The Grateful Dead : Rolling Stone

Psychedelic pioneers, the Grateful Dead were the most improvisatory of all major rock groups. From the late 1960's until the 1995 death of guitarist, singer/songwriter Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead played roughly 2,300 long, freeform concerts that touched down on their own country-, blues-, and folk-tinged rock songs, and on a similarly wide range of cover versions. Though Grateful Dead albums t...