Bob Weir, Grateful Dead
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According to Spotify, the Dead's 1970 classic "Friend of the Devil" is their most popular tune on the platform, with 135,379,243 streams. Next in line are "Casey Jones" (108,601,129), "Ripple" (99,051,275), "Touch of Grey" (84,014,048) and, rounding out the top five, "Althea" with 72,702,780 streams.
I was interested in the lost world this music conjured, a world of teenagers like my aunts who had left home young and hit the road.
For the last decade, Oteil Burbridge has been an essential element of Dead & Company, the most recent and most popular offshoot of cultishly adored Bay Area psychedelic rock institution the Grateful Dead.