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From the Black Light Explosion era in the early 1970's around the San Francisco Bay Area emerged Raymond Simmons, afro-styled conga drummer extraordinaire. For the past thirty years Raymond has played with dance classes, drum choirs, dance troupes, acting groups and blues and rock bands. He has had the pleasure of playing with Jimmy McCracklin, Carla Thomas, Marvin Holmes, Albert King and other greats. Raymond founded Select Records in 1981 with artists Masterpiece, Starlite, the Fabulous Playmates and the Ladies' Choice where he has been the featured percussionist. Raymond has released some of his famous techniques in Hot Percussion Licks. Raymond also endorses Select Maracas and Select Records T-Shirts.

Subscribers to Gratful Dead podcasts may have noticed that we're serving up a classic today in the form of the famous Barton Hall show from 1977 (at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY). This is the show widely regarded by Deadheads to be "the" Grateful Dead show to play for their friends who don't know the Grateful Dead and think they don't like them. The Scarlet > Fire, in particular, is one of the most-played musical moments the Grateful Dead ever performed. This show regularly shows up on tapers' top-10 lists in spite of the almost universal agreement among Deaheads that the nights immediately preceding and following it were also quite smoking.

Our third installment in the bluegrass podcast series is a recording from the band that literally embodied the new style of bluegrass that revolutionized the genre. That style was dubbed "newgrass," in honor of the band that best personified the name: New Grass Revival.

New Grass Revival was founded in 1972 by future bluegrass legend Sam Bush. Nearly eighteen years later, NGR (with Sam remaining as the only original member) would play its final show, the selection we now share with you.

Our next Review from the Vault gives us another opportunity to delve into archival recordings featured in the Setbreak.com podcast. This installment is of Hot Rize performing at the Ninth Annual Winter Festival in Fairfax, Virginia, on March 12, 1988. This recording is from an cassette soundboard master which holds up well despite some archival background hiss.

The performance is classic Hot Rize, featuring some of their album favorites, some old standards and, of course, a short set from Red Knuckles & The Trailblazers.

For those of you unfamiliar with Hot Rize, let me fill you in on the players. The late Charles Sawtelle was a quiet, unassuming guy who also happened to be one of the finest guitar flatpickers to ever grace a stage. Pete Wernick, aka "Dr. Banjo," was a master of the five-string who tirelessly shared his knowledge through lessons, workshops and comprehensive "Banjo Camps" held in his home town of Niwot, Colorado. Bass player and vocalist extraordinaire Nick Forster continues to be a Boulder legend with his weekly "E-Town" radio program on NPR. Last but not least, Tim O'Brien sang and played such a fine mandolin you'd swear he was born with one in his hands.

In June, 1953, Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs took the stage at the Ryman Theater in Nashville, Tennessee to record a program for WSM Radio. The exact date and source of these recordings is not known, but we know that they span five concert performances over two nights.

The shows provide a unique view into the early development of bluegrass music. From the opening notes of the first tune, a jingle for Martha White Flour -- the show's sponsor -- we realize we are listening to bluegrass history being made. (For those of you who don't know, Martha White's trademark for self-rising flour, "Hot Rize," provided the name and inspiration for one of the great bluegrass bands in history. I had never realized before how Hot Rize had named themselves in tribute to old-time recordings like this, and to the advertising jingles that pervaded radio shows back in the early days of broadcasting.) Flatt & Scruggs sing the song without Hot Rize's jubilant irony, of course. After all, Martha White was paying the bills, so naturally the band was more than willing to oblige any requests to plug their sponsor: "How many biscuits did you eat this morning? / How many biscuits can you eat this evening? / Always bake with Martha White / Goodness gracious it's good (and light)!"