When the New Riders of the Purple Sage released their first album on Columbia Records in 1971, they were already familiar to Deadheads, both as an opening act and for individual cameos on Aoxomoxoa (1969), Workingman’s Dead (1970) and American Beauty (1970). The seeds of the relationship, however, date back almost a decade, when David…
Featuring the lyrics of Robert Hunter, Aoxomoxoa is the band’s most accessible and succinct album to date.
Is this the greatest Grateful Dead album? Would a bear crap on the pope?
Originally cast as an offshoot of the Dead, this debut features Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart and some of the Riders’ most enduring tracks.
Country-rock and the California drug culture collide on the last of the classic New Riders records.
Not the end of the road, just ta-ta’s for now.