God Street Wine in Asbury Park. Photo via ElmThree Productions’ Facebook page.

God Street Wine worked their way through the East Coast over the weekend, making stops at Ardmore, PA’s Ardmore Music Hall on Thursday, Manchester, VT’s Dead of the Summer Festival on Friday, Bridgeport, CT’s Park City Music Hall on Saturday and Asbury Park, NJ’s Wonder Bar on Sunday. The shows were the seminal jamband’s first since they recorded a new LP live in front of an intimate audience at Woodstock, NY’s Utopia Studios in March and the band sprinkled selections from those sessions, like “Ambivalent Man,” “Another Wonderful Secret” and “Night Bird,” throughout their recent tour.

The group also had a few other surprises in store fans. At the Ardmore, God Street Wine debuted a cover of longtime inspiration Steely Dan’s Pretzel Logic track “Barrytown” during their encore and they performed the tune once again in Asbury Park. Then, at the Dead of the Summer Festival, the quintet nodded to their surroundings by performing Phish’s bouncy Rift classic “The Wedge”—the first time they have covered The Vermont Quartet—and also introduced a unique take on Pink Floyd’s “Wot’s… Uh the Deal,” from the Obscured By Clouds soundtrack, with guitarist Lo Faber moving behind the kit and drummer Tom Osander supplying guitar and vocals. The band then reprised both of those selections in Asbury Park. In addition, in Vermont they busted out Bob Weir’s Ace favorite “Cassidy” for the first time since 2017 and, in Bridgeport, they debuted another tune from the Dead family catalog, Jerry Garcia’s “Deal,” and played part of “China Cat Sunflower.”

God Street Wine’s next show will take place at a “to-be-announced” venue in New York on October 30, followed by gigs in Woodstock, NY on October 31 and November 1.