Backbone (band)
| Backbone | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Rock , blues rock , country rock , psychedelic rock |
| founding | 1997 |
| resolution | 2000 |
| Website | www.ocean-spirit.net |
| Founding members | |
| Bill Kreutzmann | |
| Rick Barnett | |
| Edd Cook | |
| Guest musician | |
singing |
Janice Barnett |
| Michael Ruff | |
organ |
Bruce Harris |
singing |
Nadia Deleye |
Backbone is an American rock band that was founded in 1997 in Hawaii by former Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann .
After the death of Jerry García and the dissolution of the Deads in 1995, Kreutzmann took a break and moved to Hawaii to devote himself to art. In 1997 he ended his hiatus and founded the band Backbone with Rick Barnett and Ed Cook . This was Kreutzmann's first own project. Both Barnett and Cook had no previous previous band experience.
The main style of the band was blues and country rock, which can be compared with bands like Gov't Mule and Black Crowes . Together with guest musicians, they gave concerts in Hawaii and along the San Francisco Bay Area (e.g. at the Fillmore , San Francisco or Ashkenaz , Berkeley , California ).
In 1998 the studio album of the same name Backbone was recorded, which was distributed by the labels Grateful Dead Records and Arista . The next few years the band was unofficially dissolved, in which the musicians devoted themselves to other projects, only in 2007 a new album was released called ... Still Nowhere .
Discography
- Backbone (1997, Grateful Dead Records / Arista)
- ... Still Nowhere (2007, Backbone)