From "Yahoo News":YASEATTLE (Reuters) - State troopers arrested Blues Traveler lead singer John Popper after finding handguns, rifles, a switchblade knife and drugs inside his car after it was stopped for speeding, officials said on Thursday.One may wonder when a man has 30 pockets.[YA]http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070309/music_nm/popper_dc;_ylt=Ah8HaRXaLRhPMS5DDqTY06CVEhkF
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Blues Traveler currently reside in the "Where are they now" file, but travel back with me to 1995. Blues Traveler was a cross-format smash, and you couldn't turn around without hearing one of their songs: either "Run Around" or "Hook," both of which were irresistible pop rock gems. I kinda liked the whole meta-songwriting thing going on in "Hook": the whole first verse is about how he can pu...
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John Popper, the harmonica playing frontman for the band Blues Traveler, was arrested near Spokane, Washington today when the vehicle he owned (and was a passenger in at the time) was clocked at 111 mph.A police dog searched the vehicle, finding numerous hidden compartments. Inside those compartments were four rifles, nine handguns and a switchblade knife. They also found a Taser and night visi...
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A few of you may remember "John Popper being pulled over and arrested earlier this year":http://mog.com/Sturgell/blog_post/49994, when police found the inside of his car looking like Suge Knights office. Well Popper appears to be off the hook on this one, when a judge granted a conditional dismissal of the marijuana charges. The misdemeanor marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges will be dropp...
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After twenty years and twelve albums -- eight studio, four live -- the poppy blues-rock jam-band best remembered for their long-lived radio single "Run-Around" sought to bring the spontaneity of their stage playing into the recording studio. Forsaking their usual pre-production regimen of scripted arrangements, their latest songs were fleshed out as a group in the studio, hoping to capture the ...
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Photos of Blues Traveler, 10.31.08, Bogarts, Cincinnati, OH:http://www.cincygroove.com/?q=node/779Scott
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On an evening when the attention of an entire city - and most of the Northeast - was turned to a small baseball game in the Bronx, jamband veterans Blues Traveler returned home to The Filmore New York at Irving Plaza for the first time in over a year. For over two hours, the band treated the packed house to classic covers, special guests, and their own hit singles.Mixing Sublime’s, What I’ve
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Twenty Below Zero Wind-Chill reminds me...hey, I really miss Summer. So I dug out my old Summer music, which always included Blues Traveler, to try to warm myself up. BT brings back memories from the old HORDE Fest road trips, and smoking. Those days are gone, now, as I have quit both smoking and having friends. Ah, the music is working, I can feel my fingertips again.
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After over 20 years on the scene, Blues Traveler is no stranger to the album-release party. Listening to their latest effort, "North Hollywood Shootout" released on Verve Forecast, there's no denying that the group knows what they're doing. This album hits the shelves a year after "Cover Yourself"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the MCMB website for full links, free music, great vi...
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Another week, another new contributor. Please welcome Kevin Smallwood to the team. Kevin will cover the Washington D.C. area for us.The tie-dye shirts over the merchandise table dated most fans rolling into the State Theater in Falls Church, Virginia on Monday night. Over the course of their 21 year history, Blues Traveler has remained uniquely relevant yet sometimes an abstemious participant i...
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When John Popper isn't busy getting arrested on gun and taser charges , covering Paula Abdul or playing a socially repugnant character on Z-Rock , he's still out there blowing the bejesus out of his harmonica. Here's some footage from earlier this year of Popper shredding a harmonica solo, if that's possible, on No Woman No Cry w/Ziggy Marley: Blues Traveler's latest album North Hollywood Sho...
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--- - |- we can remember a time, back in 1994, say, when four first came out, being pretty well taken by blues traveler, by big ol' john popper & his harmonica & and his surprisingly fluent singing style. the affair lasted but what now feels like a fleeting moment - long enough, though, to take in a show one year at the h.o.r.d.e. festival, the very first festival of our career, in fact - and ...
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This is the pop-up video version of the 1997 video…
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Last Week’s Sauce is a recurring column featuring recordings of shows from the previous week. Thanks to tgaikdis for this week’s photo.This week I wanted to add a theme to the selections as I did when we did an All-Bonnaroo edition. Last week ScottyB ran a great list of touring jambands that didn’t make it out of the 2000’s. The five groups featured in this piece are jambands that are inde
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This song comes off a 1979 album by the Charlie Daniels Band titled Million Mile Reflections. Vassar Clements also deserves some songwriting credit, as he wrote the fiddle hook (basically) in his tune Lonesome Fiddle Blues.For such a popular song, there are not a whole lot of real covers out there. Because of this, I’ve decided to include two renditions where the artist has made some slight cha.
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