Listening to Bob Harris Country earlier tonight, Bob was presenting a Country Rock special (a pre-recorded show, because I know he’s in the USA at present). Anyway he introduced a song by Pure Prairie League, who are a band I thought I know by no more then their name. My recollection is they were somehow associated with The Grateful Dead.
But he played this song, Amie, which it turned out is really familiar to me. I don’t know where I’ve heard it. I certainly didn’t know it was them, but it’s a song I know well enough to sing along to the chorus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4xp2lgiAjY
Has anyone had similar experiences recently?
No, but the League are great, Amie being, perhaps, a weaker link in their canon.
Unaware of any GD link, always saw them as steel-packing mavericks out on their own.
Great band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuPL6d7LA2g
I thought Jerry Garcia had been a peripatetic member. Extracurricular activity for him when he was not playing in The Dead or drugging.
Any resident Deadheads who can advise, one way or the other?
Not a resident Deadhead but i think you are recalling New Riders of the Purple Sage. Contained members of the Dead.
I can see how those two could get mixed up. “Sage” and “Prairie” and the same time of emergence.
Jerry Garcia and Mickey Hart played on the first NRPS album. Phil Lesh was one of the producers. Garcia and Bill Kreutzmann played on the second one and that was it, really. Probably too busy with GD duties.
Have to say I didn’t think NRPS were all that, at the time. Pure Prairie League are a name that rings a bell but no more than that, really.
Yeah, John Dawson and David Nelson of the New Riders sing on one track (“Cold Jordan”) of “Dick’s Picks vol. 8” – the Grateful Dead’s 2 May 1970 show at Harpur College, Binghamton, New York.
The first set is acoustic, the second electric. If you’re a Deadhead, then you’ll be familiar with this famous show. Absolutely brilliant, five-star stuff. Contains a 16-minute version of “Viola Lee Blues” that blows my mind quite comprehensively.
No Deadhead here either, but I’m wondering if you’re thinking of Old And In The Way, as Garcia certainly was a member of them.
I always thought the NRPS were a bit duff, 2nd leaguers behind the Burritos, never realising that PPL were beavering away with little acclaim outside their state. Mind you, I’m a sucker for any rock band with a pedal steel.
I loved them both, but actually preferred NRPS to The Flying Burrito Brothers.