The Weight (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
As the crowd watched Helm and his band perform “Got Me A Woman,” Dylan watched as well, barely identifiable in the dark as he stood stage left, on a grassy hill in a restricted area off a wide walkway, near where tour buses came and went all day. Anyone in the section of seats closest to Dylan could have tossed him a grapefruit, he was that close. People in the same backstage area from which...
Musical Stew Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Good news, folks. The moe.down schedule is up and now all you gotta do is wait. moe. down will take place in Turin, NY over Labor Day weekend. Scheduled acts are: Levon Helm, Yonder Mountain String Band, The Sparrow Quartet featuring Abigail Washburn & Bela Fleck, Presidents of the United States of America and the [...]
Sunset Gun (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
... (Tommy Lee Jones), an ambitious man who goes against the wishes of Loretta's father (the great Levon Helm) by moving his daughter far from home. The two have children (many -- and the first time is essentially a get-it-over-with moment of force), but not much of a life, and after giving Loretta a guitar as an anniversary present, Doolittle almost inadvertently unearths his wife’s...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 08/18/2008
... Young tour towards the end of the year. [HT - Phorbsie] Sadly, Bob Dylan didn’t join old friend Levon Helm on stage last night during the first annual Saratoga Music Festival, but Zimmy did watch Levon’s set from the wings at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
Nevada Thunder (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... to collaborate with many satellite members of the Grateful Dead cosmos, from old friends to Levon Helm to more recent companions like Warren Haynes, with whom RatDog has spent much of the summer on the road. Below, Weir waxes poetic on his summer tour with the Allman Brothers Band, current fascination with Wilco and why Obama is America’s “last, best chance.” MG- Let’s start by discussing...
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
... 5, with a stop at this weekend’s Saratoga Music Festival that will feature the likes of Bob Dylan, Levon Helm and Gillian Welch.
