Credit: Courtesy Dancing bears, roses and skeletons, lightning bolts — all things to describe timeless rock and roll band the Grateful Dead, with Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist missing a middle finger, ...

In 1964, he was hired as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the Blue Grass Boys. By 1967, Rowan left Monroe and started collaborating with mandolinist David Grisman.

The late Jerry Garcia played a key role in cementing the Grateful Dead’s legacy as the behemoth it is today, serving as the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist.

Jerry Garcia was an American musician best known as the lead guitarist and vocalist with the Grateful Dead. Garcia’s music with the Grateful Dead, like “Truckin’,” “Casey Jones,” and “Touch of Grey,” ...

Oteil Burbridge doesn’t recall where the idea came from: Make a bass guitar version of Grateful Dead legend Jerry Garcia’s custom guitar known as “Wolf.” But Burbridge -- who resided in ...

The Grateful Dead was not exactly hard rock, so the late Jerry Garcia doesn’t always get his due as one of rock’s great lead guitar soloists.

When asked, the 72-year-old singer initially downplayed his relationship with the Dead’s fabled lead guitarist, who died at a Bay Area drug treatment center on Aug. 9, 1995.

In celebration of the late Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Jerry Garcia’s birthday (Aug. 1), Deadheads annually congregate at Jerry Jam, a three-day festival in Middle Island focused on his music.