JamBase's Best Of 2007

Great piece, Jambase!

Here is my list from Honest Tunes Radio Show,

Best of 2007...

ALBUMS

1. Col. Bruce Hampton & The Quark Alliance - Give Thanks To Chank

2. Infradig - Ecstatic Everywhere

3. The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

4. North Mississippi Allstars - Mississippi Folk Music Volume 1

5. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black

6. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand

7. Levon Helm - Dirt Farmer

8. Mavis Staples - We'll Never Turn Back

9. Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - This Is Somewhere

10. Betty LaVette - The Scene of the Crime

11. Backyard Tire Fire - Vagabonds and Hooligans

12. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond

13. Mama's Cookin' - Mama's Cookin'

14. Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II

15. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days 100 Nights

16. Outformation - Traveler's Rest

TOP 4 LIVE ALBUMS

Lotus - Escaping Sargasso Sea (Live)

Neil Young - Live At Massie Hall 1971

Umphrey's McGee - Live at the Murat Egyptian Room

Brian Stoltz - Up All Night (Live)

Albums

1. devendra banhart-smokey rolls down the canyon

2. Of montreal-hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?

3. Radiohead-In Rainbows

4. WeeN-La Cucaracha

5. Bassnectar-Underground Communication

6. AIR-Pocket Symphony

Shows

1.STS9-All Good Music Festival-7/13

2.Daft Punk-Vegoose Music Festival-10/27

3.Flaming Lips-SoCo Music Experience-9/8

4.Lotus-Copper Mountain-4/16

5.Moe.-The Rave-2/1

6.***lotus-kinetic playground-12/29***(i know this is gonna rock my face off)

3.

Album:

1.) Ryan Adams- Easy Tiger

2.) Phish- Vegas 96

3.) Daft Punk- Alive

4.) Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

Shows:

1.) Daft Punk- Vegoose

2.) Xavier Rudd- North Hampton MA

3.) Disco Biscuits- Late Night Jam on the river

4.) Moe. Philly february 07'

5.) Railroad Earth- Stroudsburg PA

6.) String Cheese- 10k

Happy holidays to all you heads out there. Have a fun NYE with what ever your doing.

Jam base says it best..."Go see live music". Peace and love.

Great Article JB...

My favorite album this year has to be Common, Finding Forever. Best show of da year...Prefuse 73, empty bottle Chicago last month...I really enjoyed reading everyone's favorites/best lists, i am def. gonna get a bunch of cds from peoples selections...Great Job base and to all Happy Holiday and happy New Year. PEACE YA'll.

Cool beans, here's what I think...

Albums of the Year:

Bassnectar-Underground Communication

Ween-La Cucaracha

Tsitra-Project Pedro

Shows of the Year:

July 7-Les Claypool-High Sierra Grandstand Stage, Quincy, CA

Aug. 9-12-String Cheese Incident-Red Rocks, Morrison, CO

Nov. 8-Ween-The Wiltern, Los Angeles, CA

May 15-Elvis Costello-The Avalon, Boston, MA

July 6-Leftover Salmon-High Sierra Music Hall (late night), Quincy, CA

Nov. 27-Phil Lesh & Friends-The Warfield, San Francisco, CA

July 27-Bob Weir & Ratdog w/ Keller Williams-Humphrey's by the Bay, San Diego, CA

Festival of the Year:

WAKARUSA

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year-See you at the shows.

Scott Amendola said it best. John Zorn put out some amazing albums this year which included Mike Patton, Marc Ribot and the amazing drumming by Joey Baron. Seeing Moonchild would be a dream come true or to just see John Zorn live period in any form.....

2008 is going to be huge! Check out my profile and add me

Albums:

Backyard Tire Fire - Vegabonds & Hooligans

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

Shows:

Panic - Loveland, CO - 10/12/07

Dumpstaphunk - Denver - 11/23/07

albums:

Captain Coconut - Shoop! (http://www.myspace.com/captaincoconut1234)

Soulive - No Place Like Soul

Joshua Redman - Back East

shows:

NOLA JazzFest 4/27-4/29

Stevie Wonder - MSG - 11/17

Captain Coconut (w. Emily Elbert & the Coconut Funk Orchestra) - Bowery Poetry Club - 11/23

i didn't think brownstein was actually THAT self absorbed -- he lists his own band as one of his favorite shows?? and i liked bisco.

phil lesh and friends warfield 11-27-07

string cheese incident 7-22-07 the greek theatre

railroad earth 12 galaxies in october

Here's the actual list: (no particular order)

Albums:

amy winehouse, white stripes, grand ole party, keller williams, and ryan adams

Albums:

New Pornographers, CHALLENGERS - another great collection of tunes to sing along with and infectious melodies that stick (how do they keep them coming? unreal)

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Damo Suzuki, PLEASE HEAT THIS EVENTUALLY - opposite of above, and awesome.

Michael Brecker, PILGRIMAGE - swan song of a jazz great, surrounding himself with talent and recording his final musical ideas

Radiohead, IN RAINBOWS

Shows:

Gov't Mule Bonnarroo set in June was spectacular (Panic and Sasha/Digweed also fab)

Zappa Plays Zappa Beacon in NYC on Halloween - 3 hours, no break, great music

Worst of 2007 = Police reunion show. ugh.

Shows

String Cheese Incident - Winter Carnival 2007

Phil Lesh and Friends - 2007/10/20 G.F, NY

Gov't Mule - 2007/06/16 Bonnaroo, TN ( The Best show at the Roo in my opinion)

'07 was fun, can't wait for '08

shows:

Niyorah One World Innernational Festival Deerfields, Mills River, NC

Michael Franti & Spearhead Asheville Music Jamboree Deerfields, Mills River, NC

Toubab Krewe Asheville Music Jamboree Deerfields, Mills River, NC

Perry Farrel's Satelite Party Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

Drive By Truckers "Dirt Underneath" Orange Peel, Asheville, NC

Chalwa & Selector Cleofus ALL

Best Albums: Kings of leon: because of the times, Dr Dog: We all Belong, Apollo Sunshine: Apollo Sunshine (came out in 2005 but just got around to it this year), ALO: roses and clover

Shows: Galactic w/ their mob of emcees, ALO, Umphrey's, Tool

wow, daft punk must be pretty amazing.... oh wait...

Shows:

Stockholm Syndrome - 2/10 - Independent

Bustle in Your Hedgerow - 5/11 - Independent

Disco Biscuits - 7/22 - Independent

Marco Benevento, Reed Mathis, Matt Chamberlain - 8/11 - Yoshi's

MSMW - 9/20 - Montalvo

Dark Star Orchestra - 10/5 - Fillmore

Bela Fleck and The Flecktones - 10/7 - Cascade Theatre

Robert Walter's 20th Congress - 10/12 - Boom Boom Room

Benevento Russo Duo - 10/31 and 11/1 - Independent

Phil Lesh & Friends - 11/27 - Warfield

Rex Foundation - Little Feat and Ratdog - 12/15 - Warfield

My Favorite shows of 2007: (Angela and I had an amazing year!)

1. Ekoostik Hookah (Saturday Night Fall Hookahville)

2. moe./moe. All Star Jam (All Good Music Festival)

3. Join/Orchard Lounge/Psylab (Late Nite Camp Bisco)

4. Lotus (10-27 Pontiac Mi)

5. Perpetual Groove (Echo Project)

LOTUS

MOE.

NEW MONSOON

Favorite Album - Bassnectar Underground. Shit is hot.

Favorite Festi/Show - 1. all three cheese BIG SUMMER CLASSIC shows. Highly recommend getting them from live cheese to all who attended, my girl just got them for me for xmas, incredible!

2. Umphreys South Bend in August.

3. Tea Leaf Green w/New Monsoon 3/8/07 - ft. lauderdale

4. Phil and Friends Riviera 10/5/07

Favorite "New" Band - Although they arent really new, It was the first year for me seeing Covert Operations, great band, highly recommend checking them out if you're in the midwest.

yeah, marc brownstein is a bigg tool. i love bisco but still hes such a douche. i saw him on an interview saying that you could tell the bisco fans apart from the umphreys fans. the umphreys fans were all wearing polos and preppy (kinda true) and all the bisco fans had their flat billed hats to the side and bobbing their heads like him which isnt true. hes not even that good anymore. but the overall winner of this article is clearly wilco.

great article, i wouldve like to have seen what some of the artists & everyone elses favorite songs of 07 were

SHOWS:

1. TEA LEAF GREEN 2/15/07?? 8150 Club (Vail, CO) TLG's first time there and they new it would be their last because it was getting torn down. The legendary bouncy floors were going crazy!

2. STRING CHEESE Dobson Ice Arena (Vail, CO) was hot as hadies but the boys left everything they had there for those two shows.

3. WIDESPREAD PANIC Wakarusa June 9th. My 30th B-day, with my best friends, 80 degrees, BEAUTIFUL sunset, and they opened up with AIN'T LIFE GRAND!

4. ASSEMBLY OF DUST - Saw them about four times last year and I still believe they are one of THE MOST underrated bands on the scene. Reid Genauer is a modern-day lyrical genius and Nate Wilson is THE best keyboardest on the scene. PERIOD.

5. PHIL AND FRIENDS Sept ? Kansas City/Uptown Theater - Jackie Greene really blew me away. Guy's got soul. This lineup as a whole has it locked in.

6. MOE Liberty Hall, Lawrence KS

7. ARKAMO RANGERS Canoe Club 10/13 One of the best up and coming bluegrass bands on the scene. www.arkamorangers.com

8. TONY FURTADO Samana Lounge VAIL,CO WOW!!!

Shows:

The Roots 3/20/07 First Ave

UM 3/24/07 First Ave

DB 7/19/07 10klf

moe. and String Cheese 7/20/07 10klf

Raq 9/21/07 Cabooze

Go See Live Music!!

1.Stampead-Milk and Honey

2.Kings of Leon-Because of the times

3.Cold War Kids-Robbers and Cowards

4.Ryan Adams-Follow the Lights

Albums / DVD

1. Avett Bros - emotionalism

2. Umphrey's - Live @ the Murat

3. Flaming Lips - Ufos @ the Zoo

Shows

1. moe. All Good 07 rebubula sandwich

2. Tea leaf echo project

3. Ziggys Thanksgathering 9 - Closing Weekend w. Pgroove and the booty band

4. Panic - 4/20 Raleigh

5. gov't mule and friends - Mountain Jam 07, Saturday

albums: Ween - la cucaracha, Devendra - smokey rolls..., radiohead - in rainbows.

shows:

1. The Breakfast 12/21/07

2. STS9 Baltimore 9/22/07

3. Claypool Boston 7/17/07

Albums

ALO-roses and clover

New Pornographers- Challengers

Tea Leaf Green- Rock and Roll Band

Shows-

Thievery Corporation-Echo Project

Gov't Mule- Bonnaroo

Galactic- Georgia Theatre

Shows:

Ekoostik Hookah- saturday night Spring Hookahville

Red Hott Trio- late night at NLQP

moe./all star jam- all good

Tea leaf green- late night at Hookahville

Oh yea, BOOMBOX at Shamybash. They raged for like 5 hours. Great time.

Also, I second the new band nod at Covert Opps. also, Boogie Matrix Mechanism is my favorite new band.

overall great picks! what a fantastic year for music!! my fav albums were radiohead, wilco, arcade fire, feist, menomena, lcd soundsystem, moe., john butler trio, of montreal. best shows:

The Roots at moe.down (Bassist Hubb's last show) Turin NY 8/31/07

Galactic (and entourage) at the TLA in Philly 11/16/07

STS9 Late night at Jam on the River in Philly during torrential downpours 5/27

Questlove's DJ set New Years Eve at the Tweeter in Camden, NJ 1/1/07

Girl Talk at the Starlite ballroom in Philly 9/17/07

Lotus at moe.down 9/1/07 (seriously, that was sick!!!)

Super Jam, Flips, Wilco, WSP, DJ Sasha/Digweed at Bonnaroo 6/07

Daft Punk at Vegoose (wasn't there but saw the footage) 10/27

many more to come in '08!!

"i didn't think brownstein was actually THAT self absorbed -- he lists his own band as one of his favorite shows?? and i liked bisco."

so what? is it such a bad thing that an artist happened to have the most fun at one of his own shows? not to mention, you dont even know why he chose it as one of his favorite shows, maybe hes got a reason that goes beyond the music. maybe it is something personal, who knows?

It was ALO all year long!

Album - ALO, Roses & Clover

Shows...

1) Alo - Soho 8/18 & 5/19

2) Alo - High Sierra 7/8

3) Alo - Las Tortugas Dance of the Dead II - Yosemite 10/25

4) Phil Lesh & Friends - Jackie Greene B-day Show 11/27 (The balcony shook during Sugaree and this might have been the best phil show in last 6 yrs for me)

5) Rhythm Devils & Tea Leaf Green - Seva Bash 5/18

6) Ryan Montbleau Band - High Sierra (starting set with Johnny Cash "Sunday Morning Coming Down" Sick!

7) Brett Dennon - High Sierra with ALO Steve & Dan in tow

8) ALO - Fillmore 5/5 Roses & Clover Release party!

9) Ratdog - 2/14 Valentine's Day @ Fillmore

For the record, Brownstein listed the Tractorbeam show, which was an experimental off-shoot of the Biscuits: a 100% instrumental show, no singing. For anyone who has heard it -- traditionally a fan of the Biscuits or a vocals hater -- the show unquestionably ruled. Apparently Marc loved it like the fans did. He is so much like a fan himself in caring about the setlist and the improvisations. It would be neat to hear exactly why he listed that show if Jambase could do an interview with him on this. I think that is great to have confidence & enthusiasm, and to compliment his band-mates like that especially considering they're working with a newer drummer, and they had never played a show like this one before. Listing it 3rd best is humble enough for me, I think he was being honest.

The Tractorbeam show is available here

http://www.livedownloads.com/show.asp?show=1783&artist=128

I am really enjoying all the Comments. I am going to pick up some of these discs that I haven't heard yet, that are recommended here, like Bassnectar.

A lot of good eclectic cross-genre picks, very un-jam band too. Seems like the door has been shut on jam bands as we know them. Good songwriting and real experimental music are back in vogue finally. Phew!

my top shows of the year: 1)Hallucinogen in Dub (camp bisco) 2)Rage Against the Machine (Randall's Island NYC) 3)Rabbit in the Moon (Echo) 4)Biscuits/Younger Brother/Prometheus/Shpongle (NYE Tweeter Center) 5)Manu Chao (Bonnaroo) 6)Tool (Bonnaroo) 7)Bassnectar (camp bisco) 8)thievery corporation (echo) 9)flaming lips (house of blues myrtle beach) 10)Sasha & Digweed (Bonnaroo)

2007 was full of good times, and not that i expect anyone else to care where i went, but i chose to support a wide variety of acts...

what caught my eyes and ears best were -

Favorite Shows attended(in chronological order):

Wood Brothers - Parting Glass - Saratoga, NY - 1/18/07 (best acoustic duo, ever???)

Ratdog - Landmark Theatre - Syracuse, NY - 3/2/07 (yeah bobby!!)

Allman Brothers - Beacon Theatre - NYC - 3/30/07 & 3/31/07 (no repeats)

Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad - Sterling Stage Folkfest - Sterling, NY - 5/25/07 (can't wait to see them again)

Sam Kininger Band & The Buddahood - Sterling Stage Folkfest - 5/26/07 (a night of funky horns)

Phil Lesh & Friends - Mountain Jam - Hunter Mountain - 6/3/07 (Rain & Mud all day)

Chick Corea & Bela Fleck - Proctor's Theatre - Schenectady, NY - 6/14/07 (most unique sonic experience)

Buddy Guy - Gathering of the Vibes - Bridgeport, CT - 8/12/07 (most authentic blues feeling - 70+ years old, one of the best performers/entertainers)

Ryan Adams - Calvin Theatre - Northampton, MA - 9/15/07 (he's better off sober)

Ryan Montbleau Band - Revolution Hall - Troy, NY - 10/13/07 (new album - band on fire!)

David Crosby & Graham Nash - Proctor's Theater - 10/14/07 (classic)

North Mississippi All-stars & Friends - SOLID BLUES tour - Proctor's Theatre - Schenectady, NY - 11/13/07 (true blues - good times)

Favorite new Albums:

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger/Follow the Lights

Brothers of a Feather - Live at the Roxy CD/DVD

Neil Young - Chrome Dreams 2... Live at Massey Hall 1971... Live @ Fillmore East 1970