Blues for Allah Project - Joe Gallant and Illuminati
My favorite Grateful Dead album is Blues For Allah. It's full of twisty instrumentals. That's my thing. Of course, one of my other things is interesting covers of well-known music.
Bassist Joe Gallant's Illuminati is a 20 piece sorta big band. On this record they key off of the improvisational nature of the tunes and drive them to their logical limit.
It's nothing but big fun. Honest.
(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)
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1 - Eric Olsen
Blues For Allah is also very near the top of my Dead list, although I probably value the deep Americana roots of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead in the final analysis, but Blues is deep and beautiful in other ways.