New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Madison Square Gardens New York City 1973 (Live) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

01. WNEW FM Introduction (Live)
02. Salt Pork West Virginia (Live)
03. Anytime (Live)
04. Cup Of Coffee (Live)
05. Don't Think Twice It's Alright (Live)
06. House Of The Rising Sun (Live)
07. I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Live)
08. Ain't Nobody's Business (Live)
09. If I Were A Carpenter (Live)
10. WNEW FM Radio Interviews (Live)
11. I Don't Know You (Live)
12. One Too Many Stories (Live)
13. Rainbow (Live)
14. It's Alright With Me (Live)
15. Teardrops In My Eyes (Live)
16. Lochinvar (Live)
17. Truck Driving Man (Live)
18. Contract (Live)
19. Take A Letter Maria (Live)
20. School Days (Live)
21. Long Black Veil (Live)
22. Hello Mary Lou (Live)
23. Henry (Live)
24. Crazy Arms (Live)
25. Sutter's Mill (Live)
26. California Day (Live)
27. Sweet Lovin' One (Live)
28. Connection (Live)
29. Whiskey (Live)
30. WNEW FM Radio Interviews (Live)
31. Cold Jordan (Live)
32. I Hear A Voice Callin' (Live)
33. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Live)
34. Groupie (Live)
35. She's No Angel (Live)
36. You Should Have Seen Me Running (Live)
37. I Don't Need No Doctor (Live)
38. Portland Woman (Live)
39. Glendale Train (Live)
40. Last Lonely Eagle (Live)
41. Louisiana Eagle (Live)
42. Honky Tonk Women (Live)
43. Willie and The Hand Jive (Live)
44. WNEW FM Radio Interview (Live)
45. The Race Is On (Live)
46. Johnny B. Goode (Live)
47. WNEW FM Radio Outro (Live)


 moreEssentially, the New Riders of the Purple Sage (their name derives from
an old country outfit, Foy Willing and the Riders of the Purple Sage, who in
turn took the name from an old Western novel) were initially formed as a vehicle
for Garcia, Lesh, and Hart to indulge their tastes for country music beyond the
albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. Their original lineup at early
performances consisted of Garcia on pedal steel, Lesh on bass, John Dawson (born
1945) on rhythm guitars and vocals, sometime Dead contributor-member David
Nelson on lead guitars, mandolin, and vocals, and Mickey Hart on drums. The New
Riders quickly evolved into more of a free-standing unit, with Dave Torbert
succeeding Lesh, and ex-Jefferson Airplane member Spencer Dryden on the drums,
succeeding Hart. They also developed an identity of their own through Dawson's
songwriting, which had an appealing command of melody and beat.

The group was a little shaky as a country-rock outfit, without the strengths of
soulfulness or strong in-house songwriting of, say, Poco or the Burrito
Brothers, but their association with Garcia and the Dead (Lesh co-produced one
album) gave them a significant leg up in terms of publicity and finding an
audience. High school and college kids who'd scarcely heard of Gram Parsons or
Jim Messina but owned more than one Dead album, were likely in those days to
own, or have a friend who owned, at least one New Riders album. That translated
into many thousands of sales of the self-titled first album, which proved an apt
and pleasing companion to Workingman's Dead and American Beauty with its mix of
country and psychedelic sounds. By the second album, Buddy Cage had come in on
pedal steel, replacing Garcia, and their sound had firmed up, helped by the fact
that Dawson and Torbert were good songwriters.

Powerglide, their second album, proved that they had what it took to stand
separate from the Dead, even though Garcia and Bill Kreutzmann played on a
handful of cuts. The group continued to attract a following through the early
and mid-'70s, mixing country-rock and folk sounds (Buffy St. Marie was a guest
vocalist on the 1974 hit album The Adventures of Panama Red) and attracting the
mellower component of recreational drug users. By the end of the decade,
following a label change from Columbia to MCA, it seemed as though they were
running out of steam and originality, however, and the growth in popularity of
punk, disco, and power pop made them seem like an anachronism, along with most
other country-rock outfits of the era. Ex-Byrd Skip Battin joined in 1975,
replacing Torbert; Dryden gave up playing in 1978 to assume management of the
band, and by 1981, Nelson was gone.

The New Riders essentially disbanded in 1982, although the name was later picked
up by a new lineup built around Gary Vogensen (guitar) and Rusty Gautier (bass).
Nelson subsequently played with the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band and assumed the
de facto role of group archivist, supervising the release of unissued tapes by
the band through the Relix label. © Bruce Eder



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