Death, death and more death

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Bob Weir for me was an excellent writer and guitarist, and I always liked his contributions on Dead albums. What helped me get into Dead music was my mom introducing me to Texas Outlaw Country when I was about to graduate high school and I found that there was a kind of country that I could get into that had a richer sense of storytelling in its lyrics and more of a rock vibe to it than the Nashburg Muck coming out in the 80s. (Even country fans agree that the 80s were pretty awful for country.) When I got to college, I decided to try out a few Grateful Dead albums and was locked in on American Beauty and Workingman's Dead, both of which dropped the psychedelic stuff for more straight-ahead country and folk-flavored rock, very much like that Texas Outlaw stuff I liked. They lost me again in the Godcheaux era, but I was glad to get my copy of Touch of Grey when it came out at a rock bottom time of my life in mid-1987.

Give "Hell in a Bucket" a try, it's by Bob Weir and one of my favorite Dead tunes.