Hard Line

Selections from The String Cheese Incident's 2014 Fall Tour - every show is available for purchase at www.LiveCheese.com


"Emma's Dream" - 11/07/14 - Philadelphia, PA

This song was recorded about a year after Pick ( my record with The Travelin’ McCoury’s) came out.   The idea was to push another song from the Pick album to radio and to have an unreleased single to accompany it and I had this song, The Drop,  which my wife and I made up while discretely drinking on the beach last summer while our kids got pounded by waves.  So, I pitched it to the The McCoury’s and flew to Nashville to record it.   Turns out I liked the song way more than everybody else did….  so the original recording of this song sat lonely in some dank dark corner of a hard drive.  After my Funk record came out and after the release of DOS ( Grateful Grass benefit digital release for the Rex Foundation) I began working on my album Vape.  The original version of "The Drop" didn't fit the vibe of Vape, but I liked that version so much that I wanted to find a way to use it. 

We recorded Pick almost live, with everyone playing together with me singing lead vocal.  Then the boys went back and overdubbed the harmonies. After Pick came out, I opened up the master tracks with the intent of doing an acoustic dance music record by creating new tracks around my favorite samples of that record.   (Similar to my record Dance which was my Laugh album remix ) but because we tracked it live, there was tons of cross bleed, meaning when I solo'd the bass track, you would hear fiddle in the back ground…. nobody wants fiddle on their bass track, right? Right. However, The Drop was recorded with each musician playing individually, giving me the ability to solo their pristine tracks with nothing else bleeding in, which is what I did.  In some sections I knocked the fiddle down a whole octave to sound cello-ish and ran the banjo track backwards.  I'm excited how it turned out and it has become my favorite track of the record.  On the increasingly rare occasions I have the opportunity to play with the McCourys, we dive into this one, which is often the most unique song of the set.  At least to me. Please enjoy.   Kw

03 The Drop

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I: M.E.M.P.H.I.S.-> Basis For A Day, Caves of the East-> Spraypaint

II: Jack Straw, Crazy Fingers-> New Speedway Boogie, Terrapin Station, Space-> Wharf Rat, Help On The Way-> Slipknot!-> Franklin's Tower

III: A Fifth of Beethoven-> Orch Theme-> Magellan (completes 4/16/15)-> I Know You Rider, Casey Jones

E: Going Down the Road Feelin' Bad

*2nd set with Mickey Hart & Bill Kreutzmann (Grateful Dead)
*2nd set, "I Know You Rider," "Casey Jones" & encore with Tom Hamilton (American Babies)

Franklin's Tower - 2015-04-17 - Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO

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Funky Town from Tumble Down 7/29/16 at Waterfront Park in Burlington, VT with our frends Turkauz. Purchase the full show at www.livetwiddle.com

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Petty Grass voice memos 

It goes without saying, that the past couple of days, have been strange and full of emotion. It's all I can do to immerse myself further into my music. I'm currently in the studio recording an instrumental record that I am elated with.  But yesterday, I was un able to put proper focus in that direction.  With the Vegas tragedy and the loss of a musical legend, all on the tail end of multiple natural disasters, I had to look to other people's music for relief.  Instead of recording, Jeff covert (my long time friend, studio engineer/producer/collaborator) and I, listened to Tom Pettys masterful songwriting and reminisced about the project we did together in 2015 called Petty Grass.  Bluegrass versions of Tom Petty songs to be played at a benefit that I do every year, the day after Christmas, in Fredericksburg VA.  The whole idea began by Jeff and I singing Tom Petty songs on pee breaks at the studio. Jeff is always a whiz at figuring out guitar parts and pulling harmonies out of thin air. So we brought in Jay starling on dobro and put together a set of our favorite Tom Petty songs and did them  Bluegrass on 12/26/15 at the Colonial Tavern in Fred VA to benefit our local SPCA.  The show was OK but the best part about that project was sitting around and playing Tom Petty songs. When we felt something we thought was close, I would pull out my phone and record it on my voice memo.  The next thing you know, I have 15 or so Tom Petty songs done Bluegrass in my Voice Memos.  Since December 2015, occasionally I will be out of cell service or simply be tired of my catalog that on my phone and pull up my Voice Memos and listen to the different ideas and recording's. These Petty Grass voice memos have brought me many a laugh. Naturally, I reached for these recordings in hopes of a smile.    I think the coolest thing about it is, it is the purest form of a recording.  The truest sense of raw. I also love the way we were extremely loose and not worried about being right, as this was simply a rehearsal and we were just finding our way and taking chances. We were sitting on the couch right next to thousands of dollars of recording equipment and recording this on the cell phone.  

Yesterday, we sat on the same couch and listened to all these Petty songs we recorded almost two years earlier.  Just for fun, Jeff started messing with enhancing the sound. It turns out, neither one of us knew how to mourn the passing of Tom Petty. So we just enhanced Voice Memos of us playing his songs and it made us happy. We hope that it will make you happy as well in this very tricky and difficult time.  This was never meant for release as it is riddled with wrong notes, wrong lyrics and a whole lotta other things that are just plain wrong.  But somehow, it made us feel better.  Please enjoy. 

Petty Grass voice memos 

Recorded 12/15ish/15

Jeff Covert Guitar/voice 
Jay Starling  dobro
Keller Bass/voice

HERE COMES MY GIRL

Keller Williams

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