I’m going to keep this brief as I’m about to run out the door for the Blue Heron Festival but I wanted to get this up before I left as I’ll be coming back with a bunch more music to post and I don’t want to get behind.

Bottom line. Great show. Jakob Dylan has captured everything that is good about folk music. The crowd absolutely loved him. My dad grew up listening to Bob Dylan and it was surreal to see his son a generation later playing some incredible folk music for this Buffalo crowd.

To grab the mp3’s now click HERE

For the lossless via torrent head over to http://bt.etree.org

Here’s a few samples from the show.

enjoy!

(photos courtesy of aneurysm9)

Last year they predicted it, this year they delivered. YMSB became only the third band in the 22 year history of Thursday At The Square to do “an evening with” at Buffalo’s best outdoor venue. After playing the past two years in torrential downpours the sun finally shined for their 3rd appearance. YMSB put on an excellent show playing two sets for a total of over 2 and half hours of intense newgrass.

This is a must have set for any YMSB or newgrass/jamband fans. Jeff Austin and the rest of the guys love playing for this crowd in Buffalo. For those of you who have been to a show at Thursday At The Square you know why bands enjoy playing here so much.

Its one if the few outdoor venue’s that continues to offer free jam band concerts in a downtown setting week after week. The fans pack it right in after work and stay till 10pm. The crowd surfing is wild and the interaction between the bands and the crowd is simply amazing.

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Last night was sick. It was my 2nd time seeing Bisco and this is one of the best shows we’ve covered at The Square in downtown Buffalo. We got down there early and the guys from Philly opened at 6:30 with Kitchen Mittens. They moved through some of thier originals including a sick Jigsaw Earth jam. When they broke into a ruckus cover of Rage Against The Machines ‘Killing In The Name Of’ the Buffalo heads started moshing and jumping all over the place in pure elation.

The 2nd set opened with ‘Run Like Hell’ and closed with wicked cover of Nirvana’s Lithium just as the torrential downpour doused the bisco fans.

Below is the set list, and a few tracks from the show, and more pictures. Read the rest of this entry »

Thursday In The Square returns to downtown Buffalo for it’s 22nd year celebrating free live music at Lafayette Square.

Rock The Harbor also returns after being on hiatus for a year with performances by Great Big Sea (08.15.08) and The Robert Cray Bond With Keb’Mo (08.16.08.) These tickets will be $10 in advance and are available through Ticket Master.

I’m looking forward to seeing at least half of these bands including Galactic, YMSB, Disco Biscuits, Jakob Dylan, Zappa Plays Zappa, The New Deal, and Mike Gordon.

Be sure to check back with BandsThatJam.net through out the summer for show reviews and show download information.

The openers (listed 2nd) start at 6pm with the headliners coming on about 8pm.

Thursday At The Square Lineup 2008, Buffalo Place Free Concert Series

• May 29 Galactic and The New Deal
• June 5 an evening with The Disco Biscuits (click for full review and audio)
  
• June 12 an evening with Yonder Mountain String Band (click for full review and audio)
  
• June 19 David Sanborn and Gamalon
• June 26 Martin Sexton and Mike Doughty Duo
• July 3 Jakob Dylan & The Gold Mountain Rebels
• July 10 Jimmie Vaughn with JJ Grey & MOFRO
• July 17 Mickey Hart Mickey Hart Band featuring Steve Kimock and George Porter Jr. with Special Guests Tea leaf Green
• July 24 Gin Blossoms and Common Kings and Dan Erickson
• July 31 Spirit To The West and Babik and Penny Whiskey
• Aug 7 Zappa Plays Zappa and The Whigs
• Aug 14 Mike Gordon of Phish and Samantha Stollenwerck
• Aug 21 Saliva with Klear
• Aug 28 Candlebox with Agent Me
• Sept 4 Big Head Todd and the Monsters with Indigenous

Check out our coverage of last years Thursday At The Square featuring North Mississippi All-Stars, YMSB, moe, Bennevento Russo Duo, Umphrey’s McGee, & Tea Leaf Green.

Also be sure to check out the Artpark schedule that was released last week.

 

To grab this entire show in MP3 format click here.

Last Thursday “The Duo” came on at roughly 5pm to a sparse crowd in downtown Buffalo. I was expecting a bigger crowd for these guys considering how well Buffalo has received the other jam bands that have played this summer. As time went on The Square slowly filled in.

The Duo seemed to enjoy themselves regardless and put on a rocking set that they closed with an improvisational cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

To download the torrent for the flac files of this show click here.

Setlist:

01. Best Reason To Buy The Sun 6:52
02. Sunny’s Song 5:01
03. Something For Rockets 6:12
04. Play, Pause, Stop 10:01
05. Becky 9:04
06. Soba 7:24
07. Echo Park 4:02
08. Welcome Red 7:33
09. My Pet Goat 10:15
10. Smells Like Teen Spirit 5:44

To download an audience recording of this entire set in mp3 format click here.

Last Thursday the heads of Buffalo were treated to another great festival like experience with the North Mississippi All-Stars rocking Lafayette Square. These guys jammed out for two hours with some great improvisational blues, and  Grateful Dead riffs.

(Thanks to Daniel Godwin daniel@upstatetapers.org)

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SETLIST: (click play buttons below for samples)

01. Write Me A Few Little Lines > Drop Down Mama > Sugartown
02. Mean Ol’ Wind Died Down
03. Run On > Goin Down South
03. Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
04. I Don’t Live Today
06. Stay All Night > Lord Have Mercy > Stay All Night > Love And Happiness
07. Ship > Gloria

08. Shake What Yo Mama Gave You
09. Sunshine Of Your Love
10. If I Had My Way
11. Some Kind Of Wonderful
12. Georgia Women > Po Black Maddie > Skinny Woman > Po Black Maddie
Encore:
13. Hear My Train A Comin
14. Snake Drive > Mississippi Party > Snake Drive
15. All Night Long >
16. Love Light > All Night Long

I missed the show this week at Lafayette Square as I was camping at Allegheny State Park for the week. I had planned on coming back on Thursday but I was having too much fun in the wilderness to make it back to town midweek.After listening to the show I’m kicking myself for not making it. I’m sure the hippies of Buffalo were glad to hear a few Greatful Dead jams including the encore “Women Are Smarter.” KW is one of a kind musician who has played jam festival Bonnaroo and Red Rocks. If you haven’t had a chance to listen to KW yet I’d highly recommend downloading this high quality set.

The show is available for download in MP3 format here:

Keller Williams Live at Lafayette Square on 2007-08-09 MP3

To hear a few samples click play buttons below:

Setlist:

1. Instra

2. Roshambo
3. Rainy Day
4. Vacate
5. People Watchin
6. Inside Out [Eve6]
7. Get on up
8. Superstition Get on Up
9.
10. Play This
11. Scarlet Begonias
12. Fire on the Freekshow
13. Blaze-a-bago
14. Turn in Difference
15. Zilla
16. Dogs
17. Sing For My Dinner
18. Yoni
Encore:

19.Freeker
20.Women are smarter

Keller Williams will be performing this Thursday as part of the free summer concert series here in upstate NY. For those of you who are not familiar with Keller Williams he hails from Fredericksburg, VA and plays a combination of folk music, bluegrass, and reggae, alternative, and funk.Keller puts on a unique performance by hooking his Gibson guitar into a Echoplex delay system. This allows him to create loops on stage so he can have the sound of an entire band while only performing by himself on stage. Instruments that he plays include the harmonica, trumpet, didgeridoo and a host of other assorted instruments.Be sure to check back this weekend for pics, show download information, and a full review.Here’s a video of Keller performing “Freaker By The Speaker”enjoy!

Photo’s courtesy of youshisushi

Last night was awesome once again. We were treated to our 5th free jam band of the summer courtesy of Buffalo Place at the “Thursday In The Square” concert series.

The John Butler Trio jammed out for two solid hours. The set started with “I Used To Get High” at 7pm and closed out with a three song encore just after 9pm.

The highlight of the show was a 6 minute drum solo in the middle of “Good Excuse” where drummer Michael Barker lit the crowd up. At one point I had to pull my head away from my video camera to check and see if there was a 2nd drummer on the stage with him because he was playing with drum sticks in one hand and with the other hand he was playing percussions.

Thanks to Daniel Goodwin has already uploaded a recording of the show to The Archive. (click for details.)

To grab the entire show now in MP3 format click HERE.

Here’s a few songs performed live at the show last night. I was able to video tape the entire set so I will be posting more songs to YouTube over the weekend.

enjoy!

Zebra:

Better Than:

One of the best show’s I’ve seen this year was Umphrey’s McGee. Quite a few of my friends have raved about this band and I had heard them quite a bit on Sirius but I was never really all that into them. That is until I saw them truly rock Lafayette Square in Buffalo. These guys have a unique electronic jam band sound unlike any other band on the scene.

You can download the entire show at The Archive or click HERE to grab the zipped MP3’s of the show directly.

To view pictures of the show check out the official Umphrey’s McGee gallery page.