FestivaLink.net presents Sycamore Slough String Band: First Rehearsals

Players:
David Gans (vocals, guitar)
David Thom (mandolin, guitar, vocals)
"Fiddle Dave" Muhlethaler (fiddle, vocals)
Roger Sideman (bass)

Sycamore Slough String Band is an acoustic quartet founded on a mutual love of Grateful Dead music. Instigator David Gans had the brilliant idea of holding the band's first rehearsals in a recording studio in order to capture the magic that everyone knew would transpire. The song list has already jumped the fence into other works, but the repertoire will remain Dead-centric for the most part. The Dead's "concerted sense of quest" informs SSSB's musical interactions, and a powerful vocal ensemble rides high atop those grooves. These tracks are a little rough around the edges, as first rehearsals tend to be, but the ground has been broken on what is already proving to be a fertile and fruitful musical collaboration.

Produced by Sycamore Slough String Band
Recorded and mixed January, 2012 by Jeremy Goody at Megasonic Sound, Oakland CA
Mastered in HDCD™ by Dave Glasser at Airshow Mastering

For more info:
Sycamore Slough String Band
David Gans
David Thom

Photos by Jeremy Goody