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Robert Hunter

Book Excerpt by Bruce Pollock, 'In Their Own Words' (Collier Books), 1975

ROBERT HUNTER is the resident lyricist for the Grateful Dead, rock eminences of the San Francisco scene. An underground poet with a solo album, Tales ...

Robert Hunter: Tiger Rose

Review by Andy Childs, ZigZag, November 1975

ALTHOUGH IT'S COMMON news by now that the Grateful Dead have ceased their collective activities until the summer of next year, a whole complicated mess ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, April 1980

IN NOVEMBER, 1979, someone dear to the hearts of Dark Star's staff and readers crossed the briny deep to play a couple of largely under-publicised ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview #2

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, August 1980

Dark Star: David Grisman and Vassar Clements were beefing on once about the fact that they never got any money from Old And In The ...

"Sometimes The Cards Ain't Worth A Dime... If You Don't Lay 'Em Down": The Robert Hunter Interview #3

Interview by Ken Hunt, Dark Star, December 1980

HOW DID you come to get involved with Roadhog? As far as I can tell, they were an existing band. ...

Hart and Hunter: Opening the Mystery Box

Interview by Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 31 May 1996

So what's so mysterious about the Mystery Box?Mickey Hart: The musical mystery is, How do you marry tuned percussion and voice? And on a metaphorical ...

Q&A: Mickey Hart & Robert Hunter

Interview by Richard Gehr, Rolling Stone, 5 September 1996

IT'S BEEN A hectic, emotional year for former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart and the band's longtime lyricist Robert Hunter. After coming to grips with ...

The Grateful Dead: Days of the Living Dead

Interview by Mark Rowland, Musician, October 1996

TWO HOURS north of San Francisco, you can drive a country road that snakes past a redwood grove, into a driveway that curls around a ...

Unsung Heroes: Robert Hunter

Retrospective and Interview by Mick Houghton, Uncut, October 2010

The man who put the words into Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia's mouths... ...

see also Grateful Dead

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