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BACKSTAGE: After period of mourning, Grams reform with new member

By PAM KRAGEN - Staff Writer

When Craig Yerkes, the 40-year-old lead guitarist for the San Diego-based Americana band The Grams, died in a Bonsall car accident last June, his bandmates couldn't go on with the show.

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