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Big Head Todd and the Monsters @ Telluride Blues and Brews 2011 Main Stage

Big Head Todd and the Monsters headline Saturday's main stage at the Telluride Blues and Brews festival! The band pulls out all the stops on this double disc performance! Highlights include a killer version of "Love In Vain" for their encore performance.

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1532-0001	Big Head Todd and the Monsters @ Telluride Blues and Brews 2011 Main Stage - CD Mail Order	$20.00
1532-0002	Big Head Todd and the Monsters @ Telluride Blues and Brews 2011 Main Stage - Combo CD & Download	$30.00
1532-0003	Big Head Todd and the Monsters @ Telluride Blues and Brews 2011 Main Stage - Download	$15.00
1532-0004	Big Head Todd and the Monsters @ Telluride Blues and Brews 2011 Main Stage - USB Audio	$25.00
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Set List:

1. Her Own Kinda Woman
2. Smokestack Lightnin'
3. Cashbox
4. Come On In My Kitchen
5. It's Alright
6. Broken Hearted Savior
7. I'll Play The Blues For You
8. Muhammad Ali
9. Bittersweet
10. Dirty Juice
11. Happiness Is
...12. Beautiful
(horns If Chart?)13. Beautiful World
14. Conquistador
. 15. Last Fair Deal
16. Rocksteady
Encore:
Love In Vain
Black Betty

Download Specs:

128 MP3

Artist Bio:

Their formidable reputation rests on their stage performances; Big Head Todd and The Monsters Live was recorded on the fabled H.O.R.D.E. tour. Over the years, the group has developed a close relationship with their fans: Their last album, All the Love You Need, was released as a free download, and was snapped up by half a million of The Monsters’ followers. Rocksteady can be seen as Act One of a two-act Big Head Todd spectacular, since the band cut enough tracks to fill two CDs. A projected future release will include the sessions’ more hard-edged material. Mohr says, “We went into the studio and recorded over thirty songs. We've always been a versatile group with a wide range of influences and so our albums tend to be an eclectic mix of different genres of music. Somewhere along the line we realized we had a group of songs that fit together really well as a soul/R&B/Carribian kind of thing. So we set aside some of the harder rock stuff in order to focus on a soulful, danceable sound." Lawton adds, “We were noticing we had these two different directions in songs. Big Head Todd albums are always like a buffet – there’s always a rocker, and then there are a couple of mood songs, and then there are some R&B/soul songs. We said, ‘Let’s try to concentrate on one of the branches of the tree.’ We went towards this fun, happy R&B kind of sound.” Mohr attributes some of the funk in the Rocksteady sound to the influence of the late Nigerian Afrobeat titan Fela Anikulapo Kuti and his son Femi Kuti, whose work he had been listening to deeply, and to his ongoing fascination with reggae and its intersection with punk rock. While Big Head Todd and The Monsters have worked with such well-known producers as David Bianco, Jerry Harrison, and David Z, the band found their sound refreshed by working essentially on their own with Lawton at the helm in his home studio, recording on their own schedule. “Obviously, I have high regard for producers,” Mohr says. “In this case, I didn’t think anybody else was going to put the time into it – into following each strand. And being able to decide in the middle of something that you have two albums instead of one isn’t something you normally can do in a producer scenario. There is just too much pressure and not enough time. For me it’s all about being able to have the time and the resources to do things your way, and the right way. It’s only when you do it yourself that you have that luxury.” As ever, the hard-touring Monsters will go out to meet the fans this summer. “The quality of the relationship between the band and the fan is the most important aspect of our career,” says Mohr. “We’ve always realized that. That’s why we do cruises with fans, and we sign autographs after shows. We still try to play every request. We listen to our audience and do whatever we can to acknowledge that relationship.”

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