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Eggy AUDs (audience recordings) on Archive.org

Nugs playlist of song versions used in this episode

Here & Now with Bud and Fluff Pat Amarante Interview on YouTube

AUD recording from April 10, 2014, which includes Ella. The track names aren't 100% accurate, but they are correct on The Carton setlist!

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Nugs Playlist of Eggy 2025 Top 20 JOTY

Top 20 Eggy 2025 jams

1 (Brian) February 8th Minneapolis Shatter > Midnight Moonlight > Shadow > Shatter > Laurel > Shadow

1 (Justin) January 10th Deerfield N1 Figure It Out

2 (Brian) April 5th Atlanta Way of the Stone

2 (Justin) February 5th Ann Arbor Finding and Losing

3 (Brian) February 16th Eugene Boom or Bust

3 (Justin) June 18th Pittsburgh Shatter (the first one)

4 (Brian) June 14th Asbury Park Atomic Age

4 (Justin) June 28th Kansas City Wayless

5 (Brian) February 26th Salt Lake City Wayless > Coming Up > Apology > Shadow

5 (Justin) November 6th Dallas Sweat Equity

6 (Brian) November 7th Austin Woah There

6 (Justin) March 1st Boulder Buying Time

7 (Brian) February 11th Jackson Wayless

7 (Justin) November 8th Houston Boom or Bust

8 (Brian) April 25th Philadelphia Searchlight

8 (Justin) February 5th Ann Arbor Backyard Bear

9 (Brian) February 21st Felton Yuck!

9 (Justin) April 9th Raleigh Burritos El Chavo 2

10 (Brian) February 21st Felton Suite: Judy Blue Eyes > Hux > Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

10 (Justin) April 11th Charlotte All Wheels Turnin'

Top 10 Eggy 2025 shows

1 (Brian) February 26th Salt Lake City

1 (Justin) June 18th Pittsburgh

2 (Brian) January 10th Deerfield N1

2 (Justin) April 25th Philadelphia

3 (Brian) November 6th Dallas

3 (Justin) April 6th Charleston

4 (Brian) February 8th Minneapolis

4 (Justin) June 28th Kansas City

5 (Brian) June 14th Asbury Park

5 (Justin) February 21st Felton

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Audience recording of Eggy's Thalia Hall show on November 15, 2025 from taper extraordinaire and friend of the pod Al W.

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Four albums I'd recommend for anyone new to Bruce Hornsby: 1993's Harbor Lights, 2000's Here Come the Noisemakers, 2011's Bride of the Noisemakers, and 2019's Absolute Zero. Here are my notes re: the 19 Bruce Hornsby albums I listened to to familiarize myself with his catalog.

Slide & Banjo article (featuring a Mike Goodman interview) about opening for Bruce.

Audience recording of Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers from October 4, 2025 at Higher Ground in South Burlington, Vermont

Nugs playlist of highlights from Eggy's opening sets

Thanks, as always, to the band for their permission to use SBD recordings on this pod.

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Eggy's favorite Bruce Hornsby tracks on Spotify and Apple Music

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Eggy's favorite Bruce Hornsby tracks on Spotify and Apple Music

Eggy August 2025 Acoustic Trio Tour playlist on Nugs

Every Eggy and moe. collaboration from their August 2025 run via my friend Brian Wolf

Dani's recent appearance on the great Flowers on the Stage podcast

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Live 101: Eggy playlist on Nugs

The 2025 Jam Chart on TheCarton.net documents Eggy's best improvisation.

Here's a Nugs playlist of the songs that birthed this episode's jam highlights.

Amazing Leg 3 Jams:

6-14 Atomic Age

6-18 Shatter > Figure It Out > Shatter > Coming Up

6-28 Wayless

7-6 Second Step

Great Leg 3 Jams:

5-8 Must Come Down

6-14 YCCMA

6-14 Sweat Equity

6-18 Hux (Wit' It)

6-24 Wireless > Zugzwang

6-25 A Moment's Notice

6-26 Time Loves a Hero

6-27 City Lights

6-28 Evergreen

6-28 BubaGum

6-28 Sweat Equity

6-30 Shallow Rivers > Atomic Age

7-6 Mr. Blue Sky

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Check Eggy's tour dates and don't miss out if they're playing near you.

The 2025 Jam Chart on TheCarton.net documents Eggy's best improvisation.

Here's a Nugs playlist of the songs that birthed the majority of this episode's jam highlights.

Have you joined Eggy's One Stop Shop?

Amazing Leg 2 jams:

4-5 Way of the Stone

4-9 Burritos el Chavo 2

4-10 Queen's Gambit

4-11 All Wheels Turnin'

4-12 Time Escaping

4-12 Cassidy

4-25 Northern Lights

Great Leg 2 jams:

3-7 Carry On

3-15 Barracuda

3-20 Woah There

3-20 Time Escaping

3-22 Lost and Found

3-22 Trixieville

3-22 Way of the Rain

4-5 Barracuda

4-6 Searchlight

4-6 Northern Lights

4-6 Lost and Found

4-9 Woah There

4-9 Subterranean Homesick Alien

4-9 Watercolor Days

4-11 Shadow

4-25 Wayless

4-25 Searchlight

4-25 Waiting Game

4-26 Trixieville

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Starting at the 41 minute mark, Megan and Justin highlight female artists who have inspired them with brilliant albums in 2024 and 2025, including (with clips):

Brigid Mae Power - Songs For You 2025

Deep Sea Diver - Ways to the Deep Meadow 2025

Doklou - Choke Enough 2025

Daughter of Swords - Alex 2025

Muriel Grossman - MGQ Live im King Georg, Koln 2025

Sierra Hull - A Tip Toe High Wire 2025

Julia Hullsman Quartet - Under the Surface 2025

Muriel Grossman - Devotion 2023

Mary Halvorson - Cloudward 2024

Waxahatchee - Tigers Blood 2024

Hurray for the Riff Raff - The Past is Still Alive 2024

St. Vincent - All Born Screaming 2024

Brittany Howard - What Now 2024

Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings - Woodland 2024

Spotify playlist of the above

Mike Gordon's band covered Gillian Welch's The Way It Goes on 12-11-2011, and Time (The Revelator) on 3-20-2011. Live Phish playlist of the above (along with Phish’s 9-4-2011 attempt at The Way It Goes)

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Nearly half of this 72 minute episode is Eggy improvisation; think of it as a sonic "Watercolor Days" painting of where the band is at at this point in time. As always, special thanks to the band for their permission to use SBD recordings on this podcast.

2025's Here and How Tour: Leg 2 continues from March through April in the Northeast and Southeast; check Eggy's tour dates and don't miss out if they're playing near you!

Here's a Nugs playlist of the 29 tunes that birthed the 31 Type II highlights in this episode.

The 2025 Jam Chart on TheCarton.net documents Eggy's best improvisation.

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Watch Sean as "Mr. Silly Putty" in the band's brilliant 10-31-2024 "Waiting Game Show" Halloween performance in Atlanta, GA via the full video the band uploaded to YouTube.

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Artists and albums mentioned:

Weather Report - Heavy Weather 1977

Yellowjackets - Club Nocturne 1998

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life 1976

Pat Metheny Group - Speaking of Now 2002

Mike Stern - Time in Place 1988

Pat Martino

Joe Pass

Wes Montgomery

Also recommended:

Weather Report - Domino Theory 1984

Steps Ahead - Magnetic 1986

For the curious: the jam clip I include at the 46 minute mark (after Mike talks about the renewed focus on improvisation since Fall 2024) is a snippet from the 31 minute mark of the January 10, 2025 Figure It Out.

Watch Mike Goodman's Rig Rundown with Ryan Storm

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Brendon is a professional videographer and recorded full videos of both shows and uploaded them to YouTube! N1 delivers a near-40 minute Figure It Out jam for the ages, and N2 garnered attention as the band infused a jammed-out Waiting Game with Phish's First Tube and elements of DWD and Chalkdust Torture.

Thanks to Al W. for the crispy audience recordings used in the numerous jam clips scattered throughout this episode. Listen to his AUDs of N1 and N2 and peruse his catalogue of recordings on his Archive.org profile page.

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Brian compiled his 50 favorite 2024 Eggy jams and categorized them into five separate tiers. See the full list below! In a similarly nerdy fashion, Justin penned 170 entries in 2024 for the Eggy Jam Chart on TheCarton.Net. After 20 minutes of chat re: the state of Eggy in 2024, the guys delve into Brian's top two tiers of jams using one minute clips to illustrate what they loved most (starts around the 31 minute mark).

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Nugs Playlists mentioned in this episode:

Favorite 2024 Eggy Jams Tier One Through Three (each Tier presented chronologically)

Favorite 2024 Eggy Jams Top 50 Chronological

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Eggy's YouTube Videos Page

Eggy's Archive.org Shows Page

Brian Brinkman's Favorite 2024 Eggy Jams:

Tier One: Diner BOC Omelette 

3/22 Backyard Bear

5/4 You -> Atomic Age

Tier Two: Pork Roll E&C

3/14 Here & Now

3/14 Sweat Equity

4/12 Boom or Bust

4/17 Sweat Equity

5/30 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes 

12/28 Lost & Found -> Hungry Like The Wolf

Tier Three: Deviled Party Tray

4/6 Boom or Bust

4/10 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes

4/10 Farthest Step

4/14 Hux (Wit’ It) -> Subterranean Homesick Alien

5/4 Northern Lights

5/8 Smile

5/10 Portable Air Scrubber

5/10 Boom or Bust -> 12 Pounds of Pain -> Boom or Bust

10/16 Hungry Like The Wolf

10/27 Carry On

10/31 Southern Cross

12/31 Terrapin Station

Tier Four: McMuffin

1/5 One Stop Shop

2/17 You Can Call Me Al

2/18 Let It Rock -> Finding & Losing

2/22 One Stop Shop

3/14 Ruben & Cherise

3/15 Lost & Found

3/22 Finding & Losing

4/12 Time Escaping

5/9 Today & Tomorrow -> Skin It Back -> Today & Tomorrow 

5/30 High Noon

6/20 Golden Gate Dancer

10/11 Southern Cross

10/18 Chest Fever

10/26 Time Escaping

10/30 Way of the Stone

11/1 Shallow Rivers

11/29 Searchlight

12/27 Sweat Equity

Tier Five: Jimmy Dean

2/15 Boom or Bust

3/14 Kiss From A Rose

4/18 Sweat Equity

8/24 Atomic Age

8/31 Boom or Bust

10/12 Buying Time -> Birdland -> Buying Time

10/19 Ricky Gervais

10/30 One More Dance 

11/1 Boom Or Bust

11/2 Remind Me

12/28 Queen’s Gambit

12/31 Smile

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Here's a Nugs.net playlist from Brian of most of the covers and cover sets we, um, cover in this episode.

At the end of the episode, Justin mentions the great Flowers on the Stage podcast, which recently published an episode with Alex, following Jake's appearance in January. Both are recommended!

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Here's a Nugs.net playlist of Fall 2022 jams discussed, including: 9-30 One More Dance, 10-6 Time Loves A Hero, 10-8 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, 10-16 Tom Corn Walker, 10-16 Queen's Gambit, 10-30 All Wheels Turnin', 11-4 Tiny Miracles, 12-1 Shadow, 12-2 Bad Side of the Moon, 12-3 Onitsuka Tiger, 12-10 Wayless, and 12-11 Bureatles. FWIW, the 12-3 Onitsuka Tiger is the first Eggy jam Justin heard, and it more than holds up on relisten!

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When Jake talks about his new Frank Brothers guitar and Chase Bliss Mood pedals, I reference a Rig Rundown he recorded with friend Ryan Storm. If you haven't seen it, it's worth your time!

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Jams discussed (in the order mentioned): 5-8 Sweat Equity > The Windup > Sweat Equity > Chest Fever, 5-8 Smile AKA Toronto Jam, 5-9 Today and Tomorrow > Skin It Back > Today and Tomorrow, 5-10 Mr. Blue Sky, 5-10 Portable Air Scrubber, 5-10 Boom or Bust, 5-4 Northern Lights, 5-4 You, 5-4 Atomic Age. While discussing the drums and Chase Bliss Mood pedal with Scottie, I use a clip from the 10-19-23 Skin It Back in Cleveland.

Ryan's Storm Sound Rig Rundowns are worth your time! The new Mike Goodman bass rig video, the new Jake Brownstein guitar rig video (thanks for the Vice or Virtue shout out, Jake!) and the Dani Battat keyboard rig video from summer 2023 are all great. Ryan also wrote insightful reviews of the 5-8-2023 Toronto show and the 5-9-2023 Buffalo show.

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Jams discussed from Spring 2023: 4-27 Wayless, 4-29 Onitsuka Tiger, 5-2 Burritos El Chavo 2, 5-2 Time Loves a Hero, 5-4 Hux (Wit' It), 5-4 Burritos El Chavo 2, 5-4 Shadow, 5-5 Chest Fever, 5-5 Portable Air Scrubber, 5-6 Onitsuka Tiger, 5-6 Cassidy, 5-7 Finding and Losing, 5-10 Shadow, 5-11 Shadow, 5-12 Buying Time, 5-12 Burritos El Chavo 2 > Graceland > Burritos El Chavo 2

Nugs.net playlist of Spring 2023 jams

Justin mentions a podcast episode where Alex talks about the band finding cover song inspiration. Here's that episode of "At Home With Mark."

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Jams discussed from 3-14-2024: Last of Kin, Reuben and Cherise, Wayless, Sweat Equity, Here and Now, Evergreen, Kiss from a Rose

Jams discussed from 3-15-2024: Hux Wit' It, 12 Pounds of Pain, Lost and Found, Atomic Age, Finding and Losing, Smile

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Jams discussed from 3-22-2024 in Ardmore: Atomic Age, Finding and Losing, Backyard Bear, Let It Rock, Ricky Gervais

Jams discussed from 3-23-2024 in Brooklyn: Zugzwang, Atomic Age, Tomorrow Never Knows, Sweaters for Strawmen, Subterranean Homesick Alien

Parting shot jam recommendations

Justin: Finding and Losing from Nashville from 5-7-2023

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Jams discussed from 2-14-2024 in Columbus: Finding and Losing, Hungry Like the Wolf, Buying Time

Jams discussed from 2-15-2024 in Ann Arbor: Sweat Equity, Figure It Out

Jams discussed from 2-16-2024 in Lexington: Necessary Evil

Jams discussed from 2-17-2024 in Covington: You Can Call Me Al

Jams discussed from 2-18-2024 in Indianapolis: Tiny Miracles, Let It Rock

Justin mentions Dani's rig rundown from Ryan Storm's YouTube page; watch it here.

Parting shot jam recommendations

Justin: Green Earrings (Steely Dan) with Cory Wong from Jam Cruise from 2-29-2024

Brian: Hux (Wit' It) from Baltimore from 11-19-2023 and Shells from Legend Valley from 8-25-2023

Thanks to Brian for making a Nugs.net playlist of the jams we discussed.

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Jams discussed from 10-19-2023 in Cleveland: Evergreen, Skin It Back, One Stop Shop, Northern Lights

Jams discussed from 10-20-2023 in Chicago: Sweat Equity, Time Loves a Hero, Shadow > Carry On > Coming Up > Carry On > Shadow

Jams discussed from 10-21-2023 in Minneapolis: Burritos El Chavo 2 > All Wheels Turnin' > Kiss From a Rose, Watercolor Days, Zugzwang > All Wheels Turnin' > Zugzwang > You Can Call Me Al > Sussudio > You Can Call Me Al

Josh mentions the band's pro-shot video of the Shadow > Carry On > Coming Up > Carry On > Shadow from Chicago; watch it here.

Parting shot jam recommendations

Justin: Here and Now from 9-26-2023 in Missoula, MT

Josh: Boom or Bust from 11-16-2023 in Boston, MA

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Jams discussed from N1: All That You Dream, Today and Tomorrow, One Stop Shop, Sweat Equity > The Windup > Sweat Equity, and Finding and Losing. From N2: Sweaters for Strawmen > Don't Do It > Sweaters for Strawmen, Last of Kin, You, Boom or Bust, and All Wheels Turnin'.

Al W. mentions the full video of N2 posted to YouTube by Brendan Holland and the mini-documentary Second Step: Eggy's Return to Live Music.

Parting shot jam recommendations

Justin: 12 Pounds of Pain with National Anthem (Radiohead) jam from 9-22-2023 in Seattle, WA

Al W.: Burritos El Chavo 2 from 8-23-2023 in Amagansett, NY

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