Four Lean Hounds

Four Lean Hounds take their name from a line in the Grateful Dead songbook and play it back across Philadelphia in both acoustic and electric billings. Their booking page describes Hunter/Garcia/Weir/Barlow songs in their most natural acoustic setting — bluegrass, folk and cowboy tunes with three-part harmony, leaning on the American Beauty and Workingman's Dead era, and built around improvisation. The band works as anything from two to eight pieces, drawn from Philadelphia-area musicians who have played together in various formations for twenty years.