Keller and The Keels is a fun, foot-stomping project that includes Keller's old buddy and award-winning flat picker Larry Keel on guitar, and Larry's beautiful, rock-solid in-the-pocket acoustic bass playing wife, Jenny Keel. The trio released their first album, "Grass", in 2006 to the acclaim of critics and fans alike. A delightfully bizarre collection of anything-but-traditional bluegrass songs comprised of both covers and originals, "Grass" successfully blended the world of bluegrass, rock and folk into one tasty meal.
In 2010, Keller and The Keels have returned with their follow-up effort to "Grass" entitled "Thief". This time around, the super-chill trio spent a few days in the studio recording entirely unique renditions of songs originally recorded by a diverse group of musicians such as Kris Kristofferson, The Butthole Surfers, Amy Winehouse, The Raconteurs, Ryan Adams and many others.
Check out "Thief" and discover how, regardless of whether a song is penned by Keller or The Presidents of the United States of America, once again, Keller makes it his own.
Keller Williams w/ Moseley, Droll & Sipe
Keller Williams' album dream, which featured a DREAM team of guest musicians, has inspired the usually one-man-band to hit the road with, you guessed it, a DREAM live band. Featuring Keller Williams with Keith Moseley on bass (The String Cheese Incident), Gibb Droll on guitar (Marc Broussard), and Jeff Sipe on drums (Aquarium Rescue Unit, Trey Anastasio, Susan Tedeschi, Phil Lesh).
On Live (September 2008 / SCI Fidelity Records), Keller taps
into the world-class talent of Keith Moseley ,
Gibb Droll , and Jeff Sipe . The musical horsepower of four friends
playing together on stage proves stronger than even Keller had dreamed.
Recorded at select live shows during a winter 2008 tour, and featuring
seventeen tracks that span Kellers career, Live is a testament to how a band,
with the right chemistry and chops, can take a song to places even the writer couldn’t
have imagined.
Grateful Grass
Keller's Grateful Grass delivers anything-but-traditional bluegrass versions of Grateful Dead favorites. The project's lineup is always rotating, and has included a Grateful Grass collaboration with The Keels, as well as a memorable evening at Denver's Fillmore Auditorium featuring Keith Moseley (The String Cheese Incident) and Jeff Austin (Yonder Mountain String Band).
In 2008 Grateful Grass recorded a live performance at The Fillmore in Denver, CO. 100% of the proceeds from REX (Live at the Fillmore)
will go to benefit The Rex Foundation, the charitable non-profit started by the
Grateful Dead which gives grants to worthwhile causes.
