Back the way we came, vol. 1, 2011-2021
Noel Gallagher
A clear midnight : Kurt Weill and America
Julia Hülsmann
June 1976
Grateful Dead
Fox Theatre, St. Louis, Mo (12/10/71)
Grateful Dead
The electric muse revisited - the story of folk into rock and beyond
Welcome 2 America
Prince
New York stories
Judy Niemack
Goats head soup
The Rolling Stones
The Montreux years
Nina Simone
The Sting variations
Tierney Sutton
2021
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Thom Jurek
2021
"Grateful Deadication is as sophisticated as it is musical in presenting this complex and sometimes speculative music as welcoming, accessible, and danceable".
d. 14. juli 2021
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Jim Hynes
d. 14. juli 2021
"Throughout his career McMurray has played in several genres and most find a home here whether it be soul, reggae, rock, jazz, or funk. In that sense, it's not much different than the Dead as this writer recalls an Etta James New Year's Eve date at Winterland in the '80s where she proclaimed The Dead as "the best blues band on earth." So, having McMurray do an ostensible jazz album of Dead tunes is not any further afield than that. And he clearly puts his own stamp on these tunes".
d. 19. juli 2021
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John Bungey
d. 19. juli 2021
"Grateful Deadication is a fun album, smartening up the Dead's quirky tunes and pushing them further towards the dancefloor. It's not exactly jazz - for that try David Murray's Dark Star: The Music of the Grateful Dead from 1996, or guitarist Henry Kaiser's splendid twenty-minute mash-up of Dark Star and A Love Supreme on Eternity Blue - bonkers but it works".
523 (2021 October)
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Charles Waring
523 (2021 October)
"Detroit saxophone veteran Dave McMurray - who's blown his horn on records by everyone from Bob Dylan to Iggy Pop - plied his trade as a smooth jazz exponent in the 1990s and 2000s but offers something with a little more edge on Grateful Deadication. It's a tribute to acid rock gurus The Grateful Dead and finds him reworking ten of the group's tunes, including a great version of "Loser" featuring ex-Dead man Bob Weir and raspy-voiced singer Bettye LaVette".
