This Friday, June 1st, Two-Thousand And Twelve, we here at Daytrotter -- on the muddy Mississippi River in Rock Island, Illinois -- are posting our 2000th Daytrotter session. Point your browser to www.daytrotter.com and come celebrate with us.
We pulled out the stops and are commemorating the milestone with the debut session from country legend Glen Campbell. The Rhinestone Cowboy performs three classic cuts and the heartbreaking lead track from his new and final studio album.
In a symbolic nod to the sheer volume of killer, one-of-a-kind live sessions that we've posted since the site launched in February 2006, our 2001st posting is from the great Delta Spirit -- their 5th!
In celebration of our 2000th Daytrotter session, we are offering $20 annual memberships to Daytrotter for the next 24 hours only.
Coming at you from The Horseshack in downtown Rock Island, IL, Daytrotter brings you 5 new sessions a day, every day -- 140 Daytrotter session songs each week.
These fine people, traveling through America's heartland, take two hours out of their travels between shows to stop in for a session in downtown Rock Island, Ill. They use borrowed instruments, play with their touring mates, utilize an often unkempt toilet, eat some food and then cram back into their vans for the last half of the drive. What they leave behind is a pile of ashes, sometimes a forgotten stocking hat and four absolutely collectible songs - song as they are on that particular day, on that particular tour; dirty and alive
Recorded with minimal mic'ing, through discrete preamps and with some limiting, to the mixing console, they are printed to 1/4" analog tape running at 15 inches per second (usually BASF 468). There is no set formula or pattern to the recordings, and they are all live, no overdubs, straight to tape.
Here's to the next 2000 sessions and here's to the great artists we've worked and will someday work with!
There's a lot to announce this week,
after a few weeks of corresponding hiatus. First and foremost,
starting this week, 
Coming off a month in which we recorded nearly 50 sessions for 
The
craziness continues here at 
This
week begins a whirlwind October that, when all is said and done, will
result in close to 45 recorded sessions and two potential road trips
to festivals in New York City (CMJ) and New Orleans (Voodoo Fest) for
other sessions.
This
should not be taken as anything other than an inquiry from a
discouraged person. We here at 
Just
Tuesday morning we were able to confirm an exciting show that you're
not going to have to wait for. Like the Ingrid
Michaelson show about a
month ago, this one is a last-minute affair, but you have a week to
prepare instead of 24 hours.
We
had a last-minute show this past weekend with the always tremendous
Delta Spirit,
from California way. Those of you who were at Huckleberry's the
last time they were in town know this. We regret that there wasn't
more time to get the word out that they were going to be in town, but
we found out just a few hours before they were set to arrive for a
session that they were going to be here in time to play. They'd
made a long drive from Salt Lake City the night before and hauled it
east to make it so that we could add them to the Southeast
Engine bill. It might be
the best show in the Quad Cities that only 10 people showed up for in
the past five years or more.
Our
little hub here in Rock Island feels doubly cool on a day such as
Sunday when we have into the studio a young, local talent gone Los
Angeles in Lissie,
then a few hours after she left to go swim at the pool and eat
hamburgers we have one of Daytrotter's original alums and makers of
one of the coolest records of the year, Koufax,
by for the second session of the day, and last, to cap the day, one
of the premier hip-hoppers on the planet: Aesop
Rock.
Perhaps there's been this empty feeling in your stomachs lately as the Daytrotter concert schedule has been slightly bare for the greater part of August. It's all about to change as the shows are going to start up again and hit like a blizzard, like two blizzards back-to-back.
