The Grateful Dead have found themselves back at No. 1, but this time as a top Amazon bestseller for an official book on the rock band’s songs. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics offers an ...

Robert Hunter successfully turned a delightful acid trip into a song with “Dark Star”. This is one of Grateful Dead’s deepest songs, and it manages to blend together what an acid experience is like ...

LOS ANGELES -- By day he was a mild-mannered, buttoned-down reference librarian. By night -- and on weekends and during vacations -- David Dodd would shed his jacket and tie for tie-dye and morph into ...

Robert Hunter experienced a particularly inspired writing session when he penned the Grateful Dead classics 'Ripple', 'Brokedown Palace', and 'To Lay Me Down'.

For three decades, founding Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh was the backbone of the band. Working in tandem and glued to the guitars of Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, Lesh was set in the background ...

Ironically, it was when Dylan went electric that Garcia and his Grateful Dead bandmates — then performing as the Warlocks — ...