This past Sunday, Umphrey's McGee guitarist Brendan Bayliss played an acoustic show at Teddy O'Brian's in Highwood, IL, in remembrance of Jeff Austin, the late mandolinist and Yonder Mountain String Band founder who passed away last week. Bayliss donated proceeds from the performance to Austin's family.
As JamBase reports, Bayliss kicked off the intimate show with a couple of tunes from 30db,—the sporadically playing duo he had with Austin—"One Man Show" (also the title of the group's lone studio album from 2010) and "Liar." The show also featured 30db cuts "Backfire" and "Susanah," along with covers of Phish's "Lifeboy," the Grateful Dead's "Sugaree," Crosby, Stills & Nash's "4 + 20," Bob Marley's "Redemption Song," Bob Dylan's "Mama, You Have Been On My Mind" and Umphrey's McGee's own "Cut the Cable." Bayliss also welcomed up his children, his wife, and his brother for various tunes in the second set, including The Beatles' "Blackbird" and "Two of Us" and Marley's "Three Little Birds," before wrapping up with Night Ranger's "Sister Christian," Otis Redding's "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" and an encore of the Grateful Dead's "Ripple."
Below, check out some fan-shot video from Bayliss' performance, via YouTube user Anthony Anderson. The guitarist will get back on the road with Umphrey's McGee for the band's summer tour this week, starting at the House of Blues in Anaheim, CA, tomorrow night. See UM's full schedule here.
