Blue Light Rain (1998)

About this title: Even in their dreams, the Grateful Dead never sounded this good. With a rhythm section made up of two electric jazz legends, bassist Alphonso Johnson and drum god Billy Cobham, this quartet uses the Dead's music as a starting point, then takes off to places unimagined by the great unwashed mass of Deadheads. Dixie Dregs founder T. Lavitz sits in the organ and keyboard chair, while guitar wunderkind Jimmy Herring steps to the front to take fusion guitar to heights unreached since Al Di Meola left Return to Forever. Looking like the Allmans' little brother, Herring moves from looping lines ... read more

Tracks:

1. Crazy Fingers [Garcia/Hunter]
2. Unbroken Chain [Lesh/Peterson]
3. Scarlet Begonias [Garcia/Hunter]
4. Dark Star [Garcia/Hart/Kreutzm]
5. Red Baron [Cobham]
6. King Solomon's Marbles [Lesh/Kreutzmann/Har]
7. Blues for Allah Medley: Help on the Way/Slipknot/Franklin's Tower/Spira [Garcia/Hunter/Godch]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.