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Donna Jean and the Tricksters
Donna Jean and the Tricksters
OFFICIAL BIO
a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
 Donna Jean Thatcher (Godchaux MacKay) was born to sing, and
over the course of time she’s done so with people like Elvis Presley, Percy
Sledge, Boz Scaggs, and Jerry Garcia.
Now she has a new band that she’s quite certain is on a creative par
with anything she’s ever done.
“This
band is a perfect fit for me as a singer/songwriter,” she said recently, “and I
hope to be doing this for a long time to come.
We’re having so much fun with this music!”
The
Grateful Dead alumna has joined up with six members of the next musical
generation – Mookie Siegel (David Nelson Band; formerly Phil & Friends,
RatDog), Wendy Lanter (Hope in Time), and Jeff Mattson, Tom Circosta, Klyph
Black and Dave Diamond (Zen Tricksters) to form
Donna Jean and the Tricksters.
Look out!
Things have come full
circle and anything’s possible.
Oh,
sure, they’re gonna jam.
But the band
has seven vocalists and an incredible array of songwriting talent, and
DJ&tT is going to make waves in ways you’d never anticipate.
Born in
Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Donna Jean was a vocalist at both Muscle Shoals Sound
Studios and Fame Studios, home of the legendary “Muscle Shoals Sound,” on
records like Elvis Presley’s “Suspicious Minds,” Percy Sledge’s “When A Man
Loves a Woman,” and Boz Scagg’s eponymous first solo album.
She moved to San Francisco, married Keith
Godchaux, and spent the 1970s as a vocalist in the Grateful Dead as well as the
Jerry Garcia Band.
After life with the
Dead, she and Keith created the Heart of Gold Band with drummer Greg
Anton.
Following various side trips, she
resumed serious focus on her singing in the ‘90s, recording a new Heart of Gold
Band album,
At the Table, and singing
with Phil & Friends and her own Donna Jean Band.
But it was at a benefit concert for the
Dead’s Rex Foundation in 2006,
The Black
Tie-Dyed Ball, that she bonded with the Tricksters and decided that she’d
found her future.
The Zen
Tricksters began on Long Island in the early 1980s.
Lead by guitar wizard Jeff Mattson, the ZT
have played for more than 20 years, establishing records at the legendary
Wetlands Preserve and taking part in every Gathering of the Vibes.
With Klyph Black on funky, blues-based bass
and vocals (and slide and dobro), Tom Circosta on rhythm guitar and vocals, and
Dave Diamond on drums, percussion, and vocals, the ZT rapidly became known as
the best Dead-oriented band around – and a great deal more.
After a substantial career doing session
work, Wendy Lanter joined with Tom Circosta to create the band Hope in Time as
a platform for their original music.
She
is a fabulous vocalist, adding angelic harmonies to Donna Jean’s work.
Finally, Mookie Siegel (keyboards and vocals)
emerged from Baltimore in the ‘80s to become a member of such bands as the
David Nelson (New Riders of the Purple Sage) Band, Bob Weir’s RatDog, and Phil
Lesh & Friends.
Yet this
band – a felicitous combination of experience and youth, with skills that cross
all musical genres and defy category – is a great deal more than even the sum
of its parts.
Something happened when
they met – and DJ&tT is now (3/07) going into the studio to show you what
that was.
Press:
D. McNally
(415) 648 4832
DMcScribe@aol.com
Booking:
Page
Stallings (704) 525 1559
Page@BlueMountainArtists.com
Management:
J.
Barton (856) 625 7153
JBartongd@comcast.net
Official Website
Show Schedule
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