Bruce Hampton

But it's like there's great and terrible in all genres, in all levels of popularity.

Well, I'd like to bring up an artist that used to perform in Knoxville a lot, Colonel Bruce Hampton.

And Bruce Hampton, his first band was the Hampton Grease Band.

And they reportedly had the second worst selling album in Columbia Records history.

That name, I would,

I talk about, you know, he talks about, like, intention and what, you know.

Do you know Colonel Bruce Hampton too? Do you, familiar?

Yeah.

You know-

It's called Live on Mountain Stage, Volume 2, Fire on the Mountain Stage.

Another double vinyl or two-CD compilation featuring tracks by Grace Potter, Government Mule, Joan Osborne, and others, as well as rare gems from Leo Kottke and Mike Gordon and Colonel Bruce Hampton.

Find out more about the release at mountainstage.org or oboy.com. We'd like to say a special hello to you right now if you're listening over WNIJ in DeKalb, Illinois, or over KSMF in Ashland, Oregon.

We're glad to have you listening, and we hope you can join us next week when we welcome the Jayhawks, Tift Merritt, Tanasi, and Candy Jenkins.

Also, fun fact, do you know who Colonel Bruce was? Yeah.

Yeah, Colonel Bruce Hampton, who's like a musical icon and an Atlanta icon.

I got to spend a good amount of time with him.

And the last conversation I ever had with him was at the Vista Room.

So when Horde Tour is announced, I am super psyched because my two favorite bands are playing, Blues Traveler and Phish.

There's also Widespread Panic, Colonel Bruce.

I think that was the first time I saw Utile play live and he blew my mind.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

Yeah.

And for me, that was Colonel Bruce Hampton.

That guy is amazing.

Yeah, he was.

Don't you wanna see me try?"

Yeah.

And, and, the, another Colonel Bruce Hampton quote, he was like, uh, he's like, "I don't wanna hear anybody that's good all the time." Like, then you're, then you're just lying to me.

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