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Fight for Your Mind

After Harper's well-received debut, Welcome to the Cruel World, he expanded on his fanbase by touring relentlessly with jam bands like Dave Matthews Band.

Perpetual Groove

Perpetual Groove (or PGroove) was an American jam band that originated in 1997 in Savannah, Georgia.

Save His Soul

Save His Soul is the third studio album by American jam band Blues Traveler, released on April 6, 1993 (see 1993 in music).

Shannon Birchall

Shannon Birchall is an Australian born musician, probably best known as the bassist for jam band the John Butler Trio.

Solano Avenue

Various live bands, most local, have played sets at the Stroll, with notable past musicians including RatDog drummer/Primus co-founder Jay Lane (with jam side project Alphabet Soup) and Marc Biedermann (founder of Blind Illusion, and former bassist for thrash metal band Heathen).

Songlines Live

Songlines Live is the second commercially released live recording and first DVD by American jam band The Derek Trucks Band, released in 2006 (see 2006 in music).

Todd Phillips

Phillips' documentary film Bittersweet Motel centered on the jam band Phish, it covered the band's summer and fall 1997 tours, plus footage from their 1998 spring tour of Europe.

Warts and All: Volume 1

Warts and All: Volume 1 is the first volume in a collection of commercially released, full-concert live albums by the American jam band moe. It was recorded live on February 28, 2001 at the Scranton Cultural Center in Scranton, Pennsylvania.


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James Gadson

He has a brief appearance in the Adam Sandler 2009 movie Funny People as a member of the jam band that Sandler's character hires to play with him.

Jeff Mattson

A founding member of the jam band, the Zen Tricksters, and guitarist in the Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson, which features the Grateful Dead’s Donna Jean Godchaux, Mattson was named the permanent lead guitarist for Dark Star Orchestra.

Kenny Cox

During the 1980s he formed the Detroit-based Guerilla Jam Band, a group which performed with Regina Carter, James Carter, Tani Tabbal, and Craig Taborn.

Kirklevington Country Club

Terry Reid, Simple Minds, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Buddy Guy, Paul Young, The Alan Bown Set, Goldie & The Gingerbreads, Jimmy James and the Vagabonds, Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band, Spooky Tooth, the Jeff Beck Group (feat. Rod "The Mod" Stewart and Ronnie Wood) Chris Rea, Paul Rodgers, David Coverdale, Dire Straits, Marc Almond / Soft Cell etc. many of whom went on to superstardom.

Low vs Diamond

Outside of typical jam band influences such as Dave Matthews and Phish, the group were influenced by a diversity of artists, including David Bowie, Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Serge Gainsbourg, and Air.

Owl Studios

After the success of the label's initial group of artists, Owl Studios began to branch out to sign artists from outside the Indianapolis area, including Chicago guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque and his jam band project Garaj Mahal, Chicago trumpet player Pharez Whitted, as well as New York City groups Bill Moring & Way Out East, and the Rick Germanson Trio, among others.

Pete Kovachevich

Kindred Spirit enjoyed the endorsement and played with several NYC jam band scene Illuminati including God Street Wine, The Authority, Spin Doctors, Widespread Panic, Phish, The Worms, The Jono Manson Band, Xanax 25, Milo Z, Comfort, Blues Traveler, Gov't Mule, The Dreyer Bros, The Choosy Mothers, innerSoul.

Peter Francis

Pete Francis Heimbold (born 1981), aka Pete Francis, former guitarist and vocalist for the American jam band Dispatch

Sea and Sand

The song was memorably treated by keyboardist Page McConnell of the jam band Phish in their 1995 concert album, Phish: New Year's Eve 1995 - Live at Madison Square Garden.

The Earth Will Swallow You

The Earth Will Swallow You is a film by brothers Geoffrey and Christopher Hanson detailing the summer 2000 tour of Athens, Georgia-based jam band Widespread Panic, though a substantial portion of the film is behind-the-scenes footage of studio sessions, travelling, and interviews.