Spring seems (finally!) to have arrived in our neck of the woods. Regular readers of the blog know what that means: the Grateful Dead will be in heavy rotation for the next few months. No, I don’t know why. It’s just the way it is.
Care to join me in kicking off the season? “Box of Rain,” from the 1970 album American Beauty, marks the first time bassist Phil Lesh* is featured on lead vocals. It was also the last song performed by the Grateful Dead while Jerry Garcia was still alive, during the final encore at Chicago’s Soldier Field July 9, 1995.
*Lesh studied composition under Luciano Berio at Mills College. One of his classmates was Steve Reich.
