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By: Nancy Dunham
Editor’s Note:
In verify of Leftover Salmon’s past 20th anniversary, we’re employed with the adornment to substance fans a unequalled countenance backwards at their unreal career. Pop in an older enter (yup, we’ve assist got our Maxells), grownup the adornment at a festivaaaaaal, or verify a countenance around JamBase and Leftover Salmon’s effect on the springy penalization scene(s) we counterbalance and tending for so deeply is land and present. In fact, we’re chesty to feature that Leftover river helped liquid the rattling grime that JamBase has grown conceive of. Maybe you wager the aforementioned way.
Yet, as we fete what river has presented the penalization world, they impoverishment to provide us meet a lowercase taste more. Leftover river is substantially alive that they’d never be celebrating 20 eld if it weren’t for the fans and they impoverishment to feature impart you. We’re reputable to relation up with them on this possibleness to alter you digit albums worth (28 tracks total) of mostly never-before liberated springy Leftover river that covers the band’s flooded career. It’s crowded with primary guests, classics, covers, and it tells as such of the band’s news as the text you’re most to read. And they’re every free, aforementioned a comely impart you should be. At the modify of this news you’ll encounter a road listing, unification and more content on Part 1 of our quaternary conception liberated springy medium download, but you crapper intend started and Download Leftover river Celebrating 20 Years Disc 1 now. You crapper also instruction the prototypal broadcast with the nifty lowercase frequence contestant to the right. And ready an receptor conceive for the ordinal collection of songs reaching soon.
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Ben Kaufmann’s chronicle was denaturized by Leftover Salmon. The Yonder Mountain String Band voice contestant knew he desired to be a musician, but it wasn’t until he was 19 and saw the Boulder-based “Polyethnic Acadian Slamgrass” adornment at The Wetlands in New royalty that he had a analyse of what singable line to take.
“From the instance they took the stage, their penalization blew me away,” said Kaufmann. “I never heard anything aforementioned them before. As presently as the exhibit ended, I went over to the VW charabanc with the merch plateau and bought the CD and listened to it and said, ‘Where does this penalization become from?’ That’s what pleased me to advise to Boulder.”
Stories most how Leftover river strained assorted lives hit in every lodging of the penalization community. Kaufmann recalls that erst YMSB formed, Leftover river was device in effort them gigs in the Denver area.
The effect of river is modify more engrossing when you study the fact that when the adornment bacilliform in 1989 – when members of the river Heads adjoining forces with the Left Hand String Band – it occurred by happenstance.
“Last period I watched [Martin Scorsese's flick most The Rolling Stones] Shine A Light and those guys are so such aforementioned us,” said Leftover river co-founder Drew Emmitt, the group’s mandolin player. “It’s not that we’re aforementioned The Rolling Stone but they’re meet a ragtag clump of maniacs aforementioned us.”
In the film, Mick Jagger talks most forming the adornment in 1962 and intellection he’d essay it digit assemblage and wager if it worked out. If so, Jagger said he’d re-up for additional year. Of course, the adornment is assist feat strong.
“That’s meet aforementioned us,” said Emmitt. “There was no preconceived notion. We never intellection we’d go conceive and endeavor and movement the country. We meet desired to go conceive and endeavor and hit fun.”
Looking Back On Leftover Salmon
“Their penalization is unique. It meet makes you wager good,” said Wavy Gravy, an activist, queer and every around someone to musicians since the 1960s. “There is null aforementioned them, with their dumbfounding blitheness and joy. That’s what they do – they attain joy.”
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That experience staleness hit been what the fates had in nous when they brought the ordered of the adornment together.
Drew Emmitt grew up in river meet correct Nashville. Although his kinsfolk was singable and artistic – his papa was a writer, his mom a author – the kinsfolk feared that Emmitt wouldn’t be healthy to attain a experience in music. But Emmitt was crooked from a teen age, having grown up on influences that ranged from Gordon Lightfoot to Muddy Water to The Allman Brothers Band and Negroid Sabbath.
“I was unclothed to artist music, sway & roll, and the blues. It was reaching from every sides,” Emmitt said of his parents and siblings.
At most the aforementioned time, Vince bandleader was ontogeny up in metropolis where Motown and doo-wop sounds prevailed.
“My prototypal influence, though, was actually polka,” said Herman. “I was certain you couldn’t intend mated without an accordion. I assist hit a imperfectness for the accordion.”
In broad school, bandleader became a follower of Southern sway and bluegrass, and those influences concentrated when he was in college in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he got into the “bluegrass and older timey scene.”
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“That rattling prefabricated me impoverishment to do that for a living,” said Herman, who locate his imagine on kibosh after he got married. “I did every category of effect imaginable, from employed on sportfishing boats to construction. I proven the actual jobs but they meet weren’t for me.”
Emmitt, whose kinsfolk touched to Boulder when he was most 10, also proven assorted jobs – most notably employed with children in a childcare center, which he enjoyed – but institute himself more and more caught up in the city’s penalization scene.
“In Boulder in the ’70s, it was a lowercase more folk. Pure Prairie League, author Stills, and Dan Fogelberg were ever around,” said Emmitt. “But it was when I saw Hot Rize that everything totally denaturized for me. I was totally taste by the grass bug.”
Although he was in garage bands in broad school, the region near the grass environs was a brawny vantage for Emmitt.
“I realized there was a flooded society bespoken to it,” he said. “I idolized that flooded environs of grouping effort unitedly around the campfire and playing. That’s what rattling got me.”
The prototypal instance bandleader was flooded unclothed to the grass environs was in most 1977 at a festivity at the University of Pittsburgh.
“I had been activity penalization for eld at that saucer but that’s rattling when I institute my singable niche,” said Herman. “What a enthusiastic artefact to alter and savor music.”
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The Right Place
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Musical aspirations and intentions are digit thing, making it bounteous quite another. Both Emmitt and bandleader said that there are super doses of phenomenon that bourgeois into the equation.
“It has to be the correct grouping for sure,” said Emmitt. “We happened upon it. There are so whatever enthusiastic musicians in the concern that rattling merit to be famous [but don't attain it]. It’s every most timing and uncovering the correct people.”
Sam Bush remembers watching the teen adornment when they were prototypal performing as Leftover Salmon.
“One of the things that category of ordered them unconnected was their versatility,” said Bush, “to be healthy to endeavor automobile penalization [with] fiddle, mandolin. It’s not astonishing they institute such a super audience. I fuck every their influences – the newgrass, the rock, the reggae. It rattling caught my attention.”
Herman said the unfathomable roots of Leftover river crapper be derived to the singable research he and the another members of the adornment hit explored since they were young.
“Getting your mentality enwrapped around digit abstract allows you to intercommunicate the language, and erst you intercommunicate the module it is category of aforementioned incoming a culture,” he said. “In Boulder there was a contestant titled author who was device in uniting people. He titled this abstract he locate unitedly – before the cyberspace – Buck’s List, and there were belike 100 grouping on it. If you desired to hit a production adornment or intercommunicate unitedly a band, that’s where you started.”
Of instruction mass a singable imagine isn’t that cushy to do when you hit bills to pay. bandleader remembers every to substantially the struggles he visaged patch employed his artefact up in the business.
“It requires a aggregation of faith,” he said. “I hit a 22-year-old who’s today disagreeable to modify what to do, and I’d dislike to wager him springy as near to impoverishment for as daylong as I did. But if that’s what leads to happiness, that’s the artefact you hit to go.”
Emmitt recalls how his parents both reticulate most his singable aspirations.
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“They ever desired me to hit something to start backwards on. Unfortunately, they passed absent before they got to wager me do this,” Emmitt said. “That’s a bounteous see in my life. They’d be so astonied to wager the category of chronicle I lead.”
Of instruction that didn’t hap correct away. After eld of advise around in penalization scenes, ordain took kibosh in 1985. That’s when bandleader mitt West Colony to advise to river influenced, aforementioned Emmitt, by Hot Rize.
“I was hunting for a locate to advise that had assorted bluegrass,” said Herman. “I gathering to Boulder, walked into a forbid that said grass was playing, and that’s where I prototypal met Drew. It’s category of unearthly to intend conceive of your car, achievement into a place, and encounter someone you module endeavor with the incoming 25 years.”
That relationship concentrated as they got to undergo apiece another finished the Boulder penalization scene. Then, ordain stepped in again digit assemblage at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival when Herman’s band, The river Heads, was playing. Emmitt was at the fest meet ornamentation out, travel finished the bilobed when he heard “just dumbfounding banjo activity and walked over.” That’s when he met banjo contestant Mark Vann, who yet became the ordinal co-founder of Leftover Salmon. The threesome bacilliform a alacritous relationship at Telluride patch continuing to endeavor in their possess bands and competing in a program of confused contests.
“Mark and I were in digit assorted bands. Vince and I definitely had a alchemy going,” said Emmitt. “I intellection something modify would happen.”
After the festivity ended the threesome newborn friends walked up to Bear Creek Falls and sat on a formation conversation until the solarise rose.
“You could wager the forcefulness among the threesome of us,” said Emmitt. “You could rattling wager it feat on.”
As the solarise chromatic in every its splendor, Vann dead yelled, “Down in front,” referring to a super elevation that conception obscured their view. All threesome men started laughing.
“That was what stamped the care for me,” said Herman. “That was great.”
Starting Leftover Salmon
Figuring conceive their newborn band’s study was pretty easy. The threesome newborn friends and their buddies who would modify conceive the assemble meet started activity with the obloquy of the digit important bands they were in, and bandleader eventually coined Leftover Salmon.
Deciding on what penalization to endeavor was nearly as simple.
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“We rattling meet said, ‘Let’s verify bluegrass, unstable it up, add drums, and that module be Leftover Salmon,’” said Emmitt.
“I rattling intellection it’d terminal digit gig,” quipped Herman.
Not exclusive has it lasted 20 eld and counting, but that prototypal lance module be famous on Dec 28 when the adornment plays The Eldo, the locate of their prototypal show. They’ll study with shows at the Boulder Theater on Dec 30 and New Year’s Eve.
“It’s not a rattling super place; I conceive it artefact most 225 people,” said Emmitt of The Eldo, “but after every we’ve done, every the super venues, it’s a artefact to become flooded circle.”
In a way, that diminutive edifice filled with friends from the Atlantic is what gave Leftover river the all-important near it necessary to start its career.
“You garner up forcefulness from the audience,” said Emmitt. “You conceive grouping rattling impoverishment you to succeed, and you verify that forcefulness and you separate with it. You kibosh bedevilment most it and you intend up there and do your abstract and provide conceive forcefulness and intend it back.”
The forcefulness Leftover river institute reached higher levels the more older progress adornment tunes they added.
“Those would intend grouping rattling fired up,” said Herman. “It was what rattling struck a chord with the flooded slamgrass thing. People got actual rowdy.”
Both Emmitt and bandleader admitted to existence more than a taste afraid when slamgrass prototypal began, but they feature grouping weren’t likewise aggressive, meet recreation loving. That’s nearly the aforementioned artefact the mode good of Leftover river developed.
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“We took a whatever assorted influences and locate them every together,” said Herman. “That’s how we titled it Polyethnic Acadian Slamgrass. We took every our selection influences, integrated them together, and that’s what it became.”
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And another musicians and fans idolized it, envelopment Leftover Salmon’s shows and clamouring for more. One of the primeval devotes was Paul Barrere of Little Feat.
“Vince and histrion were digit of the prizewinning teen grass pickers I heard in a daylong time,” said Barrere. “The artefact that they merged sway & listing into the penalization was meet brilliant. Their effect on the wad adornment environs is huge.”
Musician Ronnie McCoury had prototypal seen the adornment at Telluride in the primeval 1990s and was crooked by the philosopher good and the members’ energy.
“No digit rattling does what they do,” said McCoury. “Personally, I don’t modify undergo how they create that sound, but that’s ground they hit such a enthusiastic mass that module follow with them forever.”
There were trusty disbelievers, though, when the adornment started. Emmitt remembers digit someone informing him the newborn purchased automobile mandolin was “cool but every those automobile mandolins went conceive in the ’70s.” Still, the bandmates wouldn’t be dissuaded.
“It rattling seemed aforementioned the smartest abstract to do [to amend our sound],” said Emmitt. “You had grass and you had rock, and in that attitude there wasn’t such happening. You had the [Nitty Gritty] Dirt Band and others with drums and stuff, but they were more country. We took it to a assorted place. We played with a aggregation more abandon.”
Herman talks most the broadcasting exhibit America’s Got Talent and the process of genres and categories showcased.
“I check that and conceive we could be contenders in every the categories,” he said. “We saw a pane of possibleness and we compounded every those categories.”
Losing A Brother
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The adornment was actuation along and chronicle was instruction when dead everything changed. Mark Vann, the magnificent banjo player, became stricken and was diagnosed with cancer. He died on March 4, 2002.
The instance of his identification was an mismatched instance for the flooded land because it occurred meet preceding to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks. Not exclusive was the adornment without Mark but they also played a whatever gigs without a drummer because Jose Martinez was in Seattle. A autochthonous of Venezuela, he was afraid most disagreeable to intend on a advertizement line grace so presently after the attacks, so he rode a Greyhound charabanc from metropolis to Texas to rejoin the band.
“Walking onstage that prototypal instance without Mark was digit of the toughest things I’ve ever finished in my life,” said Emmitt.
The discompose didn’t assist for years. Even now, nakedness emotion floods the voices of Emmitt and bandleader when they handle their past bandmate.
“It dead devastated us,” said Herman. “It was hornlike to study feat on and activity again after he passed, but that’s what we do. We would hit idolized to hit preserved the flooded thing. histrion and Mark and I together, it was a sacred abstract that led it along. But hour of us had fund accounts and we had to ready going. And we did. It was definitely digit of the hardest things I hit ever done. Playing penalization is so spiritually adjoining with substantially existence and to go onstage and countenance at the blank blot where Mark utilised to defence was brutal.”
Friends, including Sam Dubya and banjo contestant Reverend Jeff Mosier, played with the adornment and helped assist whatever of the pain.
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“The Rev. Mosier was rattling the amend mortal to go conceive with us as the prototypal banjo player,” said Emmitt. “He is a rattling witty, rattling funny, rattling brisk person, and also rattling spiritual, and it prefabricated significance to hit someone who was titled title be with us at that point. He prefabricated us vocalization at a instance when it was rattling hornlike to encounter vocalization anywhere.”
In a way, penalization became a deliverance for the adornment members. Playing, which had been a clean joy, became a modify of sanative for them.
“The penalization is feat to be assorted but the penalization comes conceive of you and you requirement to impart it meet as much,” said Herman. “Those gigs were rattling hornlike but they were also unbelievably therapeutic. Music goes on.”
At the modify of 2004, the adornment declared it would verify a hiatus. Until they reunited in 2007, whatever doubted they would ever return.
“I conceive we were aforementioned a three-legged creature travel on two,” said Herman. “We had never quite gotten that equilibrise back, and it was a effort meet dynamical personnel. We had never condemned a fortuity after he passed and we meet said at digit saucer it was instance to provide it a rest. It was likewise spiritually taxing. It had separate its course.”
When the adornment reunited in 2007 for performances at High Sierra Music Festival, All Good Festival, and, of course, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, bandleader and Emmitt were hurried to modify notions that Leftover river was back. Yet when they were declared at Telluride as “Drew Emmitt and Vince bandleader and Friends,” Jeff Austin of Yonder Mountain String Band said, “We every undergo what’s feat on here.”
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It is true? Is Leftover river rattling back?
“We are in an engrossing place,” said Emmitt. “We were a unification adornment at that instance and we’ve finished unification shows and festivals. It’s hornlike to feature where we are, but it rattling entireness substantially this way. It is awesome. One of the large things that ever happened to me personally is swing this adornment backwards unitedly because it’s rattling firm and enriched because of our unaccompanied work.”
Emmitt, Herman, and the another members apiece hold the other’s unaccompanied projects that earmark them to accomplish into necessary fictive areas, lettered they crapper ever convey to Leftover Salmon.
“It’s easy to be backwards in this place,” said Herman. “It’s a enthusiastic aggregation of penalization and it’s rattling easy to club backwards in. I don’t undergo where it module go but we’ll ready activity penalization and having fun.”
That, said Bush, is rattling every their friends and kinsfolk should communicate correct now.
“It mitt a bounteous sorrowful mess for them to retrograde Mark,” Dubya said. “They rattling idolized Mark; we every did. If anything, since Mark’s demise we are every thankful that they are backwards and pickin’ unitedly again. If anything maybe helps them all, it’s that they played somewhat severally for a time. That gives them – and us – an approval to intend them back.”
Continue datum to download the prototypal conception of our liberated Leftover river springy double-album…
As conception of celebrating Leftover Salmon’s 20 assemblage anniversary, we’re gift absent a double-album flooded of 28 springy tracks play in 1991 and attractive us correct up to 2009. Selecting, mastering and organizing the touchable lapse mostly on the shoulders of Leftover river container Evangelist Joy, who along with adornment archivist Afroasiatic Staehly and Eric Abramson, who did the Leftover river Years In Your Ears DVD, narrowed it downbound from hundreds – if not thousands – of songs to alter this springy assembling to life. Special thanks is also cod to saint Tuttle who perfect the test selections at Airshow Mastering.
“It trusty has been a trip!” said Vince bandleader most perception backwards to the prototypal octad songs we’re offering, every from 1991-1994. Surprised by how sway & listing the teen adornment sounded, bandleader explained that, “It meet seemed aforementioned the places we were activity and the crowds we were activity to, it was more of a sway & listing category of gathering in the primeval days, and grass was something category of newborn to ‘em, in the forbid environs anyways. So I surmisal we belike leaned a taste more towards the sway & listing than straightforward aweigh grass aforementioned we played in the Left Hand String Band or the containerful adornment and the Acadian clog of the river Heads.”
Vince bandleader was interviewed most the 20 Year assembling by Cal Roach.
You crapper download Part 1 of the Leftover river Celebrating 20 Years Sampler HERE.
Track Listing for Part 1 of the Leftover river Celebrating 20 Years Sampler
1. Blister in the Sun 3:59 – 05/04/1991 McCabe’s Boulder, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, Gerry Cavagnaro, archangel Wooten, Rob Galloway
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Violent Femmes
2. Just Before The Evening 4:02 – 05/04/1991 McCabe’s Boulder, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, Gerry Cavagnaro, archangel Wooten, Rob Galloway
Songwriter/Composer Credits: histrion Emmitt – Leftover Salmon
3. Whiskey Before Breakfast/Over The Waterfall 3:47 – 05/04/1991 McCabe’s – Boulder, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, Gerry Cavagnaro, archangel Wooten, Rob Galloway
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Traditionally unreal by Leftover Salmon
4. Who Stole My Monkey 4:42 – 05/25/1991 Stage Stop – Rollinsville, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, Gerry Cavagnaro, archangel Wooten, Rob Galloway
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Zachary Richard
5. Mystery 4:19 – 10/02/1993 – Fox Theater – Boulder, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, archangel Wooten, Tye North, Joe Jogerst
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Mark Hallman
6. Weights 3:53 10/02/1993 – Fox Theater – Boulder, CO
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, archangel Wooten, Tye North, Joe Jogerst
Songwriter/Composer Credits: histrion Emmitt – Leftover Salmon
7. Dance On Your Head 4:12 – 10/19/1994 Music Farm – Charleston, SC
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, archangel Wooten, Tye North
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Vince bandleader / Mark Vann – Leftover Salmon
8. Head Bag 5:34 10/19/1994 Music Farm – Charleston, SC
Band: Vince Herman, histrion Emmitt, Mark Vann, archangel Wooten, Tye North
Songwriter/Composer Credits: Vince bandleader – Leftover Salmon
Check backwards for Part 2 of our Leftover river 20 Year Celebration featuring a clump more liberated music!
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