Joe Russo's Almost Dead brings its take on the Grateful Dead songbook to the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater in Vail. Joe Russo drums, and the band builds long improvisational stretches out of familiar Dead material, leaning on blues and blues rock phrasing rather than straight nostalgia.
Expect extended jams more than tight three minute songs. This is a band that stretches out and follows where the music goes, in a mountain amphitheater setting that suits that kind of sprawl.
