Photo: Dino Perrucci
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead took their affinity for the Grateful Dead songbook to The Refinery in Charleston, S.C., on Thursday, June 11. The ensemble’s most recent live engagement percolated callbacks to past plays and generated choice cuts that lingered on associated covers, nodding to Dead originals, Bob Dylan favorites, and others that reignited the spirit of the beloved improvisers.
The concert began with a take on Junior Parker’s “Next Time You See Me.” Its arrival ended a pause in plays before the group retrieval of Dylan’s “Tangled Up in Blue,” a sonic reference to the JGB catalog ahead of another piece from the Greenwich bard, “Tell Me, Momma.” Sister tunes “Help on the Way” and “Slipknot!” gave the players a chance to stretch the lengths of the compositions before dropping into Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns and Money.”
“Shakedown Street” merged with “Playing in the Band” as the first set’s final wave of songs. Following the concert’s official set break, the group took on ZZ Top’s “Waitin’ for the Bus,” before a long sequence of Dead songs that touched “Candyman,” “Bertha,” “I Need a Miracle,” “Terrapin Station,” “Throwing Stones” and The Crickets classic turned official Dead send-off “Not Fade Away.”
Kicking back into Dylan originals, the troupe summoned “Tonight I’ll Be Staying Here With You” as their stand-alone encore.
Next, Joe Russo’s Almost Dead will play tonight, June 12, at Roanoke Island Festival Park. Tickets remain on sale.
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