Emory Joseph’s Fennario & the songs of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter

NYC singer/songwriter Emory Joseph releases Fennario – Songs by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter this week. The work pays tribute to the songwriting team of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, part of the songwriting team for the Grateful Dead. Joseph enlisted the core group of multi-instrumentalists he’d used on his critically acclaimed debut album, Labor & Spirits: Tom “T-Bone” Wolk (Hall and Oates, The SNL Band), Duke Levine and Jon Carroll (Mary Chapin Carpenter), and vocalist Soozie Tyrell (The E-Street Band). The album’s also includes Larry Campbell (who was coming off eight years touring with Bob Dylan and who now plays with the Dead’s Phil Lesh), and drummer Dennis McDermott (Marc Cohn). Fennario’s twelve tracks were recorded in five “round-the-clock” days, at New York’s legendary Legacy Recording Studios. There are two guest performances, bassist Lincoln Schleiffer (on “Mission in the Rain”) and long-time Garcia associate, mandolinist David Grisman (on “Brown-Eyed Women”).