kathleen edwards – “asking for flowers”
kris delmhorst – “shotgun singer”
over the rhine - “live from nowhere volume 3”
ray lamontagne - “gossip in the grain”
rodney crowell – “sex and gasoline”
ryan adams and the cardinals - "cardinology"
shelby lynne – “just a little lovin’ "
teddy thompson – “a piece of what you need”
tift merritt – “another country”
the waifs - "sundirtwater"

*and i'm combining cat power's "dark end of the street" [ep] with "jukebox." they are out of the same sessions and it is just like an extension of that project.

and here is "Rolling Stone's" top 50 albums of 2008:

1 | TV on the Radio: Dear Science
2 | Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs — The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
3 | Lil Wayne: Tha Carter III
4 | My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
5 | John Mellencamp: Life, Death, Love and Freedom
6 | Santogold: Santogold
7 | Coldplay: Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
8 | Beck: Modern Guilt
9 | Metallica: Death Magnetic
10 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend
11 | Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes
12 | Guns n' Roses: Chinese Democracy
13 | Blitzen Trapper: Furr
14 | Ryan Adams and the Cardinals: Cardinology
15 | The Black Keys: Attack & Release
16 | Randy Newman: Harps and Angels
17 | B.B. King: One Kind Favor
18 | Lucinda Williams: Little Honey
19 | Erykah Badu: New Amerykah: Part 1 (4th World War)
20 | Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
21 | Kaiser Chiefs: Off With Their Heads
22 | Jackson Browne: Time the Conquerer
23 | Conor Oberst: Conor Oberst
24 | Girl Talk: Feed the Animals
25 | The Magnetic Fields: Distortion
26 | Mudcrutch: Mudcrutch
27 | Brian Wilson: That Lucky Old Sun
28 | The Knux: Remind Me in Three Days...
29 | Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
30 | Duffy: Rockferry
31 | MGMT: Oracular Spectacular
32 | Jamey Johnson: The Lonesome Song
33 | Ne-Yo: Year of the Gentleman
34 | Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
35 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
36 | The Hold Steady: Stay Positive
37 | Nine Inch Nails: The Slip
38 | Ra Ra Riot: The Rhumb Line
39 | Taylor Swift: Fearless
40 | Jonas Brothers: A Little Bit Longer
41 | AC/DC: Black Ice
42 | David Byrne and Brian Eno: Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
43 | Nas: Untitled
44 | The Raconteurs: Consolers of the Lonely
45 | Be Your Own Pet: Get Awkward
46 | The Academy Is...: Fast Times at Barrington High
47 | Of Montreal: Skeletal Lamping
48 | Raphael Saadiq: The Way I See It
49 | Hot Chip: Made in the Dark
50 | No Age: Nouns

U2's "No Line on the Horizon" gets Feb. 23 release date

U2's "No Line on the Horizon" gets Feb. 23 release date
By Loren Lankford on December 9, 2008 [from pastemagazine.com]

We've been steadily giving you information on the new U2 album, No Line on the Horizon, as it has become available. Up until now, the release date for the 2009 disc has been unknown. Now, via pre-ordering info on HMV, we can tell you that the Bono-fronted band will release its 12th record (possibly produced by will.i.am?!?) on Feb. 23.

The Edge recently told Mojo that the album "[is] a record of two halves. One half is songs that came virtually fully-formed out of sessions we did with Brian and Danny—stuff we've only played once or maybe twice and that's it: just the raw moment of creation. Then the other half is material we've kicked around a while and went through the usual cycle of versions and incarnations."

Free Holiday Music from Ellery & Ric Hordinski

Free Holiday Music from Ellery & Ric Hordinski

Cincinnati based husband and wife duo, Ellery is once again giving away their holiday EP for free. It’s titled December Days. Last year’s was a 3 song EP. This year they have added an additional track, a new collaboration with Ric Hordinski called “We Can Dream Tonight.”

Free Download - Ellery December Days




Also, Ric Hordinski (guitar virtuoso from Cincinnati, founding member of Over the Rhine & Monk) is having his annual holiday show with special guests, Ellery on Dec 12th @ Ric’s Monastery Studio in Cincinnati.



Ric and drummer Brian Kelley will also reunite with Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler (Over the Rhine) for one night only, Friday December 19th, for the first time in over 12 years @ the Taft Theatre in Cincinnati.

for more info:
Ellery

Monk (Ric Hordinski)

Over the Rhine

[REVISION] New Music/CD Releases - December 9, 2008

FYI - this is only available on limited edition 10" vinyl and on i-tunes.

and it is excellent.

BILL'S PICK OF THE WEEK
CAT POWER - DARK END OF THE STREET (EP)
1. Dark End Of The Street
2. Fortunate Son
3. Ye Auld Triangle
4. I've Been Loving You Too Long
5. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
6. It Ain't Fair

28 years on...

and it still stings like the day it happened.



John Winston Ono Lennon: 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980



peace john.

2 weeks of fine music coming up...

to wrap up the year, i've got a couple of good weeks of fine music coming up.

dec 11 - thurs @ the dame (lexington): ben sollee, daniel martin moore, neva geoffrey
dec 12 - fri @ the bomhard (louisville): over the rhine
dec 14 - sun @ the 20th century (cincinnati): grace potter and the nocturnals
dec 19 - fri @ the taft theatre (cincinnati): over the rhine 20th anniversary celebration (the first 10 years w/ric hordinski & brian kelley)
dec 20 - sat @ the taft theatre (cincinnati): over the rhine 20th anniversary celebration (the second 10 years)
dec 21 - sun @ st. elizabeth (norwood/cincinnati) - over the rhine sunday soiree

wrapping up the year with my 132nd live OtR show.

Dar Williams - Free Downloads

Hello all, I was just permission to share these live recordings from Dar Williams' Ann Arbor show at The Ark on September 17. Feel free to just listen and/or download and share -- consider it an early Christmas gift from Dar!

I like that they capture Dar's live essence and personality, her song intros & commentary and everything...she puts on a great, fun show.

Live tracks from The Ark in Ann Arbor, September 17, 2008:

"IT'S ALRIGHT"

"BUZZER"

"EASY WAY"

enjoy.

New Music/CD Releases - December 9, 2008

BILL'S PICK OF THE WEEK
CAT POWER - DARK END OF THE STREET (EP)
1. Dark End Of The Street
2. Fortunate Son
3. Ye Auld Triangle
4. I've Been Loving You Too Long
5. Who Knows Where The Time Goes
6. It Ain't Fair

It's no surprise that when Cat Power (aka: Chan Marshall), my second favorite artist currently making music, releases something new that it would be at the top of my list. I've heard half this EP; Dark End of the Street, Fortunate Son, I've Been Loving You..., and they are fantastic. This six-song EP contains mostly unreleased recordings from the "Jukebox" sessions. In keeping with the "Jukebox" theme, all the songs here are covers: "Auld Triangle", "Dark End Of The Street", "Who Knows Where The Time Goes", "Fortunate Son", "I've Been Loving You Too Long", and "It Ain't Fair".


9 December Tuesday
Alexander Achavoy - Voy
Avant - Avant
Ken Block - Drift
Brandy - Human
Busta Rhymes - B.O.M.B.
Cat Power - Dark End of the Street
Charlie Louvin – Murder Ballads
Common - Universal Mind Control
Jeffree Star - Cupcakes Taste
Justice - A Cross The Universe
Maroon 5 – Call and Response
Music Soulchild On My Radio
Omara Portuondo - Gracias
Rush - Retrospective 3
Stereophonics Word Gets Around (US release of '97 album)
Stereophonics Performance and Cocktails (US release of '99 album)
Stereophonics Just Enough Education to Perform (US release of '01 album)
Stereophonics You Gotta Go There to Come Back (US release of '03 album)
Stereophonics Language. Sex. Violence. Other? (US release of '05 album)
Take That - Circus
Thrice - Live at the House of Blues (CD/DVD)

and remember, whenever possible buy your music directly from the artist(s) or your local independent record store. both could become endangered without your support.




click here for a list of exclusives available @ indie stores and for a listing of stores

Odetta: 1930-2008

Odetta: 1930-2008
By Henry Freedland [from pastemagazine.com]

Folksinger, blueswoman and civil rights activist Odetta died from heart disease yesterday in Manhattan. She was 77.

Manager Douglas Yeager spoke of her legacy in a statement. "May Odetta's luminous spirit and volcanic voice from the heavens live on for the ages," he said. "Her voice will never die."

Indeed it won't. Her soulful musicianship had a vital strength that inspired further generations of luminaries. Bob Dylan cited her first record as the his initial turn-on to folk singing. And Rosa Parks, when asked after the the Montgomery, Ala. bus boycott what music was important to her, said "all the songs Odetta sings."

Born Odetta Holmes on Dec. 31, 1930, she moved from Alabama to Los Angeles to study classical music and theater before joining the coffeehouse and nightclub scene in San Francisco. Later she used her commanding voice to become the spiritual soundtrack for the civil rights movement, marching with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and performing for President John F. Kennedy.

She had been hoping to sing at Barack Obama's inauguration on Jan. 20. Perhaps she would have used the same tune as at the March on Washington in 1963. “O freedom, O freedom, O freedom over me," it goes. "And before I’d be a slave, I’d be buried in my grave, And go home to my Lord and be free.”

Neko Case: New Album Due In March

December 02, 2008 11:04 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

Neko Case will follow up 2006's "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood," the best-selling album of her career, with "Middle Cyclone," due March 3 via Anti-.

The 15-track collection boasts guest appearances from the Band's Garth Hudson, fellow Canadian singer/songwriter Sarah Harmer, M. Ward and members of Case's primary band the New Pornographers, Calexico, Los Lobos, Giant Sand, the Lilys and the Sadies.

"Middle Cyclone" was produced by Case and Darryl Neudorf and put to tape in Tucson, Ariz., Brooklyn, N.Y., Toronto and Vermont. The album's 12 originals are augmented by covers of Harry Nilsson's "Don't Forget Me" and Sparks' "Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth."

"Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" brought Case to a new level of commercial visibility, having sold 194,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Here is the track listing for "Middle Cyclone"
"This Tornado Loves You"
"The Next Time You Say Forever"
"People Got a Lotta Nerve"
"Polar Nettles"
"Vengeance Is Sleeping"
"Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth"
"Middle Cyclone"
"Fever"
"Magpie to the Morning"
"I'm An Animal"
"Prison Girls"
"Don't Forget Me"
"The Pharaohs"
"Red Tide"
"Marais La Nuit"

Bonnaroo 2009 Dates & Ticket Info Announced

Dates announced for Bonnaroo 2009
This year you can pay for your ticket in five installments

The dates have been announced for Bonnaroo 2009, taking place once again in Manchester, TN.

The festival will run June 11-14 next year on the 700-acre farm 60 miles southeast of Nashville, TN.

Pre-sale tickets for the festival will be made available from this Thursday (December 4) to December 31, and will be specially priced during this period.

As the economic recession has limited spending for many this year, during the holiday presale, tickets will be available for five payments of $50.00 plus applicable fees through the festival’s payment plan.

Last year’s headliners were Pearl Jam, Metallica and Kanye West. West’s performance was clouded in controversy as fans became irate, having been forced to wait almost two hours for him to appear onstage.

Exclusive Early Listen of Neil Young's Sugar Mountain [from NPR]

Exclusive First Listen to Neil Young's Sugar Mountain

Neil Young was just a few days shy of his 23rd birthday when he took the stage at the Canterbury House in Ann Arbor, Mich., for what would become a legendary performance. It was 1968, and Young was about to release his self-titled debut solo album. His old band, Buffalo Springfield, had split up six months earlier, and few people even knew who Young was. But to his own surprise, and to the surprise of the Canterbury House, Young drew a sold-out audience.

Neil Young was horribly nervous before the performance and had to be coaxed from his hotel room by his manager Elliot Roberts and the minister of Canterbury House, Dan Burke. Burke tells NPR Music he remembers Neil Young huddled in Young's hotel room bed, too scared to perform. He told Burke no one would want to hear the Buffalo Springfield tunes or his new tunes. Young was afraid he didn't have enough material. But he was eventually persuaded to take the small stage.

"You really blew our minds," an astonished emcee said while introducing the performance. "We only expected a lot less people than showed up. I think you are a lot wiser than we were."

Despite the packed house, it was an intimate performance, as Young treated his audience to a cozy set of material most had never heard before, though some were Buffalo Springfield tracks. Studio versions of some of the songs, like "Birds" and "The Old Laughing Lady," would appear later on various Neil Young solo albums.

Few people outside of those in attendance that night would have known about the Ann Arbor performance if it weren't for a 1970 single Young released called "The Loner." The B-side of that 45 was "Sugar Mountain" — which, according to a note printed on the disc, was recorded live at the Canterbury House. Neil Young fans speculated that a recording of the entire concert must exist somewhere, and eagerly awaited its release.

The live recording of "Sugar Mountain" reappeared as a B-side to the "Cinnamon Girl" single in 1970, and again in 1977 on the double disc Decade, a compilation of Neil Young hits. But the rest of the concert recorded in Ann Arbor remained a mystery.

Now, 40 years later, Neil Young and Reprise Records are finally releasing the long-awaited Canterbury House performance as part of the Archives Performance Series, Young's effort to release box-set editions of past live concerts. Live at the Fillmore East was released in 2006, with Live at Massey Hall 1971 following a year later.