Here's a look behind just four songs Phil Lesh co-wrote for the Grateful Dead from the late '60s through the early 1970s.

The Grateful Dead went years without a real radio hit but still was one of the most popular and iconic rock acts in the world — mostly because of the band's lengthy and memorable live sets.

The Grateful Dead tribute band Half Past Dead perform at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, New York.

Phil Lesh, one of the founding members and bassist for the rock band Grateful Dead, has died. He was 84. His death was confirmed Friday on his official Instagram page, which said he "passed ...

The Grateful Dead, which was honored in 2007 with a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, has maintained a resolute ...

Bassist Phil Lesh, whose dense, inventive playing powered the Grateful ... work of the Dead without the sophisticated contributions of Lesh, who — like his Bay Area colleague Jack Casady of ...

Since forming from the revolutionary crosswinds of the Bay Area’s counterculture in 1965, the Grateful Dead have accrued a legacy of acclaim and achievement beyond comparison. Today, to ...

The Grateful Dead will be “Truckin’” toward another ... revels in the band’s winding retellings of songs such as “Jack Straw,” “Franklin’s Tower,” “Sugar Magnolia” and ...

UPDATE (Oct. 25): The death of Grateful Dead’s Phil Lesh on Friday (Oct. 25), just two days after the band was announced as the 2025 MusiCares Persons of the Year, was shocking news. The band ...

The result was that even well-known Grateful Dead songs like “Truckin’” or “Sugar Magnolia” rarely sounded the same two performances in a row, something that would inspire loyal fans to ...