Musician John "Marmaduke" Dawson, who forth with Jerry Garcia co-founded country bedrock accumulation the New Riders of the Purple Sage and wrote songs for the Grateful Dead, died Tuesday in Mexico from abdomen cancer. He was 64 years old.
Born in Detroit, Dawson eventually confused to San Francisco in the mid-'60s and absorbed himself in the beginning music scene. A guitar player, he abutting Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a bandage that included approaching Grateful Dead associates Garcia, Bob Weir and Rod "Pigpen" McKernan. As the Dead went on to become a accepted consciousness-expanding bedrock act, Dawson connected autograph country songs and in 1969, he founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with David Nelson on electric guitars and Garcia on pedal steel.
The aboriginal New Riders calendar additionally included Dead bassist Phil Lesh and bagman Mickey Hart, a agreeable cross-pollination that accustomed the bands to bout calm cheaply. During that aforementioned time, Dawson appeared as a bedfellow artist on three Dead albums, 'Aoxomoxoa,' 'Workingman's Dead' and 'American Beauty,' and co-wrote the song 'Friend of the Devil' with Garcia and artist Robert Hunter.
In the aboriginal '70s, Dave Torbert replaced Lesh on bass and Jefferson Airplane bagman Spencer Dryden took over for Hart, and the bandage appear its self-titled admission in 1971. Their greatest success was the 1973 album, 'The Adventures of Panama Red,' which accomplished No. 55 on the Billboard archive and was certified gold.
Despite a alternating lineup, Dawson connected with the New Riders until backward in 1997. He confused to Mexico to advise English, and back Nelson and Buddy Cage, the pedal animate amateur who replaced Garcia in backward 1971, active the accumulation in the accomplished few years, Dawson fabricated the casual bedfellow appearance. On their official Website, the bandage appear a account adage "His songs aggressive us in so abounding ways. His energy, affection and charge to the New Riders brought us all so abundant joy over the years. We can all be beholden that his music and bequest will alive on forever."
Born in Detroit, Dawson eventually confused to San Francisco in the mid-'60s and absorbed himself in the beginning music scene. A guitar player, he abutting Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a bandage that included approaching Grateful Dead associates Garcia, Bob Weir and Rod "Pigpen" McKernan. As the Dead went on to become a accepted consciousness-expanding bedrock act, Dawson connected autograph country songs and in 1969, he founded the New Riders of the Purple Sage with David Nelson on electric guitars and Garcia on pedal steel.
The aboriginal New Riders calendar additionally included Dead bassist Phil Lesh and bagman Mickey Hart, a agreeable cross-pollination that accustomed the bands to bout calm cheaply. During that aforementioned time, Dawson appeared as a bedfellow artist on three Dead albums, 'Aoxomoxoa,' 'Workingman's Dead' and 'American Beauty,' and co-wrote the song 'Friend of the Devil' with Garcia and artist Robert Hunter.
In the aboriginal '70s, Dave Torbert replaced Lesh on bass and Jefferson Airplane bagman Spencer Dryden took over for Hart, and the bandage appear its self-titled admission in 1971. Their greatest success was the 1973 album, 'The Adventures of Panama Red,' which accomplished No. 55 on the Billboard archive and was certified gold.
Despite a alternating lineup, Dawson connected with the New Riders until backward in 1997. He confused to Mexico to advise English, and back Nelson and Buddy Cage, the pedal animate amateur who replaced Garcia in backward 1971, active the accumulation in the accomplished few years, Dawson fabricated the casual bedfellow appearance. On their official Website, the bandage appear a account adage "His songs aggressive us in so abounding ways. His energy, affection and charge to the New Riders brought us all so abundant joy over the years. We can all be beholden that his music and bequest will alive on forever."
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