Hey Deadheads, Robert Hunter’s long-lost manuscript, The Silver Snarling Trumpet, has been set for publication coming out on October 8th, the recently unearthed book will tell the origin story of the Grateful Dead.
The late Hunter also co-wrote Grateful Dead songs like “Dark Star,” “Touch of Grey,” and “Box of Rain”. The Silver Snarling Trumpet features a foreword by Dead & Company guitarist John Mayer, an introduction by the band’s biographer Dennis McNally, and an afterword by Brigid Meier, a close friend of Hunter’s.
“Fans will experience the early days of Hunter, Jerry Garcia, and their cohorts, following them into the stacks at Kepler’s Books, to rent instruments at Swain’s House of Music, and through the countryside on road trips,” promises the official description. “Readers will witness impromptu jams, inspired intellectual pranks, and dialogue that is, by turns, amusing and brilliant and outrageous.”
The Silver Snaling Trumpet: The Birth of the Grateful Dead—The Lost Manuscript of Robert Hunter will be available wherever books are sold and is available for pre-order now at local bookstores
Photo by Ed Perlstein – Redferns
