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"Dire Wolf" is a ballad, with influences from country and folk music. Its style was described in an AllMusic review as "impressionistic", and as being similar to the writing of Bob Dylan . [ 5 ] It is narrated by a character common to Grateful Dead songs, a "workingman", who is "an underdog without pretense or slick-ness, part of the old gritty ...
The main impetus for this development was the nature of the new songs Hunter and Jerry had been writing; many of them had a decidedly country flavor ('Dire Wolf,' 'Friend of the Devil,' 'High Time,' 'Casey Jones,' 'Ripple'), and Jerry began using the new axe on these as they were slotted into the set lists.
These songs—"China Cat Sunflower", "St. Stephen", and "Alligator"—would become hits for the Grateful Dead. [1] In 1965, Garcia, Ron McKernan, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann formed a band, initially called the Warlocks, but soon renamed the Grateful Dead. They covered songs from other artists but soon began to form their own sound.
Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead.It is the band's sixth live album and seventeenth album overall. It consists of acoustic material recorded live in September and October 1980.
A fact from Dire Wolf (song) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 November 2019 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that Robert Hunter (pictured) wrote the lyrics to the Grateful Dead song "Dire Wolf" after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles the night before?
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Dig It (Beatles song) Dire Wolf (song) Do What You Want (Billy Preston song) Do You Think It's Alright? Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague; Doggone Right; Doing That Scrapyard Thing; Don Juan (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich song) Don't Cry Daddy; Don't Forget to Remember; Don't Give In to Him
A dire wolf is an extinct canine. Dire wolf or direwolf may also refer to: Direwolf (Game of Thrones), a fictional creature in George Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series "Dire Wolf" (song), a song by the Grateful Dead from Workingman's Dead; Worg (Dungeons & Dragons) or dire wolf, a type of dire animal in Dungeons & Dragons; Dire Wolves, a ...