StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Bonerama gets the Led out

This week, let's take a look at some videos featuring the New Orleans band Bonerama, who will be returning to St. Louis to perform Thursday, March 20 at the Broadway Oyster Bar.

Many StLJN readers will need no introduction, as Bonerama have been frequent visitors to our town over the past decade, most recently playing here in February 2019 at the Bootleg at the Atomic Cowboy. Since that appearance, last spring they released Bonerama Plays Zeppelin, featuring trombone-centric cover versions of songs made famous by the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin.

While some of the material was in Bonerama's live repertoire prior to the release of the album, as they've been touring over the past year in support of the recording, they've naturally been featuring more of it, and so that's the focus of most of today's post.

You can hear some of the music from Bonerama Plays Zeppelin in the first video up above, an excerpt from their show on May 1, 2019, just a week after the album's release, at Louisiana Music Factory in New Orleans.

After the jump, check out their version of Led Zeppelin's "Heartbreaker," as recorded in August 2019 at the Green Harbor Roots and Blues Festival in Marshfield, MA.

That's followed by two more LZ songs, "The Ocean" and "Immigrant Song," both recorded (though by two different audience members) in June 2019 at the Happy Valley Music Festival in State College, PA.

Next up, Bonerama evokes their hometown with versions of Dr. John's "Such A Night" and Louis Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World," also recorded at the aforementioned Green Harbor Roots and Blues Festival

The final video shows them taking the Happy Valley Music Festival to church, as they perform "Down By the Riverside."

For more about Bonerama, watch this video interview by bandleader Mark Mullins with Offbeat magazine, recorded last year at the time of the album's release, and read Mullins' 2017 interview with Drea Stein of KDHX radio.

You can see the rest of today's videos after the jump...