metal monday

keep your monday nights spiced up with a little head bangin' karaoke at cumberland's. sing the classics with a top notch live band featuring members of the films, jump little children, ratt, and saigon kick as you pretend to re-live your days of hairspray, spandex tights and air guitar.

party on, wayne...

hi. this is lee barbour.

if you haven't had the chance to check out lee barbour in his various guises and ensembles, then you, my friend, have been missing out. catch lee regularly on tuesday nights at f.i.g. with gradual lean featuring kevin hamilton and quentin baxter. his newest and most adventurous project to date is called the easy way to quit smoking featuring ron wiltrout. you can catch lee tonight in rare rock form at the music farm with cary ann hearst.

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leftover hampton

before dave matthews band, before widespread panic and before phish, there was col. bruce hampton. these bands and others (bela fleck & the flecktones, spin doctors) teamed up with col. bruce & the aquarium rescue unit in the early 90s to birth one of the earliest versions of the modern traveling music festival - blues traveler's roaming jam session called h.o.r.d.e.. horizons of rock developing everywhere (h.o.r.d.e.) gave birth to what many consider to be the current alternative live music scene otherwise known as the jam community.

col. bruce hampton ret. has always fostered an air of spontaneity and had a knack for extemporaneous collaboration and a fusing of styles and genres. his disciples over the years have been many, but the few brave souls that continue to bear the torch will be assembling themselves into a new collective i have affectionately dubbed leftover hampton.

be sure to visist one of the finest live music establishments in charleston on friday may 26 to witness herring/rodgers/sipe live and in living color. your mama will be proud you did.

for more personal insight into the origin of this project, click here to read the latest interview with jimmy herring.

green light

one of the newest releases to grace the radioioJAM library is patient like the moon by charlotte's own green light. be sure to catch them live in charleston sc on thursday may 25 at johnson's pub.