New Riders of the Purple Sage News

Frank Vignola and Bucky Pizzarelli will play an extraordinary jazz show beginning at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Rosendale Cafe.

The folks at Tupelo Music Hall Salisbury brag about the intimate oceanfront venue, where most of the 400-plus seats are within 50 feet of the stage.

The cover of the new CD from New Riders of the Purple Sage left me feeling pretty good, as I looked it over this week.

REX ANNOUNCES $100,000 IN GRANTS, UPCOMING CARAVAN EVENTS INCLUDE KELLER WILLIAMS, GRACE POTTER AND THE NOCTURNALS Keller Williams Furthering a tradition of grassroots giving, the Rex Foundation, a charitable organization originally founded by members of the Grateful Dead , announced its 2009 awards and grants, totaling $100,000, to 25 programs ...

The band has some out-of-town gigs on the schedule, including a show at next weekend's Riverhawk Festival in Brooksville.

The band, one of Orlando's best, was kind enough to send along its upcoming schedule.

It was a Saturday night, and The Cove, located on the corner of 91st Street and Fourth Avenue, would have a "one night only" performance of the hit country-rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage at midnight.

John "Marmaduke" Dawson had original tunes in his pocket and a guitar in his hands in 1969 when a buddy just learning to play pedal steel guitar often joined his weekly gig at the Underground, a San Francisco Bay Area hofbrau house.

John "Marmaduke" Dawson had original tunes in his pocket and a guitar in his hands in 1969 when a buddy just learning to play pedal steel guitar often joined his weekly gig at the Underground, a San Francisco Bay Area hofbrau house.

John "Marmaduke" Dawson had original tunes in his pocket and a guitar in his hands in 1969 when a buddy just learning to play pedal steel guitar often joined his weekly gig at the Underground, a San Francisco Bay Area hofbrau house.

On July 21, John "Marmaduke" Dawson, the co-founder of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, lost a long battle with stomach cancer.

When crafting songs for the group's first album in 20 years, New Riders of the Purple Sage leader David Nelson went back to an old friend.

Our celebration of recently departed hippie-country music pioneer John "Marmaduke" Dawson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage's legacy started a conversation about the history of "headneck" music: tunes beloved in equal measure to cowboys, hippies, bikers and all varieties of stoner hicks, country heads and longhaired rednecks.

Longtime Grateful Dead collaborator and co-founder of the New Riders Of The Purple Sage John Dawson died last week at the age of 64.

New Riders of the Purple Sage, live at Fillmore East, April 29, 1971. Click here for the setlist, or to download the whole thing as MP3s Dilettantes dabbling in the genre of country music have always had a hard time, from hippies like Gram Parsons to his modern day alt-country hipster inheritors.

JOHN "MARMADUKE" DAWSON John Dawson John "Marmaduke" Dawson passed away peacefully on July 21, 2009 at the age of 64 in Mexico, where he had retired several years ago.

Long before the secret world of closeted black gay men came to light in America, bestselling author E. Lynn Harris introduced a generation of black women to the phenomenon known as the "down low." Harris endeared such characters to readers who were otherwise unfamiliar with them, using themes and backdrops familiar to urban professionals, ...

'Star Wars in Concert' going global LOS ANGELES - A worldwide 'Star Wars' concert tour will hyperdrive across the planet.

New Riders of the Purple Sage singer John Dawson, aka Marmaduke, died of stomach cancer Wednesday.

As previously reported, New Riders of the Purple Sage co-founder John "Marmaduke" Dawson died yesterday at the age of 64.