Formed in Palo Alto, California in 1965, the Grateful Dead are remembered for a great many things: for their counter-cultural tendencies and enthusiasm for mind-expanding drugs; for their jammed-out ...
That didn't mean the actual songs weren't special. Here's our list of the 20 best Grateful Dead tunes.
If you're a country fan who has dismissed the Grateful Dead as "hippie music" you need to hear these covers of classic Dead tunes.
At the same time, the Dead—especially Garcia and his longtime friend and lyricist Robert Hunter—began writing songs steeped in country, folk music, and Old West Americana tall tales.
Every year, the Recording Academy uses the weekend of the Grammy Awards to salute a musical legend with its MusiCares benefit ...
and No. 5 on the slightly-more-specific Top Rock Albums ranking, giving them another top 10 on the pair of tallies. The Grateful Dead has now collected an incredible 50 top 10 titles on both of ...
Grateful Dead will be honored at the 2025 MusiCares tribute/charity concert slated for Grammys week, and the lineup is impressive.
Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. The Grateful Dead have not released new original music in decades, but that hasn’t stopped them from remaining a force on the ...
If you like what you hear, you’ll be delighted to find that this list represents a mere 1.1% of the Grateful Dead’s enormous ...
Vampire Weekend, Billy Strings, My Morning Jacket, The War on Drugs, Noah Kahan, and Bruce Hornsby will also play the charity ...