The Grateful Dead's long, strange trip has been the subject of countless books—but none like So Many Roads. Drawing on new interviews with surviving members and people in their inner circle along with previously unknown details gleaned from the group's extensive archives, David Browne, acclaimed music journalist and contributing editor at Rolling Stone, lends the Dead's epic story the vivid feel of a novel. He sheds new light on the band's beginnings, music, dynamics, and struggles since Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.
No longer dismissed as relics of the hippie era, a new generation has lionized the Dead for creating a culture that paved the way for social networking, free music swapping, and the uncompromising anti-corporate attitude of indie rock. Now, fifty years after the band first began changing rock 'n' roll—both sonically and psychically—So Many Roads paints the most vivid portrait yet of the Grateful Dead, one of the most enduring institutions in American music and culture.
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“Righteous testimonial to the anarchic goodness that was the Grateful Dead…While the author doesn’t shy away from the band’s pharmaceutical inventory, neither does he let that get in the way of his assessment of the music…Fittingly, half of the book is devoted to the first ten years of the band. Just as fittingly, the second half takes the Dead from ragged band of hippies to post-’60s corporation…He also appropriately places emphasis on things other biographers have overlooked…One of the better books on the band and welcome reading in this fiftieth anniversary year.”
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