BLACK MUDDY RIVER

Created on 12/09/2017
Latest update on 28/06/2023

Artist: Grateful Dead
Author: Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter
Label: Arista
Year: 1987

On In The Dark. Was the first of two encores during Grateful Dead's very last show at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995.

Covers:

1996:

Norma Waterson [with Martin Carthy]

2004:

Waterson:Carthy

2016:

Bruce Hornsby

2017:

Gregg Allman

First line (and overall theme) come from Thomas Moore's poem The Last Rose Of Summer (1805), set to music by Sir John Stevenson. That musical similarity also ripples through some way.

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