Just as the Grateful Dead were more than just a “jam band,” Jerry Garcia was more than just the affable Captain Trips of the scene. Over the roughly 35 years that he wrote and recorded songs with the ...

Happy birthday, Brigid! And thank you. Jerry Garcia was just 18 in 1961 when he and his good friend, Robert Hunter, provided the musical entertainment for the 16th birthday party of Garcia’s ...

The concert recorded for the New Riders of the Purple Sage’s first album in a great while ends with the Jerry Garcia song “Ripple.” Although it was played to a reggae tempo, it’s a solemn rendition, ...

“People who like the Grateful Dead are like people who like licorice,” said Jerry Garcia. “Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” Along with recognizing ...

Jerry Garcia loved music with layers and had a lot of time for artists who gave something new with repeat listens of a song. Read more about it here.

Sure, there were Grateful Dead songs the band didn’t like much. Jerry Garcia, in particular, had a few words about songs in the band’s earlier catalog, calling “‘Doin That Rag” an “unsuccessful” song, ...

To anyone who’s studied Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead, their connection to jazz was unmistakable: From their own onstage improvising to collaborations with Branford Marsalis and Ornette Coleman, ...

The late Jerry Garcia‘s vault continues to be full of treats that most of the world has yet to hear, and some of those treats will be introduced to the world with the new Heads & Tails archival vinyl ...

A new Grateful Dead live album has been announced, featuring previously unreleased live recordings from their ’90s era of then-new songs that might have made up the band’s final studio album, before ...

Jerry Garcia was the only latter-day member of the Grateful Dead that Joan Osborne didn’t get to know. That goes without saying if you know that she was drafted to take over some of Garcia’s lead ...

In a couple months, a recording of a Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders show that took place at San Francisco’s Keystone Korner club in 1971 will be released as the latest installment of the GarciaLive ...