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Thu. March 27th, 2008

Check out this great BGUG article from our colleagues Honest Tune magazine, about the banjo leader of Blueground Undergrass, the Rev. Jeff Mosier; includes a terrific clench passage about Mosier’s old-school Atlanta Radio show called Born In A Barn. In the story, Mosier meets Col. Bruce [LINK] Hampton for the first time. Bruce tells him, “I love your radio show. I listen every Tuesday.”

Daniel Gold with Col. Bruce Hampton back in the day, got aquainted much the same way Rev. Mosier encountered The Colonel

Coincidentally — or not — Col. Bruce and Rev. Mosier have each appeared twice on Honest Tunes Radio Show in Fayetteville, which has been on the air every Tuesday since 2000 (long after Born In A Barn had it’s original run). These guys are both a hoot, legends and outspirations singing among us. When Rev. Mosier was on the radio show a few years ago and again recently (with both line-ups of BGUG) he spoke about his experience as a DJ in the ATL, how radio has changed, and the greatness of freeform radio ongoing in a college town like Fayetteville. The 2 times Col. Bruce has been on this radio show he has demonstrated freedom and freeform to the outer maximum. The story kind of corroborates my radio encounters with these verbal characters.

Enjoy the article!
http://www.honesttune.com/content/view/843/49/

Dgold’s Tea Leaf Green cell-phone shot makes live download cover art

There’s a lot of info coming from TLG, check their home page. Quick summary. Box set of the first 3 albums packaged together, called Seeds, about to come out. New studio album in the works (some recording done). Reed Mathis is in the band on bass, but taking a brief time off when Steve Adams (ALO) is filling in on bass. TLG has announced a slate of upcoming festival sets including Wakarusa and Rothbury. TLG has not announced playing at Bonnaroo 2008 (I guess they’re skipping a year?), however they released a live soundboard recording of Tea Leaf Green at Bonnaroo 2007 for sale on livedownloads. The most personally interesting thing about this release — besides the excellent audio quality and the roar of the largest audience the band had played for to-date (probably 10,000 people) — the cool thing to me is they used my photo to illustrate the release. It’s like I made the cover-art for this show.

Tea Leaf Green screenshot of livedownloads Bonnaroo FLAC mp3 release page

The photo is just a grainy front-row, side-stage cell-phone quality shot of Josh Clark standing at the edge shredding for 10,000 people. I made it black-and-white in Photoshop just to increase the clarity of the dim image. I submitted the pic to TLG’s official photo gallery. Months later, somehow this got selected as the art for the livedownloads official release. Pretty cool.

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