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Tonight's show is a thick, deep, intense pile of musicality.
It just is.
You may want to put on an extra pair of ears, if you have some laying nearby...

Set I
Ghost, Horn, Ya Mar, Limb By Limb -> Ain't Love Funny, Saw It Again, Dirt, Reba, Dogs Stole Things

Set II
Jam -> Timber Ho > Bathtub Gin -> Cities, Loving Cup > Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: When the Circus Comes To Town

Don and Lois will talk about drawing birds to the garden, which nut trees are easy to grow (and which aren't), what to do in the garden in February.
Here's a link for hummingbird plants: http://redwoodbarn.com/attract.html

What blooms now to attract our overwintering Anna's hummers? How about Ribes?
http://redwoodbarn.com/images/ribes3.jpg

Davis Garden Show rebroadcasts on Saturday mornings from 9 - 10 a.m., and is available at the archives -- and at http://davisgardenshow.com

Gardeners are welcome to call in with questions during the live broadcast Thursdays noon - 1 pm (PST), and submit questions by email at redwoodbarn@gmail.com

Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane, Milt Jackson *
Tommy Dorsey *
Helen Merrill *
Jimmy Hamilton *
Roland Kirk *
Annie Ross & Gerry Mulligan *
Bobby Darin -- Mack the Knife *
Ella Fitzgerald & The Paul Smith Trio *
Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington *
George Shearing/The Montgomery Brothers *
Dave Brubeck *
Gerry Mulligan *
Paul Gonsalves & Earl Hines *
Charlie Byrd And The Washington Guitar Quintet *

Helping Phriendly Hour tonight features bluegrass and rock highlights from both sets I and II.

Its a great show not only because it happens to land on my birthday....

...but also this Phish 1.0 show drops smack in the middle of one of the best fall tours ever, in the year that flung the band into rock-star-madness...

...plus it features one of the all-time three best versions of Stash ( take a listen, and just try to suggest otherwise!)...

...plus we haven't heard I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome (a beautiful tune by Bill Monroe) in over a decade, so a loud version of that alone should entice you to tune in!

Set 1: Chalk Dust Torture, Foam, Billy Breathes, Divided Sky, Esther > Free, Julius, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome, Cavern

Set 2: Maze, Gumbo, Stash -> Manteca -> Stash -> Dog Faced Boy -> Stash, Strange Design, You Enjoy Myself -> Immigrant Song Jam -> You Enjoy Myself

Encore: The Wedge, Rocky Top

Jazz from 1935 - 2010 --
Fats Waller & His Rhythm *
Count Basie *
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli with Beryl Davis *
Benny Goodman Sextet *
Dizzy Gillespie, John Coltrane *
Billie Holiday *
Chet Baker *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Louis Armstrong *
Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto & Stan Getz *
Gerry Mulligan *
Rahsaan Roland Kirk *
Rosemary Clooney *
Piano Connection *
Etta James *

Tonight's show? A little of this, a little of that...all from 12-29-2011 -- ENJOY!

Here's the show in it's entirety...

Set 1: The Sloth, You Enjoy Myself, Back on the Train, The Moma Dance, Funky Bitch, Maze, Roses Are Free, Halley's Comet > Run Like an Antelope

Set 2: Crosseyed and Painless > Simple -> Lifeboy > Guyute, Mike's Song > Chalk Dust Torture -> I Am Hydrogen > Weekapaug Groove, Show of Life > Character Zero

Encore: Loving Cup

Benny Goodman *
Louis Armstrong *
Sidney Bechet *
The Mills Brothers *
Django Reinhardt/Stéphane Grappelli *
Orrin Tucker & Bonnie Baker *
Jimmy Hamilton *
Roland Kirk *
Ella Fitzgerald *
Gabor Szabo *
Paul Gonsalves/Earl Hines *
Gerry Mulligan *
Andrea Wolper & Ken Filiano *
Jimmy Hamilton

Jan 12, 2012 -
This night let us dance and be joyful, as 3.0 is the good-est...
Perhaps you celebrated with me at MSG this past moon, or perhaps you haven't yet heard this particularly choice set...

PHISH
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York

December 28, 2011

Set 2

Birds of a Feather, Carini > Tweezer > My Friend, My Friend > Rock and Roll > NICU, Bouncing Around the Room, Harry Hood > Bug

Count Basie *
Sidney Bechet *
Judy Garland *
Erroll Garner *
Dave Brubeck *
Ella Fitzgerald -- live in Rome *
John Coltrane *
Ella Fitzgerald -- live in Berlin *
Stan Getz *
Ramsey Lewis *
Mel Torme/George Shearing/Gerry Mulligan *
Earl Hines *
Leon Thomas *
The Crusaders *
Piano Connection & Marcs Boogie

What better way to celebrate the holiday denouement than with a wee bit of the Best-Band-Ever-To-Play...

All four shows this month come from this last New Year's Run at MSG, enjoy them on your own or with a friend

Tonight 1-5-12 will be Set I of 12-30-11.

Set I

Punch You In The Eye > Prince Caspian > Backwards Down the Number Line, Nellie Kane, Divided Sky, Sand, Vultures, Rift, Joy, Quinn the Eskimo

...and a very happy birthday to Fishman's daughter Ella : )

Want to hear one of the NINE New Years' sets on the radio? Send a message, make your request and PRESTO!!