Allman Brothers Band Peach Music Festival @ Montage Mountain, Scranton PA. Day 1

Here are the set lists from today's performances for day one of the Peach Music Festival at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania

The first band up is called, Cabinet. They are a bluegrass band.  The stream is intermittent and the first few sets will be spotty in terms of getting the songs down.  So, bear with me.

Old Farmer's Mill
Instrumental (title?)
Pennsylvania
My Baby's Gone (song based on true story of one of the band members)
My Caroline
?
?
?
Instrumental
Part of Everything
? (uptempo number, couldn't figure out the title)

Up Next: Blackberry Smoke

Blackberry Smoke is a southern boogie rock quintet that has opened for other well established bands such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Zac Brown Band and ZZ Top.  They have been in existence since 2000.  The members are:

Charlie Starr: lead vocals & guitar
Richard Turner: bass & vocals
Brit Turner: drums
Paul Jackson: guitar & vocals
Brandon Still: keyboards

Figured out that Blackberry Smoke is on the second channel (the jam cam).  Got to the set late.  But, the audio for the jam cam is not working.  Not sure.  Might lack complete information on this particular set.  Interesting to note that Richard Turner's bass is painted in red, white, and blue, similar to guitars played by the late, great, country music legend Buck Owens, during his career.  Also, Charlie Starr is playing a plexiglass Dan Armstrong guitar which is see through with one pickup.  I've seen those guitars.  Very interesting pieces.

Still, the audio problems persist with the set.  Apparently, the techies at Moogis are working with it.  Good luck on resolving the issues, guys.  It looks as though Paul Jackson (co lead guitar) is jamming on a Gibson Firebird VII, too.  Cool.  Being a guitar player, I always observe what the musicians in given bands are playing.  But, it's more about their tones from what they can do with playing them than the guitars themselves.  Just wish they could be heard.  It is music, after all.  But, right now tech difficulties persist.

Their set is finishing up.  Well, there will be some type of entry on Blackberry Smoke describing a song of theirs here, soon.  Count on it.

Switched channels to channel one and am catching the final part of the set by The Wailers, which is Bob Marley's old band.  Marley is of course, a reggae legend.  I know of Marley's music and have heard his music and some reggae here and there.  It's good stuff.  A highlight is "No Woman, No Cry". 

There is more on the other stage now, too.  The Wailers have finished their set.  "One Love" as Bob Marley would say.  On the Mushroom Stage, a band is playing that I do not know the name of.  But, the twin guitar tandem is interesting because one of the guitarists is play lap slide guitar from his wheelchair.  He must have been injured in some way.  Not sure how.  But, there's proof that physical limitation cannot limit the power to do what you're heart tells you to.  Unfortunately, the jam cam #2 is not in commission right now.

The Warren Haynes Band has taken the stage.  Here's the set.

1.  Tear Me Down
2.  River's Gonna Rise
3. A Change Is Gonna Come
4. Spanish Castle Magic
 5. Invisible

(Warren plays his Les Paul here instead of his blond ES335). Nigel Hall does a keyboard solo alternating between the B3 and the Wurlitzer piano on this one.  Ron Holloway plays an equally vibrant sax solo.  Terence Higgins does a drum solo and Warren adds some really wild, shivering effects with the wah and the slide.  "Invisible" evolves into a whole other jam.  Something totally different before Higgins does another drum fill, returning to the theme.)  There's a hit of "Les Brers in A Minor" in one phrase with Warren using the slide and the wah pedal together.  Nigel Hall adds a B3 flourish, Holloway hits a screaming not on the sax, more drums, and this song is in the books, man!
6. On A Real Lonely Night (Warren switches back to the 335 for this one.  Great call and response between Hall's Wurlitzer and B3, Haynes' guitar, and Holloway's sax towards the end.)  Haynes does a "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" tease, before there's more call and response between organ, guitar, and sax.  Holloway blows an almighty, screeching note, before the vamp that brings the song home.
7. Pretzel Logic (a superb cover of the Steely Dan song)  Another Higgins drum solo in this one.
Haynes can be heard telling the band, "preach to me!  Make it hurt", or something like that.
Encore:
8. Man In Motion (feat. Ivan Neville: B3 & Clavinet) *Huge keyboard jam out with Ivan and Nigel before the end of the tune.

Phew!  That was amazing!  Next up, Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunk.

Band members: Ivan Neville (B3 & keyboards), Ian Neville (guitar), Tony Hall, (bass) & Nikki Glaspie (drums),  

1. Deeper (My Love Grows For You)
2. Instrumental Jam
3. Don't Miss Your Water
4. She's Music
5. Put It In The Dumpster
6. Everybody Wants Some
7. Do You Really Want To Accompany Me?
8. ?>Drum Solo (feat. Nicki Grassley: drums)
9. Business As Usual
10. ?
11. New Orleans  

Boy, these guys and gals brought the funk in spades!  Wow!

Up next, it's the band Trigger Hippy.

Not familiar with this band's song, but, they do definitely have a cool groove about their music.  They've got a great lead singer.  She has a very bluesy voice and the lyrics are good, just a couple of songs in.  Good guitarists and a good B3 player, too.  Actually, this band is led by drummer (and member of The Black Crowes), Steve Gorman, with a few other well known people in it.  Those include Joan Osborne on vocals, Will Kimbrough on guitars, Audley Freed on guitars, and Jackie Greene on B3.  Not to be biased, but the band does cover in their set "99 Pounds" by The Black Crowes, from their 1992 "Southern Harmony & Musical Companion" record.

Here's an article about Trigger Hippy in their first iteration from Jambase.

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/16589/Trigger-Hippy-02.07.09-Georgia

Folks, the jam cam is back in service again.  But, the bad news is, The Zac Brown Band will not let their concert be webcast.  So, yours truly will keep enjoying Trigger Hippy until the Allman Brothers are ready to perform later on.  A few more rockers from Trigger Hippy, end their set.  Great band.  Fun to watch and fun to listen to.  They'll go places for sure, especially with their road tested leader, Steve Gorman on drums.

Coming up, two more bands.  First, The Dark Star Orchestra, and then, the cherry on the sundae, The Allman Brothers!

Dark Star Orchestra is a tribute band covering songs by the Grateful Dead.  But, this is a bummer.  Right in the middle of "Franklin's Tower", the screen reverted back to the intro.  I guess that means only one thing.  The Allman Brothers are here, now!  Kicking off with "Statesboro Blues"!

1. Statesboro Blues
2. You Don't Love Me
3. No One To Run With
4. That's What Love Will Make You Do (Little Milton Campbell cover) (feat. Ron Holloway: tenor saxophone)
5. Midnight Rider
6. Blackhearted Woman
7. The Sky Is Crying (Elmore James cover)
8. I Walk On Gilded Splinters
9. One Way Out (Gregg played B3 on a lot of it, instead of piano)
10. Dreams
11. Jessica

OK, y'all asked for it.  There will be an encore:

12. Southbound (w/instrumental intro & rave up ending)
 
That's a wrap for the first show.  Good night, everyone.