New Riders of the Purple Sage: NRPS. Besides actually playing the records, what I love most is the photo-taking and the digital editing. This record cover has some great wear marks on it. I also love commenting on great records. I am no Grateful Dead expert, never seen 'em. But it's very easy to hear how the this group connected the dots in the early '60s west coast folk scene, and then morphed into the Dead. Future Grateful Dead guitarist/founder Jerry Garcia often played gigs with guys like guitarist David Nelson. I have heard of the the "Bakersfield sound" (in country music - think Buck Owens and later Dwight Yoakam, ), and I think the NRPS were some variant of it. Ironically, my favorite Dead album (OK, CD) is called Deadicated, which - to my knowledge - is not on vinyl. It has Bruce Hornsby doing Jack Straw, Los Lobos - Bertha, and so on. It is a great way to get a taste of Dead music, with cover versions done so well. Best other all cover roundup is Two Rooms, also not on vinyl.
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