Mr. Mike Ayers – Journalist – Historian – Music Lover

ABOUT SHARING IN THE GROOVE

The wild, untold oral history of the unlikely rise of Phish, Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, Blues Traveler, and numerous other bands that helped define the 1990s Jam band scene

Sharing in the Groove is a rich examination of an underdog genre that helped define the 1990s musical landscape-a scene that paved the way for modern-day cultural institutions such as the Bonnaroo Music Festival and kept the Grateful Dead ethos alive. It was also a world with its own values and its own unique interactions with fame, record labels, MTV, drugs, and success.

Beginning in the mid-’80s and traveling up to