Blog: Hidden Track

We are all familiar with the Grateful Dead's prowess as an electric rock band, but when the boys unplugged they were also quite the formidable roots-Americana act - deftly moving from folk to country to blues. Their acoustic, electric shows from 1970 (with Jerry also logging in a set playing pedal steel with the New Riders) might be my favorite period of the band's music. For their 25th anniversary, the band revived the three set format for a string of shows on both coasts at the Warfield in San Francisco and Radio [...]