Skinny Singers, Mother hips and Phil's friend

This past fall Jackie Greene of the Skinny Singers joined phil lesh on tour including a new york city 10 s how run. Thanks to tapers, technology, and my over used reference: archive.org; I was lucky enough to follow the tour only a few days behind real time. Its amazing how fast a musician can develop by playin on tour with phil. The later shows really begin to show Jackie's talent. Naturally I had looked into some of Jackies solo stuff. After I heard some of his originals from the tour, I knew i wouldn't be disapointed. Go buy it. http://www.jackie-greene.com/

It wasn't until midway through the tour that I stumbled upon a Skinny Singers show http://www.archive.org/details/skinnysingers2007-09-13.SOUNDBOARD . Heres some youtubes videos from that very show. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07JXtVFiBU8 In the heading for this show you will notice "Tim Blauhm of the Mother Hips." Ok, so I did a search on Mother Hips, found this show http://www.archive.org/details/mh2006-03-10.mh2006-03-10_matrix_sbd.flac16 . The entire first set is Niel Youngs album Everbody knows this is nowhere. Losing End is dirty. here is the video of down by the river : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0CJUkMvwlg Second set was dedicated to originals. this band has been around since the early 90's, its a shame th is is the first i have heard of them. It would be nice to see these bands hit up the festival scene. All their tour dates are currently west coast.