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"Althea" was a key contributing factor to the formation of Dead & Company. Guitarist John Mayer first heard the song in 2011 on Pandora and became infatuated with the Grateful Dead. While guest hosting The Late Late Show in 2015, Mayer invited former Grateful Dead guitarist Bob Weir to appear on the show as a musical guest. The two performed ...
"Dire Wolf" is a ballad by the Grateful Dead, released as the third track on their 1970 album Workingman's Dead. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter after watching a film adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. The music, containing elements of country and folk music, was composed by Jerry Garcia on the same day. The song tells the ...
The song is mentioned in Stephen King's 1981 novel Cujo. The Persuasions included this song on their 2000 album of Grateful Dead covers, Might as Well… The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead. [5] Graham Parker covered the track on his 2004 album, Your Country. [6] Jackie Greene recorded a cover for his 2009 release The Grateful EP.
Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics in 1970 in London on the same afternoon he wrote those to "Brokedown Palace" and "To Lay Me Down" (reputedly drinking half a bottle of retsina in the process). [3] Jerry Garcia wrote the music to accompany Hunter's lyrics, [ 3 ] and the song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco.
"Truckin '" is associated with the blues and other early 20th-century forms of folk music. [6]"Truckin '" was considered a "catchy shuffle" by the band members. [7] Garcia commented that "the early stuff we wrote that we tried to set to music was stiff because it wasn't really meant to be sung... the result of [lyricist Robert Hunter getting into our touring world], the better he could write ...
The song was later covered by the Grateful Dead, who adopted it as part of their standard repertoire. It was the single most frequently played song in their live performances, featuring in 616 different shows. [2] Bob Weir is reported to have learned it from James “Curly” Stalarow, [3] a member of the Texas psychedelia scene.
One of the few Grateful Dead songs to have lyrics written by Weir, "The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get" became one of the Dead's most-played songs (being performed a known 586 times [2]) and most popular vehicles for improvisation, with some performances reaching 30+ minutes in length.
The song was named after Cassidy Law, who was born in 1970 and was the daughter of Grateful Dead crew member Rex Jackson and Weir's former housemate Eileen Law. [1] The lyrics also allude to Neal Cassady , who was associated with the Beats in the 1950s [ 4 ] and the Acid Test scene that spawned the Grateful Dead in the 1960s.