October 2012 - Edition 5

Scope Out news with Hot Buttered Rum, HFTH, The Woodbox Gang, G. Love and more

October/12 #3

Table of Contents Melvin Seals with JGB | 3 - 5 Hot Buttered Rum & HFTH | 6 - 14 "Night of the Living SPREAD" | 15 - 18 The Woodbox Gang Reunion | 19 - 30 G. Love & The Special Sauce 10/31 | 31 - 35

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Melvin Seals with the Jerry Garcia Band San Francisco-based Jerry Garcia Band visited some of their favorite Midwest spots on a nationwide fall tour.

They performed live at the Abbey Pub with Jaik Willis in Chicago, rocked the Old Rock House in St. Louis and

traveled to the Hangar 9 in downtown Carbondale, Ill on Thursday, October 11. The band featured Melvin Seals on the Hammond B-3 Organ, Jimmy Tebeau on bass, Peter Lavezzoli on drums, Dave Hebert on guitar and

Cheryl Rucker and Shirley Starks united the band harmoniously together with their beautiful vocals.

618 Productions and everyone the Hangar 9 celebrated an evening of spellbinding music from a large cast of musical genres from blues, R&B, rock, gospel and reggae. A strength to seeing the band live is their advantageous style of comprising their set lists. One of my misconceptions about the band was not knowing how large their song catalog that they have ready to perform on stage.

Both sets of music were equally weighted with highlights that filled the venue with high spirits and profuse energy from the crowd. Melvin Seals tickled the ivories with a distinct style that draws from his 30 years

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of performing live music. Seals produces inspiring concerts across the country with a talented cast of musicians from all over the globe.

Browse JGB music online via: http://www.jgbband.com/blog/

JGB SET LIST : 10-1112 : Thursday at THE HANGAR 9 in Carbondale, IL SET 1 : Second That Emotion, Stop That Train>Lay Down Sally, Tears of Rage>It Takes a Lot to Laugh… >Tangled Up In Blue SET 2 : Money Honey>Stir It Up, Neighbor Neighbor>Don’t Let Go, Waiting for a Miracle>Sisters & Brothers>Let’s Spend the Night Together

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Aaron Redner - Hot Buttered Rum

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Head for the Hills & Hot Buttered Rum Makes A Splash at the Hangar 9

Fall brews continued to flow on Thursday, October 18 for the Hangar 9’s Unofficial Halloween Kick Off Party featuring Head from the Hills and Hot Buttered Rum. The two bands held a fiery fall tour with stops in Colorado, the Midwest and additional shows throughout the country.

Unofficial Halloween has become a new tradition in Carbondale and other college towns that enforce main sections of town to close for Halloween Weekend. It was become an invented way to celebrate the fall holiday for a modern generation. Another reason it has become so popular may be due to the creation of a second weekend to celebrate the holiday. The weekend kicked off early

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Head for the hills

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with two amazing sets of music live on the Hangar 9’s stage.

Fort Collins is the home of the bluegrass quartet known as Head for the Hills, but over the years they continued to roost and celebrate their music in downtown Carbondale, Ill. HFTH paralleled nicely with Hot Buttered Rum, and

entwined with the band live on stage several times throughout their cross country tour. The Colorado natives provided a brief interview with us before opening the show on 10/18.

Q: Has the group been working on new material for the next record?

How far along are you into the process?

A: (Matt Loewen Bass) We’re about a third of the way done.

We have about half of the songs basically recorded, but some writing left to do. I mentioned we are going to be launching a Kickstarter project soon for the next record, so that is going to be a big piece of it. Just the other day, after the Iowa

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good too.

(Mike Chappell - Mandolin) It did sound good. It was some of the better early shows we had at the other one. So, when we were unable to come through there, that became kind of a issue, because Carbondale is where we have been coming to fairly often.

It’s hard. This room is obviously newer, but the other room had a feel to it too.

(Joe Lessard - Fiddle) The cigarette smoke is gone. It’s a greater day just for that.

(Adam Kinghorn Guitar) I’d say if you came here to hear to music, you can absolutely do that, and I think the majority of people coming here on a night like tonight are probably here to see the band. As opposed to the old setup like a bar where people go to party. You can both of those things here.

Musically it sounds so much better, and is a better setup.

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Hot Buttered Rum

This past summer Hot Buttered Rum performed at the Bloom Heavy River Romp with a talented cast of musicians on the bill in southeast hills of Missouri. After their second set of music at Bloom Heavy I talked with some of the band about their

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next record. Since last June the band has made some big advancements with the record and their career.

They brought us up to speed on their next release, taste tested some Quatro’s Deep Pan Pizza and drew a few conclusions between baseball and music.

Lucas Carlton - Hot Buttered Rum (Interview taken on 10/18/12) Q. The band recently produced a song featuring your hometown baseball team the San Francisco Giants. Do you see any comparisons between music and sports in regards to the relationship with the audience?

A. (Nat Keefe - Vocals/ Guitar) I think there are some analogies there, but for me, it is more about the rhythm of your day, and rhythm of your year is very similar to baseball players. Touring with a bluegrass band, and touring as a baseball player are very similar.

You’ll play a similar amount, like a hard working band will do about 162 gigs a year, and so does a baseball team. Then you get into the post season, and for music that would be like festival season, and you’re going and doing

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your best to get it done.

(Bryan Horne - Bass) It’s probably a little less competitive, in music. (laughs) But just as cutthroat.

(Nat Keefe - Vocals/ Guitar) I think writing a setlist is similar to making a lineup/roster.

You want your lead off batter and your lead off song to get you on base right away. You’ll want your third and fourth songs to just be out-ofthe-park power hitters.

Q. Which new songs are you excited about playing on this tour?

A. (Nat Keefe - Vocals/Guitar) We have been doing a bunch of stuff off our new live album. Stuff like “Way Back When” and “Fruit of the Vine” are some of the songs that are on that new album.

(Aaron Redner - Vocal/ Fiddle/Mandolin) We also have “Let the Love Come Through Me” and “Working Man” are new songs that our band is playing in a new way and tends to get our message across well.

(Bryan Horne - Bass) We have a new studio

album that we have recorded, but have not released it yet. So that is what Aaron referring to, when he is mentioning some new songs.

Q. Let’s go around the room and check to see what your guys thought about the Quatros Pizza?

A. (Bryan Horne Bass) Awesome! (Lucas Carlton - Drums) Yeah, solid deep dish. (Nat Keefe - Vocals/Guitar) “Slamingly good.”

After the show and the fall tour wrapped, the San Francisco Giants continued to win in October and clinched the 2012 MLB World Series. Watch and listen in to Hot Buttered Rum’s latest studio work with the track “Let the Love Come Through Me” on YouTube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oh7236h1JY

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"Night of the

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Living SPREAD"

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- spread Live at the hangar October 20 - Ticket $5 Show 10pm - nineteen to enter

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Night Of the Living Spread SPREAD’s music layered over the Hangar 9 walls with a thick, ghostly and diabolical tone to the legendary music hall on Saturday, October 20. The band has continued to push the musical envelope on stage with their entrapping style of rock. The band is comprised of Dave Petrizzo on guitar, Colin Finn manning the bass, Patrick Reyn-

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olds on drums, Steven Kaufman lays soul and funk down on the keyboards. Collectively the band is on a music rampage with a thirst for new challenges.

The band known as SPREAD sparked a new flame during the highpoint of Unofficial Halloween in Carbondale, Ill. After this show, and the Woodbox Gang performance at Shryock one could

overhear members of the crowd buzzing about Carbondale 2.0.

These bands along with a mix of other musicians have reincarnated the true spirit of the Carbondale music scene. In can be noted that in 2012, the local music scene has seen growth, passion and plenty of ingraining moments in music history.

Mandy Jo at WDBX with Hugh DeNeal

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Mandy Jo hosts a weekly Ska Show on Tuesday nights that broadcasts on WDBX 91.1 fm radio and at: http://www.wdbx.org/ MJ setup interviews with different members of The Woodbox Gang leading up to their reunion show at the Shryock Auditorium on Saturday, October 27.

On the Tuesday before the performance Hugh DeNeal stopped by the WDBX Studio to talk with MJ live on air about the band reuniting on stage. They discussed past songs, and future tracks that the gang would perform together. DeNeal graced the live listeners and MJ with a short solo performance. The studio is sonically setup to capture the rawness of acoustic musicians, and DeNeal’s short set amplified the room beautifully.

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The Woodbox Gang

3 years of absence from the stage, near-death experiences and evolution has not put The Woodbox Gang back, but rather given them the gasoline to keep going into a new paradigm of music in Carbondale, Ill.

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Curtis Conley begun working with the band and the Shryock Auditorium once the opportunity became available for a concert to be held at their venue. The auditorium packed over 1,100 guests for the

bands reunion show and almost sold out the entire venue. Costume dressed guests wrapped around the walls of the sacred venue in southern Illinois for the preHalloween celebration.

The band is currently up made of

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Hugh DeNeal on lead vocals and guitar, Alex Kirt performs the banjo guitar-vocalswashboard-didgeridoo, Greg Edwards on bass and Dan Goett on slide guitar, banjo and vocals. For this special set of music, the band featured Jim Beers on drums. It would be the first time the band shared the stage since 2009. The band quickly brushed off any rust and got down to business with several spectacular haunting good guest spots.

This historic event was opened by Chicago Farmer performing his traditional acoustic sting music.

He treated the guests with new tracks from his upcoming album that will be released in the near future. Stop by Chicago Farmer’s main website at: www.chicagofarmer.com/

for more information

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on how to become a kickstarter member.

The Woodbox Gang returned to the stage with ‘Better Place To Die’ and popped the crowd with past favorites such as ‘Confidence Man’ and ‘Italian Plumber Lawsuit’.

They mixed it up with new music from their latest release “Glorious Scares” album. The entire crowd let loose throughout the whole

show. The band opened up and gave the crowd a huge performance.

Robco Audio provided the dialed-in audio production for both sets of music.

It was beyond inspiring to see Hugh back on stage. The entire band embodied a never-say-die-attitude that kept the audience wanting more.

The once in a lifetime performance dem-

onstrated the current liveliness in the local music scene. There was a Halloween special kind of spirit in the air throughout the night.

Chicago Farmer and The Whistle Pigs continued the blazing good times at Tres Hombres until the morning hours with special collaborations together live on stage.

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G. Love & The Special Sauce Trick & Treat at Headliners

A full moon casted over the countryside as the Halloween festivities officially kicked off across cities everywhere. This year G. Love and the Special Sauce setup a special gig for Halloween with Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad opening the show at Headliners in Louisville, KY.

Garrett Dutton is the lead singer of the Special Sauce and he recently discussed with us his views on chemistry, politics, Halloween, history and more on the next record.

Interview taken on 10/11/12 - Written by Matthew McGuire Q: How was this past summer tour? Did you have any big moments on or off stage?

A. (Garrett Dutton Vocal/Guitar) Yeah, we had a great year touring. Actually this last year and a half we have had a great tour behind “Fixin’ To Die”. Summer was great, we did a mix between some big festivals and a few club dates with the band. I actually got to do tour-

ing as a solo musician as well recently. Tonight is one of my bigger solo acoustic gigs.

I’m headlining a festival out in San Diego with Pato Banton and Donavon Frankenreiter, so it should be a lot of fun at night. I have just been out in Brushfire Records, down in L.A. for the last couple days doing some solo acoustic recording of kind of more down home, Delta blues style of tunes.

It’s nice for me to be able to do both of those sets right now, and it is refreshing musically.

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Q. Do you have any good Halloween stories you would like to share?

A. (Garrett Dutton - Vocal/Guitar) I’ve always been really big into Halloween honestly. (laughs) I’m too big to trick & treat now.

Q. Do you have any favorite scary or horror movies that you like to watch?

A. (Garrett) Ah man those scary movies, I can’t really dig those scary movies. I can’t even watch the Saw stuff. The stuff the really freaks me out is like the serial killer type shit, like Saw and movies like that, because that is like real people doing the worst possible things imaginable to people. I kind of enjoy the Paranormal Activity movies, maybe I believe in ghosts, that shit just freaks me out, but I don’t think it’s

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too realistic. The serial killer stuff actually happens, so I don’t like to watch that, but I do like action movies.

Q. You seem to be politically involved with HeadCount.org and the next election. If you were president, what would be one of your first plans of action? It could be regarding any manner, what would be one of your first plans to help move the country forward?

A. (Garrett Dutton Vocal/Guitar) I think they are all ready doing

this, but I would like to get the troops back home. That would be one of my first priorities, and also putting a lot money into research to getting the America back on track as far as health and science.

Instead of focusing here on issues, there are issues that I don’t even think politics should be involved in. I don’t think politics should have any say over what a women does with her body. I don’t think politicians should have any right to say if gay people can get married here or not. I feel what

the government should be doing is trying advance our society and civilization.

Q. You mentioned working on tracks in Los Angeles. Are you still working on the next record?

A. (Garrett Dutton - Vocal/Guitar) I’m honestly working on a full release this upcoming spring in March. It will be heading back to the hip-hop style, but really incorporating a lot of blues as well. The solo acoustic work will come out later though.

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