''Live in Colorado Vol. 2'' is an album by

Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros Wolf Bros – also known as Bob Weir & Wolf Bros or Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros – is a rock band led by former Grateful Dead guitarist and singer Bob Weir. The band plays some Grateful Dead songs along with other roots rock music. History Wolf B ...

. Like its predecessor ''

Live in Colorado ''Live in Colorado'' is an album by Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros. It was recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on June 8 and 9, 2021, and at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, Colorado on June 11 and 12, 2021. It was released a ...

'', it was recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado on June 8 and 9, 2021, and at the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheatre in Vail, Colorado on June 11 and 12, 2021. It was released as a CD and as a two-disc LP on October 7, 2022. Wolf Bros formed in 2018 as a trio, with

Bob Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead ...

on guitar and vocals, Don Was on double bass, and Jay Lane on drums. In 2021 they added Jeff Chimenti on keyboards. In June of that year they played four shows in Colorado with Greg Leisz on pedal steel guitar and a horn and string section called the Wolfpack. Songs selected from those concerts comprise the albums ''Live in Colorado'' and ''Live in Colorado Vol. 2''.

Critical reception

On '' Pitchfork'' Marty Sartini Garner said, "For Weir, rateful Dead songsshould be played slowly, with purpose and focus, 'an audio playlet that needed to sink into the audience's mind', as writer Joel Selvin puts it.... Weir's arrangements expand these songs outward, their scope and sense of majesty evoked by the horns, strings, and pedal steel of the accompanying Wolfpack ensemble.... Much of the album's grace is owing to the pleasant contrast between Weir's late style as a rhythm guitarist and the slickness of the band." In '' American Songwriter'' Lee Zimmerman wrote, "A five-piece brass and violin section add a sophisticated sound and underpin the jazz-like flourishes, all of which are immaculately rendered even while staying true to the ambitious execution of the originals. In that regard, Weir and the Wolfs manage to stay true to the template while also taking the music beyond any original incarnation by reinventing them in ways that find imagination and intrigue well stirred in a contemporary context."

Track listing

#" Mama Tried" ( Merle Haggard) – 4:07 #"Eyes of the World" / " What's Going On" (

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, Robert Hunter /

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, Al Cleveland,

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) – 15:40 #"Terrapin Station Suite" (Garcia, Hunter) – 20:39 #"The Other One" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann,

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, Ron McKernan,

, Tom Constanten) – 13:40 #"Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:35 #"Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:04 #" Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:58

Personnel

Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros *

Bobby Weir Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, ...

– guitar, vocals * Don Was – double bass * Jay Lane – drums * Jeff Chimenti – piano * Greg Leisz – pedal steel guitar The Wolfpack *Sheldon Brown – tenor saxophone *Alex Kelly – cello *Brian Switzer – trumpet *Adam Theis – trombone *

Mads Tolling Mads Tolling (born July 5, 1980) is a Danish-American violinist, violist, composer and two-time Grammy Award-Winner. As a former member of the Turtle Island Quartet and bassist Stanley Clarke’s band, Tolling is today leading his own projects ...

– violin Production *Produced by Bobby Weir, Don Was, Jay Lane *Executive producers: Bernie Cahill, Matt Busch *Recording engineers: Derek Featherstone, Michal Kacunel *Post-production: Vadim Canby *Mixing: Elliot Scheiner *Mastering: Warren DeFever *Design, layout: Darryl Norsen

References

{{Bob Weir Bob Weir albums 2022 live albums