\t\t\t\t\tGrahame Lesh & Friends Highlight Phil Lesh-Penned Rarities, Debut \u201cShaman\u2019s Song\u201d at Brooklyn Bowl New York\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Photo: Marc Millman <\/p>\n
On Thursday evening, Grahame Lesh & Friends kicked off a multi-night run slated for four separate East Coast markets. The initial performance took the group to a familiar location, the Brooklyn Bowl in New York, where they delivered a two-set concert that floated references and nods to the namesake\u2019s famous father. This show leaned into rarities via Phil Lesh & Friends\u2019 2002 LP There and Back Again on \u201cNo More Do I,\u201d the Further-cited \u201cThe Mountain Song,\u201d a piece of Robert Hunter\u2019s crafted planetary lyrics on \u201cJupiter,\u201d in addition to a debut of \u201cShaman\u2019s Song.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Friday precursor officially lifted off during \u201cNo More Do I,\u201d played for the sixth time by Grahame Lesh & Friends following its 2024 concert debut. As a follow-up, the group tacked on \u201cCumberland Blues\u201d ahead of David Crosby and Graham Nash\u2019s \u201cThe Wall Song.\u201d \u201cJack Straw\u201d brought the Dead\u2019s catalog back into focus before branching off into Further material on \u201cThe Mountain Song.\u201d In time, they honed in on \u201cNew Speedway Boogie\u201d before a performance first for the ensemble.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In set one\u2019s final slot, \u201cShaman\u2019s Song\u201d emerged for the first time and represented a debut. During the initial concert announcement, Lesh teased the concept on social media, with the intent of \u201chighlighting my dad\u2019s more forgotten Dead compositions, playing the PLQ music and my brother Brian\u2019s songs, debuting music that my dad, brother, & I wrote together (much of which has still not seen the light of day\u2026stay tuned\u2026\u201d To that end, \u201cShaman\u2019s Song\u201d represented the key that unlocked a first-time play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The latter half of the concert saw a resurgence of Dead material, including \u201cSt. Stephen,\u201d \u201cThe Music Never Stopped,\u201d as well as a classic pairing of \u201cHelp on the Way\u201d > \u201cSlipknot!\u201d Also, flooding the set was Jerry Garcia\u2019s heartbreaker, a lovers\u2019 last stand on \u201cTo Lay Me Down.\u201d Along the way, they also included \u201cJupiter,\u201d a piece of Robert Hunter\u2019s planetary lyrics, which was discussed this week in our Relix-released conversation<\/a> with a family friend and collaborator of the Leshs, Alex Koford.\u00a0<\/p>\n The group also delivered a treatment of the Allman Brothers Band\u2019s instrumental \u201cJessica.\u201d The second set came to an official close after a prominent gesture toward Phil Lesh\u2019s Grateful Dead contribution on \u201cUnbroken Chain,\u201d and once more during the finale\u2019s stand-alone, \u201cBox of Rain.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Following last night\u2019s concert in the Big Apple, Grahame Lesh & Friends will play Unlimited Devotion<\/a> in Ardmore, Pa., this evening, Friday, May 8. Tickets<\/a> remain on sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Grahame Lesh & Friends Highlight Phil Lesh-Penned Rarities, Debut \u201cShaman\u2019s Song\u201d at Brooklyn Bowl New York Photo: Marc…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-224684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}