Warren Haynes' Pre-Christmas Jam - The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC , Dec 9, 2011 (FLAC)

 

Warren Haynes' Pre-Christmas Jam 

The Orange Peel 

Asheville, North Carolina, USA 

Dec 9, 2011

The Warren Haynes' Christmas Jam, an annual benefit for Habitat For Humanity, celebrates it's 23rd year in Asheville, NC in 2011. This is an incredible annual event where an amazing list of musicians donate their time to participate - all proceeds go straight to the cause. Warren always manages to bring a great group of musicians together for an even greater cause. 

Warren stages a shorter pre-jam before the real jam the next night at the Civic Center. Now short is a relative term meaning different things to different individuals. Here's Warren's definition - 30+ songs clocking in at just under 5 hours. 

Here's a list of some of the artists on this one. They float in and out. Lots of musical styles represented. Very diverse....and a helluva lot of fun. 

Warren Haynes 

Gov't Mule

Phil Lesh

Los Lobos

Bela Fleck

Jeff Chimenti

Joe Russo

Jackie Green

Planet Of The Abts 

Bill Evans

Kevn Kinney 

Jeff Sipe

Sarah Lee Guthrie

Johnny Irion

Mike Barnes 

 

Bela Fleck & the Flecktones - Little Worlds [3 CD, 2003/FLAC]

Little Worlds is the tenth album by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, released in 2003. The album was released as a 3-disc set. Ten tracks from the set were also released on a single disc called Ten from Little Worlds.

The album contains several tracks that are hidden at the beginning and end of Disc One and at the end of Disc Three. These hidden tracks present a short and humorous story of two men, voiced by Yankees outfielder Bernie Williams and Michael McKean (as David St. Hubbins of Spinal Tap), stuck in traffic and flipping through different radio stations. The songs they hear are songs from the album played in different styles and on different instruments. For example, the slow and soothing song "Poindexter" is featured but redone as a heavy metal song with each band member playing an instrument different from his ordinary one. The redone version is also complete with rhythmic screaming to which one of the men listening in the car makes the comment "I don't even know what they are saying."