Jerry Garcia was born on August 1, 1942, and died on August 9, 1995. In what has become an almost institutionalized acknowledgement and commemoration of his life and musical accomplishments, the first nine days of August have become known as […]
Jerry Garcia was born on August 1, 1942, and died on August 9, 1995. In what has become an almost institutionalized acknowledgement and commemoration of his life and musical accomplishments, the first nine days of August have become known as […]
I was among those who felt some affection for the Grateful Dead’s 1967 debut album, but perhaps that’s because I hadn’t seen them live by the time of its release. Most people who had—including the group themselves—said that the record […]
The first time I ever heard the words “Grateful Dead” were in the same breadth as Workingman’s Dead. I was a nerdy nine or ten year old but curious and quizzical with a tendency to ask others older than me […]
Although the Grateful Dead formerly retired from performing together in 2015 with the series of five Fare Thee Well concerts in Santa Clara, CA and Chicago, IL, the band is certainly not gone. In fact, with a string of recent […]
Admittedly, it’s not always easy keeping up with Grammy-winning guitarist Warren Haynes. A musician with a seemingly insatiable muse, he divides his time between his longstanding commitment to his band Gov’t Mule, his solo projects, and his family, with primary […]
The Grateful Dead’s May 8, 1977 gig at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York—which included two sets, ran close to three hours, and is presented here on three discs—quickly came to be regarded as the best show of the group’s […]
Out of Kalamazoo, MI, have come winds of musical change and sonic transformation. Guys like Paul Hoffman take a mandolin and channel it like an instrument of telepathic immersion. Swimming in a third world where the spiritual erupts and slides […]
Every year thousands of artists take to crowdfunding sites to raise money for studio costs for their new album; enough of them that there are now multiple platforms available for the musician to choose from. Each offers its own unique […]
The rap on the Grateful Dead’s eponymous 1967 debut album—which the group mostly recorded in just four days—is that they didn’t yet understand the studio and failed to accurately represent what they could accomplish in concert. There’s some truth in […]
