from the folks at Bob Weir’s Sweetwater Music Hall….
ON SALE NOW: the first annual Sweetwater in the Sun off-site music festival.
On Sunday September 23, at beautiful Stafford Lake Park Novato, we will host a full day of music, food, drink & family fun featuring:
–Steve Kimock & Friends with a VERY SPECIAL GUEST
–The Skiffle Players feat Neal Casal & Cass McCombs
–Jennifer Hartswick Band (of Trey Anastasio Band)
–Maggie Rose
–Jerry Joseph & Steve Kimock Duo
+ Kids Stage with Little Folkies feat Irena Eide and Retired Arann Harris & the Farm Band, bubbles, magic, arts & crafts and more!
Circles Around The Sun explore new horizons on the band’s upcoming double album, Let It Wander. Available August 17 on Rhino ( limited edition vinyl, CD and digital) it’s the first new music from the quartet since their acclaimed 2015 debut, Interludes For The Dead.
Guitarist Neal Casal and keyboardist Adam MacDougall (bandmates in the Chris Robinson Brotherhood) along with bassist Dan Horne and drummer Mark Levy recorded seven instrumentals for Let It Wander earlier this year at Castaway 7 Studios in California.
Originally, Circles Around the Sun (CATS) was only supposed to record a handful of Grateful Dead-influenced instrumentals to be played during the set breaks at the Dead’s “Fare Thee Well“ concerts in 2015. But the response was so positive, and the band was having so much fun making music together, that they all agreed to keep it going.
Let It Wander signals a new beginning for the band as they move beyond their original musical mandate of evoking the spirit of the Dead and fully embrace their own personality. “More than anything, what you hear on this album is a band growing into its own sound,” Casal says.
The songs on Let It Wander are focused and filled with imaginative musical turns. Horne and Levy form a veritable groove machine that knows intuitively when to tighten up and when to stretch out. They expand and collapse the rhythmic pocket around Casal and MacDougall, who pass melodies back and forth in an elaborate game of musical tag as they take turns adding color and shade from a seemingly endless kaleidoscope of cosmic sounds.
Among the album’s highlights is “One For Chuck” featuring a surprise cameo by Chuck D. The charismatic leader of legendary hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy happened to stop by the studio while the band was listening to a song they’d just recorded. He raved to the band how much he loved the music, so they asked him to record an intro. He obliged, and they dedicated the song to him.
LET IT WANDER
Track Listing
1. “On My Mind”
2. “One For Chuck”
3. “Immovable Object”
4. “Halicarnassus”
5. “Tacoma Narrows”
6. “Electric Chair (Don’t Sit There)”
7. “Ticket To Helix NGC 7293”
Immovable Object is available on Amazon or your favorite digital music outlet!
Thunder & Lightning ft. Phil Lesh, Stu Allen, Neal Casal, Holly Bowling, and Jay Lane The Grate Room Terrapin Crossroads San Rafael, California Tuesday April 24, 2018
Set I Alabama Getaway> sa West LA Fadeaway nc Dupree’s Diamond Blues sa The Other One> Pride of Cucamonga pl Stagger Lee nc Lazy River Road sa Push Comes to Shove
Set II Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo pl Jack Straw sa hb Crazy Fingers> sa Eyes of the World> nc St. Stephen> all New Speedway Boogie> nc The Other One> pl New Speedway Boogie nc Viola Lee Blues> all Days Between sa Band Intros
Scribed by M/P of FOJC – additional setlist help by happycat!
Always Grateful! (~);}
No video for set 1 🙁 but here is an audio link from our friend Seaphood Puddler:
Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band
Wanee Music Festival
Live Oak, FL Saturday
April 21, 2018
Phil Lesh, Grahame Lesh, Ross James, Alex Koford, Jason Crosby
Set I
Bertha>
Sweet Jane
Althea *
Shakedown Street * #
West LA Fade Away ^>
Samson and Delilah^
Box of Rain
Set II
Tangled up in Blue
Help on the Way>
Uncle Johns Band ^
China Cat Sunflower>
St. Stephen^ >
Whole Lotta Love^>
St. Stephen>
Not Fade Away>
Throwin’ Stones>
Ripple
* Neal Casal
# Tony Leone
^ Marcus King
Grateful for these folk:
Setlist scribe Mark Palmer FOJC
Photos Robin Stettner FOJC
