Jam Session

"Do you ever notice yourself picking up fragments of ideas from the most disconnected and unexpected places? Like listening to an artist talk about how she likes songs that repeat, reading about a Disco star, or going down a YouTube wormhole. Episode 69 paints the most unlikely of pictures from Joe Marcinek, Giant Panda, The Motet and Twin Peaks. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:54 - Episode Intro 02:53 - Bernie - Joe Marcinek Band 08:17 - New Mexico - Mike Montrey Band 12:39 - Troubles Come In Threes - Joey Stuckey Trio 16:08 - Mic Break 17:30 - War Machine - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad 20:41 - Fox and Toad - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong 26:14 - Mic Break 28:10 - Well I Guess - Doug Tuttle 29:59 - Falling Up - Mike Montrey Band 35:53 - Mic Break 38:09 - Extraordinary High - The Motet 44:30 - Fool No More - The Motet 49:24 - Mic Break 50:30 - Eastbound - Burnell Pines 54:49 - Look Out Low - Twin Peaks 58:45 - Luigi - Kind Country 62:03 - Episode Outro 62:28 - Finish "

"Honoring, who is arguably the greatest electric guitarist of all time, Eddie Van Halen, we play some long, screaming electric guitar licks by Ghost Town Blues Band, Umphrey’s McGee and Widespread Panic. Before I get there through, I introduce you to one of the best album releases of 2020—“Generations” by Will Butler. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:50 - Episode Intro 04:40 - Not Gonna Die - Will Butler 09:41 - Fine - Will Butler 16:20 - Mic Break 17:54 - Strong Mind - Zeus 22:38 - Whatever Cost - Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad 27:03 - Skipjack - Pigeons Playing Ping Pong 31:38 - Mic Break 34:09 - I Get High - Ghost Town Blues Band 43:57 - Maybe Someday - Umphrey’s McGee 50:34 - Junior - Widespread Panic 61:44 - Episode Outro 62:08 - Finish "

"Was I the only one who felt he needed to take a shower after watching the 95 minute debate last Tuesday? Ten minutes in, and I was already wishing to be somewhere else. Well, use this week’s Jam Session episode as your “somewhere else.” Slip into stream-of consciousness guitar by Mac DeMarco and It Hugs Back. Or be mesmerized by the finger-picking of Larry Keel and The Kitchen Dwellers. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:55 - Episode Intro 02:06 - Memoria - Marvelous Funkshun 09:39 - Home, Pt. I - The New Deal 16:05 - Home, Pt. II - The New Deal 20:00 - Mic Break 22:07 - American Dream - Larry Keel 25:57 - Old Man Kelsey’s - Larry Keel 30:05 - Broken Cage - Kitchen Dwellers 35:01 - Mic Break 36:30 - The Wild Boys - Howlin’ Rain 44:13 - Mic Break 46:22 - Moonlight On The River - Mac DeMarco 53:09 - Rehearsal - Hugs Back 58:56 - Episode Outro 59:19 - Finish "

"There was a very tiny casket sitting on the top of the steps of the Supreme Court in Washington DC last week. But there was a Giant inside. 00:00 - Show Opening 01:03 - Episode Intro 02:50 - A Hole In The Sky - Mike Montrey Band 05:49 - Caravan - Cousin Fungus 11:45 - On My Mind - Circles Around the Sun 19:33 - Mic Break 21:40 - Rainy Day - Moon Hooch 24:38 - Giving It All Away - Ghost Town Blues Band 31:22 - Mic Break 32:24 - Dawn - Los Goutos 37:37 - Breeze - The Orange Constant 42:25 - Mic Break 43:27 - Laugh About It - Mike Montrey Band 47:35 - Rosa’s Garage - Cousin Fungus 54:05 - Mic Break 56:00 - Crickets - The Freeway Revival 63:37 - Episode Outro 64:00 - Finish "

"The Fall season always brings us so much new music, and it seems to me that the pandemic of 2020 created inspiration around the world. Today on Jam Session, we are featuring new sounds from MMB, Carothers Brothers, Howlin’ Rain and Ifdakar. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:53 - Episode Intro 01:40 - Spirit of Youth - Mike Montrey Band 05:53 - Full of Sin - Daemon Chili 09:46 - The Fool - Heartless Bastards 13:46 - Mic Break 15:08 - Make It Out - Carothers Brothers 21:49 - Between the Shore and the Sky, Pt. III - The New Deal 28:08 - Awake - decker. 33:10 - Mic Break 34:53 - Calling Lightning Pt. 2 (Live) - Howlin’ Rain 48:52 - Mic Break 50:31 - Heroin Baby - Ifdakar 58:30 - Episode Outro 58:55 - Finish "

"Feeling the heat from the West and the continued rise of BLM, it’s time we all hit “Reset” and think of the type of people we want to be post-Labor Day 2020. That means pouring more Soul into this World. Lord knows, it could use it. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:52 - Episode Intro 02:41 - Double Clutch - New Monsoon 14:54 - Texas - String Cheese Incident 23:36 - Mic Break 24:30 - Get Out Of My Life Woman - Chris Robinson Brotherhood 32:40 - My Shell - Mike Montrey Band 39:48 - about her. again - Son Little 43:27 - Mic Break 45:31 - Sonny’s Bugaloo - Sonny Knight & The Lakers 51:11 - Slow Down Love - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings 55:11 - No Time For Crying - Mavis Staples 59:43 - Episode Outro 60:08 - Finish "

"It’s vacation time for me, as we all close out the summer of 2020. It definitely was a summer to forget in terms of live music and outdoor festivals. Can we just put it all behind us already? 00:00 - Show Opening 00:53 - Episode Intro 02:08 - Life Rolls On - Slightly Stoopid 05:45 - Pirates - String Cheese Incident 15:09 - Mic Break 15:50 - Shakin - Papa Grows Funk 23:27 - Bombs - The Disco Biscuits 32:36 - Mic Break 34:00 - New Cannonball Rag (Live) - Chris Robinson Brotherhood 46:31 - Mic Break 48:13 - Good To Be Alone - Erika Wennerstrom 58:05 - Episode Outro 58:29 - Finish "

"After a week stretching the boundaries of what a new age, hippie jam may sound like to a 21st Century commune in Pahoa, Hawaii, I reign it back in with nothing but a good ole’ Americana Jam Band setlist. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:57 - Episode Intro 02:29 - Sodium Vapor - Lotus 07:52 - Hey There Lucinda - Ghost Town Blues Band 12:09 - The Way That I Wanted - Kind Country 15:09 - Mic Break 16:20 - Grace - Arnold Mitchell 20:40 - Providence of Compromise - Mike Montrey Band 27:20 - Shine - Ghost Town Blues Band 31:12 - Mic Break 32:19 - You Flatter Me - Bully Pulpit 35:54 - Fare Thee Well - WhiteWater Ramble 40:11 - Mic Break 41:45 - Today’s the Day I Started Drinking Again - Scott Cooper 44:53 - Hi-Line - Heartless Bastards 49:41 - Common Ground - SixFoxWhiskey 56:29 - Episode Outro 56:51 - Finish "

"I don’t know why, but I started thinking of Pahoa—a small hippie commune in the Big Island of Hawaii—and memories I have of hitchhiking there in the year 2000. The music, the dancing, the free-love and hallucinogenic spirit-dancing all came flowing back to me. This week on Jam Session, I re-imagine the music they may be listening to twenty years later. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:50 - Episode Intro 04:56 - Detroit Dos - Circles Around the Sun 11:35 - Far Horizon - Jaden Carlson Band 16:37 - High Street Will Never Die - RJD2 21:36 - Mic Break 23:33 - Northern Lights - Medeski Martin & Wood 31:05 - Nonphysical - Moon Hooch 35:34 - Stocking Shelves - Axon Radio feat. Oz Noy 40:30 - Mic Break 42:15 - Body & Mind - Joss Jaffe 47:49 - Eats the Light - Lotus 53:27 - Mic Break 55:59 - Ghost Rider - Mickey Hart Band 62:43 - Episode Outro 63:07 - Finish "

"Jam Session welcomes Kamala Harris to the National ticket for VP of the Democratic nomination, and hopefully the White House in November. This breathes balance and energy to Biden’s campaign, and is exactly what motivates our setlist here today: Balance & Energy. Some acoustic, some piano, some pop, some electric, and some jazz. 00:00 - Show Opening 00:50 - Episode Intro 03:22 - California Hymn - Chris Robinson Brotherhood 07:46 - Waking Days - Jeff Crosby 11:29 - Finding Our Way - Kyle Hollingsworth 16:09 - Mic Break 17:22 - Oh Caroline - Craig Greenberg 22:26 - Mic Break 23:53 - Good Intention - The Orange Constant 30:41 - Breeze - The Orange Constant 35:33 - Friction - Tauk 40:29 - Mic Break 40:54 - No. 6 - Moon Hooch 46:09 - Bongo Joe - Nolatet 49:11 - Mic Break 50:52 - Joelle - Surprise Me Mr. Davis 57:48 - Episode Outro 58:13 - Finish "