Artist	Song
The Black Crowes	Hard to Handle
from Shake Your Money Maker (Bonus Track Version) (2008)
Widespread Panic	Ain't Life Grand
from Panic In the Streets (1990)
Dave Matthews Band	Ants Marching
from Under the Table and Dreaming (1994)
Bruce Hornsby	Every Little Kiss
from Greatest Radio Hits (2003)
Howlin Rain	The Firing of the Midnight Rain
from Howlin' Rain (2006)
Nickel Creek	The Lighthouse's Tale
from Nickel Creek (2006)
Rusted Root	Ecstasy
from When I Woke (1994)
The String Cheese Incident	Dudley's Kitchen
from A String Cheese Incident (1998)
moe.	Meat
from L (2000)
Gillian Welch	I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll
from Time (The Revelator) (2001)
Vetiver	I Know No Pardon
from To Find Me Gone (2006)
Blues Traveler	Crystal Flame
from Blues Traveler (1990)
Wilco	What Light
from Sky Blue Sky (Bonus Track Version) (2007)
Big Head Todd & The Monsters	Bittersweet
from Sister Sweetly (2009)
Umphrey's McGee	Nemo
from Safety In Numbers (2006)
Béla Fleck & The Flecktones	Big Country
from Live At the Quick (2002)
New Grass Revival	Fly Through the Country
from Too Late to Turn Back Now (1977)

Comment:

A band, a lifestyle, a legend: the Dead left such a massive footprint in rock history, it's no wonder so many bands would aspire to a little of their cosmic magic. Often tagged as the Dead's rightful heirs, Phish brought the spirit of [i]Workingman's Dead[/i] into the '90s with their sugar-magnolia-sweet "Bouncing Around the Room," harmonies drifting together like bubble clouds over a summer picnic. The Dave Matthews Band, much like Phish (and, of course, you know who), gained fame for their taper-friendly concerts, and from the instantly indelible three-note fiddle riff opening their eminently jammable "Ants Marching," they stake their claim as legit Dead descendants. And Chris Robinson slathers his tight-jeans-packed-with-white-boy-cool swagger all over the Black Crowes' third-generation cover of "Hard to Handle," its pedigree pulled straight from Otis Redding by way of the Dead. From the String Cheese Incident's mutant bluegrass hybrids to Widespread Panic's hippie-fied blues roots, we've got the next generation of bands who're carrying on that timeless jam.

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