USED VINYL
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – New Riders Of The Purple Sage
$30.00
The record
Year/Genre: 1971, Country Rock
Matrix #: C 30888
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks great
Cultural Facts:
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Debut LP tied to the Grateful Dead orbit—Jerry Garcia plays pedal steel here, making it the Riders’ most Dead-adjacent studio record.
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Recorded Dec 1970–Jan 1971 at Wally Heider in San Francisco, right as Bay Area rock bands were professionalizing into big-studio album cycles.
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The band name nods to the Zane Grey western novel; their whole “cosmic cowboy” angle sat between hippie rock and country tradition.
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If they like Grateful Dead, Flying Burrito Brothers, or The Byrds’ country era, this is the same early-’70s scene where rock audiences adopted country imagery.
Price Suggestions:
NM: $25–$36
VG+: $18–$26
VG: $12–$18
G: $6–$10
10/3/24 ob 12/3/25 LM 1/15/26 CC
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