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Former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh has started Lapis Music, his own imprint on Columbia Records, which will release There and Back Again, the first studio album from his post-Dead ensemble Phil Lesh and Friends, on May 21st. Guitarists Warren Haynes and Jimmy Herring, keyboardist Rob Barraco and drummer John Molo serve as Lesh's backing band on what will be his first studio work since the Grateful Dead's final studio album, 1989's Built to Last.Six of the album's eleven songs were written by regular Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, including "Liberty," a song Hunter co-wrote with Jerry Garcia that has only been available previously on 1999's rarities box set, So Many Roads (1965-1995).Phil Lesh and Friends have also set an itinerary for a thirty-six-date summer tour. Included among the dates is a six-night stretch (June 27th through July 3rd) where Lesh and Friends will share the stage with the Allman Brothers Band. The lineup of Lesh's friends will be somewhat different than that on the 1999 live album. You can find those dates here. And here is the There and Back Again track listing:Celebration Night of a Thousand Stars The Real Thing Again and Again No More Do I Patchwork Quilt Liberty Midnight Train Leave Me Out of This Welcome to the Underground Rock-n-Roll Blues