Luther Dickinson's 'Dead Blues' Featuring Datrian Johnson Proves Illuminating & Fierce (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Dead Blues Vol. I - On The Rampage with Don Lichterman

Dickinson’s Dead Blues Vol. I is a nine-track journey through the Dead’s catalog, each song steeped in the rich textures of Delta blues, funk grooves, and jazz-infused improvisation Source: The Grateful Dead Live: Luther Dickinson Reimagines the Dead on Dead Blues Vol. I

Luther Dickinson's 'Dead Blues' Featuring Datrian Johnson Proves Illuminating & Fierce (ALBUM REVIEW) - Glide Magazine

Luther Dickinson’s concept for Dead Blues is not all that implausible. After all, in the earliest days of the Grateful Dead, blues constituted a healthy proportion of their repertoire, most of which stage presentations were led by the late Ron ‘Pigpen’ McKernan.  And even as the psychedelic warriors morphed over time, songs sourced in the genre were regular setlist inclusions, both in original form (“U.S. Blues”) and as covers (“Smokestack Light…