From early setlists, a snapshot of the tracks the Dead had in regular rotation in 1966 ⚡ Any favorites? | Grateful Dead

Jug Band Music was developed by Black musicians performing in vaudeville and medicine shows in the American South in the early decades of the 20th Century, then revived in the early 1960s by young folkies, jug band music was in the Grateful Dead’s collective DNA from the very beginning, Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and Ron “Pigpen” McKernan having first played together in a group called Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions. From the time the nascent Dead went electric as The Warlocks, important compon

Let there be songs to fill the air 🌬️🎶 "One of the most-loved Grateful Dead songs, ‘Ripple’ was one of the many standouts on ‘American Beauty.’ It was played 11 times between 1970 & 1971, and then dropped until it returned in 1980, played as the set-closing song every night during the Dead's acoustic sets. It made one final appearance on 9/3/88 in Landover, MD, before being retired for good." - David Lemieux Watch the full performance of the tune from the final night of the Dead’s Radio City M