Bright Eyes - Austin City Limits 2003

Sorry guys, really busy lately. I am trying to get all my work done for the rest of the week because today I am off to St. Louis for tomorrow nights Ryan Adams show (in Columbia, MO). Enjoy this set from Conor Oberst and his band from 2003. We Are Nowhere and It's Now and Train Underwater are both exceptional takes.

1. Motion Sickness
2. Spent On Rainy Days
3. We Are Nowhere and It's Now
4. Southern State
5. Train Underwater
6. Unknown Song (Probably known now, don't have time to research, sorry!)
7. You Will! You Will! You Will!
8. Old Soul Song
9. The Big Picture (Aborted)
10. The First Day of My Life

Download - Bright Eyes - Austin City Limits 2003

Caleb Travers

The Steam Engine's long time friend Caleb Travers has a new website - www.calebtravers.com. It is ripe with updates, free music and pictures.

For those of you unfamiliar with Caleb Travers check him out, he is an amazing songwriter on the cusp of becoming a staple in the alt-country world. His album Blue Weathered Dreams was a favorite of mine last year and has been a regular in my rotation since I've owned it.

Check his website for more free stuff or our 2008 interview located here. Available for download today is a live only track called Take You For A Ride.

Visit...

Official web site
MySpace
twitter

Download - Caleb Travers & The Big City Lights - Take You For A Ride

My Morning Jacket Celebración De La Ciudad Natal On Limited Edition 2 x 10 LP + CD

"My Morning Jacket Celebración De La Ciudad Natal On Limited Edition 2 x 10" LP + CD

My Morning Jacket Live in their Hometown!

Recorded live in the band's hometown of Louisville, KY (at Ear X-tacy and Waterfront Park), My Morning Jacket's new Limited Edition Double 10" vinyl release, Celebración De La Ciudad Natal includes classic tracks and selections from the band's most recent Grammy nominated album, Evil Urges along with others from the band's celebrated back catalog. Also includes a bonus CD insert.

My Morning Jacket Celebración De La Ciudad Natal Track Listing

1. Evil Urges
2. Highly Suspicious
3. Gideon
4. Where to Begin
5. Librarian
6. Phone Went West
7. Dondante "

Our Boys At The Grammy's

Looks like the guys got some nice attire tossed their way...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2009/02/varvatos-rock-a.html

Thanks for the link Chris.

Ryan & Mandy Engaged?

Do you think its true? The Cardinal Cave says so...

http://cave.cardinology.com/

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/article/moore%20adams%20to%20wed_1094653

Dan Auerbach w/ James Quine - Trouble Weighs A Ton

Dan Auerbach is the absolute man. The Black Keys rock ass and his new solo album rocks major ass. His solo LP came out today, go buy it, it is honestly one of the best albums I have heard in a long long time; the man has a voice like no other and plays the guitar like black man in the under belly of Chicago circa 1960. The first track on the album, Trouble Weighs A Ton, is being performed here with his unlce or cousin (I have heard both). The MP3 and the video are available for download.

Download - Dan Auerbach w/ James Quine - Trouble Weighs A Ton - MP3

Download - Dan Auerbach w/ James Quine - Trouble Weighs A Ton - MP4

Ashes of American Flags Trailer

This looks like it is going to be good, I had a pretty big grin whilst watching. Just the short clips they showed looked like they did a good job of catching the intensity of Wilco's live show.

Does anyone know if this is going to be available in Blu-Ray? I read that it was filmed in high def but the official site only mentions the DVD.

http://www.ashesofamericanmovie.com/video/trailer/

My Morning Jacket - 2009-02-04 - Duo Music Exchange - Tokyo, Japan

Here is a great audience recording of our boys conquering Japan. I just finished I'm Amazed and they sound great.

Listening to this makes me think of Chicago and how fantastic they were and how it seems like every time I leave a MMJ show I find myself saying "That was the best f*cking thing I have ever seen."

Disc 1
01.intro music
02.evil urges
03.touch me pt1
04.off the record
05.way he sings
06.im amazed
07.it beat 4 u
08.sec walkin
09.golden
10.war begun
11.thank you too
12.mahgeetah
13.laylow
14.gideon

Disc 2
01.librarian
02.dondante
03.smokin from shootin
04.touch me pt2
05.cobra
06.-into-
07.end of run thru
08.crowd
Encore
09.bermuda hwy
10.Look At You
11.wordless chorus
12.highly suspicious
13.anytime
14.one big holiday

Download - My Morning Jacket - 2009-02-04 - Duo Music Exchange - Tokyo, Japan

Great Lake Swimmers - 2007-11-29 - Brugge - Cactus Club

Have not had a chance to listen yet but wanted to leave you guys with some new weekend tunes.

Be on the look out for their new album Lost Channels coming March 31st. The first single Pulling On A Line can be downloaded below, it sounds awesome.

Great Lake Swimmers

01 Backstage w/ The Modern Dancers
02 Various Stages
03 Put There By The Land
04 Changing Colours
05 Moving Pictures Silent Films
06 Where In The World Are You ?
07 This Is Not Like Home
08 Passenger Song
09 Your Rocky Spine
10 Bodies In Mind
11 I'm Part Of A Large Family
12 There Is A Light
13 I Became Awake
14 Song Of The Angels

Download - Great Lake Swimmers - 2007-11-29 - Brugge - Cactus Club

Download - GLS - Lost Channels - Pulling On A Line

I Can Hardly Wait

Wilco DVD!

http://ashesofamericanmovie.com/

Jim James - Live On Triple - 2009-1-30

Thanks TW for sending this on to me. Jim talks about the accident a bit and also talks about what Look At You from Evil Urges is about. The Australian cover song they play a snippet from is interesting too. The last song, Syonara, a cover, is beautiful.

This download is broken up into individual songs, the download on their site is one long MP3.

1. Intro/Interview
2. Look At You
3. Interview II
4. Interview III
5. Syonara

Full article here.

Download - Jim James - Live On Triple - 2009-1-30

Coughing Up Blood And Whiskey

New Ryan Adams & The Cardinals show just posted