Dead Rider Shares Cover Of Grateful Dead’s ‘Ramble On Rose’

Drag City Records will release a new Dead Rider album entitled Crew Licks on September 22. The album’s lead single is a cover of a classic song originally performed by the Grateful Dead.

The Chicago-based group led by Todd Rittman is following up their 2014 Drag City debut Chills On Glass. The new nine-song record features the art-rockers’ cover of “Ramble On Rose.” Here’s how a press release describes their arrangement of the classic Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter composition:

[A] torched/scorched/morphed, does-this-even-count-as-a-cover?-cover evoking ghosts of the Dead. The beat of “Ramble on Rose” is lode-bearing, brick-house solid, but flexible and with room to breath. The groove creeps and wafts through the room with the gloss of eternal rhythm and blues, swelling the shades of a dusty, aphrodisiac evening.

Head here to pre-order Crew Licks and stream “Ramble On Rose” below:

Crew Licks Tracklist

1. Grand Mal Blues
2. Ramble On Rose
3. The Listing
4. The Ideal
5. The Floating Dagger
6. Too Cruise
7. (Title Redacted)
8. Bad Humours
9. When i Was Frankenstein’s