Bearsville Theater
Radio Woodstock Presents Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead in 7 Walkers with special guest Tom Hamilton of American Babies
Radio Woodstock Presents Bill Kreutzmann of The Grateful Dead in 7 Walkers with special guest Tom Hamilton of American Babies
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Doors: 8pm
Show: 9pm
Tickets:
$30 - General Admission
$40 - Reserved Seats - CLICK HERE
Legendary drummer and co-founder of the Grateful Dead, Bill Kreutzmann, together with funky bluesman and voodoo electronic pioneer Papa Mali, officially unveil 7 Walkers, which also features bass player extraordinaire George Porter, Jr. (The Meters) and multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard (Willie Nelson and Friends). They are stopping at select markets and festivals through out the country.
7 Walkers recently spent time at an Austin, Texas studio, recording an album to be released later this year. In addition to a brand-new batch of Robert Hunter (Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan lyricist) originals that were co-written with the band, the new album offers up favorites from the Grateful Dead repertoire, Papa Mali originals, and some New Orleans and Southern songbook interpretations. Overall, the result is a fiery and funky collection of tunes that quite brilliantly capture the unique collaboration between these two very different musical shamans.
Bill Kreutzmann (who played every show in the Grateful Dead’s illustrious 30 year career as well as The Dead incarnations since), first met funky Papa Mali at a festival in 2008. Bill recalls in a recent interview, “We first met at the Oregon Country Fair last year. He was the headliner on the main stage, and I sat there and watched him and went, ‘This guy's for real man, I like this guy.' Then we met, after that he came over to my trailer that I was staying in and you couldn't separate us, we talked for hours. It was just one of those natural things, you know? You can't plan it; You can't make it happen. And then we started playing together.”
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