Video: The Giving Tree Band – Brown Eyed Women

Last month the Grateful Dead asked fans to upload videos to YouTube of themselves covering a song written or recorded by the band for something they dubbed The Dead Covers Project. The month-long submission process saw everyone from national touring bands to up and comers to the casual musician upload versions of nearly every song in the cannon from popular nuggets like Sugaree and Looks Like Rain to the more obscure I Will Take You Home, as entrants took a shot at being one of five bands to to be featured across all of the Dead’s online sites.

[Press Photo by Tracy Graham]

Among the five finalists, who will also be profiled on Dead.net and in this year’s edition of the Grateful Dead Almanac, was folk-rock act The Giving Tree Band. The Chicago-based act turned in a fantastic country-fried version of Brown Eyed Women that’s drowned in some killer pedal steel and banjo work, which captures the rollicking spirit of arguably one of the better Grateful Dead songs that never made its way onto one of their studio albums. Let’s check it out…

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