Music of Jerry Garcia & The Grateful Dead

Michael-Louis Smith’s “Take A Step Back” covers the music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead and will feature a diverse lineup of talented musicians.  Smith, widely known as a jazz instrumentalist and composer, got his start as a young teenager singing the songs of Robert Hunter and Bob Dylan in places such as Caffe Lena in upstate New York.  Inspired by a live performance of the band on his 14th Birthday at Madison Square Garden In 1991, he credits Garcia and the Dead among his earliest and most potent inspirations to become a musician.