A Trick of a Tale; Donna Jean and Company Dead Set On New Music

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Since the Grateful Dead died with Jerry Garcia, members have splintered and kept the spirit of the band alive through various projects. Add all those groups to the many out there doing their own Dead-inspired music and you have a pretty large pool of musicians keeping the legendary group's vibes trucking. So what makes the shiny, new ensemble Donna Jean and The Tricksters unique? Well, it's a blend of old and new school.

Featuring former Dead singer Donna Jean Thatcher (Godchaux) on vocals, former RatDog and Phil Lesh & Friends keyboard player Mookie Siegel, singer Wendy Lanter (Hope in Time) and the four members of the Zen Tricksters, Donna Jean and the Tricksters fuses primary and secondary sources, folks that lived the life with the Dead and the ones that try to do it now. The jam-band supergroup came together organically at, wouldn't you know it, a benefit for the Dead's Rex Foundation.

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A Trick of a Tale; Donna Jean and Company Dead Set On New Music

"I had never even met The Zen Tricksters until the Gathering of the Vibes in 2005," recalls Thatcher of her first encounter with the Long Island-b...

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