Rock 'n' Roll Band

Tea Leaf Green

Overview

Filmmaker Justin Kreutzmann (son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann heads backstage and boards the tour bus for a behind the scenes look at the thriving jam band scene through the eyes of San Francisco-based rockers Tea Leaf Green. An artful hybrid of concert film and tour documentary, Rock and Roll Band contrasts rousing performance footage with intimate moments of private reflection. With fifteen full-length songs including "One Reason", "Morning Sun", and "If it Wasn't for the Money", music lovers can find out just how Tea Leaf Green has evolved to become one of the most important acts on the jam band scene.

Product Details

Release Date:	10/31/2006
UPC:	0662102105092
Original Release:	2006
Source:	Sci Fidelity Records
Sound:	[stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:37:00

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Tea Leaf Green	Primary Artist
Ben Chambers	Guitar (Bass),Bass,Vocals
Josh Clark	Guitar,Vocals
Trevor Garrod	Vocals,Harmonica,Keyboards
Scott Rager	Drums

Technical Credits

Kevin Clock	Audio Engineer,Engineer
Jeff Adams	Coordination
Josh Clark	Composer,Group Member,Art Direction
Jon Altschiller	Mixing,Mastering
Josh Miller	Photography
Ben Chambers	Group Member
Christopher Sabec	Executive Producer,Management
Scott Rager	Group Member
Mark Berger	Layout Design,Package Design
Trevor Garrod	Composer,Group Member
Joe Cahill	Lighting Design
Jessie O'Brien	Digital Editing
Alan Schneider	Management
Allen Baca	Assistant Engineer
Chuck Totlis	Monitor Engineer
Jeffrey Neuberger	Mixing Assistant
Aaron Shugart Brown	Stage Technician
Tea Leaf Green	Composer

Editorial Reviews

The acid test for a jam band is, of course, the live album, and San Francisco-based quartet Tea Leaf Green bill this one as their first "official" concert recording, disavowing an earlier self-released effort. The disc is also billed as the soundtrack to an identically titled and simultaneously released documentary film on DVD directed by Justin Kreutzmann (son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann). The movie captures the band's performance on May 19, 2006, at the Fox Theater in Boulder, CO, interspersed with interview footage shot back home in San Francisco. Many jam bands try to discount their roots in '60s psychedelic rock, but the members of Tea Leaf Green are unabashed about extolling their taste for it and for the '70s classic rock that grew out of it. Their music is reminiscent of the Dead, with certain caveats. They are one guitarist and one drummer short of the earlier band's instrumentation, which leads to greater prominence for keyboardist Trevor Garrod, and their rhythm section is more inclined toward R&B and funk than the Dead's. Also, there is little of the Dead's country music background in Tea Leaf Green. But Garrod, who is also the lead singer, has a light tenor often reminiscent of Jerry Garcia's, and the jamming, despite revealing a knowledge of both the Allman Brothers Band and Weather Report, suggests the Dead, too. Garrod's lyrics are full of nature imagery and vague philosophizing, with a hint of religion (two songs here mention the Devil in the titles), his primary influence naturally being the Dead's Robert Hunter. But the words are less important than the group's interplay on this date, and that interplay is infectious enough to please any jam band fan. [This DVD contains all the footage from the live performance.] ~ William Ruhlmann