{"id":626864,"date":"2026-08-08T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/626864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T09:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:55:23","slug":"who-voted-for-the-100-best-grateful-dead-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/626864\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Voted for the 100 Best Grateful Dead Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

We asked a large group of longtime fans to give us their favorite Dead classics <\/p>\n

\n\tWe asked a group of 50 musicians, writers, music industry figures, entertainers, and one former United States senator to submit ranked ballots listing their top 25 Grateful Dead<\/a> songs. Their ballots were tabulated to make our list. Here is who voted.<\/p>\nNameCredentials<\/tr>\n\nKevin Barker<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJay Blakesberg<\/strong><\/td>\nPhotographer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nRicki Blakesberg<\/strong><\/td>\nPhotographer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nSteve Bloom<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nStephen Brower<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDean Budnick<\/strong><\/td>\nEditor-in-chief, Relix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDavid Browne<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist and author, So Many Roads<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAndy Cabic<\/strong><\/td>\nVetiver<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nZach Cowie<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic supervisor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMitch Davis<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDaniel Donato<\/strong><\/td>\nCosmic Country<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nThomas Bryan Eaton<\/strong><\/td>\nBertha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBenjy Eisen<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist and co-author, Deal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAl Franken<\/strong><\/td>\nFormer U.S. senator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDavid Fricke<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBen Fong-Torres<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nKraig Fox<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMike Greenhaus<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist and Editor-in-Chief, Relix<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEric Greenspan<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic attorney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nElliot Groffman<\/strong><\/td>\nMusic attorney<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nWill Hermes<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDan Horne<\/strong><\/td>\nGrateful Shred<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBruce Hornsby<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician and former Grateful Dead touring member<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBlair Jackson<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist and author, Garcia: An American Life<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJim James<\/strong><\/td>\nMy Morning Jacket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nEric D. Johnson<\/strong><\/td>\nFruit Bats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDan Kanter<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJosh Kaufman<\/strong><\/td>\nProducer and multi-instrumentalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJeff Kravitz<\/strong><\/td>\nPhotographer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJustin Kreutzmann<\/strong><\/td>\nFilmmaker<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDavid Manheim<\/strong><\/td>\nHost, Dopey podcast\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDennis McNally<\/strong><\/td>\nAuthor, A Long Strange Trip<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJohn Medeski<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAri Melber<\/strong><\/td>\nHost, The Beat With Ari Melber<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nBob Minkin<\/strong><\/td>\nPhotographer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJoan Osborne<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nNick Paumgarten<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nAlan Paul<\/strong><\/td>\nJournalist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nLee Ranaldo<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nDavid Reddix<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Waldos<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMaggie Rose<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFarmer Dave Scher<\/strong><\/td>\nMusician<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nChlo\u00eb Sevigny<\/strong><\/td>\nActress and producer, Summer Tour<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPeter Shapiro<\/strong><\/td>\nConcert promoter, Fare Thee Well<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMiles Teller<\/strong><\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMelody Walker<\/strong><\/td>\nBertha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nMichael James Wheeler<\/strong><\/td>\nBertha<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nJacob Ullman<\/strong><\/td>\nFox Sports executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nStu Zakim<\/strong><\/td>\nPR executive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We asked a large group of longtime fans to give us their favorite Dead classics We asked a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,81629,19,17,337],"class_list":["post-626864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-grateful-dead","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117059291387677678","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}