Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tallboy - Widespread Panic feat. Dottie Peoples
2. Tennessee Jed - Phil Lesh and Friends w/ very special guest Bob Weir
3. Rodeo Clowns - Jack Johnson feat. DJ Logic
4. Tiger Roll - Galactic
5. Countdown - Jurassic 5
6. Locomotive Breath - Les Claypool�s Frog Brigade
7. Peekaboo - Robert Randolph & the Family Band
8. Nightingale - Norah Jones
9. Turn It Out - Soulive
10. Ain�t Nothin� But a Party - The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

Disc 2:

1. Last Tube - Trey Anastasio
2. Burn One Down/With My Two Hands - Ben Harper
3. Banks of the Deep End - Gov�t Mule
4. Search - The String Cheese Incident
5. Bonnaroo Traveler - Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer
6. Captain America - moe.
7. Bananas and Blow - Ween
8. Sugartown - North Mississippi AllStars
9. Pickapart - The John Butler Trio
10. Rain and Snow - The Del McCoury Band
11. Amazing Grace - Blind Boys of Alabama

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158549 in Music
• Released on: 2002-09-24
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .27 pounds

Amazon.com
The stage of Tennessee jam band festival Bonnaroo is an unlikely setting for the year's most important blues recording, but young firebrands North Mississippi Allstars pulled off a creative coup this June with their Hill Country Revue. The concert teamed patriarch R.L. Burnside and his guitarist and rapper sons, the late Othar Turner's fife and drum band, the Black Crowes' Chris Robinson, and eccentric producer-pianist Jim Dickinson, the father of Allstars Luther and Cody Dickinson, with the wiry trio. The historic results handily blend all the racial, geographic, and cultural elements of the genre with adventurous musicality. Burnside, sadly, is past his prime--present more for inspiration than his lackluster contributions. But his sons carry on the tradition while pushing its borders into hip-hop and six-string psychedelia. If there's a star here, though, it's guitarist Luther Dickinson, who playfully quotes Duane Allman, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and the elder Burnside, and then adds a level of tonal and textural exploration to his performance that makes him a one-man defibrillator for the genre--human insurance that the heart of the blues will keep pumping into the future. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

Very good chance for someone who couldn't go to get a taste
I think this is a great compilation for someone like myself to get a taste of what Bonnaroo is like. This double disc is a great set of bands that I know I like and of bands that I've never heard before but definitely fit in and belong in a festival like Bonnaroo.

I must say that I am very disappointed in the song choice for Les Claypool's Frog Brigade. I am a huge Claypool fan as well as being a huge Tull fan. However, I would much rather hear Claypool playing his own stuff, and I'm sure he provided a vast set of songs that could have been put on this disc instead of Locamotive Breath.

I am only slightly disappointed in the choice for the Galactic song. I have seen them live, and they seriously jam. The song that was chosen for this double disc doesn't really jam. It's still a good song, but I don't think it represents their true style.

To end, I am very glad that I purchased this double disc. It is very well done, and the compilation of music on here makes me even more upset with myself that I didn't make it to Tennessee myself. I definitely recommend picking this one up.

As a potential solution to the limitations that I have read about this disc is that the song chosen isn't what people wanted for a particular band. If a 4-disc set was released with a few songs from each band, I would buy that.

not what it's all about
while yes, this cd does have a good array of decent music, i think the cd itself flies in the face of the jamband scene. i don't understand how one can decide what should go on the cd and what shouldn't. i've never been a fan of "best of" cd's, and this is a perfect example. who's the guy that says norah jones should be chosen over disco biscuits?
also, i had the awful feeling after i bought this disc that i'm supporting a profit-based organization rather than one that truly appreciates the music these artists produce. sure, the cd serves as a vector to open people's eyes to a different genre of music, but it's closing the gap between a jam band and a pop band. plus, 22 bucks?

Worth Every Penny!
This CD is one of those rare CDs you can listen to in its entirety. It has an eclectic enough mix of artists to keep the serious jam band fan engaged and some incredible performances that will hook someone just entering the genre. It's one thing to put together a compilation of great acts and another to create a compilation of great performances from great bands. This album was recommended to me by a jam band fanatic and I would recommend it to a serious jam bander to expand their collection, to a fledgling jam band fan as a springboard into the scene and to anyone in between. Buy this album.