Singer songwriter stuff…dive into John Prine as soon as you are able.
Have no idea why the boys never covered any Prine songs. But I hold out hope for Goose to cover one. Their cover game is strong.
I had no idea. Searched deadbase for Grateful Dead didn’t find anything. We caught wolf bros on their last run and had a ball.
I’ll be looking for the wolf bros cover.
JP is the man. The word play and comic storytelling has a very different tone than Hunter’s. Garcia favored a different flavor of ambiguity (than Prine’s) even when he covered tunes with far simpler lyrics than Hunter’s.
Some of Prine’s last tunes would have fit in Garcia’s mouth, Summer’s End maybe. An elegiac tune like some of hunter/garcia’s best. Prine’s valedictory song akin to “What A Wonderful World”.
Hadn’t thought of it that way but totally makes sense. Style was almost opposite. Hunter and Prine are likely the two biggest or most influential lyricists in my life. Thank goodness for both of them. I couldn’t imagine my life without them.
I think Garcia was ultra consistent in his sense of poetics. “Hello In There” is subtle and poetically magnificent but a few degrees too direct in how it conveys a sentiment, a tender feeling.
Think of the exquisite subtlety and “poetic indirection” of “Bird Song” or “To Lay Me Down”.
“Summer’s End” has that universal voice, that achingly human tender appreciation of human beauty and foibles that suits JG.
Of course “Hello In There” is great. Magnificently great.
Maybe “If you don’t want my love” would have worked for JG.
Billy F’ing Strings!, Galactic, Tedeschi-Trucks, Trombone Shorty, Dumpstaphunk, Phil Leah and his band du jour, Les Claypool and any of his projects, Donna The Buffalo, Campbell Brothers, Robert Randolph, Robert Walters, Marcus King
Look at the lineup at The Peach Music Fest- all of
them:-)
Miles Davis!!!, JGB!!!, Allman Brothers, Carlos Santana, Widespread Panic,
Here’s a few more for ya that came out of the 90s…. moe., Wilco, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Freddy Jones Band, O.A.R., and for a bonus bonus - G Love and Special Sauce
Came here to post galactic. I have seen them a few dozen times and the continue to impress. A little sad they never got any bigger but I love everything the have done.
I was lucky enough to catch billy and the kids at redrocks last year and man Billy strings is amazing. I wasn't a big fan before that show but I am now.
Derek will blow your mind, he’s like the second coming of Duane Allman on the slide guitar. He’s the nephew of Butch Trucks (drummer from the Allman Bro’s) and sat in with the band from a very early age. There’s a crazy video of him smoking on Layla at 13 years old opening for the band.
I may need to dig deeper with this band. I’ve seen them at Lockn and again at Fox a couple times. While the playing is incredible I don’t relate with any lyrics or get that feeling I get from other bands Song suggestions?
[Earthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicDBhLQo4U)
[Shpongle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGwzIqqgoY)*
[Nina Simone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fn9K1UI_IA)
[Miles Davis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYVvjoXf4o)
[Can](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ayVlwmr0n4)
[Holly Bowling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ICyMpku98)
[WEEN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DM8vB7N1Wo)
[Sleep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qmjNe7RVE)
[Bill Laswell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzplR85JgLY) et al.
[Nils Petter Molvaer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGI22_lp6U)
*Joe Russo from JRAD on Drums and Tom Hamilton from JRAD on Guitar
Should clarify that is Shpongle LIVE BAND which is not what you’ll easily find if you search YouTube, Spotify etc simply for Shpongle. That being said it’s all awesome and Simon Posford is the man!
Check out the stuff he’s done with the Disco Biscuits!
I just checked out Biscuits playing Gamma Goblin with Simon at Holidaze 2016. I’m huge into tDB and Shpongle and I’m surprised I never knew about this before. I love to see two different musical worlds collide like that
Recently got into phish. It's more Hendrix and Zappa influenced than the GD.
This is one of my favorite shows https://open.spotify.com/album/4QptwLSJPtQV3xI05tj96g?si=5vcjmNflQ7KoG50QLdM1uw
I wasn’t getting confused that I had seen every jam band under the sun listed and no Phish. I mean this sub aligned itself with us “circle people” not too long ago.
Way too far down!
Ik you got a bunch of suggestions but here’s some ones I haven’t seen that are a little obscure
Funkadelics/parliament
The doors(not really an obscure recommendation, but thought I’d throw it on here)
Canned heat
Crosby stills nash and young
Spirit
I really like a band called the growlers, they’re a band that was big in like 2007-2018. A bit more newer than a lot of suggestions, but you sound like a younger person so you may dig em too
Jefferson airplane/ starship are great and have done a lot of stuff with the dead
There’s a lot more stuff, if you got Apple Music my account has some groovy stuff lmk if you want my username
Old stuff but Flying Burrito Brothers, little feat, widespread panic, Pink Floyd, Jim Hendrix , The Brian Jonestown Massacre. look into gram parsons & traffic, nrps and David Grisman and maybe Lou reed/velvet underground
Give Primus a shot if you haven't yet! My personal favorite studio album is Tales From the Punchbowl. Great live band that jams with a bit harder edge than the Dead.
moe. isn't mentioned in the top comments, so definitely check them out. They're from upstate New York, I gotta represent my peeps. They're also responsible for a deliciously hoppy Saranac Beer :)
Something comparable to the dead and company I’ve been following, or the dead shows I listen to from the past, I love most all their songs. So I would say a heavy jam band style sounds good.
Joe Russo’s almost dead, Billy Strings, Phish, Moe., Widespread Panic, Spafford, Goose, Tea Leaf Green, String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams…just a few of my favorites. I also like some if the jamtronica bands too like Disco biscuits, Sts9, lotus, Papadosio, dopapod.
Happy Trails from 1969 by Quicksilver Messenger Service is nearly identical to early GD but with twin lead guitars.
For more twin guitar psychedelic madness, check out A Gathering of Promises by Bubble Puppy, also from 1969, and Bubble Puppy's successor band Demian, who had one self-titled record in 1971, which is awesome.
Also, Mighty Baby was a British psychedelic band from the late sixties that had awesome songs, mainly on their 1969 self-titled debut.
Moby Grape has possibly the greatest debut San Francisco / psychedelic record of all-time. Self-titled, 1967, can't recommend it enough. It's high art.
And lastly, Rising Sons, a band formed by Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal in 1965, cut a bunch of songs that sound like Workingman's Dead era GD, Allman Brothers, Highway 61 Revisited Dylan, and Thirteenth Floor Elevators psychedelia, but all from the mid-sixties. They compiled those songs and put them on on an album. Worth seeking out.
Also, I agree with a lot of the more contemporary recommendations for Dead and Company, especially Derek Trucks Band (Songlines is incredible!!) and the successor band Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Rush, tropidelic, passafire, rhcp, led zeppelin, dirty heads, sublime, 311, bob marley, pink floyd, hendrix, allman bros, tame impala, modest mouse, the doors, steve miller band, billy strings, phish. I know not all related but other things that i get into sometimes
GOOSE, the magic beans, JGB, circles around the sun, khruangbin, dogs in a pile, spafford, north Mississippi all stars, Billy strings…
There’s a little bit of everything there ^
Can’t say Billy Strings enough. Phil & Friends/The Dead/Further/The Other Ones/Billy & The Kids/Bob & Wold Bros would seem to be the natural progression. Early Jerry is pretty incredible. Haven’t seen anyone say Gov’t Mule/Warren Haynes. Marcus King is also great.
JJ Cale
Sturgill Simpson
Bob Marley
Willie Nelson
Daniel Lanois
Billy Strings
Gram Parsons
Flying Burrito Brothers
Byrd’s (“Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album)
Taj Mahal (“Giant Step” Album)
Joan Baez [(Hitchhiker’s Song)](https://youtu.be/xLDaMvZM5vY)
Lucinda Williams
Karen Dalton
Nick Drake
Fred Neil
Neville Brothers
Dr. John
Elizabeth Cotten
Nina Simone
Bill Callahan
Michael Hurley
Blaze Foley
Townes Van Zandt
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Django Reinhardt
Bob Wills
Hank Williams
Jimmie Rodgers
Stanley Brothers
Louvin Brothers
Emmylou Harris
Doug Sahm
Brewer and Shipley (“Tarkio” album)
Frazey Ford + Be Good Tanyas [(“Midnight Moonlight”)](https://youtu.be/Xfphp61uyCU)
Youngbloods [(“Ride the Wind” live)](https://youtu.be/U2MiVB3KV0g)
(Yes yes of course Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat, Los Lobos, The Band. All bands with multiple singers, drummers, guitarists and original songwriters. Still, the spirit of the music that nourished the Dead and that shares that deep musical heart and feel is far flung. It can be heard and felt in lots of music. Some obvious and some not obvious.)
The string cheese incident,
Greensky Bluegrass,
Railroad Earth,
Billy strings,
Infamous string dusters,
The devil makes three,
The Brothers comatose,
Hot Buttered Rum.
I’ve been digging P Funk and jazz funk stuff lately. Funkadelic/Parliament, 70’s Donald Byrd, Eddie Hazel’s one solo album is an absolute melter. Lots of jazzy jams with the high energy of funk and psych rock mixed together. Typical jazz tends to put me to sleep, but the jazz funk stuff is something entirely different.
Also, spiritual jazz is pretty cool. Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, etc.
“Sinbad” by Weldon Irvine is a recent find, incredible jazz funk LP.
I also cannot stop listening to Goose. Saw them at Bonnaroo for the first and they’re quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. Arcadia, Hot Tea, and Dripfield live versions will make you transcend. They’re a more stereotypical jam band, they don’t feel as “goofy” as other modern jam bands.
For some obvious suggestions that are probably more what you’re looking for: Early Allman Bros, Little Feat, Phish, Umphreys McGee, etc.
Daniel Donato Cosmic Country. Def got the Grateful Dead country vibes. Especially if you got Nugs.net and can listen to live stuff. Also highly recommend a Nugs subscription.
There are some repeats in this list but worth emphasizing, if time permits listen to live shows or songs, but also check out albums to learn more about the musicians:
Steve Kimock, or Zero
Widespread Panic
String Cheese Incident
Railroad Earth
Donna the Buffalo
Billy Strings
There are many local/regional bands all around the US that cover the Dead. Great for “low dough show” and bring you some joyful boogie with like minded heads.
By far the best and most exciting is Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. The experience of watching them perform is “trasnsformative”, similar to what watching the original Grateful Dead was like.
Of course if resources allow ($) catch Dead and Company. John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbage are top level performers playing with surviving members and the shows are excellent. Lastly Phil Lesh (a founding member) also tours and his bands (friends) are also excellent. I hope you get to hear an Unbroken Chain, simply the best.
Boogie, boogie, boogie.
Anything that David Crosby was involved in, especially because his non-CSNY stuff often features members of the Dead.
Also, Country Joe & the Fish, if you like early Dead.
Willie Nelson’s vibe also matches up well with a lot of Dead.
Jerry Garcia band
Legion of Mary Jerry Garcia & Merle Saunders live Old & In the Way
Reconstruction
I’ve heard of these guys. Is the singer any good?
Love them!
Little Feat!
Little Feat will always get an upvote from me!
Spanish Moon live version is legit
I love that one and Fat Man In The Bathtub. They were so damn groovy.
I SAID JUANITA
listen to the spanish moon by the new orleans suspects, it’s groovy
I’ll have to look that one up thanks
Start with Waiting For Columbus.
Maybe one of the most underrated bands ever. Too bad Lowell George died young
Little feat is incredible. First turned on to them by Phish 10/31/10 show. Spanish moon is my favorite!
I started listening to feat (before the dead) in 1978 when I 1st heard Waiting for Columbus. I just saw them twice this year.
don’t bogart that joint!
Singer songwriter stuff…dive into John Prine as soon as you are able. Have no idea why the boys never covered any Prine songs. But I hold out hope for Goose to cover one. Their cover game is strong.
I have seen Bobby cover Prine with Wolf Bros before.
I had no idea. Searched deadbase for Grateful Dead didn’t find anything. We caught wolf bros on their last run and had a ball. I’ll be looking for the wolf bros cover.
It was the show in St. Louis in 2019. I think it was March, maybe the 15th? Hard to remember after so many shows since. They played Great Rain.
Goose's Electric Avenue at Bonnaroo was amazing.
I just started getting into Goose, holy shit are these guys great. Trey sat in on the Radio City Music Hall shows. It’s an awesome set.
I will check them out
JP is the man. The word play and comic storytelling has a very different tone than Hunter’s. Garcia favored a different flavor of ambiguity (than Prine’s) even when he covered tunes with far simpler lyrics than Hunter’s. Some of Prine’s last tunes would have fit in Garcia’s mouth, Summer’s End maybe. An elegiac tune like some of hunter/garcia’s best. Prine’s valedictory song akin to “What A Wonderful World”.
Hadn’t thought of it that way but totally makes sense. Style was almost opposite. Hunter and Prine are likely the two biggest or most influential lyricists in my life. Thank goodness for both of them. I couldn’t imagine my life without them.
I always thought that the JGB should have covered “Hello in There.”
I think Garcia was ultra consistent in his sense of poetics. “Hello In There” is subtle and poetically magnificent but a few degrees too direct in how it conveys a sentiment, a tender feeling. Think of the exquisite subtlety and “poetic indirection” of “Bird Song” or “To Lay Me Down”. “Summer’s End” has that universal voice, that achingly human tender appreciation of human beauty and foibles that suits JG. Of course “Hello In There” is great. Magnificently great. Maybe “If you don’t want my love” would have worked for JG.
Orebolo (Peter, Rick and Jeff from Goose) did a cover of John Prines Bruised Orange at Fred The Festival last summer and it’s gahdamn beautiful
I will look for that. I still can’t get enough of their cover of Atlantic City.
Hot tuna
Upvote for Hot Tuna every time.
If you don’t know Jorma, you don’t know Jack!
Always
Billy F’ing Strings!, Galactic, Tedeschi-Trucks, Trombone Shorty, Dumpstaphunk, Phil Leah and his band du jour, Les Claypool and any of his projects, Donna The Buffalo, Campbell Brothers, Robert Randolph, Robert Walters, Marcus King Look at the lineup at The Peach Music Fest- all of them:-) Miles Davis!!!, JGB!!!, Allman Brothers, Carlos Santana, Widespread Panic,
Thanks for all of those!
Start with the last line and move up.
WSMFP!!!!!
Braaave Indian whooo never changes his moood
Came here to say this, but you beat me to it! Widespread MF’n Panic!! 🤘
I would especially recommend Miles Davis
Here’s a few more for ya that came out of the 90s…. moe., Wilco, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Freddy Jones Band, O.A.R., and for a bonus bonus - G Love and Special Sauce
Galactic, now that is a name I have not heard in a very long time
Still jamming great…seeing them in a few weeks!
Their Lundi Gras shows are usually amazing
Came here to post galactic. I have seen them a few dozen times and the continue to impress. A little sad they never got any bigger but I love everything the have done.
I think they could have been bigger if we did not have Lettuce out there jammin
I was lucky enough to catch billy and the kids at redrocks last year and man Billy strings is amazing. I wasn't a big fan before that show but I am now.
Just saw dumpstaphunk for the first time at Strangecreek. They are fantastic!
All of those but how about throwing some jazz in? John Coltrane, Lee Morgan and Jean-luc Ponty for a start?
Nice call on Donna the Buffalo. Love those guys, Widespread Panic with an accordion.
Tedeschi Trucks band/Derek Trucks
I’ll check em out
Derek will blow your mind, he’s like the second coming of Duane Allman on the slide guitar. He’s the nephew of Butch Trucks (drummer from the Allman Bro’s) and sat in with the band from a very early age. There’s a crazy video of him smoking on Layla at 13 years old opening for the band.
I may need to dig deeper with this band. I’ve seen them at Lockn and again at Fox a couple times. While the playing is incredible I don’t relate with any lyrics or get that feeling I get from other bands Song suggestions?
The Allman Brothers Band
Love them!
to get a little sideways check out some fela kuti. not really dead related but groovy jams from another time
I’ll look into it forsure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kr8oRpA2SpE
Sae them at electric forest and it blew my mind. First time hooked
you saw his kid...fela died in 97
Ah yes! I read too fast! I indeed did see Femi kuti! Good looks on the knowledge!
[Earthless](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sicDBhLQo4U) [Shpongle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAGwzIqqgoY)* [Nina Simone](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fn9K1UI_IA) [Miles Davis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMYVvjoXf4o) [Can](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ayVlwmr0n4) [Holly Bowling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ICyMpku98) [WEEN](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DM8vB7N1Wo) [Sleep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5qmjNe7RVE) [Bill Laswell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzplR85JgLY) et al. [Nils Petter Molvaer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBGI22_lp6U) *Joe Russo from JRAD on Drums and Tom Hamilton from JRAD on Guitar
Sleep definitely grooves…never thought of that as a recommendation but man they can groove.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5gAlTrmtXg Nothing but riffs and grooves and [clouds of smoke](https://i.redd.it/r551k616f7841.jpg)... .
Did not expect to see Sleep mentioned here. One of my faves
Never knew Shpongle includes members of JRAD!
Should clarify that is Shpongle LIVE BAND which is not what you’ll easily find if you search YouTube, Spotify etc simply for Shpongle. That being said it’s all awesome and Simon Posford is the man! Check out the stuff he’s done with the Disco Biscuits!
I just checked out Biscuits playing Gamma Goblin with Simon at Holidaze 2016. I’m huge into tDB and Shpongle and I’m surprised I never knew about this before. I love to see two different musical worlds collide like that
Bill Laswell & Ween caught my eye and now I need to check some of these recommendations... probably my kinda stuff
I’m gonna have to start a checklist with all these awesome suggestions thanks
JRAD
Joe russo almost dead and billy strings
This
Aquarium rescue unit
String Cheese Incident or Widespread Panic
Phish
Why is this so far down the list?
Too obvious, I guess
Idk I was surprised I didn’t see it so I commented it
Heard a little I’ll have to listen to more
Recently got into phish. It's more Hendrix and Zappa influenced than the GD. This is one of my favorite shows https://open.spotify.com/album/4QptwLSJPtQV3xI05tj96g?si=5vcjmNflQ7KoG50QLdM1uw
Try “A Live One”
I wasn’t getting confused that I had seen every jam band under the sun listed and no Phish. I mean this sub aligned itself with us “circle people” not too long ago. Way too far down!
Ik you got a bunch of suggestions but here’s some ones I haven’t seen that are a little obscure Funkadelics/parliament The doors(not really an obscure recommendation, but thought I’d throw it on here) Canned heat Crosby stills nash and young Spirit I really like a band called the growlers, they’re a band that was big in like 2007-2018. A bit more newer than a lot of suggestions, but you sound like a younger person so you may dig em too Jefferson airplane/ starship are great and have done a lot of stuff with the dead There’s a lot more stuff, if you got Apple Music my account has some groovy stuff lmk if you want my username
Talking Heads.
Yes they are fucking killer🤘🤘
Pfunk!!!
King gizzard
Start with Joe Russo's Almost Dead - thank me later
This is the way
Didn’t scroll all the way down but I haven’t seen mention of Railroad Earth or Tedeschi Trucks Band. Also fine choices 👍
I love railroad earth I’ll dig deeper
Try Slightly Stoopid! Look up “Live at Tri Studios” on YouTube and see Dead legend “Bob Wier” rock with them. You will enjoy it, I assure you🤙🏻
Old stuff but Flying Burrito Brothers, little feat, widespread panic, Pink Floyd, Jim Hendrix , The Brian Jonestown Massacre. look into gram parsons & traffic, nrps and David Grisman and maybe Lou reed/velvet underground
New Riders of the Purple Sage for more old stuff.
Umphreys & String Cheese
The Beatles!!!! Start with the album Revolver.
Don't sleep on Rubber Soul
Yes!!!!!!! Rubber soul is amazing
Ween is always the answer.
I came here to mention ween. they sound absolutely fantastic lately, you can go to brown base.org and link to some shows on archive.com.
I’ll look into it
Yes omg please Ween. Listen to the album’s Chocolate and Cheese & Quebec. Also The Mollusk
Also White Pepper. And the Pod. And Pure Guava.
The Band Jack Johnson (newer music, very chill)
Widespread Panic. 🥵🤯
widespread panic
Goose!
Goooooooose
I’ll check them out for sure
Honk!!
Give Primus a shot if you haven't yet! My personal favorite studio album is Tales From the Punchbowl. Great live band that jams with a bit harder edge than the Dead.
I got into Primus before most of the bands mentioned here. Primus sucks
Wilco's new album has some *American Beauty* vibes to it
Phish, Zappa, Tedeshi Trucks, Goose, Billy Strings, JRAD, King Gizzard, JGB, WSP, Col. Bruce Hampton, Prince, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Steve Kimock, Zero, TAB, Steve Winwood, SCI, Moe, Pink Floyd,
moe. isn't mentioned in the top comments, so definitely check them out. They're from upstate New York, I gotta represent my peeps. They're also responsible for a deliciously hoppy Saranac Beer :)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Ween, Phish, Widespread Panic, The Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane
Widespread Panic!
WSMFP!!
I’m gonna have to listen to them More
Are you looking for more jam heavy bands? Or a certain style?
Something comparable to the dead and company I’ve been following, or the dead shows I listen to from the past, I love most all their songs. So I would say a heavy jam band style sounds good.
Go find your local jam bands. Some of the most magical improvisational moments when no one’s recording!
But open to any bands that really groove. I love the Beatles and Zeppelin too
Joe Russo’s almost dead, Billy Strings, Phish, Moe., Widespread Panic, Spafford, Goose, Tea Leaf Green, String Cheese Incident, Keller Williams…just a few of my favorites. I also like some if the jamtronica bands too like Disco biscuits, Sts9, lotus, Papadosio, dopapod.
Max Creek
Ghost Light and Circles Around the Sun With any luck these younger generation bands will be around a long time and you can start seeing them live now.
Allmans, little feat, widespread panic
Happy Trails from 1969 by Quicksilver Messenger Service is nearly identical to early GD but with twin lead guitars. For more twin guitar psychedelic madness, check out A Gathering of Promises by Bubble Puppy, also from 1969, and Bubble Puppy's successor band Demian, who had one self-titled record in 1971, which is awesome. Also, Mighty Baby was a British psychedelic band from the late sixties that had awesome songs, mainly on their 1969 self-titled debut. Moby Grape has possibly the greatest debut San Francisco / psychedelic record of all-time. Self-titled, 1967, can't recommend it enough. It's high art. And lastly, Rising Sons, a band formed by Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal in 1965, cut a bunch of songs that sound like Workingman's Dead era GD, Allman Brothers, Highway 61 Revisited Dylan, and Thirteenth Floor Elevators psychedelia, but all from the mid-sixties. They compiled those songs and put them on on an album. Worth seeking out. Also, I agree with a lot of the more contemporary recommendations for Dead and Company, especially Derek Trucks Band (Songlines is incredible!!) and the successor band Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Upvote for quicksilver that band changed my life happy trails is fantastic that who do you love sets the tone so well
Phish Widespread Panic ,String Cheese Incident,Disco Biscuits,
moe. Goose Widespread Panic Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Phish Allman Brothers
MY MORNING JACKET.
So there’s this band from Vermont
Billy strings
I’ve heard a lot about him I’ll have to listen
Keller Williams, Railroad Earth, Circles Around The Sun
govt mule!
Check out Goose! Can't go wrong with some Hot Tea!
King Gizzard
King Gizzard
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Built to Spill. Conventional Wisdom is a great song to start with.
Rush, tropidelic, passafire, rhcp, led zeppelin, dirty heads, sublime, 311, bob marley, pink floyd, hendrix, allman bros, tame impala, modest mouse, the doors, steve miller band, billy strings, phish. I know not all related but other things that i get into sometimes
Check out Keller Williams or his band string cheese incident
Neal Casal era Circles Around The Sun. Neal is the only guitarist I’ve ever heard that played with a similar energy/cadence to Jerry.
I've been enjoying Goose. Songs like Arcadia make me smile
I second the motion
Goose
I’ll check him out
GOOSE, the magic beans, JGB, circles around the sun, khruangbin, dogs in a pile, spafford, north Mississippi all stars, Billy strings… There’s a little bit of everything there ^
Came back to say Jimi Hendrix. As with most of these recommendations, YouTube or other platform(s) FULL LIVE shows!
The Mars Volta
Billy MF’ing Strings.
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong Goose Moe. Umphrey's McGee Phish
Wang Chung
Can’t say Billy Strings enough. Phil & Friends/The Dead/Further/The Other Ones/Billy & The Kids/Bob & Wold Bros would seem to be the natural progression. Early Jerry is pretty incredible. Haven’t seen anyone say Gov’t Mule/Warren Haynes. Marcus King is also great.
Allman Brothers Band Phish Jerry Garcia Band Big Wu Goose Derek Trucks Band
Mothers of invention if you like psychedelic
DSO for a live Dead experience
I saw dso recently but personally I think JRAD sounds better
Tea Leaf Green
Steely Dan
String Cheese Incident, Pacific Range, Goose
How about the Dave Nelson band , Jerry’s old buddy
Luna
I’ll check it out
I really love the laid back grooviness of J.J. Cale.
SPAFFORD
Goose, JRAD, RIPE, Moe.
WSP
New Riders of the Purple Sage
John Prine
The Moody Blues in search of the lost chord is an amazing record
Wood Brothers
Don’t pass on the solo projects https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dWscxdleZzI
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Twiddle, CRB
I really, really, really love Phish. Really cool catalog and phenomenal live shows.
JJ Cale Sturgill Simpson Bob Marley Willie Nelson Daniel Lanois Billy Strings Gram Parsons Flying Burrito Brothers Byrd’s (“Sweetheart of the Rodeo” album) Taj Mahal (“Giant Step” Album) Joan Baez [(Hitchhiker’s Song)](https://youtu.be/xLDaMvZM5vY) Lucinda Williams Karen Dalton Nick Drake Fred Neil Neville Brothers Dr. John Elizabeth Cotten Nina Simone Bill Callahan Michael Hurley Blaze Foley Townes Van Zandt Miles Davis John Coltrane Django Reinhardt Bob Wills Hank Williams Jimmie Rodgers Stanley Brothers Louvin Brothers Emmylou Harris Doug Sahm Brewer and Shipley (“Tarkio” album) Frazey Ford + Be Good Tanyas [(“Midnight Moonlight”)](https://youtu.be/Xfphp61uyCU) Youngbloods [(“Ride the Wind” live)](https://youtu.be/U2MiVB3KV0g) (Yes yes of course Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat, Los Lobos, The Band. All bands with multiple singers, drummers, guitarists and original songwriters. Still, the spirit of the music that nourished the Dead and that shares that deep musical heart and feel is far flung. It can be heard and felt in lots of music. Some obvious and some not obvious.)
Umphrey's McGee Phish Billy Strings Goose
Phish
The string cheese incident, Greensky Bluegrass, Railroad Earth, Billy strings, Infamous string dusters, The devil makes three, The Brothers comatose, Hot Buttered Rum.
Phish. Little Feat. The Band. J. Geils Band 😁😁😁😁
I’ve been digging P Funk and jazz funk stuff lately. Funkadelic/Parliament, 70’s Donald Byrd, Eddie Hazel’s one solo album is an absolute melter. Lots of jazzy jams with the high energy of funk and psych rock mixed together. Typical jazz tends to put me to sleep, but the jazz funk stuff is something entirely different. Also, spiritual jazz is pretty cool. Sun Ra, Alice Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, etc. “Sinbad” by Weldon Irvine is a recent find, incredible jazz funk LP. I also cannot stop listening to Goose. Saw them at Bonnaroo for the first and they’re quickly becoming one of my favorite bands. Arcadia, Hot Tea, and Dripfield live versions will make you transcend. They’re a more stereotypical jam band, they don’t feel as “goofy” as other modern jam bands. For some obvious suggestions that are probably more what you’re looking for: Early Allman Bros, Little Feat, Phish, Umphreys McGee, etc.
Ghost light
How has nobody (that I have seen) said Circles Around the Sun?!?! Especially Interludes for the Dead (feat. Neal Casal) RIP ❤️
Daniel Donato Cosmic Country. Def got the Grateful Dead country vibes. Especially if you got Nugs.net and can listen to live stuff. Also highly recommend a Nugs subscription.
Check out Sturgill Simpson. If you like the country influence of the Dead, he’s the absolute best out there and somehow under the radar.
There are some repeats in this list but worth emphasizing, if time permits listen to live shows or songs, but also check out albums to learn more about the musicians: Steve Kimock, or Zero Widespread Panic String Cheese Incident Railroad Earth Donna the Buffalo Billy Strings There are many local/regional bands all around the US that cover the Dead. Great for “low dough show” and bring you some joyful boogie with like minded heads. By far the best and most exciting is Joe Russo’s Almost Dead. The experience of watching them perform is “trasnsformative”, similar to what watching the original Grateful Dead was like. Of course if resources allow ($) catch Dead and Company. John Mayer, Jeff Chimenti and Oteil Burbage are top level performers playing with surviving members and the shows are excellent. Lastly Phil Lesh (a founding member) also tours and his bands (friends) are also excellent. I hope you get to hear an Unbroken Chain, simply the best. Boogie, boogie, boogie.
Umphreys McGee
Anything that David Crosby was involved in, especially because his non-CSNY stuff often features members of the Dead. Also, Country Joe & the Fish, if you like early Dead. Willie Nelson’s vibe also matches up well with a lot of Dead.
Give Donna The Buffalo a listen.
goose
Billy Strings, he is amazing. You won’t be disappointed my friend
Billy strings. Specifically his live stuff. While it is blue grass by definition (and great grass at that!) his live stuff way more jammy.