ALP has formally launched Grateful: The Music Performs The Band, a brand new 17-track album that options traditional Grateful Useless songs lined by a lot of their buddies. It comprises picks performed by acquainted names like Oteil Burbridge and Darkish Star Orchestra but additionally ALO, Doom Flamingo, and extra.
Proceeds from this LP will profit The Grateful Guitars Basis, a nonprofit charity that obtains world-class musical devices for individuals who search to hold on the custom of jam band music into the twenty first century and past.
Grateful options longtime and newcomer bands influenced by the music of the Grateful Useless, dedicated to increasing the group’s sound in numerous musical instructions – from stay grooves to Afrobeat to sultry synth-driven pop. However there’s additionally touches of classic Grateful Useless as properly, with a monitor from David Nelson Band, a former New Rider of the Purple Sage and longtime cohort. See under for a full monitor itemizing.
Based by Andy Logan in 2019, the Grateful Guitars Basis not solely serves to place guitars within the arms of musicians in the neighborhood but additionally helps music instruction in colleges to seed the following technology of proficient gamers. To seize the tones of particular eras of Grateful Useless concert events, Logan labored with luthiers throughout the nation to construct a library of fashions of each guitar performed by Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir from 1965-1995.
Logan then loaned these devices out to bands doing recreation exhibits, most notably to Phil Lesh & Pals at Terrapin Crossroads in 2015 and 2016. Logan himself additionally owns two historic items of Grateful Useless memorabilia – “Alligator,” a Fender Stratocaster Garcia performed by Jerry Garcia 1971 to 1973 (so-named due to a sticker on it), and the Martin D-28 with which he recorded “Ripple.”
“These devices ought to be performed, not mounted on a wall,” says Logan. “I wished to share them with the followers and gamers who’ve liked the Grateful Useless, in order that the jam scene is enlivened by their distinctive tones and historic significance.”
Grateful: The Music Performs The Band might be discovered on all streaming platforms here and to study extra about The Grateful Guitars Basis go to gratefulguitars.org.
Grateful: The Music Performs the Band tracklist:
1. “Jack Straw” – Darkish Star Orchestra
2. “Good friend of the Satan” – David Nelson Band
3. “Peggy-O” – Alex Jordan & Pals
4. “Candyman” – Katie Skene & Andrea Whitt
5. “They Love Every Different” – ALO
6. “One Extra Saturday Night time” – BERTHA: Grateful Drag
7. “Loser” – Michael James Wheeler
8. “Contact of Gray” – Doom Flamingo
9. “So Many Roads” – John Kadlecik
10. “Music By no means Stopped” – Cubensis
11. “China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider” – La Horsa Bianca
12. “Stella Blue” – Oteil Burbridge
13. “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” – Limitless Devotion
14. “Sugaree” – Brown Eyed Ladies
15. “See What Love Can Do” – Jerry’s Center Finger
16. “Darkish Star” – Afro Useless
17. “Morning Dew” – Darkish Star Orchestra
View Grateful Useless exhibits from throughout the years in New York State with our interactive map under
