To celebrate (and benefit) Amnesty International’s 50th year advocating for human rights, an astonishing roster of artists from Adele to Ziggy Marley have all contributed their own interpretation of a Bob Dylan song. Many, like Pete Townshend and Lucinda Williams, give straightforward readings, while the likes of Rise Against and Queens of the Stone Age crank up the volume, and Elvis Costello and others get a little more experimental.

Eric Burdon, meanwhile, outfits “Gotta Serve Somebody” with a Bo Diddley beat. Google visited Burdon near his home in the desert of Joshua Tree, California, where he and his band treated us to a live version of the tune as the sun set behind them.

Get Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan on Google Music http://goo.gl/j7GTB

Shot at Rimrock Ranch Cabins (http://www.rimrockranchcabins.com/) in Pioneertown, CA.

• Leftover Salmon
• Shane Wallin
• Chris Haugen and his Taciteers

Leftover Salmon is very excited to be heading to Jamaica w/ Little Feat & friends to join them for their 10th annual Jamaica excursion. This will take place January 17-22.

Leftover Salmon will be performing a very special set on Tues Jan 17th. This date will not only cap Gov’t Mule’s Island Exodus III, but also will kickoff Little Feat’s own Jamaica Excursion.

Please follow the link below for more info.

http://www.littlefeat.net/jamaica

KBCO Studio C began in 1988 and has hosted hundreds of artists over the years, becoming a Colorado radio institution along the way. It has become a favorite stop for artists touring through the area and even has its own channel.

You can listen to the KBCO Studio C Channel online at kbco.com, on your phone with the iheartradio app or on your HD radio.

Click here to listen to past KBCO Studio C sessions on demand.

Click here to view the KBCO Studio C photo galleries.

Continue reading on the KBCO website.

Lydia’s Livingschool is selling holiday paper and cards.  There are also styles that can be used throughout the year.  The “Snail’s Pace” paper is lovely ecofriendly, 100% recycled made by monks in Indiana, USA made.

To view the paper and order please go to the link below.  Read those instructions and start shopping!  When checking out, make sure you go to the green bar and select California, The Living School organization, and under that please select my child’s name Lydia Ingram #100 to get the proper credit to the school.

Hopefully you can place your orders this week in order to get papers in time for the Holidays.  They usually ship the following day for an order placed on line.  These paper’s ship directly to you!  We have an incentive period of 2 weeks that lasts from now until Dec. 22nd.  During this time period our school earns 50% of the sales.  You can however order from this company all year and our school will continue to get  20% of all sales.  Remember to always check the box when checking out and fill in to credit the Living School.

http://www.snailspacepaper.com/index.php?id=43&page=How%20It%20Works

• 12/16 – 12/17 – Martyrs’ – Chicago, IL [BUY TIX]

Fri & Sat, Dec 16-17
Martyrs’ – Chicago, IL
Doors: 7:30PM
Show: 9:00PM
Friday opener: Fareed Haques’ Math Games
ADVANCE TICKETS | EVENT PASS

Fan Hotel INFO HERE

Surviving cancer one song at a time…

Singer, songwriter, producer and cancer survivor, Charlie Lustman, has recently completed the first ever pop music album about a cancer experience. Made Me Nuclear, his collection of twelve pop songs, is designed to help the millions of people affected by cancer by giving them a personal and uplifting account of his ordeal from diagnosis through recovery and beyond.

Charlie was diagnosed with an osteosarcoma in his upper left jaw bone on March 1, 2006. His dentist and periodontist could not diagnose what that little bump sticking out of his jaw could be so they did a biopsy. The results came back positive for one of the rarest forms of bone cancer. Statistically, Charlie would win the Super Lottery three times before contracting this kind of cancer.

After a week of frantically searching Los Angeles for specialists to deal with this dis-ease, Charlie landed at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars Sinai Medical Center under the guidance of Sarcoma oncologist guru, Dr. Charles Forscher. They quickly injected Charlie with nuclear fluid and ran him through full body CAT SCANS and several MRI’s before determining exactly what kind of tumor was growing in his jaw. Dr. Forscher then sent Charlie to the head and neck institute at UCLA for his surgery under the hands of Dr. Elliot Abemayer.

Four weeks after being diagnosed, Charlie was wheeled into the operating room where they used a power saw to cut away half of his upper jaw. When Charlie awoke, the skin graft (a procedure they use to remove a slab of skin from his thigh and apply to the exposed bone in his jaw) was more painful than the primary incision. They also had to drill a screw into the roof of his skull to hold the plate in place where his jaw once existed. Then came the waiting game. Both Charlie and his wife, Ri, waited ten days to know if they had cleared the margins, for the results could not be seen until the calcium deposits had drained from the bone. They learned that not all the cancer was eradicated and four days later Charlie was wheeled back into the operating room for another round of sawing, grafting and drilling. In all, Charlie lost three quarters of his upper jaw and most of the skin on his outer left thigh.

Then came the next ten days of waiting. Did the tumor move into his nasal cavity or his brain? The results came back negative and Charlie was able to breath a sigh of relief, but not for long. It was decided that a year of intense adjuvant (supplemental) chemotherapy was needed to insure that no other cancer cells had spread to other parts of his body. It was during this long and challenging treatment that Charlie decided that he would write a collection of songs about his entire cancer experience.

Exactly a year to the day from when he was diagnosed with cancer Charlie began writing Made Me Nuclear. Chemotherapy ended in April of 2007 and the UCLA maxillofacial department created a prosthetic mouth piece that would allow Charlie the ability to speak and sing again. It was a miracle that after everything Charlie endured, he was able to write, arrange, produce and sing this new body of work.

URL: http://www.mademenuclear.com/

• 12/6/11 – Sandbar – Vail, CO
• 12/7/11 – PAC 3 – Carbondale, CO [BUY TIX]
• 12/8/11 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO [BUY TIX]
• 12/9/11 – three20south – Breckenridge, CO [BUY TIX]
• 12/10/11 – Old Town Pub – Steamboat, CO

• 11/4/11 – 11/5/11 – Brooklyn Bowl – New York, NY [BUY TIX]

Steve Kimock – http://www.kimock.com/
Melvin Seals – http://www.melvinseals.com/
Bobby Vega – http://www.bobbyvega.com/
Bernie Worrell – http://www.bernieworrell.com/

• 11/11/11  - Barrymore Theatre – Madison, WI [BUY TIX]
• 11/12/11 – Radisson Hotel – Green Bay, WI [BUY TIX]

Bandallamas - http://www.bandallamas.com