Hope you have fun with this, Bobbie! Although I get this feeling you're going to be really sick of Dead music before it's all said and done... grin

Jerry Garcia was a huge fan of country music. I think he did as much with his own pedal steel guitar playing as Gram Parsons did in general to introduce rock audiences to country sounds. He played the steel on Crosby Stills Nash & Young's "Helpless". And the song "High Time" on the Workingman's Dead album is pretty darn countrified. He was also a big Merle Haggard fan. "Mama Tried" was an often played song in concert.

I remember they also did a wicked version of "Six Days on the Road" in concert quite often.

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