1/31/2024 0 Comments Grateful dead album art fonts![]() ![]() This is the Grateful Dead done in Town Mountain’s hard drivin’ style filled with a honky tonk edge and barroom swagger. “It seemed only fitting for Town Mountain to pay respect to some musical heroes in this year, their 50th year of existence.” They recorded an impromptu set of two of their favorite songs from the Grateful Dead’s catalog, “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” and “Big River” at the widely acclaimed Echo Mountain Recording Studios in their hometown of Asheville, NC. “Each member of this band has enjoyed the music of the Grateful Dead for quite some time,” says vocalist and guitarist Robert Greer. “Wow, I like these hard-core acoustic honky-tonk takes on two Grateful Dead favorites!” –David Gans, musician and co-author of This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead.”ĪSHEVILLE, NC - Town Mountain is excited to announce the independent release of Town Mountain: The Dead Session on Friday, November 13, 2015. Town Mountain recorded bluegrass versions of two of their favorite Grateful Dead songsįeatures “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” & “Big River” To Honor the Grateful Dead in the year of the band’s 50th Anniversary Town Mountain to Release Renditions of two Grateful Dead Tunes ~ Bluegrass with Swagger There is a lyric in the Grateful Dead’s Uncle John’s Band that goes, “It’s the same story the crow told me it’s the only one he knows.”Īlso there was this album art once upon a time, so the crow appears here and there in Grateful Dead imagery although it never quite caught on like the icons you already know.Ī video and more details on the band and the forthcoming record are below, written in the fabulous press release by Erin Scholze, Dreamspider Publicity, an old friend of mine and another female business owner carving her own way in this scene. Asheville has a really active music community and although WNCW isn’t an Asheville station, the two are pretty intertwined.) I think the band went to talk with Martin one day about the upcoming release and showed him the art in progress, and he suggested a raven. WNCW is a major force in the Appalachian music scene and they do a lot to publicize music in that area. ![]() (Side note: WNCW is an awesome station – one of the few good public radio stations left and totally worth streaming from afar. With the scene set, I began filling in the details, but the last one came from Martin Anderson at WNCW North Carolina who suggested the Raven. I usually sketch the lettering in by hand before picking a font. ![]()
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