Jerry Garcia: A Bluegrass Journey will explore that early history when it opens at the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum on March 28th, an occasion the Owensboro, KY institution will ...

The Grateful Dead spawned more sister bands and side projects than any other band in history. Here, we look at five of the ...

Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Decades after his death, Jerry ... same time. Garcia debuts his latest posthumous release at No. 1 on Billboard’s Bluegrass Albums ...

Remember when Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir joined the Joan Baez ... as Jerry and Bobby were joined by John Kahn on upright bass for a short bluegrass set, which featured takes on “Deep Elem Blues ...

The eclectic blend of bluegrass, blues, country, folk, jazz and rock music that forged the career of Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia, among numerous other 70s-era luminaries, will be ...

Sam Grisman, the 35-year-old son of mandolin icon David “Dawg” Grisman, grew up in a unique and supercharged musical ...

In the late 1960s, a significant segment of the Grateful Dead’s jam-band audience got turned onto bluegrass by way of Jerry Garcia’s side gig playing banjo with Old & In the Way. The group ...

Formed in 1973, OITW serendipitously came about when Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia started ... of the biggest selling bluegrass records of all-time. “This is a band that happened in ...

Jerry Garcia, the Bluegrass Album Band and Norman Blake. Throughout his career, Tony Rice was also a sought-after session musician, who appeared on recordings by Mary Chapin Carpenter, Béla Fleck ...

guitarist Jerry Garcia came from the bluegrass and folk worlds, bassist Phil Lesh from classical and avant-garde music, Bill Kreutzmann from a jazz background, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan from blues ...