Trampled By Turtles Cover Grateful Dead’s ‘Brown-Eyed Women’ At Red Rocks

Trampled by Turtles covered the Grateful Dead’s “Brown-Eyed Women” during their concert Thursday night at Red Rocks. The bust out performance featured frontman Dave Simonett’s step-daughter onstage singing with the band.

“Well, we’re going to play this old song that somebody else wrote,” Simonett told the audience midway into the evening’s set. “My step-daughter Eden would love to come up here and sing it with us, if that’s ok with you.”

Trampled By Turtles and their young guest vocalist then played “Brown-Eyed Women,” which the band had previously performed back in 2015, including at the Dear Jerry: Celebrating The Music of Jerry Garcia all-start concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Watch the touching collaboration in the video below (beginning at ~9:35):

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1532219898?t=0h9m35s

Thursday’s setlist was made up of songs from throughout the band’s career, pulled from across their recorded work, including favorites like “Wait So Long” and “Walt Whitman.” Bassist Tim Saxhaug led the band through Bob Dylan‘s “Shelter From The Storm,” as well as an encore rendition of Prince’s “Nothing Compares 2 U.” The encore also featured Simonett leading a cover of Tom Petty‘s “Wildflowers,” which was followed by “Codine” capping the night.”

TBT also played new songs “It’s So Hard To Hold On” and “Burlesque Desert Window,” which appear on the group’s forthcoming studio album, Alpenglow. It was the band’s first time playing “Burlesque Desert Window,” which is also the record’s newly shared single.

Watch the music video for “Burlesque Desert Window”: