08/26/10 Someone Still Loves You Borris Yeltsin posted on site

I have added my recording of this show to my site for download. Enjoy

08/26/10 Someone Still Loves You Borris Yeltsin at Forrest Rose Park

This was a free outdoor show at Forrest Rose park beside Mojo's in Columbia, MO. It was a nice night for a show, but the temporary outdoor setting resulted in an interesting show. First, since it was an outdoor show we got a shortened set without an encore. Second, there were technical difficulties like the original subwoofers didn't work and I think the replacements did not give as much bass to the live mix than i would have liked, and a piece of equipment powered down for a minute at the beginning of the set resulting is a significant drop in sound level. However SSLYBY ripped through a fast set with minimal crowd interaction and managed to play a 16 song set in an hours time, not bad. They did mix in quite a few songs off the new album including let it sway and All Hail Dracula (which I enjoy purely for the fact that it's a vampire song). The best banter of the night was when they talked about their new album and then told people that they could go by the merch table now and steal the album since they are their own merch people and no one was watching the table while they were on stage. They then proceeded to have a quick discussion of whether they would go over and steal they album if they had the chance. I let you listen to the show to find out the results of the discussion. I have to say you don't often have such moral/ethical discussion from the stage, and it gave me a true laugh for the night. They played a solid version of Modern Mystery and Darn Right, so the rest was really just cake for me. If you like SSLYBY, then you should really enjoy this set. I will say the vocals on the recording are a little less clear than I like, part of the problem with temporary outdoor show recording, but over all it is a nice recording that captured the moment well.
Recording details:
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
08/26/10 Forrest Rose Park
Columbia, MO
SBD+AUD matrix
Set List:
1) Banned (By the Man)
2) Everlyn
3) Heers
4) Pangea
5) The Beach Song
6) Made To Last
7) Glue Girls
8) Think I Wanna Die
9) House Fire
10) Back In The Saddle
11) Sink/Let It Sway
12) Dead Right
13) In Pairs
14) My Terrible Personality
15) Modern Mystery
16) All Hail Dracula

02/26/08 The Felice Brothers at The Blue Note

For this set The Felice Brothers were opening up for The Drive By Truckers. I had never heard of The Felice Brothers before the show, and had no idea what to expect, but I was not prepared to be blown away. They ripped through a frantic set that had me stomping one song and swaying the next. The energy and companionship on stage was infectious, and the band easily won over the assemble crowd. I found their sound to be an amalgamation of Appalachian, vaudeville, and zydeco; similar to The Asylum Street Spankers without the tongue and cheek humor. They included drums, fiddle, harmonium, guitar, and washboard to encase the vocals and harmonies that had just enough rough edges to suit the subjects they were singing about. And the songs, oh the songs. They sang of love, loss, drugs, drink, the lord almighty, and the devil himself. I love this show and listen to it often. I have since acquired the recorded works of the band, and while solid, do not truely capture the live show that this band can lay down on a stage. So if you have listened to a CD and potentially been left a little less than impressed, you must see them live. You will find the energy passion in the songs that the studio just can't caputre with this group.

I have posted my recording of the show on my site for free download in both MP3 and FLAC formats, so enjoy. The first song or two there were some issues with the vocals, but it is still a very nice recording with a good representation of their songs live from the time. Oh, and if you know the band please tell them to come back to Columbia, MO. Enjoy.

The Felice Brothers
02/26/08 The Blue Note
SBD+AUD matrix
Track list:
1) Intro
2) Lord, Send Me An Angel (Blind Willie McTell)
3) Her Eyes Dart Around
4) Whiskey In My Whiskey
5) Rockefeller Drug Law Blues (Gap in song due to recording error)
6) Radio Song
7) Wonderful Life
8) Cincinnati Queen
9) Helen Fry
10) Run Chicken Run
11) The Devil Is Real
12) Frankie's Gun

08/10/10 JBM at Mojo's

This is my second JBM opening set this year, which is crazy because I have only been to two shows this year! This was the first stop on the tour he is currently on with AA Bondy, but he seemed more at ease than he did during his opening set for the Rouge Wave show. He played a total of 8 songs, two of which he also played a kick drum and cymbal during. He opened the set witht he first two songs (Years and Cleo's Song) on his new album Not Even In July. Years is an instrumental that flows very nicely into Cleo's Song. After that he flowed through a nice set of music hitting many of the same songs that he played the last time he came around. He did play a song that I can't identify from the album or anything I can find on the web, so if you can help me identify that song in the set I would really appreciate it. He also interacted with the audience this time a little bit syaing hi, thanking AA Bondy for taking him on tour, and telling us about his new CD. He ended this set with one of my favorite songs of his From Me to You and You to Me. The use of looping really expands the songs depth beyond his solo presence on stage. His live show vascilates between a wisper and a scream, and it is worth the time to investigate the wispers while letting the sonic blast flow over your ears. You can download this show from my site, and I hope you take the time to learn about JBM. Here is the set list.

JBM
08/10/10 Mojo's
Columbia, MO
opening for AA Bondy
1) Years>Cloe's Song
2) Going Back Home
3) Winter Ghosts
4) Swallowing Daggers
5) In A Different Time
6) ?
7) From Me To You and You To Me

08/10/10 AA Bondy at Mojo's Set List

I have figured out most of the setlist for the AA Bondy show. Here are the details of the show, and of my recording. If anyone can help with the song I can't ID that would be great. I will not be posting the 24/48 flac files to the site, but will post 16/44 FLAC and MP3 to the site as soon as possible.

AA Bondy
08/10/10 Mojo’s
Columbia, MO

Multi Channel SBD+Mics (Studio Projects C4) On Stage>FA-101>Laptop (Tracktion)>24/48 files>Cool Edit Pro for mixdown etc.>CD WAV to split tracks>FLAC Front End level 6 compression

Track List:
1) To The Morning
2) Low And Slow
3) Another Country
4) Mightiest Of Guns
5) There’s A Reason
6) Black Rain, Black Rain
7) ?
8) When The Devil’s Loose
9) A Slow Parade
10) Of The Sea
11) Killed Myself When I Was Young
12) Encore Start
13) Suicide Doors
14) Oh The Vampyre
15) I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry (Hank Sr.)

08/10/10 AA bondy and JBM Mojo's Columbia, MO

I went to this show last night, which was the first show of this tour, and it was a good time. I wouldn’t call it a rockin’ good time, but I would call it a moody and sonically layered good time. The show started with JBM, who played a solid set of music that was very similar to the set he played when he opened for Rouge Wave a couple of months ago. He seems to be more comfortable in front of an audience this time around compared to last time, and he actually had a little banter with the crowd. I really enjoyed his set, especially the last song From Me to You and You to Me, during which he does some nice looping (is that what it is called when they record a part of a song on stage and then loop it while they play another part over the top?) work. If you haven’t seen him he for a couple of songs he becomes a one man band playing guitar, kick drum, and cymbal, and it is these songs that really makes me hope he will be able to add a few band members in the future to fill out his songs live. He did have his new album with him, and I hope to pick that up in the near future to see what he does in the studio. This was my first time see AA Bondy live, and didn’t really know what to expect. He is touring as a 3 piece, not sure if that is what he normally does, and he had a drummer that also played steel guitar and a bassist that also played keys. For the show they meandered through a nice set of songs that cycled from whisper quiet to wall of sound. At the end of the show bondy left the stage and out the back door (Mojo’s doesn’t have a backstage, just a back door leading to the parking lot where the band parks the van). While he was outside there was confusion as to whether there was going to be an encore or not, the other two band members didn’t know and neither did the new sound guy, so they actually put on the house music and the sound guy started “undoing the board”, much to the disappointment of the crowd. However, Bondy came back in and the rest of the touring crew scrambled to get ready for the 3 song encore. The final song of the encore was AA Bondy solo doing Hank Williams Sr. I’m So Lonesome I could cry for a girl in the audience. All and all, not a bad way to spend a Tuesday night. Also, this was about the most respectful audience I have seen at Mojo’s for a quieter show like this. The crowd was engrossed in the show, and there was very little chatter, even for JBM. Here is the set list (as written, not full titles) according to the paper I snagged off stage. I will have to confirm with my recording when I get it done, but I am pretty sure these are just the songs they wanted to play, and not the order. I will be posting the recording to my site for free download as soon as they are done.

AA Bondy
Mojo’s
Columbia, MO
Suicide Doors
There’s A Reason
Of The Sea
Devil’s Loose
Jazz Waltz
Low N Slow
Another Country
To TH Morning
Killed Myself
Black Rain
Slow Parade
Pines
Gunz
Motown
Put Out The Light
And for sure played:
I’m So lonesome I could cry (hank sr.)