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Phil Lesh & Friends jam into fall
As Phil Lesh & Friends wind down their Summer Jamboree '08 outing, the musicians are looking to autumn, when they'll play a couple of shows with The Allman Brothers Band and a gig with The Black Crowes.
Lesh and company, led by the Grateful Dead's founding bassist, launched their summer trek last month and will continue tonight (7/9) in Myrtle Beach, SC. A handful of dates remain, including two New York gigs that feature special guest The Levon Helm Band, as well as an Aug. 2 finale at Bridgeport, CT's Gathering of the Vibes festival.
Lesh & Friends will then jump to their fall schedule, which launches Sept. 30 in Columbia, MD, with The Allman Brothers Band. The two groups will also pair up for an Oct. 7 date in Pelham, AL, and Lesh's band will join The Black Crowes Oct. 5 in Alpharetta, GA. Details are listed below.
The "friends" on Lesh's current road trip include up-and-coming singer/songwriter Jackie Greene, guitarist Larry Campbell, Particle keyboardist Steve Molitz and drummer John Molo. The lineup debuted last fall on a coast-to-coast US outing that wrapped with a nine-show residency in New York City.
Lesh, a pioneering bassist who played with the Grateful Dead for three decades, has pumped out several live albums over the years, including 2006's "Live at the Warfield." The musician recorded the CD/DVD set during a two-night stand in San Francisco with singer Joan Osborne, guitarists Campbell and John Scofield, saxophonist Greg Osby, keyboardist Rob Barraco and Molo on drums. A few tracks from the record are streaming at Lesh & Friends' MySpace page.
Lesh's 2002 effort, "There and Back Again," remains his only studio album since his days with the Dead.
Since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995, Lesh has joined Grateful Dead bandmates Bob Weir and Mickey Hart in the Other Ones and The Dead, in addition to launching a solo career.
