What unraveled within each song by Grateful Dead song was the layered interplay among each band member, which was primarily driven by the band’s two songwriting duos Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter and ...

The concert recorded for the New Riders of the Purple Sage’s first album in a great while ends with the Jerry Garcia song “Ripple.” Although it was played to a reggae tempo, it’s a solemn rendition, ...

A new Grateful Dead live album has been announced, featuring previously unreleased live recordings from their ’90s era of then-new songs that might have made up the band’s final studio album, before ...

Happy birthday, Brigid! And thank you. Jerry Garcia was just 18 in 1961 when he and his good friend, Robert Hunter, provided the musical entertainment for the 16th birthday party of Garcia’s ...

Sure, there were Grateful Dead songs the band didn’t like much. Jerry Garcia, in particular, had a few words about songs in the band’s earlier catalog, calling “‘Doin That Rag” an “unsuccessful” song, ...

As avatars of San Francisco's ’60s-born counterculture, the Grateful Dead have served as an alternative to American reality for more than a half-century. Performing from 1965 to 1995 with guitarist ...

To anyone who’s studied Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, their connection to jazz was unmistakable: From their own onstage improvising to collaborations with Branford Marsalis and Ornette Coleman, ...

Jerry Garcia tended to downplay his solo debut. He shouldn't have. Released on Jan. 20, 1972, Garcia ended a lengthy recording drought following Grateful Dead's American Beauty. In the meantime, many ...

A rare interview published in the just-released e-book 'Reckoning: Conversations With the Grateful Dead,' offers a glimpse into the band's songwriting process. By Alan Paul Robert Hunter - H 2015 Many ...

Having absorbed Dead songs not just by the dozens by ultimately the hundreds, Osborne didn’t ditch all that material when she went back on her merry solo way, either. She subsequently drafted Dead ...

It’s not quite Halloween, but the Avett Brothers are doing a different kind of dressing up on Saturday: they’re recreating a Jerry Garcia Band show from 1986. Seth Avett said that as children he and ...