Mark karan biography

Mark Karan (born January 13, 1955) is an.
Mark Karan is an American guitarist and singer.
Mark Karan is best known for performing with the extended Grateful Dead family.

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MARK KARAN BIO

Mark Karan is best known for performing with the extended Grateful Dead family. For the last twelve years, he has anchored the lead guitar slot in Bob Weir & RatDog, playing hundreds of shows to thousands of fans year-round. Before crossing over into the land of the Dead, Mark worked his guitar and vocal voodoo for the likes of Dave Mason, Delaney Bramlett, the Rembrandts, Paul Carrack, Huey Lewis, Jesse Colin Young and Sophie B. Hawkins.

Mark also tours with an array of amazing musicians in his own “Mark Karan’s Buds”, where his soulful blues-based vocal stylings and inspired guitar work meld with the remarkably creative and responsive playing of his friends in a passionate delivery of the psychedelicized sounds of Americana. This is where rock meets R&B and country and mixes with the soul of New Orleans… with healthy portions of reggae, folk, funk and whatever else the muse might bring. In addition to his originals, as well as those of songwriter friends, Mark covers a range of eclectic songs from Johnny “Guitar” Watson’s “You Can

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https://www.dead.net/features/interviews/ratdog-guitarist-mark-karan-long-road-home

Note: The following interview was conducted a few weeks before Mark learned of his cancer diagnosis and was forced to drop off of RatDog’s summer tour, to aggressively fight his illness. For Mark’s take on the situation, go to markkaran.com. With Mark’s and his wife Maile’s blessing, though, we decided to move forward with our original plan to run this interview in July. In fact, it now seems like the perfect time to get to know this remarkable guy a little bit better. We know that you all send your love and good vibes his way, and we trust that in a few months he’ll be back rockin’ with the Dog!
--BJ

Like a lot of Dead Heads, I got my first taste of Mark Karan’s guitar playing on The Other Ones’ tour in 1998. Talk about a tough assignment: Mark and Steve Kimock were essentially tapped to “replace” Jerry Garcia at a time when emotions about Jerry’s death were still running very deeply in the Dead Head community. Both guitarists acquitted themselves well on that tour; Kimock was already fami

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Mark Karan

American guitarist and singer (born 1955)

Mark Karan

Origin	San Francisco, California, United States
Genres	Rock
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1986–present
Labels	Quacktone Records
Website	www.markkaran.com

Mark Karan (born January 13, 1955) is an American guitarist and singer. He is best known for his long-term work with former members of the Grateful Dead, in RatDog (1998–2013), the Other Ones (1998–2000), Mickey Hart's band Planet Drum (1999), and Phil Lesh and Friends (2012). Karan has also played and toured with Terrapin Flyer, Delaney Bramlett, the Rembrandts, Sophie B. Hawkins, Dave Mason, and Paul Carrack.

Karan leads the bands Jemimah Puddleduck and Mark Karan's Buds. In 2009 he released a solo album, Walk Through the Fire.

Career

Karan has played guitar and sung for a number of different artists, including Dave Mason, Huey Lewis, Paul Carrack, Delaney Bramlett,^[1]Sophie B. Hawkins, and The Rembrandts.^[2] From 1986 to 1989 he was the guitarist and c