BEB 124 | CT Blues Review Showcase

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Playlist:

Alexis P. Suter Band- Didn’t It Rain, Gracie Curran & the High Falutin’ Band-Told Me So, John Ginty w/Albert Castiglia- Damage Control, Brent Johnson-Don’t Take It With You, Anni Piper-UnTrue, Ryan Hartt & the Blue Hearts- Call My Name, Popa Chubby-$69 Dollars, Damon Fowler- Third Rate Romance, The Mojomatics- Back To Nothin’, Balkun Brothers- I Know What Ya’ Did, Paul Gabriel Blues Band- Runnin’ Blues, Petey Hop & the Levee- Why Should I Complain, Petey Hop & the Levee- My God,Two Virgins-Down In The Flood, Shaka & Tony C.-No Buts; No Maybes,Danny Draher- My Desire, Shawn Holt & the Teardrops- Love Got Me Walkin’, Bad Rooster- Low Down Dirty Dog, Bad rooster- Back At None, Mojomatics- Soy Baby.

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Black-Eyed News:
If you listen to this show a lot you know I am a huge fan of the Allman Bros and the Allman Bros were all over the news this week.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famers joined current and former members of the Allman Brothers Band for a 26-song salute to Gregg Allman Friday night in Atlanta. Sam Moore, Dr. John and Jackson Browne took turns interpreting Allman’s extensive catalog along with Vince Gill, Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes, John Hiatt, Zac Brown, Widespread Panic and others during "All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman," which was recorded to air on AXS TV in May. For the sold-out crowd at the historic 4,600-seat Fox Theatre, this rainy night in Georgia proved to be a dream jam.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/vince-gill-jackson-browne-and-dr-john-honor-gregg-allman-20140111#ixzz2qHznOhM4

For the first time in March of 1992 The Allman Brothers Band played a 10 night run at The Beacon Theatre in New York City. On February 18th Epic/Legacy Recordings will release Play All Night: Live at The Beacon Theatre 1992, a two disc set highlighting this historic run of shows. Kicking off on March 10th, these Beacon shows blended recent fan favorites like “Get On With Your Life,” “End Of The Line,” and “Nobody Knows” with such stone cold classics as “Statesboro Blues,” “Blue Sky,” “Jessica,” “Revival,” and of course, “Whipping Post,” all played with the distinctive invention and muscularity that defined this particular ABB line-up. Play All Night sees the Brothers unplug for a three-song acoustic interlude encompassing bare-boned renditions of Betts’ “Seven Turns” and Allman’s “Midnight Rider,” as well as a buoyant take on the Robert Johnson standard, “Come On In My Kitchen.”

Also available on February 18th is Live At Great Woods, a feature-length concert DVD filmed at Massachusetts’ Great Woods Center for the Performing Arts in September of 1991.

http://www.allmanbrothersband.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=userpage&file=content&page_id=65

William Hurt has been cast as the present-day version of Gregg Allman in the upcoming biopic Midnight Rider, Variety reports. The actor, who won an Oscar for his role in 1985's Kiss of the Spider Woman, is joining a cast that already includes All American Rejects singer Tyson Ritter, who plays Allman as a young man, and Wyatt Russell as his brother Duane Allman.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/william-hurt-to-play-gregg-allman-in-midnight-rider-biopic-20140107#ixzz2ppfmtln

And this is the last piece of Allman Bros news I promise:

The Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks, while aboard the Jam Cruise, shared the unexpected news that his nephew, guitarist Derek Trucks, will be leaving the band. Shortly afterwards, it was confirmed that Warren Haynes would also be departing. Both musicians have highly successful touring bands independent of the Brothers, with Trucks winning a Grammy in 2012.
Trucks and Haynes were both influential lead guitarists with The Allman Brothers. Trucks, a former child prodigy and now the driving guitarist behind the Grammy-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band, has been with the Brothers for 15 years, since he was twenty. Haynes, the roaring guitar genius behind Gov’t Mule, has been with the band since 1989.
The move comes shortly after (incorrect) news from a Rolling Stone Magazine article, from a statement by Gregg Allman, that longtime bassist Oteil Burbridge would be leaving the band. Burbridge and Butch Trucks adamantly denied the rumors, which appear to have simply been a matter of miscommunication.

http://www.americanbluesscene.com/2014/01/influential-guitarists-leaving-allman-brothers-band-in-2015/

Last piece of news this week:
From Brian MacDonald-Grammy-winning International supe...