Jazz, Modern, World and Beyond…

Australia’s bass playing Blues siren, Anni Piper, favors us with a ballad about hand-to-hand contact exercises on Deep Threes Radio #9. It’s a martial arts thing. Really.

Anni graduated from university with a music degree at 19 and quickly blazed a path to the top ranks of the Blues scene Down Under. Here’s two videos from Anni’s live shows. First, “The More I Keep Losin’” then she sashays into her “Hitchhiker’s Shuffle”.

Akron/Family took a path toward blending folk and experimental influences that defies words. The band’s official history is told with pictures. We’ll hear a track from last year’s Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free on show #9. “Everyone Is Guilty” according to the band, onstage at SXSW 2009.

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In 1970, guitarist Peter Walker gathered a group of musicians for recording sessions at the Woodstock, NY home of Levon Helm. The tapes wound up in storage until their release last year as Long Lost Tapes 1970, around the same time as more recent house party sessions by the Black Crowes and Helm himself.

Shortly after the Woodstock session, Walker started devoting more time to his family. His early Eastern influences evolved into a study of Flamenco styles. Peter breaks down a Flamenco piece in scolarly fashion in this 2006 performance in Eureka, CA.

Peter explains one of the finer points of Eastern musicianship in this grainy video from an intimate 2009 UK show.

Plug in your headphones for the Streaming Archives of Deep Threes Radio #7, it’s like a party going on in your pharyngeal groove!

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The 72 musicians of the North Carolina Symphony under the direction of Grant Llewellyn serve their home state with over 175 performances each year, including 40 in schools.

We’ll hear a piece from their American Spectrum project on Deep Threes Radio #8. John Dancy of UNC-TV provides a glimpse of the orchestra behind the scenes in this first video.

Americana siren Tift Merritt came back home to perform with the Symphony in 2007. Here’s their rendition of her signature song “Tambourine”.

James Taylor appeared with the North Carolina Symphony and offered up his homage to the Tarheel State (and their neighbor to the south), “Carolina In My Mind”.

The orchestra reaches beyond the traditionalal boundaries of classical music to perform pieces with merit, regardless of their original purpose. Here is an outdoor performance of the “Chrono Trigger / Chrono Cross Medley” from Play! A Video Game Symphony, complete with rainfall and a rowdy gamer in the crowd.

Part of the beauty of freeform radio is the ability to present music that is slightly askew. Your ears might be expecting “Big Yellow Taxi”, but you delight to discover a small yellow airplane, or better yet, an abstract sculpture of one…

In this digital age, music lovers have been liberated from collecting an entire album or just the single. We can dive into the depths of digital music libraries for those perfect pearls to add our string of playlists. The Deep Threes.

On this show, Electric Skychurch helps us see the light as Pan American charts a course for Nawang Khechong, Cinnamon Sphere and Hexedene to step out of the shadows. Plus, we shine the spotlight on a new live track from Blues Traveler. Enjoy!

Thanks for listening!

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Electric Skychurch kicks of revival #7 of Deep Threes Radio with some trancey meditation from their freshman experiment, Knowoneness. Here’s a clip from the 1999 documentary Synergy: Visions Of Vibe of the group raising their voices at a protest for the “Right To Dance”. Note that Newt Gingrich is packing a lot more weight these days.

Alt media veterans Cult Of The Dead Cow produced a love story made in toy land (and shot on location in someone’s backyard) as the video for Electric Skychurch’s “Endless Horizon”…

…and what better way for Blue Bear to make Robot Girl happy than to take her on a trip. Why not fly Pan Am’s non-stop, all-metal jet service on a sleek, new (for 1958) Boeing 707? Why not just jump in a freakin’ time machine?

Vranka offers up the perfect destination in her slide show about the “Quiet City”, as evoked  the group Pan American. More of their music on Deep Threes Radio #7.

So you’ve made it to a well-kept lawn in a city far, far away. But Robot Girl is still not happy. Take her to a concert and make a difference at the same time! Each December, Warren Haynes puts on The Christmas Jam to benefit Habitat for Humanity in usually quiet Ashville, NC. Blues Traveler is featured on the new album from the 2001 show, Warren Haynes Presents The Benefit Concert Vol. 3.

Holding your girl close during John Popper’s rousing harmonica solo on the aptly titled “No Woman, No Cry” is bound to get you some benefits, no matter how blue your bears are…

…why not make it a night on the town? Slip into a cozy little jazz club “Round Midnight” to catch Gregory Porter’s set.