Uncle John's Band

Artist: 
Grateful Dead
Album: 
Workingman's Dead
Track #: 
1
Written By: 
Jerry Garcia
Time: 
04.42

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"Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead. Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter, "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.