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Thursday, July 16, 2009
Videos / Opinion / News Daryl Hall makes a great host
Posted By Pete Stuart on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:08 AM
I really like this concept. About once a month, Daryl Hall invites musician friends to play music with him at his home in rural New York, videotapes the jam sessions and features the videos as Webcasts on his site, "Live from Daryl's House."
If you go to the archived episodes, you'll find some really interesting guest collaborations, including sessions with Nick Lowe, KT Tunstall, Chromeo, Eric Hutchinson, the Bacon Brothers, Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes) and the Doors' Robby Krieger and Ray Manzarek. In the most recent episode, which premiered July 15, Hall invites the Plain White T's into the studio of his restored Revolutionary War colonial.
You don't have to be a huge Hall & Oates fan to enjoy these online shows. The sound quality is excellent and there's some fun banter in between songs, when the artists trade trips on how to play each other's tunes. There's usually a fair mix between the guest's stuff, Hall's solo work and classic H&O.
As for the future of the show, there seems to be some question marks since it was reported this week on real estate blogs that Hall's 245+ acre property, including the guest house where the show is filmed, was for sale for $16 million. We'll see. Hopefully it sticks around.
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