Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the frontman for the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia played some of the most iconic live shows in rock music history — but his ...

Before there was the Grateful Dead, there was The Warlocks, their first iteration puzzle-pieced together from a jug band and a bluegrass band.

Sure, there were Grateful Dead songs the band didn’t like much. Jerry Garcia, in particular, had a few words about songs in the band’s earlier catalog, calling “‘Doin That Rag” an “unsuccessful” song, ...

It was 30 years ago tomorrow that Grateful Dead co-founder, guitarist and vocalist Jerry Garcia died in his room at a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility outside of San Francisco, on Aug. 9, 1995 ...

Re “We Could Use More of Jerry Garcia’s Politics,” by Jim Newton (Opinion guest essay, July 24): Mr. Newton suggests that Jerry Garcia’s musical artistry offers a model of living apart from the world ...