A taste from Warren Haynes’ latest album, Ashes & Dust: Spots of Time
Warren Haynes (Gov’t Mule, Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers) has shared a track from his forthcoming album, Ashes and Dust, recorded with the band Railroad Earth as a backing band. Haynes as we’ve come to know, but maybe leaning a bit more towards his singer songwriter side. That said, this track that is written with The Dead’s Phil Lesh has very much a Grateful Dead flavor.
I’m looking forward to the album, enjoy this fine song!
“There was a challenge for us, playing for people not familiar with what we were up to. But we were ready for fresh ears. We were hot.”
– Bob Weir
Grateful Dead concert video from April 1972 in Tivoli Concert Hall Copenhagen Denmark.
As far as I know this is a partial multi camera Danish (or French) TV pro-shot with graphics to fill in the missing video to make a complete show with great quality and great music! Not the full concert of course, but a very fine selection. The closing medley is sadly lacking, but can be found on the album release.
There exists a bootleg DVD with the full concert it is fantastic (many more glorious minutes)! …but only these 13 tracks were filmed, the rest is audio only.
The highlights of the show for me are Big Railroad Blues and Truckin’ (starts at about 63 inn).
Of course they don’t sing as pretty as CSNY–prettiness would trivialize these songs. The sparse harmonies and hard-won melodies go with lyrics that make all the American connections claimed by San Francisco’s counterculture; there’s a naturally stoned bemusement in their good times, hard times, high times, and lost times that joins the fatalism of the physical frontier with the wonder of the psychedelic one. And the changeable rhythms hold out the promise of Uncle John’s Band, who might just save us if we’ll only call the tune. Inspirational Verse: “Think this through with me.” A ~Robert Christgau (robertchristgau.com)
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Today we are looking at cover versions done by Jerry Garcia not with The Grateful Dead (we did a post with “The Dead”). He really knows what to pick, he finds those songs that suits his singing/playing style.
I like Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia more and more these days.
Jerry Garcia Band – Tough Mama (October 13, 1982, audio):
Jerry Garcia Band – Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power) (audio):
