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Songwriting and playing music has been a consuming passion for Gerry Spehar since he picked up his first guitar at age 14.  “I never went on a date in high-school without my guitar,” he admits.  If you look at the album artwork on I Hold Gravity, you’ll notice that there’s not one image of Spehar without a guitar except for the one in which he has his arm around his wife, Susan.  “Ever since I can remember, I have always had one or the other –usually both –with me.”  Susan was Spehar’s college sweetheart and his

Three Piece Suite is a specially curated selection of songs and compositions from Gentle Giant’s first three albums (Giant, Acquiring the Taste, Three Friends) presented in both 5.1 surround sound and stereo. There are nine tracks from the albums, plus a pre-debut song, remixed by Steven Wilson. The choices were determined by the limited availability of multi-track master tapes from the era. Only a few songs from each album are known to exist as multi-tracks, with the rest presumably lost.

Academy Award-nominated “king of indie animation” Bill Plympton takes viewers on a Technicolor ride to outer space, an underwater world filled with robots, and a concert performed by banjo-slinging aliens in the new video for roots-rocker Jackie Greene’s “Modern Lives."

Set to absurdist lyrics comparing Times Square to a graveyard and a rollicking, fiddle-heavy groove, the seemingly innocuous psychedelic visuals take on a darkly sardonic meaning and reflect the dystopia Greene sees when he looks at “this modern life.”

On August 5th, 2017, the rock 'n' roll quartet The Southern Belles will independently release their third studio album "In the Middle of the Night." They'll be touring the east coast from Florida to West Virginia throughout July in support of the release, mixing festival dates and club shows. To celebrate the album, they will headline The Broadberry in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia on August 5th. Full tour dates can be found below:

Grateful Web recently had the chance to speak with keyboardist and producer Chad Staehly. He’s a member of the rock’n’roll roots group Hard Working Americans. Featuring some of the most established talents in American music including vocalist/guitarist Todd Snider, guitarists Neal Casal and Jesse Aycock, bassist Dave Schools, and drummer Duane Trucks, the band which began as a group project has grown into their own after four years of touring and recording.

Today, Leftover Salmon announced a July 31st public on-sale for their 3rd annual Stanley Hotel 3-day event March 9-11, 2018. This coming Monday at NOON MST tickets and reservations at the Stanley will become available to public, though past ticket buys have been able to secure their spots for over a week. There are several other area hotels besides the Stanley available for lodging during our event that are taking reservations now.

Special guests, activities, contests and more to be announced soon!

With the uniquely named album, Peripheral Drift Illusion, set for release October 10th, John Dylan is following up the infectiously dreamy ‘Get Beyond’ with the second single from the experimental record, ‘If I Want You To’, which presents an entirely new musical personality to the multifaceted songwriter.

It’s at about five minutes and thirty seconds into the second track (“Meet Me At the Creek”) on the debut LP, Turmoil & Tinfoil, from Nashville bluegrass iconoclast Billy Strings that you start to see his intense vision for American roots music. It’s right after a jagged, spiraling solo from Billy’s mandolinist Drew Matulich, when Billy’s guitar starts aggressively stacking power chords and suddenly leaps into a screaming acoustic guitar solo that twists its way through a dark-Cthulhu bluegrass jam.

Fresh off the heels of the highly acclaimed Classic West, and forthcoming Classic East, the Eagles will headline The Classic Northwest on September 30 at Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners, in Seattle, Washington. The Classic Northwest will also feature The Doobie Brothers, who joined the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Steely Dan, Journey, and Earth, Wind & Fire at the Classic West on July 15-16 at Dodger Stadium, and will appear at The Classic East concert on July 29-30 at Citi Field.
 

The latest collaboration for the coming Brooklyn Comes Alive features members from two prominent bands out of Buffalo, NY. At this year's festival, members from moe. — one of the scene's most well known and respected acts — will join members of one the hottest up-and-coming bands on the scene today, Aqueous. This collaboration, known as moe.queous, will include a set of moe. songs, Aqueous songs, and choice covers, which can only be experienced at Brooklyn Comes Alive.

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