From the bluegrass/Dead nexus of the previous post, I noe move on to a sub genre of music as singular as it’s name, Dawg Music. The term is what mandolin player Dave Grisman called the music on his 1977 album…
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Dawg Music : The Bluegrass Jazz of Dave Grisman and Friends
Tagged with: bluegrass, Darol Anger, David Grisman, Jazz, Tony Rice
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Jazz, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“He took my twenty dollar bill” . . : Bluegrass and The Grateful Dead
My recent Grateful Dead listening phase has gone off road into bluegrass. My first exposure to bluegrass was in the early Seventies by performers who themselves were influenced by bluegrass. Besides the Dead, I remember hearing David Bromberg doing fiddle…
“Comes A Time” . . . : Dead & Company at Citi Field, NYC June 24, 2017
I saw Dead & Company last weekend at Citi Field in NYC and I have to say that they were great. I haven’t been to many post Dead related band shows. I listened to many of the shows of these…
Tagged with: Citi Field, Come A Time, Dead & Company, John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, Viola Lee Blues
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Classic Rock, Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
The Final Frontier . . . . : The Grateful Dead’s Dark Star
“Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in.” My musical roots are in what is now referred to as jamband and at the top of that pyramid were the Grateful Dead. There were however extended periods…
Tagged with: Dark Star, Dave Franks, Grateful Dead, John Oswald, Plunderphonics
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“I’m Not Dead Yet” . . . : Neal Casals and Circles Around The Sun
I recently played in a session for a potential new jam band project where a good part of the time was spent jamming on vamps and progressions taken from the Grateful Dead. Being an old Deadhead and having played in…
Tagged with: Circles Around The Sun, Fare Thee Well, Grateful Dead, Neal Casals
Posted in Grateful Dead, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“There were days. . .”: The lost final Grateful Dead studio album
This is sort of a continuation of my previous post. There I talked about the “missing” studio record that Grateful Dead never made as a follow-up to their classic 1970 albums Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty. The songs that would…
Tagged with: Bob Weir, Days Between, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
“Jack Straw From Wichita”. .: The Missing Third Album of the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty Trilogy
As the “core four” of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead play their final shows this weekend, I want to talk about something that I’ve been curious about for some time now. It all starts in 1970 when the Dead…
Tagged with: American Beauty, Bob Weir, Europe 72, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Skull & Roses, Workingman's Dead
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
Posted in Grateful Dead, Jam Band, Music Appreciation and Analysis
