It's best to start with Jerry Garcia, the guiding light of the Grateful Dead. In 1961, Garcia met a man named Robert Hunter, ...

Through daring business decisions and an eye for talent, the vaunted country radio program still stands as a tastemaker for the fastest-growing genre in popular music ...

Aside from his prolific work as a member of the Grateful Dead, guitarist Jerry Garcia always had a soft spot for acoustic Americana music. From his earliest days as a local banjo legend in San ...

On Tuesday, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved a resolution to rename an Excelsior District road “Jerry Garcia Street,” in honor of the Grateful Dead frontman who grew up on the ...

Filming the Grateful Dead’s MTV-era music video for "Hell in a Bucket" was one long, strange trip. Len Dell’Amico, the band’s "film and video guy," has written a new memoir, "Friend of the ...

he walked onstage and struck up a conversation with the banjo player, a curly-haired Bay Area native named Jerry Garcia. Over the next few years, Garcia would become known as the singing ...

In that era, performers like The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia and artists including Sam ... who counts working with the late bluegrass banjo player Bobby Osborne on an album in 2017 when he ...

“This isn’t a shrine, it’s a real living musical endeavor and it’s going to have a life of its own,” says Jerry Garcia’s daughter Trixie. By Ethan Millman Music Editor When Jerry ...

That band featured the Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia on banjo and singer-songwriter Peter Rowan on guitar. Its self-titled 1973 debut formed an enduring backdrop for the rich California scene ...