Although Kingfish was a band in its own right, I've always thought of this as a Bob Weir side project. This one is as good as his first solo album (Ace) and is probably more diverse. Highlights are tracks 1-3, 8 (another reminder that Weir could really sing those cowboy songs), and 10, but the whole album hangs together pretty well.
"The Grateful Dead isn't an event, it's a process," guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Jerry Garcia once quipped of the band he cofounded and led until his 1995 death. For 30 years, the Bay Area-based group fearlessly meandered the musical - and geographical - map. Beginning in 1965 as the Warlocks, a prototypical psychedelic band playing Ken Kesey's Acid Tests, the Grateful Dead explored roots music, including blues, country and folk; toasted early rock 'n 'rollers (covering Chuck Berry… more »
