The music kept going. The Grateful Dead family tree is live.
A band is rarely just a band. Especially this one.
The Grateful Dead family tree is live on its own site. Dead Atlas follows the musicians and ensembles around the Dead, from the early roots to side projects and later reunions. Choose a person or a band and see where the music went.
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Start with a name. Find another band.
You might arrive for Jerry Garcia and leave listening to a group you had only heard mentioned in passing. Or start with Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, or a keyboard player whose other work deserves a longer listen.
The band timeline gives you a route through the years. The People view offers another way in. Open a musician to see their bands, or open a band to meet the people who played in it. Each turn gives the family tree another branch.
More than the band in the middle
The Dead sits at the center of a much wider musical world: bluegrass, soul, jazz, country, percussion, and plenty of places where those boundaries get pleasantly blurry. The side projects are part of that story, not footnotes to rush past.
The tree covers selected documented branches, with coverage notes and sources on the site. It is an invitation to explore that world, rather than a claim to contain every person who ever crossed its path. Pick the name that catches your eye. Then give the next band a listen.
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Keep going through the Rabbit Hole. If you came for a shirt, the new releases are over here.