The Grateful Dead Recorded and Performed Songs By Blues These Artists

Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller "Beat it on Down the Line" "Monkey and the Engineer"

Robert Johnson "Walkin' Blues"

Noah Lewis (on far right with Cannon's Jug Stompers) "Big Railroad Blues" "New Minglewood Blues" "Viola Lee Blues"

Reverend Gary Davis "Death Don't Have No Mercy" "Samson and Delilah"

In addition to these artists the Grateful Dead performed songs by other blues greats - like Chuck Berry, Sonny Boy Williamson, Bo Diddley, Otis Redding, and Muddy Waters.  They also did songs by country singers Johnny Cash, Marty Robbins, and Hank Williams - folk artists like Woody Guthrie - and rock musician/songwriters like Van Morrison, Robby Robertson, and the Beatles.

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Willie Dixon "Little Red Rooster" "The Same Thing" "Wang Dang Doodle" "Spoonful" and others