The Grateful Dead have provided harmony to millions for six decades, waxing poetic through their lyrics and world-famous jam sessions. You oftentimes get lost in their music, as Jerry Garcia’s guitar ...

That song was “Touch of Grey,” released in 1987, and it delivered the band a whole slew of new fans, many of whom knew little about their reputation as jam-band road warriors. Here’s how this song ...

Everyone makes mistakes, now, whether what kind they are is an entirely different story. That being so, in the music business, there is almost always one mistake all musicians share—Writing a “bad” ...

Phil Lesh, the Grateful Dead’s founding bassist who died Oct. 25 at age 84, rarely wrote songs or sang lead. Among his contributions to the band’s oeuvre, though, was one of the most celebrated tunes ...

The Grateful Dead were not, by most people's definition, a band fit for the studio. To condense their songwriting and penchant for free flowing jams into the sort of sterile, structured environment ...

Donna Jean Godchaux, a former member of the Grateful Dead who also sang on No. 1 hits for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge, has ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LOS ANGELES (AP) — Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role of rock bass guitar as a founding member of the ...