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There's no better place to take a long strange trip with the Grateful Dead than right here. We've got music from every single studio album and a bevy of live albums, to boot.
- Stella Blue
- Franklin’s Tower
- Scarlet Begonias
- Touch of Grey
- Wharf Rat
- The Wheel
- Dark Star
- Bertha
- Eyes of The World
- Sugar Magnolia
Kicking off our list is Stella Blue, a comedown ballad with a slick melody from Jerry Garcia and some superbly emotive lyrics about “broken dreams and vanished years” from Robert Hunter.
Garcia “borrowed” the melody for Franklin’s Tower from Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side. Considering how good the result is, we doubt even the famously curmudgeonly Reed grumbled too much. Hunter’s lyrics are as obtuse as ever, but overall, it’s a slice of pure pop magic.
A mid-tempo number with a laid-back groove and an infectious hook, Scarlet Begonias is a psych-pop gem. The lyrics are a bit hippie-dippy (“She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoes / And I knew without asking she was into the blues / She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls / I knew right away she was not like other girls”) but th...
By the 1980s, Garcia’s addictions had begun to take their toll. In 1986, he slipped into a diabetic coma for 5 days. It had a profound impact on him, forcing him to relearn basic motor skills and go back to the drawing board on the guitar. But he persevered, and within a few months, he was back on the road. The following year, the band released In ...
When Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia came together, magic happened. On Wharf Rat, Hunter leaves aside the mysticism and circle of life musings for the day and gets real. His story of a down-and-out drunk who’s only a dime away from desperation is complemented perfectly by Garcia’s hard and gritty guitar work. It’s a downbeat classic, and one that, w...
According to Rolling Stone, The Wheel was written in the middle of the extended experimental section of Garcia’s solo album. He started jamming on the piano, Bill Kreutzmann jumped in with some percussion, and between the two of them, they managed to come up with one of the Dead’s most outrageously catchy melodies. It wasn’t written down, but fortu...
The Grateful Dead weren’t at their best in the studio. It was on the road that they excelled. Their never-ending tour of the 80s and early 90s might have been promoted more by Jerry Garcia’s drug bills than anything else, but even when he was clearly in no fit shape for anything but rehab, the band could still bring the house down with their jams. ...
When the Grateful Dead wanted to raise the rafters, they had the song to do it. Bertha is a primal piece of rock and roll that sums up everything we came to love about the band in their earliest days. There’s the rich textures, the slightly obscure lyrics (this time around, the story is told from the perspective of a man who’s run from a relationsh...
As All Music writes, Eyes Of The World quickly became a cornerstone in the Dead’s live repertoire after its release in 1972, and for good reason. Its jazzy, open-ended style is a far cry from the rowdy, bluesy numbers of their earlier days, but it was the perfect launchpad for one of their legendary half-hour jam sessions. An uptempo, deliciously c...
Taken from 1970’s American Beauty, Sugar Magnolia ranks as one of the Grateful Dead’s best-known and most popular songs. Combining a rich texture with expert delivery, it has all the shimmering sweetness and feel-good vibes of the Dead at their hippie best. This was the album that turned an army of flower children into Deadheads, and this is the so...
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