Even the Grateful Dead's most ardent supporters admit that making albums wasn't one the band's strengths. For the most part, they didn't even like to do it and viewed the whole process more of a ...

The band's latest archival release — Dave's Picks, Volume 49 — made the list. That gave the Grateful Dead its 59th Top 40 album – one more than both Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra.

In honor of Jerry Garcia’s birthday, The Daily Beast grades perhaps the most underrated aspect of the Grateful Dead’s legacy: their studio albums.

Grateful Dead Ties Elvis Presley & Frank Sinatra for Most Top 40 Albums Ever on Billboard 200 Chart The band's latest archival release, Dave's Picks, Volume 48 , debuts at No. 33, marking the ...

10 "Scarlet Begonias" From: 'Grateful Dead From the Mars Hotel' (1974) Following a virtual paradigm for many of the Dead's best songs, "Scarlet Begonias" is a vibe-y mid-tempo tune with a loose feel.

The opener to Go to He aven (1980). The album and this particular tune ushered the Dead into the 1980s and more commercial and mainstream awareness. It's an up-tempo, 1950s-like rocking number ...

8 essential Grateful Dead albums you need to own. By Eric Renner Brown. Updated on September 7, 2022 07:50AM EDT. Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images.

This was one of the first Grateful Dead songs I ever heard, and I still hold a great sentimentality for it. If this list was based solely on my personal preference, it’d likely rank near the top.

So, American Songwriter has compiled a list of the 10 best Grateful Dead songs, honoring a bit of the rich tradition that they hail from.

A new Grateful Dead LP collects previously unreleased live songs from the early to mid-Nineties that envisioned a potential track list for an unrecorded final studio album.. Band archivist David ...