Grahame Lesh, Phil Lesh, and Stanley Jordan | Sunday Daydream | July 21st, 2024 – photos by Gabriel David Barkin Stanley Jordan is one of the premier jazz guitar players in the United States today, known largely for his distinctive two-handed finger-tapping technique. His oeuvre includes modern and Latin jazz, fusion, and instrumental takes on… Continue reading “I’m All About the Texture”: An Interview with Stanley Jordan
Creative Partners of Highway Wolf: Amber Morris, Mick Hellman, and Tal Morris. Photo Credits: Richlynn Group Highway Wolf started the way a lot of meaningful musical projects do: with a shared love of the songs that shaped them, a creative spark between collaborators, and the instinct to see where the road might lead. What began… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview with Highway Wolf
Grahame Lesh – photo by Gabriel David Barkin The music never stops for Grahame Lesh. The website for the Marin County musician lists a slew of bookings over the next five months with his band Midnight North, a smattering of Grahame Lesh & Friends appearances, several shows costarring Daniel Donato, and a sequence of symphonic… Continue reading “This Music Can’t Be Stale”: An Interview with Grahame Lesh
Photo(s) credit: Cody at Vibrant Eye Photography For musicians in today’s digital landscape, content creation has become nearly as important as the performance itself. The ability to consistently produce engaging clips for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube is no longer optional; it has become essential to building and sustaining an audience. Gone are the… Continue reading How JamCut Is Changing the Way Musicians Edit Content
Alan Doyle – photo credit: Sullivan Event photography Long before the stages, the tours, and the packed theaters, Alan Doyle learned music in a kitchen—where songs weren’t performed so much as passed around, shared, and lived in. That spirit has never really left him. Decades later, whether fronting Great Big Sea or leading his own… Continue reading Alan Doyle Brings the Kitchen Party to Boulder: A Grateful Web Interview Ahead of May 10 at Boulder Theater
Photo: Courtesy of Julianna Photography Moon Magnet has always felt like more than a business. It is part artist collective, part educational hub, part studio, part event engine, and fully rooted in the kind of DIY imagination that has long made Denver’s music scene such a fertile place for experimentation. That spirit is at the… Continue reading Moon Magnet Rising: Reed Fox, CU Denver, and the DIY Spirit Fueling Colorado’s Creative Community
Gaining traction among the fastest growing projects in the jam band community, Denver-based indie psychedelic outfit Sqwerv recently played a much anticipated first ever performance in Los Angeles at The Mint in Mid City. Already well into their latest tour promoting their recent EP, Wonder, fans packed the house full for the night defined by… Continue reading Grateful Web Interview with Sqwerv
Warren Haynes has a résumé that reads like a fantasy guitarist summer camp wish list. He was a longtime member of the Allman Brothers. He played for several years in The Dead (one of the many post-Jerry Garcia incarnations of the Grateful Dead) alongside Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann. Haynes is… Continue reading A Winter of Warren : An Interview with Warren Haynes
photo by Dan Ward Humans are complicated creatures. We live in a world full of contradictions, guided by our perceptions and surprised at their fallacies. Enter the concept of music: a language all its own, with rules guided by outcome rather than convention. Just like learning to speak, novice musicians struggle to learn the technical… Continue reading Pennal Johnson Shares a Holiday Gift of Groove and Grace
There should be no debate about Grateful Dead alum Tom Constanten’s bona fides. The band itself treated him as a full-fledged member for a brief time. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Dead alongside Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, et al., and even Wikipedia lists him… Continue reading “We Sort of Threw Spaghetti at the Wall”: An interview with Tom Constanten of the Grateful Dead
