Yearly Archives: 2010

LZ-’75: The Lost Chronicles of Led Zeppelin’s 1975 American Tour – by Stephen Davis

The thing that made Larry “Ratso” Sloman’s 1978 memoir On The Road With Bob Dylan an instant classic was that it was a not-quite-an-insider’s view of Dylan’s 1975 Rolling Thunder tour. Rather than an all-access, red-carpet-rolled-out stroll into Dylan’s inner sanctum, On The Road allowed us to share Sloman’s thrill of occasional victories and the […]

Daniel Lanois – Mining The Soul With Black Dub

Never mind his landmark production work with Bob Dylan for right now. (Or with Brian Eno, U2, Peter Gabriel, Willie Nelson, the Neville Brothers … look it up; the list goes on.) Forget about the Grammys, Junos, and all the awards he’s won. Even the couldn’t-escape-it-if-you-tried thunder of his trademark “sonics” as applied to Neil […]

The Contribution – Relix Magazine Spotlight

Call it a supergroup or, better yet, a jamband supergroup. These five friends—The String Cheese Incident’s Jason Hann (percussion) and Keith Moseley (bass), New Monsoon’s Jeff Miller (guitar, vocals) and Phil Ferlino (keyboards, vocals) and Railroad Earth’s Tim Carbone (violin, guitar, vocals)—have just released the record Which Way World under the moniker The Contribution. While […]

The Contribution – Which Way World

It’s not what you think. One look at the line-up of The Contribution – String Cheesers Jason Hann (drums) and Keith Mosely (bass); Jeff Miller (guitar/vocals) and Phil Ferlino (keys/vocals) of New Monsoon; Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth (guitar, vocals, and, of course, violin) – and one might be tempted to say, “Ah … another […]