''Ridin' with Panama Red'' is an

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by the

country rock Country rock is a genre of music which fuses rock and country. It was developed by rock musicians who began to record country-flavored records in the late 1960s and early 1970s. These musicians recorded rock records using country themes, vocal s ...

band the

New Riders of the Purple Sage New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco in 1969 and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. The band is sometimes referred ...

. It contains previously released songs selected from the New Riders' first six albums, which were recorded between 1971 and 1974. It was released in 2000 on the Sony Music Special Products label. The songs on ''Ridin' with Panama Red'' were excerpted from ''

'' (1971), '' Powerglide'' (1972), ''

Gypsy Cowboy ''Gypsy Cowboy'' is the third album by the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. It was recorded and released in 1972. The album includes six original songs by John Dawson and three by Dave Torbert, plus cover versions of cou ...

'' (1972), ''

The Adventures of Panama Red ''The Adventures of Panama Red'' is the fourth country rock album by the New Riders of the Purple Sage, released in 1973. It is widely regarded as one of the group's best efforts, and reached number 55 on the Billboard charts. The album incl ...

'' (1973), ''

Home, Home on the Road ''Home, Home on the Road'' is an album by the American country rock group the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Released by Columbia Records in 1974, it was their first live album, and their fifth album overall. The eleven songs on the album are ...

'' (1974), and ''

Brujo ''Brujo'' is an album by the American country rock band New Riders of the Purple Sage. It is their fifth studio album, and their sixth album overall. It was recorded in 1974 and released that same year by Columbia Records. ''Brujo'' was ...

'' (1974).''Ridin' with Panama Red''
at the Grateful Dead Family Discography

Track listing

#"Panama Red" ( Peter Rowan) – 2:46 – from ''The Adventures of Panama Red'' #"

I Don't Need No Doctor "I Don't Need No Doctor" is an R&B song written by Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, and Jo Armstead. First released by Ashford on Verve in August 1966, it went nowhere. It was then picked up and recorded by Ray Charles and released in October ...

" ( Nick Ashford, Valerie Simpson, Jo Armstead) – 4:41 – from ''Powerglide'' #"Ashes of Love" (

Jack Anglin Jack Anglin (May 13, 1916 – March 8, 1963) was an American country music singer best known as a member of the Anglin Brothers, and later Johnnie & Jack with Johnnie Wright. Younger Years Anglin was born on a farm in Franklin, Tennessee to J ...

Johnnie Wright Johnnie Robert Wright Jr. (May 13, 1914 – September 27, 2011) was an American country music singer-songwriter, who spent much of his career working with Jack Anglin as the popular duo Johnnie & Jack, and was also the husband of country musi ...

) – 2:12 – from ''Brujo'' #"L.A. Lady" (

Troy Seals Troy Harold Seals (born November 16, 1938, in Bighill, Madison County, Kentucky, United States) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is a member of the prominent Seals family of musicians that includes Jim Seals (of Seals and C ...

, Donald Clint Goodman, Will Jennings) – 2:15 – from ''The Adventures of Panama Red'' #"Willie and the Hand Jive" (

Johnny Otis Johnny Otis (born Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes; December 28, 1921 – January 17, 2012) was an American singer, musician, composer, bandleader, record producer, and talent scout. He was a seminal influence on American R&B and rock and roll. He ...

) – 6:21 – from ''Powerglide'' #"Whatcha Gonna Do" ( John Dawson) – 3:16 – from ''New Riders of the Purple Sage'' #"

Long Black Veil "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell. It is told from the point of view of a man falsely accused of murder and executed. He refuses to provide an alibi, ...

" (

Danny Dill Horace Eldred "Danny" Dill (September 19, 1924 – October 23, 2008) was an American country music singer and songwriter. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1975. Biography Dill, born in Clarksburg, Tennessee, got h ...

Marijohn Wilkin Marijohn Wilkin ( Melson; July 14, 1920 – October 28, 2006) was an American songwriter, famous in country music for writing a number of hits. Wilkin won numerous awards over the years and was referred to as "The Den Mother of Music Row," a ...

) – 3:54 – from ''Gypsy Cowboy'' #" Hello Mary Lou" (

Gene Pitney Gene Francis Alan Pitney (February 17, 1940 – April 5, 2006) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. Pitney charted 16 top-40 hits in the United States, four in the top ten. In the United Kingdom, he had 22 top-40 hit singles, inclu ...

, Cayet Mangiaracina) – 2:57 – from ''Home, Home on the Road'' #"Truck Drivin' Man" (Terry Fell) – 2:50 – from ''Home, Home on the Road'' #" Dead Flowers" (

Mick Jagger Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English singer and songwriter who has achieved international fame as the lead vocalist and one of the founder members of the rock band the Rolling Stones. His ongoing songwriting partnershi ...

, Keith Richards) – 4:03 – from ''Home, Home on the Road''

Personnel

New Riders of the Purple Sage

* John Dawson –

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

* David Nelson – guitar, vocals * Dave Torbert –

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, vocals on all songs except "Ashes of Love" * Skip Battin – bass, vocals on "Ashes of Love" * Buddy Cage –

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a Console steel guitar, console-type of steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings to enable playing more varied and complex music than any previous steel guitar design. Like all s ...

on all songs except "Watcha Gonna Do" *

Jerry Garcia Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician best known for being the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence ...

– pedal steel guitar on "Watcha Gonna Do" *

Spencer Dryden Spencer Charles Dryden (April 7, 1938 – January 11, 2005) was an American musician best known as the drummer for Jefferson Airplane and New Riders of the Purple Sage. He also played with Dinosaurs, and the Ashes (later known as the Peanut Butt ...

–

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Additional musicians

* Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals on "L.A. Lady", "Long Black Veil" * Bill Kreutzmann –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

on "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Willie and the Hand Jive" *

Nicky Hopkins Nicholas Christian "Nicky" Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist. Hopkins performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, most notably ...

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

on "I Don't Need No Doctor", "Willie and the Hand Jive"

Notes

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