Recent releases by The Sound Field and The Weight Band as well as interviews with band members were featured on the April 24 edition of Greasy Tracks.
Click here to check out an archive of the program, while a playlist is here.
Guitarist and vocalist Deborah Grabien, who is also the primary songwriter for the San Francisco-based The Sound Field, discussed This Moment Of The Storm — the follow-up to the band’s 2017 debut, The Bucket List.
Among a number of musicians who joined the trio in the studio during the sessions were guitarists David Lindley and Mark Karan as well as keyboardist Henry Salvia.
In October 2019, The Weight Band was slated to play an acoustic show at the legendary Levon Helm Studios in Woodstock, N.Y, To run through their proposed set of songs the night before the performance, the band headed to the basement of “Big Pink” in neighboring West Saugerties. This was the location — garnering the name due to the pink siding on the house — where members of The Band lived and recorded in the 1960s when they were backing Bob Dylan and recording their first albums.
Recordings were made during the rehearsal and the following night at Helm’s famed barn which led to Acoustic Live: Big Pink & Levon Helm Studios, a collection of classic Band tracks, some Weight Band originals and classic covers.
Guitarist Jim Weider, who was a member of The Band (1985-99) and drummer Michael Bram, talked about the new release and the interesting process that went into making it a reality.
Included in the program were some tracks from David Lindley’s catalog as he recently turned 77 as well as Humble Pie-era Peter Frampton material as the guitarist just had his 71st birthday.