A guitar played on stage by Dead & Company’s Bobby Weir has attracted a monumental bid of $250,000 in a charity auction being conducted throughout the band’s current summer tour.

New York-based alt-folk and blues singer-songwriter Linda Sussman gets all shades of bold and vulnerable in a mix of sounds on Shake It Loose Today, her new full-length album out July 1, 2022. The first two tracks (“Chain of Hope” and the title track) are now available for sampling here.