New Riders Of The Purple Sage – The Best of New Riders of the Purple Sage (CD)

New Riders of the Purple Sage emerged from the same late-'60s San Francisco orbit as the Grateful Dead, with Jerry Garcia on pedal steel helping to shape their early cosmic country sound before the band found its own footing as one of the great American outlaw-country acts. This Sony Legacy collection gathers the essential recordings from a group that bridged the Haight-Ashbury scene and the honky-tonk highway, making it a natural entry point for Dead-adjacent collectors finally ready to go deep on the Riders.