(Photo by Kristie Gripp.)

The Railbenders are playing a rare show tonight at Bender’s Tavern.  Hopefully you can make it down.  Here’s their release show for 2009’s self-titled CD, where they played the album in its entirety (sans “Gone Fishin”, saved for the ride home).

Railbenders
12.11.2009
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Hellbound Party Train
3. Like A Wheel
4. Black Chrome Horse
5. Drive Away
6. Saturday and Sunday
7. I Drive A Truck
8. Drop Me Off at the Honky Tonk
9. Big Diesel
10. Glass Picket Fence
11. It’s Time To Party
12. Whiskey and Me *
13. O.D.’d In Denver *
14. Leavin’ Song *
15. I-70 Westbound
16. One Foot In the Grave
17. The Dope Smokin’ Song
18. Whiskey Rain
19. Country Song
20. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding **
21. Drivin’ Back to Denver
22. Payphone
23. band thanks
24. Crazy Train
25. Sweet Caroline
26. Minus One
27. La Grange
(Encore)
28. Drinkin’ Buddies (fades out)

Notes:
* = with John Macy on pedal steel
** = with Aaron Beavers on guitar and vocals

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

Pee-Pee reunited for a rare show this weekend at the Mercury Cafe!

Pee-Pee
1.08.2011
Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. The Days Go By
2. unknown
3. unknown
4. The Nonsense Song
5. Jaroline
6. O, Little Boy/Hey Jude/Paradise City/Candy
7. unknown

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

(Photo from the UMS facebook page.)

Dates for the 2011 Underground Music Showcase have been announced!  Mark your calendars for July 21-24.  This also means it’s time for me to start getting busy with last year’s material.  This particular performance was one of the most memorable to me–a late night Nathan & Stephen reunion and the magnificent Mayan Theatre!

Nathan and Stephen
7.23.2010
Mayan Theatre, The UMS, Denver, CO

Source:  [DPA 4060’s > DAD6001’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > XLR] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro/linecheck
2. Like You Don’t Care
3. We Have No Water Here
4. Going Home
5. Give ‘Em Hell
6. Tip Your Glasses
7. Be Okay (You Can’t Save Her)
8. Tunnel of Love
9. Farewell Valentine (Cigarette Homecoming Queen)
10. Stand Back Up
11. Little Squares of Paper

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Without her amazing stop-frame animations as a visual complement to this audio, you’re really missing out on the true Laura Goldhamer experience.  So do yourself a favor and head out to see the next show.

Laura Goldhamer and the Silvernail
1.08.2011
Mercury Cafe, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Little Baby
3. Lion
4. “True Hearts” (new song)
5. One Day the River
6. Gently Now
7. Humpty Dumpty

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

(Photo by Pat Rosenthal.)

Colorado’s Hickman-Dalton Gang, a collaboration between Johnny Hickman (Cracker) and Jim Dalton (Railbenders, Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers), is in the studio this month working on a followup to their 2007 EP, creatively titled Volume #1.  ;)  The pair opened for Roger Clyne at the Soiled Dove Underground this week, and were joined by proficient multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Lawton (Big Head Todd and the Monsters).

The Hickman-Dalton Gang
1.06.2011
Soiled Dove Underground, Denver, CO

Source: Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Too Many Years
2. Papa Johnny’s Arms *
3. Mexican Jail #
4. You’ve Got a Problem *%
5. Long Tall Pine Tree *
6. Justin O. Picker *
7. Old Border Town #
8. Mr. Wrong *
9. Let’s Toke the Whole Day Off *%
10. banter
11. Friends *

Notes:
* = with Jeremy Lawton on lap steel
# = with Jeremy Lawton on accordion
% = live version omitted pending release of the upcoming album
(Mics were placed at head height, along the front drink rail.)

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.

Tennis will be releasing their debut album with Fat Possum in a week and a half.  Cape Dory can be pre-ordered here.  Here’s the Thanksgiving-eve show played in Denver, which contains performances of all songs from the album!

Tennis
11.24.2010
Bluebird Theater, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3 > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Take Me Somewhere
2. Seafarer
3. Cape Dory
4. Marathon
5. Bimini Bay
6. Pigeon
7. Long Boast Pass
8. South Carolina
9. Is It True?
10. Baltimore
11. Water Birds

Notes:
Occasional wind noise in right channel, due to a fan positioned behind the mics.

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be found via BitTorrent at Dime.

Here’s another set from The Raven and the Writing Desk last month.  Their CD release is tonight (12/10), so make your way down to the Walnut Room after dinner.

The Raven and the Writing Desk
11.03.2010
Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Mix [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Space Grenade
3. Do You Want Me
4. Somnambulist
5. Evil Stars
6. Wooden Lover
7. Walk in the Water >
8. The Haunting
9. Little One
10. Firefly

Notes:
Other acts this night included Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives, Kelli Schaefer, and The May Kit.

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Sarah Slaton played several new songs when opening at the Hi-Dive for Jen Korte and The State Of in September.

Sarah Slaton
9.21.2010
Hi-Dive, Denver, CO

Source:  [Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V3] + [SBD > 1/4″] > Oade Mod Edirol R44 @ 24/48 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Mixdown > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. Hospital *
2. The Nothing
3. I’ve Got a Love
4. Laundry Room Romance
5. Girl
6. West Texas
7. Arrow

Notes:
* = w/ Tavis Alley

A zipfile of the mp3s is available here.
FLAC files can be downloaded as a zipfile here.

Single Malt Band
5.26.2002 (Set I only)
NedMex, Nederland, CO

Source:  Microtech Gefell M300’s > Lunatec V2 > Sony D8 > DAT Master > Tascam DA-30 > S/PDIF > Edirol R-44 > SDHC > Adobe Audition 3.0 > Resample to 16/44.1 > CDWave
Taped by: Lance Stack

Setlist:
(Set I)
1. Same Old Man
2. Half-Way Home
3. Romanian Gypsy Jar of Tears Freedom Song
4. The Callbox
5. Coffee and a Cigarette
6. Davy Lowston
7. Irish reels
8. Crooked Old Lady
9. The One Glass Eye
10. instrumental jigs
11. Banish Misfortune
12. So Long Blues
13. Just to Show I Care

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.

(Photo by Kristie Brown Gripp.)

The Railbenders
9.17.2006
The Larimer Lounge, Denver, CO

Source:  Microtech Geffel M300’s > Lunatec V3 (opti-mod) > Nomad JB3 > CDWave
Taped by:  Lance Stack

Setlist:
1. intro
2. Gunfight
3. Leavin’ Song
4. I-70 Westbound
5. Whiskey Drinkin’ Man
6. Country Song
7. Minus One
8. Black Rose
9. Whiskey Rain
10. Payphone
11. Tombstone Serenade
12. Piss Up a Rope
13. O.D.’d in Denver
14. Southbound
15. Driving back to Denver
16. Drinkin’ Buddies
17. Hellbound Party Train

A zipfile of the MP3s is available here.
FLAC files and other formats are available at the LMA.