HBR’s new live album, Live in the Northeast is available at hotbutteredrum.net now

On May 30, 2007, the phenomenal live bluegrass-inflected outfit known as Hot Buttered Rum will be making their first trip to the Bluff City. They will be playing the Gibson Beale St. Showcase, and the show starts at 8 PM (don’t be late!). Let’s show Butter some Memphis-style love by getting the Gibson Beale St. Showcase packed for their first visit to the birthplace of rock n’ roll. Let’s show them how Tennessee gets down!

As many of you know, we here at the DivingIn2Memphis.com World Headquarters ( a recently absconded three story building right in the heart of Voodoo Village) strive to keep you in the know with concerts, band interviews and other musical minutiae that should help your daily and nightly plans. Of course, one of our more pressing movements is to completely halt the workforce sitting in offices all day. We are here to make you happy and your bosses, well… not so much. Along these lines, we are now streaming an hour of music brought to you by the guys who form one of the great bands in the city. One day, I’m going to write a book about this collection of five very different souls, but for now, this is what everyone is getting. So, read on and get those headphones ready.

Sunday 4/01/07
The Whigs @ Young Avenue 9pm/$10
FreeWorld @ Blues City Café 10pm

Monday 4/02/07
Devil Train @ Buccaneer 10pm/$5
The Wallendas @ Hitone 9pm/free show

Tuesday 4/03/07
Rock and Roll Drive-In with Husker Du @ Hitone 9pm/free show
Citizen Cope @ Young Avenue 8pm/$15
Mad Science Presents "Newton's Revenge" @ Orpheum Theatre

Thursday 3/01/07
Corey Smith @ Newby’s 9pm/$15
The Broken West with Brad P @ HiTone 9pm/$7
Paul Berkes Band @ Acoustic Spoon 7pm/free show
Sanguine @ The Rally Point 8pm/$5
Carson & Petty @ T.J. Mulligan’s Quince
Rhoney G. @ Club 152 10:30pm

Friday 3/02/07
Afroman w/ Willie & the Herringtons @ Young Avenue Deli 9pm/$10
Tishamingo-CD Release Party @ Newby’s 9pm/$7
The Dynamites with Chase One and DJ Leroy @ HiTone 9pm/$8
Ivory Sea @ The Rally Point 6pm/$5
Sean Michel @ The New Daisy 7pm/$8
Richard James & the Special Riders @ Murphy’s 9pm
Jesse Cole @ T.J. Mulligans Pinch
FreeWorld @ Dan McGuiness, East 9.30pm/free show
Kevin Paige @ Alfred’s 10pm/$5

One of my favorite movies has always been, I’ll dare say it, the “classic” Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail. How are fart jokes and flesh wounds not timeless entertainment?

Though my parents, until recently, couldn’t understand why my sister and I found the statement “your mother was a hamster and you father smelled of elderberries!” so entertaining, they kindly gave us tickets to the broadway musical version; Spamalot. It opened in Memphis last night at the Orpheum.

I was both excited and skeptical. While I love the movie, the thought of it being a touring theater show sounded daring. If you have never seen or hear or it, the story is of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and their quest to find the Holy Grail. A much told story in the form of satire and silliness, full of the aforementioned fart jokes and flesh wounds.

Monday 2.05.07
Nancy Apple @ www.WEVL.org 4pm
Devil Train @ The Buccaneer 8pm/ $5
Roxanne Lemmon @ The Flying Saucer 9pm/$2
The Reservoir Tips @ Rally Point 9pm/Free
Jrew Raines w/ Jacob Church @ Hi-Tone 9pm/$5
Anthony Orio @ P and H Cafe 9pm/ Free

Tuesday 2.06.07
Oxford Collapse w/ Thunderbirds Are Now! @ Hi-Tone 9pm/$8
Kaleidoscope @ Alfred's 6pm/Free
Mike Dees & John Kizler @ Memphis Originals 7pm/$3
Richard James & the Special Riders @ Murphy’s 8pm
Leo Lazarus @ Flying Saucer(Downtown) 9pm
Matthew Karner @ Liquid Lounge 9pm/Free
Kyle Kiser @ Liquid Lounge 9pm
Briantimothysharpe @ Rally Point 11pm

Fri 1/12
The Gamble Brothers @ HiTone 9pm/$10
Upon The Pale Horse w/ Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Sanguine, Bush Hog Suicide, & Betrayal @ Rally Point 6pm
Matthew Karner @ The Tower Room American Grille 6pm
Barbara Blue @ Silky O'Sullivan's 7pm
The Archives @ MO's Memphis Originals 7:30pm
Dj Ksmoove @ Club Premier 8pm/$5
Mudflap King @ Doc Watsons (Old Bottom Line) 9pm/$5
The Blind Duck Blues Band @ South Park Bar 9pm/$5

IllBottenGooty will be playing Mitch’s Ball tonight, Friday December 15th, along with Minivan Blues Band, Phil Barnes and Friends and a few other great Memphis acts at Newby’s for a fundraiser for Cancer. Also, IBG will be on the Brookhaven stage for a New Year’s Eve party that should be rather, well, interesting. Here is an email interview that Brandon and I will be continuing over the next few weeks. Here it is, though, your IBG starter kit just in time for the holidays.

Who is IllBottenGooty?
Ill Booten Gotty :) and we're in dire need of a name change...:) The band consists of Anthony Barrasso-drums, Tony Walsh-percussion,Mark Cianciola-bass,Trey Robison-guitar,vocals, Brandon Edwards-vocals,guitar

Friday 12/01
Inner 61 w/ Life Away @ Newby’s
Dragoon with Guests @ HiTone 9pm/ $5
Hooked @ Brookhaven Pub 10pm
The Billy Gibson Band w/ Jump Back Jake @ Center for Southern Folklore 8pm/$10
Star and Micey @ Neil's 10pm/5$
Hope Clayburn w/ Robert Allen Parker's Broken String @ The Buccaneer 10pm/$5
Amelia Akpotu @ University of Memphis: Michael D. Rose Theatre 6pm/Free
Run On Sentences @ Rose Theater- University of Memphis campus 7pm
Barbara Blue @ Silky O'Sullivan's 7pm
Holly w/ Bret from the Lights @ Otherlands 7pm/$5

Interviewed By: Jonathan Kiersky

Richard Cushing of FreeWorld is, seemingly, known by everyone in this town who regularly goes out to see live music. He’s been an integral part of the Memphis music scene for the past twenty years and through the years has been a part of the remarkable underground music scene we enjoy in Memphis. Through his 18 years of playing with FreeWorld, Richard has witnessed the ebb and flow of the scene as well as the lack of national notoriety bestowed on this city for anyone not named Elvis, Hayes or Timberlake. As we all know, it’s not the music, as Memphis has always been a city where the locals trump the national acts, that has held the musicians back, but the utter neglect the Memphis scene is shown.

Richard Cushing was kind enough to give us some of his feelings and observations about the local scene, the national scene, FreeWorld and a few other notions that may be able to help local musicians.

As you will see, we are incorporating Videos from Youtube.com and Music from some local artists as well as some touring artists so you can see and hear, if you aren't already fimiliar, the music coming thru Memphis each month. If you are a band or bandmember and have some footage that you would like up on the site, please just email Jonathan Kiersky with the info.

Wednesday 11/01
Minivan Blues Band @ Newby’s 10pm/$5
Detroit Cobras, Taylor Hollingsworth & The King Khan & BBQ Show @ Young Avenue Deli 9pm/$10
Cory Branan w/ Thrift Store Cowboys @ HiTone 8pm/ $7

Monday 10/2
Devil Train @ The Buccaneer 10pm/ $5
Movie Night~ Burt Reynolds @ HiTone Free

Tuesday 10/3
Pabst on tap til midnight with Sex Pot Piper and Stevan @ HiTone 9pm/ Free

Wednesday 10/4
Daniel Hutchens with, Eric Martinez of "BloodKin" - Acoustic w/ Minivan Bluesband @ Newby’s 9pm/ $5 w/ $10 all you can drink New Castle
The Whigs w/ The Features @ Young Avenue Deli 9pm/ $7
Halifax, Maxeen, SoTheySay, Sugarcult & The Spill Canvas @ New Daisy Theatre 7pm/ $15

In the wake of the last of the free music downloading sites, Limewire , now being taken to court for the purpose of shutting them down, finding unique music is going to be much tougher. Certainly with iTunes and Kazaa opening up as pay per download or monthly subscription music sites, the more popular music will be there for purchase, but those interesting tracks found sometimes by accident are the real reason that Limewire was such a popular music tool. As we’ve all found out, it’s much less of a headache to just go to a record store and purchase a full CD than it is to download the entire thing. Again, though, for those out-of-print tracks and those tracks that never make it to the store shelves, free downloading was a blessing. Now, we’re back to giving the artist a penny for every dollar we spend on their music. Tremendous job, Metallica! In your fears about music downloading and the money you’d lose, you forgot to make any music that people would even fathom buying in the first place. Ahh, the irony!

Fri 9.01
1st Annual, "True Blue" Bar-B-Que Contest w/ Blind Logic & From all The Rest (Band Side)@ Newby’s 9pm/ $5
Hollywood AllStars @ Newby’s 10pm/ $5
The Coach and 4 with Augustine @ HiTone 9pm/ $5
Dave Melillo, June & The Classic Crime @ The Complex

For everyone who missed last month's record-breaking Blues on the Bluff® fundraiser and for those who just can't get enough: don't put away your lawn chairs and blankets just yet. Blues returns to the bluff Saturday night, August 19, for the second round of WEVL FM 89.9's eighteenth annual summer concert series.

Part 2 features music from Robert "Wolfman" Belfour, the Daddy Mack Blues Band, and the Kenny Brown Band. From traditional to contemporary, concertgoers will have a chance to experience several different styles of blues with the Mississippi River as a backdrop.