Back in the fall of 2006 "Bushwalla and friends" started doing shows sunday nights at a coffee shop here in town called "Twiggs". The shows were Billy Bushwalla, Jason, Toca, Keith Benton, Andre DeSantana, and whoever else was around, doing fun songs, trying new things, telling stories, and having new and different openers every week. Jessie Payo, Tom Fruend, Gregory Page, Ainsley Henderson, etc all would play. Sometimes Billy would go out to tour and Jason would take over for him and sometimes the opposite happened. These weekly shows went on till about March 2007 when Twiggs closed temporarily because of noise complaints. The venue was changed across the street and the music continued.
I was fortunate enough to record most of the shows at twiggs during that time span, but at the time Jason asked me to not release the recordings because many of the shows had early versions of songs / early ideas / etc that he was putting together for his next studio album (which was finally released yesterday, "We Sing, We Dance, and We Steal Things"). Anyway, now that the album has come out, I dropped him a line asking if these old twiggs shows could finally be shared on archive.org and spread to the fans... his reply was "Go for it. Post away. Thanks for the nice words. ... Stay Fresh and enjoy the surf... -j"
So with his blessing I started uploading the shows. I'll post in this thread as more of the shows make it up to the Live Music Archive. Enjoy the music and please remember the Mraz / Bill Silva Management request that live shows are NOT converted / shared in mp3 format. If you would like help downloading / playing .flac or .shn lossless files, please read the FAQ / Help section of the Live Music Archive:
http://www.archive.org/about/faqs.php#Live_Music_Archive
Enjoy the tunes and go support the musicians you love and buy their merch, albums and tickets to concerts!
-Tyler
Edited to add:
Here is a running list of the linked shows so you don't have to go through every page to find all the shows. List as of 07/28/08.
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2006-06-25.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/bushwalla2006-09-03.sbd.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/bushwalla2006-09-10.sbd.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2006-09-17.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jasonmraz_and_bushwalla2006-10-01.matrix.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/AaronLeibowitz_and_TheGoop2006-09-17.matrix.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/ToddCarey2006-09-10.sbd.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/TomFreund2008-10-08.sbd.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2006-10-29.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2006-10-08.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2006-11-05.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/ainsliehenderson2006-11-05.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jessiepayo2006-11-05.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/bushwalla2006-11-05.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/ainsleyhenderson2006-11-12.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/bushwalla2006-11-12.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/SamanthaStollenwerck2006-11-12.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/ajcroche2006-11-12.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/bushwalla2008-01-20.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/jmraz2008-01-20.at831.flac16
http://www.archive.org/details/makepeacebrothers2008-01-20.at831.flac16










