ABOUT THIS EPISODE
In this milestone 50th episode of The High Note, I welcome back Keller Williams to talk about his new live album, "Keller Williams' Grateful Grass Live at the Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Museum," out now and recorded during the farewell weekend of the "Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey" exhibit in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Keller shares why that night earned a release, the story behind his first-ever performance with Lindsay Lou on "Eyes of the World," and why the Grateful Dead's music hits even harder acoustically - a thread that runs from "Reckoning," the album that hooked him as a teenager, through The Seldom Scene and Old & In the Way to the current Grateful Grass lineup that grew out of Pettygrass with The Hillbenders.
We also talk about his Thursday, July 30 show at Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City featuring Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth, plus Keller's first Grateful Dead show at the Capital Centre in 1987, his memories of JFK Stadium in Philadelphia in 1989, his surprising pick for favorite song the Dead covered, and the unreleased albums waiting in the pipeline.
Keller Williams' Grateful Grass featuring Tim Carbone plays Anchor Rock Club in Atlantic City on Thursday, July 30. The tour also stops in Washington, D.C., July 31; Brooklyn, Aug. 1; and Essex, Vermont, Aug. 2.
Listen to my previous conversation with Keller and Steve Poltz.
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Paul "Dawg" Dixon wrote, composed and recorded the intro and outro music. The voices you hear at the end are Graeme Armstrong, Steve Poltz and Keller Williams.
