Set List:
- 1.) Farewell So Long Goodbye
- 2.) The Rusty Nail
- 3.) Hollywood
- 4.) Never Satisfied
- 5.) About Cell Block #9
- 6.) Tell Me Mama Tell Me Right
- 7.) So Hard To Find My Way
- 8.) I’m So Gone
Artist Bio:
Jackie Greene continues his impressive trajectory as a front man and guitarist for Phil Lesh & Friends and a solo artist with an increasingly vital body of work with his April studio release, Giving Up The Ghost. The twelve-song collection is his strongest work to date and should serve as ample notice that the guitarist, organist, harp player and singer-songwriter has cemented his own identity onto the modern music scene. The release with his solid core group also features numerous excellent collaborations, including Los Lobos musician and two-time Greene producer Steve Berlin, his Lobos band mate David Hidalgo, Elvis Costello drummer Pete Thomas, Phil Lesh & Friends multi-instrumentalist Larry Campbell, guitarist and Skinny Singer (along with Greene) Tim Bluhm, Los Lobos drummer Cougar Estrada and his occasional boss, Phil Lesh.
The San Francisco musician’s collaboration with the Dead bassist has garnered Greene the most attention and press of his career, but what may be of more interest is how well his own songs fit into the current Lesh touring outfit. Greene’s Americana, all-genres-at-all-times, old school rock, blues and country made anew may have no easy classification. However, therein lies perhaps the 27 year old’s greatest asset. While others are attempting to fit into the current indie bag or shoehorning pop into jamband songs, Greene just writes damn good timeless hooks. Giving Up The Ghost is the proof of that and, as the reader will see in this Jambands.com feature, Greene isn’t averse to attempting to describe the mystery of the curious title of this latest release. He is a probing artist, working with a legendary bassist on a very public stage, but he is also forging ahead as a solo artist with a really good band ready to make its own mark on the live scene. Greene is an astute conversationalist, often times humble, but willing to be completely frank about his art and what he expects out of himself and those surrounding him in a tight inner circle that, at this point in time, is quite a comfort for his fertile mind.
http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2008_03_22.05.phtml
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