Aretha Franklin is not taking any back talk.They were on a mission from God.When Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and director John ...

Too bad the group didn’t continue into “Viola Lee Blues,” which would’ve completed a first-set trifecta of the Grateful Dead’s Noah Lewis covers. Pretty standard takes on “Cassidy ...

Longtime improvisational staples like “Dark Star” and “Viola Lee Blues” served both as launchpads for Herring/Haynes virtuosity and recurring thematic touch points, popping up throughout ...

Instead of background, the tunes came to the fore as the conversation receded. The opening lyrics of “Viola Lee Blues” were compelling — a courtroom/jailbird saga — but it was the ensuing interplay ...

The Grateful Dead was so much more than a jam band. Throughout the decades the band was together, they experimented with everything from rock to country to blues to folk and beyond. They also had ...

I remember when we did the Rothbury Festival, we played that festival with the Dead and there was this version of “Viola Lee Blues” where there was about an eight-minute segment that was as ...

Below it, another photo: Freeman on piano, flanked by blues giants John Lee Hooker, Eddie Taylor ... “Have you heard of a guy named Al Viola? And Jackie Gleason! Do you know his album ...

Harpist Steve Bell and guitarist John Primer perform at the soft opening of Lee’s Unleaded Blues in April. Credit: Marc Monaghan Like a phoenix rising from its own ashes, Lee’s Unleaded Blues ...

Only “Viola Lee Blues” has any of the fantastic “this is happening now!” quality of a good Dead performance; only “Viola Lee Blues” takes you away as far as the longtime Dead fan has ...

And, as previously discussed, Viola Davis is Viola F---ing Davis. She put her whole foot in her portrayal of blues legend Ma Rainey and walked ... Billie Holliday, director Lee Daniels was hesitant to ...

23 at the Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville, Ind., started its Mershon show with “Viola Lee” segueing into “Workin’ Man Blues” and “Hell in a Bucket.” When it was just Weir ...

The first set contains acoustic material from the recently released Workingman’s Dead album but it’s the electric second set with an explosive “Cryptical Envelopment” and “Dancing in the Streets” ...