The Bay Area's New Riders of the Purple Sage began as a Grateful Dead side project and ended up becoming a seminal country cult band. Artist: New Riders Of The Purple Sage. Tracklist: 01 â Truck Drivinâ Man (Live) The Bay Area's New Riders of the Purple Sage began as a Grateful Dead side project and ended up becoming a seminal country cult band. Columbia C 30888. But Brujo was the New Riders of the Purple Sage's sixth album in just over three years. New Riders of the Purple Sage is the only studio album by the New Riders to feature co-founder Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead on pedal steel guitar. The first NRPS album. Harking back to the era of singers who did not write their own songs, most record contracts continued to call for two albums a year in the 1970s, a provision most recording artists seemed to ignore. Garcia was a full time member of the group at the time and plays on all tracks. As a result, their sound was placed somewhere between country rock and psychedelic rock, although the agreed-upon philosophy kept it closer to the former. The New Riders Of The Purple Sage The New Riders Of The Purple Sage Initial release : August 1971. Where I Come From is the fourteenth studio album by the American country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. The band was made up of John "Marmaduke" Dawson, Dave Tolbert & David Nelson, but was augmented by Jerry Garcia on steel guitar, Mickey Hart on percussion and Spencer Dryden on drums. New Riders Of The Purple Sage's debut album is one of the best country rock albums of the early 70's. Released: 2020. 20 talking about this. Album: Field Trip. They quickly expanded their roster with top musicians from Bay Area bands. Official Archival Facebook home for New Riders Of The Purple Sage⦠Durations: foobar2000 v1.3.10 The individual CD's are packed in cardboard sleeves, all in a cardboard box. The New Riders' 1971 debut album mated a hippie/stoner sensibility with a love of classic country music. Size: 161 Mb. The songs penned by bandleader John Dawson suggest a background steeped in the ⦠Style: Rock. Format: MP3 320Kbps. New Riders of the Purple Sage is the self-titled debut album by the American country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. New Riders of the Purple Sage formed in 1969 as a collaboration between Jerry Garcia and songwriter John Dawson. In their early years, the New Riders began picking up the pieces of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead.Jerry Garcia picked the pedal steel, while John Dawson sang and played rhythm guitar; Phil Lesh took on bass duties as ⦠It was recorded in 2008, and released on the Woodstock Records label on June 2, 2009. Editorsâ Notes The Grateful Dead's country cousins New Riders of the Purple Sage embody the "cosmic American music" tag coined by their fellow California country-rocker Gram Parsons. It was released by Columbia Records in 1971, and reached number 39 on the Billboard charts. In their early years, the New Riders began picking up the pieces of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead.Jerry Garcia picked the pedal steel, while John Dawson sang and played rhythm guitar; Phil Lesh took on bass duties as ⦠Tracks 1-11 to 1-13 and 3-12 to 3-15 are bonus tracks, not on original album.