He’s best known for his work with the Grateful Dead, but singersongwriter David Gans has a voice, a style, and a songbook all his own.

With the aid of a digital recording device called the Loop Station, “solo electric” performer Gans can build his musical accompaniment in real time from a single acoustic guitar to a multi-layered sonic environment that sometimes leads to dancing.

After a long hibernation, his singing, songwriting, and guitar playing have emerged to make him a singular artist with his own strong identity. He's David Gans, and you ought to hear him.

In 2007, Gans joined American Beauty Project, a roster of acclaimed artists who come together to recreate and perform live songs from two Grateful Dead landmark albums, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. The orignal 1970 albums have become legendary in the annals of music history and marked a departure from the Dead's "original" jam sound toward an exploration of folk and bluegrass traditions. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.