CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN TURNS ‘IMPOSSIBLE’ TASK INTO MUSICAL GOLD
When a bandleader in the jam universe needs a guitarist, they call Neal Casal. A member of Chris Robinson Brotherhood, a frequent collaborator with Phil Lesh and an alumnus of Ryan Adams' beloved band...
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CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD TAKES BROOKLYN ON A CALIFORNIA TRIP
Photos by Toktam Tayefeh BROOKLYN, NY -- On a cold, late-autumn Sunday night, playing to a Brooklyn Steel crowd that was quite a few tickets shy of sold-out, the road-weary Chris Robinson Brotherho...
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CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD’S PSYCHEDELIC TRIPS AT SHERMAN THEATER
Photos by Sam Watson/Recap by Michael Lester STROUDSBURG, Pa. — It seemed like at just about every turn during its psychedelic song-ending jams Thursday night at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg,...
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‘OLD MAN’ NEIL YOUNG’S EPIC SET HIGHLIGHTS INAUGURAL OUTLAW FEST
Photos by Jim Gavenus MOOSIC, Pa. — After approaching a guitar tech and trading out his acoustic guitar for an electric one Sunday night, Neil Young tore up the script. Literally. Young gra...
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NEAL CASAL ON CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD, PLAYING JERRY GARCIA’S ‘WOLF’ & BEING A GOOD LIEUTENANT
Guitarist-photographer Neal Casal is one of a handful of musicians who can lay a legitimate claim to having played one of the late Jerry Garcia’s treasured guitars in the decades since Garcia’s 1995 d...
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OUTLAW MUSIC FESTIVAL: SCHEDULE, TICKET INFO FOR WILLIE NELSON, NEIL YOUNG EVENT IN SCRANTON
Photo by Jim Gavenus The inaugural Outlaw Music Festival, featuring Willie Nelson, Neil Young + Promise of the Real, Sheryl Crow, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Lee Ann Womack, and latest main stage a...
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WILLIE NELSON, NEIL YOUNG, SHERYL CROW TO PLAY OUTLAW MUSIC FEST IN SCRANTON
Willie Nelson announced on Tuesday that the inaugural Outlaw Music Festival, featuring Nelson, Neil Young and Sheryl Crow, will be held at Montage Mountain in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, Sept. ...
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CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD CHANNELS ’70s GRATEFUL DEAD ON ‘BETTY’S BLENDS VOLUME TWO’
Any Deadhead worth his 1977 Cornell bootleg will know the name Betty Cantor-Jackson, the Grateful Dead’s longtime recording engineer who made the pristine concert tapes known as Betty Boards; if you g...
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