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Diga Rhythm Band

Mickey Hart

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Album Review

Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart has long been a proponent and student of world music. He produced this 1976 all-percussion outing, which is a compelling and powerful recording that draws in the listener with its spellbinding rhythms.

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My Favorite of any Dead Incarnation

Happiness. This music always puts a smile on my face. I always found it odd that my favorite Jerry Garcia guitar work was on a song called Happiness is Drumming. Any fan of any music should find something to like on Diga Rhythm Band.

Diga Rhythm Band

Jubilant, energetic and celebratory! Truly a beautiful work of art. Sure to lift one's spirit.

gets me moving

This album always get me going. Turns any mood positive. I am the world's clumsiest dancer but just can't help myself when this is on!

Biography

Born: September 11, 1943 in NY

Genre: World

Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Mickey Hart is a drummer, an ethnomusicologist, and an author. He joined the Grateful Dead as its second percussionist in 1967. In 1970, Hart left the Dead and cut the solo album Rolling Thunder in 1972, featuring various members of the Dead. Hart returned to the band in 1974. Hart's musical activities outside the Dead have been extensive. In 1976, the Dead's Round Records label released Diga by the Diga Rhythm Band, an early experiment in worldbeat fusion put together by Hart. His interaction with...
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