Kitchen Dwellers Play Dead-Heavy Set For Phil Lesh Near Albany

Kitchen Dwellers honored Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh during their concert at the Cohoes Music Hall in Cohoes, New York on Friday. The string quartet from Montana loaded their second set with Dead tunes for the beloved bassist who passed away hours before the Dwellers’ show near Albany.

Kitchen Dwellers — banjo player Torrin Daniels, bassist Joe Funk and guitarist Max Davies — along with mandolin player Silas Herman, who is filling in for an ailing Shawn Swain, launched the second set with “Here We Go” from their latest studio album Seven Devils before transitioning into Grateful Dead classic “Deal.”

The band capped the three-song seamless set opening sequence with the Hunter/Garcia composition, “Run for the Roses,” the title track to Jerry’s 1982 solo album. KD then got into the often Phil-featuring “Morning Dew.” Dwellers gave the Grateful Dead-covered song originally by Bonnie Dobson a grassy 12.5-minute treatment.

The upbeat “Bertha” emerged from “Morning Dew,” followed by the jaunty “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” and poignant “Brokedown Palace.” Kitchen Dwellers then jumped into Workingman’s Dead cut “New Speedway Boogie.” Next came “St. Stephen,” — a co-write between Lesh, Garcia and Hunter — which opened up the Grateful Dead’s 1969 album, Aoxomoxoa.

Kitchen Dwellers finished up “NSB” to wrap the Phil Lesh tribute set. Watch below:

Kitchen Dwellers launched the concert with a pairing of original “Covered Bridges” and Ola Belle Reed’s bluegrass standard “High on a Mountain.” KD welcomed guitarist Alex King and fiddler Matthew Rennick of opening act Sicard Hollow for a cover of Keith Alison’s “Freeborn Man” to wrap the first frame.

Official audio via nugs.net

Kitchen Dwellers are perfomring a Halloween show tonight in Jersey City, New Jersey. Scroll down for the band’s full itinerary and ticket info.

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