Yet again, NPR’s live concert series gets into “jammy” territory.

This Friday, March 30th, they’ve got former Phish keyboard wizard, Page McConnell, streaming live from the World Cafe on Philly’s WXPN at noon ET. This will be a nice treat to fans who couldn’t grab tickets to his upcoming (sold-out) show at the Gramercy Theatre, in NYC on April 4th.

The “Chairman” is set to release his solo debut on April 17th. It’ll be interesting to see how this album compares to his previous side-project with bassist Oteil Burbridge and drummer Russel Batiste: Vida Blue. I remember Page’s instrumental work with Vida Blue being pretty darn cool, but overall his songwriting tended to lack some sort of depth (perhaps a bit stinted after years of being overshadowed by the behemoth songwriting team of Trey Anastasio and Tom Marshall). We’ll see.

If you’re curious about Page’s first solo project, here’s a video EPK, including an interview and some audio from the upcoming release:

Page McConnell EPK [YouTube]

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Paige is a Philly native so it makes sense that XPN would push his new record.

Earvolution added these pithy words on Mar 29 07 at 11:39 am

What is a band without cymbals?

Fifty Seven added these pithy words on Mar 29 07 at 1:39 pm

What about the possibility of pulling out of Iraq, letting Iran invade and lose resources fighting their own kind,
and then come in and mop up the dregs?

nemoforone added these pithy words on Mar 30 07 at 5:33 pm

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