Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann Announces '7 Walkers' Release

7 Walkers, the funk-rock collaboration at intervals Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann also Louisiana guitarist Papa Mali, enjoy announced the Nov. 2 release date because their self-titled debut album via Response Records. "7 Walkers," which is described equally an "open abstain letter" to New Orleans, comment a customer spot by Willie Nelson on the shanty "King Cotton Blues" equally well equally songwriting coming out of Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.

 

In the indicated exclusive video, Kreutzmann also the rest of 7 Walkers talk about the making connected with the album and offer a preview of "King Cotton Blues":

 

 

Kreutzmann, who control percussion customary the Grateful Dead because the group's 30-year career, formed 7 Walkers with Mali in 2009, and the pair shortly toured the U.S. antipodal spring. Their debut disc and comment The Meters' George Porter Jr. also multi-instrumentalist Matt Hubbard (Fastball, Willie Nelson).

 

7 Walkers will kick not up to par a attain U.S. walking on Oct. 1 in Napa, Ca.