New Riders of the Purple Sage Discography
When the New Riders of the Purple Sage released their first album on Columbia Records in 1971, they were already familiar to Deadheads,…
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Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa (1969)
Kronomyth 3.0: DED ‘ED. Palindromes, ambigrams, epigrams… oh my. Aoxomoxoa marks the beginning of the band’s best music, including such perennial favorites as…
Grateful Dead: American Beauty (1970)
Kronomyth 6.0: GREAT FLOWER BED. A Dead album by any other name would not smell as sweet as American Beauty. The band returned…
New Riders of the Purple Sage: Gypsy Cowboy (1972)
Kronomyth 3.0: LIFE AFTER THE DEAD. The Riders had been dropping their Dead along the way and, presumably, Deadheads along with them. By…
New Riders of the Purple Sage: The Adventures of Panama Red (1973)
Kronomyth 4.0: COLUMBIAN GOLD. The high point of the band’s fourth album is “Panama Red,” an open ode to that potent strain of…
The Best of The New Riders of the Purple Sage (1976)
Kronomyth 9.0: THE BUST OF THE NEW RIDERS. Their greatest hits (get it?), although I would have racked ‘em up differently. Since the…