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OBITUARY: John 'Marmaduke' Dawson Founder of New Riders of the Purple Sage Passes

John "Marmaduke" Dawson had original tunes in his pocket and a guitar in his hand in 1969 when a buddy just learning to play pedal steel guitar often joined his weekly gig at the Underground, a Bay Area hofbrau house. The friend was Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead, and those sessions set the stage for the New Riders of the Purple Sage, a group they considered "the original psychedelic cowboy band...

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21:02 on July 26 2009

OBITUARY: John 'Marmaduke' Dawson Founder of New Riders of the Purple Sage Passes

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