Okay, last month we stumbled, both technically and performance wise, through the debut podcast. Come month two, we’re ready to drop the cream of Americana podcasts (from one of the best Americana blogs) on you, and our tech is prepped for the amount of awesome that you’re likely to find yourself listening to multiple times a week. I know I’m coming off like the Kanye West of the Americana blogging community, but I don’t give a fuck. I like fish sticks and I’m telling you, you’re gonna love it and you’re gonna listen to it numerous times. I feel that confident.

So, here is the tracklisting for what very well may be the only thing you listen to for the rest of this week:

1. Drive-by Truckers – Nine Bullets
2. Autopsy IV Commentary
3. Strawfoot – Cursed Neck
4. Pinebox Serenade – Woven Arms
5. Uncle Sinner – When Jesus Comes
6. Autopsy IV Commentary
7. Olin & The Moon – Call Me Up
8. American Aquarium – California
9. Eileen Jewell – Sea of Tears
10. Autopsy IV Commentary
11. Drag The River – Old Sad Songs [extended] (Lucero Cover)
12. Gillian Welch & Old Crow Medicine Show – The Weight (The Band Cover)
13. Scott H. Biram – Sinking Down (FD Session)
14. Jon & Chad (Drag The River) – Dancin’ In The Moonlight (Thin Lizzy Cover)
15. Autopsy IV Commentary
16. Grayson Capps – Going Back To The Country
17. Chris Knight – Enough Rope
18. Autopsy IV Commentary
19. Two Cow Garage – Should’ve California

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It’s lunch hour on a Tuesday afternoon and I’m doing what every descent red-blooded American that has managed to keep their job is doing — I’m using the company’s bandwidth to watch videos. Today has been especially good and I thought I’d share some with y’all:

• My distaste for Pitchfork has been well documented on my web site but today on the video portion of the net rag’s site, they’ve redeemed themselves for a week. Real-life bad muthafucker (sorry Samuel), Andre Williams is the focus of the documentary, Agile Mobile Hostile and PitchforkTV is streaming the entire thing. Go Watch It Now!

• By now you’d have to be living under a rock to not know that Jane’s Addiction has reunited complete with the original lineup and is gonna hit the road with Trent Reznor for NIN’s current farewell tour. The band has been quietly playing shows around LA and some of last night’s performance at the Echoplex was caught on video. Here are the links: 1%, Stop, Mountain Song, Ocean Size

• Where’s the Beef? Apparently, it’s all over the dance floor. Admittedly, the Flight of the Conchords songs have been pretty weak this season but their tune, “Too Many Dicks On The Dance Floor” is doing its best to make up for the lack. Feels like 1993 at DNA from time to time.

• Dan Auerbach, singer/guitarist of The Black Keys, was on Conan last night in support of his solo album, Keep It Hid. Watch it here.

• No video here, but did you know that Violent Femmes frontman, Gordon Gano is working on a new project? No? Well neither did I until today. Go check out their myspace profile.

• Finally, I was pleasantly directed to a Gillian Welch and Old Crow Medicine Show cover of The Band’s song, “The Weight,” by Muzzle of Bees. This thing is too awesome to just post a link so I’m embedding the video. I hope y’all enjoy it as much as I am:

Jacksonville’s Derek Trucks, 29, has established himself as the greatest guitarist of his generation: He’s a genre-hopping band leader/solo artist, key Allman Brother and while on tour with Eric Clapton a couple years back the kid named after Derek and the Dominos helped Slow Hand wonderfully recreate classics from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. Yeah, Trucks is the shit.

And so is his wife, Susan Tedeschi. She’s a feisty blues guitarist, an accomplished songwriter and excellent soul singer. Her new album, Back to the River, features her crushing on emotive originals – several cowritten with Trucks, who also lends his slide guitar fineness to the disc – steeped in the sounds of the Deep South. Tedeschi’s also a master interpreter of classic rock gems. One of the many highlights of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 2008 was during the final moments when Tedeschi joined Derek Truck’s group for a tent-raising rendition of The Band’s “The Weight.” I get chills and a smile comes to my face just thinking about that very special performance.

The skinny: Soul Stew Revival is an 11-piece ensemble led by slide guitarist Derek Trucks and vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi. The ensemble also includes horn players Kevin Hyde, Paul Garrett, Mace Hibbard and Derek’s younger brother, Duane, on second drum kit in addition to current members of The Derek Trucks Band: Todd Smallie (bass), Yonrico Scott (drums), Kofi Burbridge (keys & flute) Mike Mattison (vocals), Count M’Butu (percussion).

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival, 7:30 p.m. Mon., Dec. 29, Tampa Theatre, Tampa, $57.50/$47.50/$37.50.

Read my interview with Derek Trucks that ran Jan., 2007.

Here’s my review of the Susan Tedeschi show, Saturday, April 21, at Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg, 2007.

Derek Trucks Band w/Susan Tedeschi — The Weight (NOLA Jazz Fest 2008)