“Palm Sunday” and “Magnificent Sanctuary Band” were chosen from the expanded edition of Garcia’s solo album Cats Under The Stars. The playlist showcases Garcia’s many solo projects, as well as two live tracks by the Grateful Dead – “And We Bid You Goodnight” and “Cold Jordan.” Longtime Garcia cohort David Grisman is featured adding mandolin alongside guitarist Tony Rice on cuts from The Pizza Tapes, with the trio working up “Drifting Too Far From The Shore,” “Amazing Grace” and Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ Heaven’s Door.” Grisman also appears with Garcia on selections by the bluegrass supergroup Old & In The Way. Inspired by and expanding on an official Jerry playlist, the set blends the traditional with the non-traditional songs that the talented guitarist performed. Early examples include “Oh, Mary Don’t You Weep” from a performance with Robert Hunter on at Brigid Meier’s 16th birthday party and the 1962 Hart Valley Drifters studio session that was issued that included Garcia, Hunter, David Nelson, Ken Frankel and Norm Van Maastricht performing “Standing In The Need Of Prayer.” Those tracks are among several others featured in a Spotify Playlist highlighting Jerry’s spiritual side. I hope it’s as fun for Kellen as it is for me! We’ll also do some bluegrass standards, some classic-rock and singer-songwriter stuff, and the Everly Brothers’ ‘When Will I Be Loved’.Dating back to the earliest known recordings of Jerry Garcia, the late musician incorporated traditional religious songs into his live repertoire. That’s fun for me, because I get to sing all my favorite Fruition songs with him. “For our AMSD concert, Kellen and I will do a mix of our original songs.
That’s the same club Grant used to play in as a member of Electric Waste Band, the San Diego Grateful Dead tribute band that is now in its 30th year. We met in Colorado around 2011 and Fruition and Grant Farm have since done about 60 shows together,” said Grant, who for the past five years has done an annual Christmas homecoming show with Asebroek at Winstons in Ocean Beach. “I’m a little older than Kellen and we didn’t know each other in San Diego. In 2014, members of Fruition and Grant Farm teamed up to make “Meeting on the Mountain,” a spirited, four-song EP. The show teams him with fellow guitarist and singer Kellen Asebroek, who grew up in Vista and now leads the Portland-based band Fruition. Grant will perform a homecoming concert here Saturday at the all-ages AMSDconcerts in Bonita. “And I usually teach at four or five bluegrass camps each summer in the U.S., the U.K. “I have a dual life on acoustic and electric guitar,” said Grant, who estimates he saw the Dead perform about 20 times before Garcia’s 1995 death. From time to time, Grant Farm also doubles as a Grateful Dead tribute band known as Grantful Dead, with Grant ably handling the guitar and vocal parts of the late Jerry Garcia. Grant counts banjo star Abigail Washburn, Leftover Salmon mandolinist Drew Emmit and String Cheese Incident guitarist Bill Nershi among his past collaborators. GarciaLive Volume 11: November 11th, 1993 Providence. GarciaLive Volume 13: September 16th, 1989 Poplar Creek Music Theatre. It neatly showcases their brand of Cosmic Americana music, a blend of rock, funk, blues, country, bluegrass and more. GarciaLive Volume 16: November 15th, 1991 Madison Square Garden. His four-man group’s new album, “Broke in Two,” will be released on June 14. In addition, he also heads his own record label, Grant Central Records, which has thus far released 11 albums. Grant has led his own band, the Colorado-based Grant Farm, since 2010. He went on to study classical guitar at Grossmont College with Fred Benedetti. “Although - honestly - I took up guitar when I was 14 just to have something to do after school.” “Those records eventually became a big influence on me,” said the younger Grant. He credits his father, former San Diego Union columnist Michael Grant, for playing a lot of early Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley records at home when Tyler was growing up. It was while living in Jamul and attending classes at Valhalla in El Cajon that Grant also joined the band Bordertown Highway, which performed a mix of classic-rock staples and original songs. And one of the albums we recorded came out.” I had access to Blair’s recording studio, which was right down the road from my family’s home. “But I got a lot of experience recording as a sideman in the Fhantom Love Horde in my late teens. “Blair was trying to shoot right to the top and we never played any shows,” Grant explained.