Grateful Blues: Delilah’s Dead w/Albert Castiglia
This is the first appearance of Grateful Blues: Delilah’s Dead w/Albert Castiglia at the Big Blues Bender.
2026A few years back, surrounded by the Las Vegas Dead scene, Bender Musical Director Jimmy Carpenter began thinking that maybe he had missed something important by not paying more attention to the iconic, original jam band. Bender founder and lifelong Deadhead, AJ Gross suggested he dig into the Jerry Garcia Band, which he thought would be more in line with Jimmy's musical vibe than the larger, jammier Dead. And thus, a new Deadhead was born. What he found was a huge amount of amazing music from both the JGB and the Grateful Dead. "I love the openness of the songs, the unusual chord changes, and the very different treatments of some classic blues songs. I love to jam, to improvise, and these songs are a new platform for me, with fans that dig the solos, the different twists and turns, the tension and release...all things that I love as well." The Grateful Blues will feature Delilah’s Dead, a Vegas-based, Grateful Dead-heavy, psychedelic jam band that’s full of surprises and our own closet DeadHead, Mr Albert Castiglia, putting their bluesy spin on Dead classics, and maybe some more obscure songs, from the Jam band that started it all, and its musical and spiritual leader, Mr Jerry Garcia.
