Happy Birthday Mr. Dylan!

Today is Bob Dylan's 70th birthday and Shady Groove would like to celebrate.  Let's take today to celebrate his life, his music, his influence.  It's funny that almost every radio station you turn the dial to today is playing either a Dylan song or a cover of one of his.  Makes me wonder what Bob is doing today.  Imagine your birthday is a worldwide celebration of your life's work.  Do you listen and celebrate too? Do you try to get away from it all?  I'd have to say that its most likely the latter.

Regardless, let play some Dylan tunes, listen to some Dylan covers, break out your old records, watch some video's.  Here's one of my favorite vids:

Song Writing Insights from Keith Richards....

"Songs are strange things.....If they stick, they stick. With most of the songs I've ever written, quite honestly, I've felt there's an enormous gap here, waiting to be filled; this song should have been written hundreds of years ago. How did nobody pick up on that little space? Half the time you're looking for gaps that other people haven't done. And you say, I don't believe they've missed that f'ing hole! It's so obvious. It was there staring you in the face! I pick the holes."

from Keith Richards' "Life", page 304

Podcast #27

Hey peoples! Twas a blast this week putting together some tunes for y'all.

Download: Podcast 27

Podcast 27 included the following red hot tracks:
Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks ++ The Felice Brothers - Frankies Gun! ++ Elvis Costello - (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes ++ The Allman Brothers Band - Ain't Wasting Time No More (live) ++ The Middle Brother - Blue Eyes ++ G. Love & Special Sauce - Give It To You ++ Peter Bjorn & John - Second Chance ++ The Police - The Bed's Too Big Without You ++ David Wax Museum - Born With A Broken Heart ++ Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up ++ Cake - Mexico ++ Hayes Carll - I Got A Gig ++ The Gourds - Shake The Chandelier

Live it. Love it.

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Cake at the Keswick Theatre, Glenside PA 4.18.11

Some may call it "geek rock", some may call them the "greenest" band on the planet, some may call them post-alternative rock. Whatever the moniker, the band that calls themselves Cake knows how to put on a show. The seasoned veterans put on a monster show Monday night at the Keswick.

The normally tame Keswick crowd was brought to life by the band.  John McCrea, the lead singer/songwriter lead the charge, seemingly almost forcing the crowd to get involved.  Although the Cake faithful were more than happy to oblige...

The band that has notoriously been anti-establishment, anti-big business for 20 years now has slowly but surely built a loyal following that like to have a good time. 

Cake's new album, Showroom of Compassion, marks its 6th carefully crafted, self-released, studio album. (Thier albums are known to take months, even years.  As McCrea puts it "this band is a domocracy, and democracy takes a long time.)  It is a great one....be sure to check it out if you get a chance.

Here is the setlist from Monday night:
Sad songs & waltzes
Frank Sinatra 
Arco Arena
Opera singer 
Bound Away
Long Time
Shaddow Stabbing
Ruby Sees All
Satan is my Motor (public acknowledgement that there is a dark side)
*Epic Crowd involvement*
Mustache Man (wasted)
Sheep go to heaven

Intermission

Mexico
Federal Funding
Love You Madly
Rock n roll lifestyle
(Thrills)**Gave away an apple tree** for answering the question "the declaration of independence was written on parchmet...what was the parchment made of?" A: sheep skin
Comanche 
Sick of you
*massive crowd involvement*
Italian Leather Sofa
Never there

crowd started chanting "need more cake!"!!

Encore:
Short skirt long jacket
Wheels
The Distance

Shady Groove Podcast #25

Hope you enjoy this weeks podcast.  It was fun for me.  If you really like it, go "like" it on our facebook page.  "Like" Shady Groove

Download: Podcast #25

These are the tracks that are included on Podcast 25:
Cake - Frank Sinatra ++ Joe Tex - I Gotcha ++ Mason Porter - Hotel Yorba ++ Gurf Morlix - Baby Can I Crawl Back To You ++ Black Keys - Psychotic Girl ++ JJ Grey & Mofro - Orange Blossoms ++ Blitzen Trapper - Saturday Nite ++ Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA ++ Derek Trucks Band - Back Where I Started ++ Delroy Wilson & Inner Circle - Cool Operator ++ Jimi Hendrix - Like A Rolling Stone (live) ++ Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited ++ John Prine - Angel From Montgomery ++ Black Crowes - God's Got It ++ Taj Mahal - Stagger Lee ++ Shawn Colvin - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) ++ The Gourds - Dying of The Pines.

Shady Groove Podcast #24

Had a great time this week with the shadiest of all podcasts.  In this episode you'll find some 90's throwbacks and some 60's originals.  Duane Allman is filtered throughout. There's some new music from Mason Porter and the Decemberists, and of course music for the unwashed and well read.  Dem good ol' boys, The Gourds.  So have fun! or not. whatever you prefer.

Download: Podcast #24 

Here are the tracks that made it to the list:

Podcast #24: Cake - Jolene ++ The Black Keys - Meet Me In The City ++ Old 97's - Big Brown Eyes ++ Decemberists - All Arise! ++ Boz Scaggs - Look What I Got ++ Hayes Carll - Girl Downtown ++ King Johnson - AdultContemporaryRootsRockBluesJazzFunk ++ Dead Weather - Hustle & Cuss ++ Link Wray & His Ray Men ++ Black Dub - Sing ++ Bob Marley - Rocking Steady ++ Mason Porter - Girl From The North Country ++ Allman Brothers Band (Hourglass) - Down In Texas ++ Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - 40 Day Dream ++ Dr. John - Tipitina ++ The Gourds - On Time

Podcast #23

This podcast is for all y'll that have lived.  Lived through those high highs and low lows, have sang all that you have sung.  Cause, "If I die young, at least I got that chocolate on my tongue"(WB).

Download: Podcast 23 here

Podcast #23: This weeks tracklist was this:
Link Wray - Rumble ++ The Rolling Stones - Torn & Frayed ++ Avett Brothers - Go To Sleep ++ Hayes Carll - KMAG YOYO ++ Lucinda Williams - Can't Let Go ++ Mason Porter - My Creole Belle ++ Eddie Spaghetti - Sundowner ++ The Band - To Kingdom Come ++ Guy Clark - Texas Cookin' ++ Gregg Allman - I Can't Be Satisfied ++ Neil Diamond - Cherry, Cherry ++ Tom Waits - Step Right Up ++ The Felice Brothers - Run Chicken Run ++ Ryan Bingham - Bread & Water ++ The Wood Brothers - Chocolate On My Tongue ++ The Gourds - Boil My Strings