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Revisiting ‘Deadicated,’ the Trailblazing Grateful Dead Tribute Album
Roy Trakin When the album “Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead” was initially released by Arista Records on April 23, 1991, no one could have predicted, in a little more than four years, the band’s iconic guitarist Jerry Garcia would be gone. But as this August 9 marks 25 years since the man known as Captain Trips took his final journey, the groundbreaking album is also coming up on a major anniversary next year.Featuring a who’s-who of then-alternative mainstays and rock veterans — among them: Jane’s Addiction, Los Lobos, Elvis Costello, Suzanne Vega, the Indigo Girls and Cowboy Junkies to frequent Dead collaborator Bruce Hornsby, New Orleans legend Dr.