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    John Dawson, Country-Rock Songwriter, Dies at 64

    Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:24:11

    Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, David Nelson, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart


    John Dawson, Country-Rock Songwriter, Dies at 64

    John Dawson, a singer and songwriter whose band New Riders of the Purple Sage began as a country-rock offshoot of the Grateful Dead but had a long life of its own, died on Tuesday in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he lived. He was 64. John Dawson ...Full Story at The New York Times »

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