re: Anders Osborne+North Mississippi All Stars 2015 tour (BR 3/26)

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JAMBASE: Your annual holiday shows are coming up this weekend. What can folks expect?

AO: It’ll be a nice mixture. I try to play enough of my songs and the things people expect at my shows, but I also try to utilize the guests. We keep up a theme of some sort, or make up some sort of theme involving the artists there -- maybe one is something silly like “I am a lonely wolf howling at the cajun moon,” you know? We’ll work it off the setlist, that’s what we like to do.

It’ll be two sets. I have a feeling we’re going to start the first set a little bit stripped down just to give folks a dynamic evening and not just do straightforward electric the whole time. I’m such a fan of all these people guesting.

JAMBASE: And you’ve played with them all before?

AO: Yep, I have. I really am such a huge fan of all these guys.

JAMBASE: Turning to your own band, it seems like you’re continuing with a somewhat fluid lineup. You have your core players and sometimes you expand with Scott Metzger or another guitar or add keys. Is it the plan to keep it fluid? Do you see settling into a permanent lineup?

AO: I love bands and I love putting together a core situation -- you can get a good-sounding performance. Unfortunately I think I have to be flexible. I go out with a band, but then I might get an opportunity to do something solo or play with Phil or play with somebody else, and then the band is left sitting at home and they have to get some work. So I think it all depends on availability.

Carl [Dufresne] has been on bass for me for a relatively long time, and unless he’s looking for a change himself, I have no plans to change him out. On drums it’s been between Tony [Leone] and Eric [Bolivar] and Brady Blade -- those are the guys I work off of depending on who is available. I got Scott on guitar -- Scott, I think is just an amazing guitar player. He adds so much texture and his chops are fantastic. On keys, it’s Jason Crosby or John Gros or Marco Benevento, and I’ve used Dave [Veith] from Karl Denson’s band on a few things, he’s really beautiful, versatile, big ears. So it’s cats like that. There might be a few things where other people come in but those are the ones I go to.

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JAMBASE: I always close this column by asking for a favorite sit-in story, either you with someone else’s band, someone with your band, whatever. What comes to mind?

AO: I have a favorite one, for various reasons. I’ve been a big Little Feat fan and friends with those guys for a long time -- Richie Hayward, bless his soul, Paul, and those cats for many years. But over the years seeing them, I was always messed up -- I didn’t quite have my stuff together. Well, at the Bayou Boogaloo [in 2009], for the first time I was asked by the guys to come sit in and close out their show. I got to play on “Dixie Chicken” and the encore and all this stuff and I took a bow with those cats.

I remember feeling this blessed feeling you get in sobriety when you know that some of the promises, when they come true, will be great. That was one of those very special moments. I knew that something had changed -- I had changed, I was on the right track, and mentors of mine that I had looked up to since I was a teenager started to pay attention to me as a sober man. So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

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I'll be down by the river brah

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Meet me on the neutral ground at setbreak for some whippets

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Upperline

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People on his facebook fan club page have been praising a new somg called mississippi, so i hope he plays that.

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Posted by HeadyBrosevelt quote: I'll be down by the river brah Meet me on the neutral ground at setbreak for some whippets

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Mississippi

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