In the Thanksgiving spirit, this list highlights three of the best “Thank You” songs.Though they aren’t specific to the holiday—for that, see Adam Sandler’s “The Thanksgiving Song”—they each offer ...

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The Grateful Dead hit the top 10 on three Billboard charts this week with Dave’s Picks, Volume 52, which marks their seventh such win in 2024 alone.

I thought Phil was the most unique part of the Grateful Dead. It didn’t surprise me that Bob Dylan said that in his book Philosophy of Modern Song, when he was talking about [“Truckin’”]. Usually ...

The 2024 San Diego Music Hall of Fame inductees include Peter Sprague, Cathryn Beeks, Cindy Lee Berryhill, Electric Waste ...

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 ...

Born in Berkeley in 1940, he was devoted to music from an early age and learned to play bass after being recruited by Jerry Garcia in 1964 to join a band that would become the Grateful Dead.

The Grateful Dead bassist found new melodic byways through every song. Phil Lesh ... intro to “Touch of Grey,” the Dead’s only Top 10 (and only Top 40) single. But when the verse arrived ...

Phil Lesh, bassist and founding member of countercultural rock band The Grateful ... songs, including “Box of Rain” off the 1970 album American Beauty, which he composed alongside longtime ...

Lesh hadn’t played one. They would soon be known as the Grateful Dead, who over 30 years would blow open the aperture of rock music, rock concerts and rock fandom. Lesh’s first embrace of ...

And we’re not talking about The Beatles’ inevitable retirement from live music, several years before ... that it was the iconic jam band The Grateful Dead that inspired him to tour again.