Well here's something you don't see everyday... a Danny Barnes torrent on etree! A soundboard, no less. It's the Danny Barnes Collective (Barnes ripping it up on elecric guitar, banjo, and samples, Brittany Haas on fiddle, the nefarious Mike Stone on drums, and Don McGreevy on bass) live from this summer's Pickathon up in Oregon.

01 Intro [0:50]
02 Sympathy For The Devil [8:58]
03 Things I Done Wrong [7:55]
04 Big Girl Blues [8:18]
05 Death Trip [7:39]
06 Lost Highway [4:14]
07 Life In The Country [5:25]
08 Face To Face [10:51]

Here's our review... set opens up with a space/devil jam to which Barnes lays down multiple samples and emerges as the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil". Oh yes, he does this song justice, complete w/ a bass solo on his banjo and the recognizable jam refrain at the end.

Barnes says "Thanks for happenin' to hear it", and immediately Stone kicks in the beat and the collective gets behind him for a funky, fulla-'tude version of "Things I Done Wrong," a great song from The Old Codgers days that apparently keeps getting longer. "Big Girl Blues" is from his new album... in this expanded version, Brittany (the wondergirl) shows us some sweet fiddle and Barnes gets in some cool licks on his electric guitar (something we never get to hear enough of).

"Death Trip" is the lone Bad Livers song of the day... just "another example of the big man trying to keep the little man down"... this version ROCKS!! Some might even say it gets a bit sick and twisted, like any worthwhile death trip oughtta, and concludes with a "Man of Constant Sorrow" teaser.

"Lost Highway" -- the Hank Williams classic -- follows in country/swing mode. "Life In The Country" is the superpicker of the set. Barnes then straps on his 'lectric for "Face to Face", which was our favorite from his Dirt On The Angel album and we have never heard it live. Only the mind of Barnes could go from a bluegrass hoedown of Life In The Country to the psychadelic, hard-edged intro of Face to Face, the tender balance of the song itself, and finally a sonic meltdown to end it all.

This is a great set for the un-initiated and Barnes freaks alike. Download the torrent while you can!! And don't forget to visit Danny's web site... he gives away mp3's there. See ya!