![]() This is deep-space cowboy music, driven by song and improvisation, sometimes simultaneously, and the “group mind” collective jamming displayed by the quintet recalls the instrumental telepathy of bands with a much deeper pedigree, like, yes, the Dead, and the Allman Brothers Band at its peak. Robinson has made no secret of his admiration of the Dead, its ethos and its freewheeling jams, and he leads his band, Neal Casal (guitar, vocals), Adam MacDougall (keyboards), Mark Dutton (bass) and George Sluppick (drums), through all of the same winding, dusty roads the Dead made so compelling in its heyday. ![]() Robinson, of course, was The Black Crowes’ frontman until the band’s recent split. So Cantor-Jackson’s name on “Betty’s Blends,” a series of live Chris Robinson Brotherhood releases, is a big ol’ welcome mat for fans of the Dead and their various offshoot bands, and the music, which harkens to the Dead’s mid-1970s quasi-progressive “Blues For Allah” era, will make them mighty glad they decided to pay a visit. ![]() ![]() 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 got a copy of a Betty Board, you were like a religious pilgrim gifted a piece of the true cross. ![]()
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