Summary: No Grateful Dead fan will be able to resist Goin' Down the Road. Here is the history of the band, as revealed in interviews with Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, and Robert Hunter, among others; memories of the band's early days; a tribute to beat hero Neal Cassady, a defining influence on the band; background on the traditional and blues songs the Dead cover in their shows; and descriptions of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 1992
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The impact of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead on fellow musicians, producers, writers, photographers, young people, artists, road crew, and the band itself date back as far as 1965.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carol Pub. Group 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 KELBrightman, Carol.
Summary: "If paradox is your pleasure, the Grateful Dead will never let you down. Born of the millennial yearnings of Haight Ashbury in the 1960s and founded on the principles of innovation and fierce independence, the Dead became the longest running show in American history and the centerpiece of a vast underground community whose loyalty appears undiminished." "How the Dead, alone among the avatars of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Potter 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 BRIJensen, Jamie.
Summary: The official tie-in to the Grateful Dead's landmark 1990 world tour--and a chronicle of 25 years with one of rock's longest-living legends. This oversize, fully illustrated book, which includes more than 120 spectacular 4-color photographs, pays homage to the band and their fans--known as "Deadheads"--a unique treasury reflecting on the rock & roll life of an incredible band.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume Book 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 JENTroy, Sandy.
Summary: "Captain Trips depicts the life, work, and philosophy of this nonconformist rock legend, counterculture hero, and symbol of the Sixties. It contains exclusive interviews with Phil Lesh, David Nelson, Rock Scully, Jorma Kaukonen, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Garcia (Jerry's second wife and perhaps closest friend), Jerry himself, and many others. As lead guitarist of the Dead, Garcia has played before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARCIA, JERRY TROFerguson, Chris
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. Ferguson 2001
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.5 FERGrushkin, Paul.
Summary: Presents a look at the relationship between fans and the Grateful Dead as illustrated in the decorated envelopes, artifacts and memorabilia received from them. Includes illustrations arranged by theme.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Voyageur Press 2011
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 GRULesh, Phil
Summary: The bass player for the greatest improvisational band in American history tells the full, true story of his life, Jerry Garcia, and the Dead. Lesh first met Garcia in 1959 in the clubs of East Palo Alto, California. At Garcia's suggestion, Lesh learned to play the electric bass, joining him in a new band that blended R & B, country, and rock and roll with an experimental fervor. Now Lesh offers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LESH, PHIL LESSummary: Within a few minutes of the news that Grateful Dead leader Jerry Garcia had passed away, tributes to him began appearing on the Internet. Highly personal, sincere, and moving, these fan's voices form the heart of Not Fade Away. Some tell stories of meetings with Jerry or recall a favorite concert, others explain how his music changed their lives. The effect is of a communal oral history--told,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder's Mouth Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 782.42 NOTHall, Adrian.
Summary: The most successful band to come out of the San Francisco rock scene in the 1960s, the Grateful Dead continue to delight generations of "Dead Heads" with the unique sound and style. The story of the Grateful Dead explores how the Dead came to inspire the enthusiastic following they have enjoyed for nearly three decades.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Longmeadow Press 1993
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 782.42 HALGreenfield, Robert.
Summary: Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s. Owsley's high octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STANLEY, OWSLEY GREBrandelius, Jerilyn Lee.
Summary: Explores the personal side of the group's experiences over the last three decades as well as their live performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.66 BRABrowne, David
Summary: Fifty years after they first came together and changed the sound of rock 'n' roll, the Grateful Dead remain one of rock's most beloved bands—a musical and cultural phenomenon that spans generations and paved the way for everything from the world of jam bands and the idea of independently released music to social networking. Much has been written about the band, but nothing quite as vibrant and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.7 BROGreenfield, Robert.
Summary: For more than thirty years, Jerome John Garcia played guitar and sang in the traveling menagerie and living social experiment called the Grateful Dead. What started as a jug band in Palo Alto evolved into a rock and roll institution, playing to audiences composed of both gray-bearded boomers and tie-dyed baby Deadheads. At the center of this phenomenon was Jerry, whose musical gifts and affable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GARCIA, JERRY GREMcNally, Dennis.
Summary: An authorized portrait of the Grateful Dead documents the band's early days on the 1960s roots and folk scene, complicated relationships between band members, intricate stage setup, and most noteworthy tours and performances.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 MCNRichardson, Peter
Summary: "For almost three decades, the Grateful Dead was America's most popular touring band. No Simple Highway is the first book to ask the simple question of why--and attempt to answer it. Drawing on new research, interviews, and a fresh supply of material from the Grateful Dead archives, author Peter Richardson vividly recounts the Dead's colorful history, adding new insight into everything from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.6 RICColley, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Caliber 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.546 COLKuipers, Dean
Summary: "For readers of The Stranger in the Woods and H Is for Hawk, a beautifully written and emotionally rewarding memoir about a father, his three sons, and a scrappy 100-acre piece of land in rural Michigan. Bruce Kuipers was good at hunting and fishing, but not at anything else that makes a real father or husband. Distant, angry, and a serial cheater, he destroyed his relationship with his wife,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B KUIPERS KUIButtigieg, Pete
Summary: Once described by the Washington Post as "the most interesting mayor you've never heard of," Pete Buttigieg, the thirty-six-year-old Democratic mayor of South Bend, Indiana, has improbably emerged as one of the nation's most visionary politicians. First elected in 2011, Buttigieg left a successful business career to move back to his hometown, previously tagged by Newsweek as a "dying city,"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 945 GABRaff McCaulau, Lily.
Summary: "A beautifully written and contrarian narrative about what it means to hunt in America today"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Pub. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 RAFDalton, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1984
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 791.43 DEAN, JAMES DALStuart, Nancy Rubin
Summary: Benjamin Franklin: thrifty inventor, statesman of the Revolutionary era... lover of women. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. An independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife, she raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England. Stuart also introduces...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022