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    CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN

    Feb 20, 2020 3 minutes
    By Rob Hughes

    Circles Around The Sun RKINR / RR\AL PRTATR APIL\

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    CIRCLES Around The Sun was never meant to be a band at all. Nor did they plan to release any official music. The supposed one-off project began in 2015, when guitarist Neal Casal was approached by video-maker Justin Kreutzmann – son of Grateful Dead drummer Bill – to create intermission music for the Dead’s Fare Thee Well shows in Santa Clara and Chicago.

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