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Hartford Courant Newpaper Article 6/21/01

Jeff Pevar Back On The Road With CPR

Longtime Connecticut guitarist Jeff Pevar, now based on the West Coast, plays with so many musical outfits he often uses gunslinger's mottos. "`Have guitar will travel...... I'll use that one," Pevar says over the phone from San Francisco. ..... "or 'walk softly and carry a big guitar.'" After playing with such varied outfits as Phil Lesh and Friends and the similarly Grateful Dead- minded Jazz Is Dead, he's back on tour with his primary band, CPR. The band, for which he provides guitar, vocals, some writing and the initial P, is led by '60s rock icon David Crosby and the musical son to whom he was reunited late in his life, James Raymond.

CPR is on tour to promote the new album "Just Like Gravity," issued this week on the Gold Circle label, as the band invades New England to play a handful of shows of various sizes from Saturday's Ben & Jerry's One World One Heart Festival in Vermont to the Garde Arts Center in New London on Wednesday. "The process has taken the better part of two years," Pevar says of the new recording. "But it was worth the wait. It represents CPR more as a band than the debut record, which happened at the very inception of the ensemble."

Since the self-titled debut in 1998, and its subsequent tours (which produced the 1999 "Live at the Wiltern" CD), the three have gotten closer as musicians. "With all the time we've been together we've had a chance to represent the songs in more of a cohesive manner this time," Pevar says. The first single, a rock 'n' roller called "Katie Did," features Crosby lyrics put to Pevar's music. "It's yet another childhood dream to have the opportunity to hear songs I've written or co-written on the radio," he says

Each of the members has been busy since the first CPR album. Crosby, most prominently, went on the big Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tour. Raymond scored a number of television shows. And Pevar continued to learn more Dead songs when his Phil Lesh tour last spring led to a more recent tour with Jazz Is Dead, which has made a seperate career improvising on old Grateful Dead tunes.

"I was very flattered to be asked to tour with a number of musicians I've admired for years - Rob Morgenstein and T Lavitz of the Dixie Dregs, and Alphonso Johnson from Weather Report and Santana's band." The band, which takes a jazz turn on old Dead songs, has a revolving membership and has included drummer Billy Cobham and Jimmy Herring, whose place Pevar was taking. Herring and Pevar had played together on the Spring 2000 Lesh tour. Pevar could use some of the songs he had learned to tour with Lesh, but "I did end up having to learn another couple dozen other songs. By now, I figure every year I'll probably have to learn another dozen, or so Grateful Dead songs."

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