Artist	Song
Cannon's Jug Stompers	Walk Right In
from Southern Country Blues, Vol. 2 (Box Set) (1999)
Bob Dylan	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (2004)
Willie Cobbs	You Don't Love Me
from Fernwood Rhythm 'n' Blues from Memphis (2003)
Rev. Gary Davis	I'll Fly Away
from Have a Little Faith (2006)
John Coltrane	A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement
from A Love Supreme (2002)
Flatt & Scruggs	Don't Let Your Deal Go Down
from 'Tis Sweet to Be Remembered - The Essential Flatt & Scruggs (1997)
Jim Kweskin	Rag Mama
from Greatest Hits (2006)
Buddy Holly	Peggy Sue
from Buddy Holly (1989)
Marty Robbins	Big Iron
from The Essential Marty Robbins (2005)
Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Michael Tilson Thomas	Symphony No. 4: III. Fugue. Andante Moderato Con Moto
from Ives: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 4 (1991)
Otis Redding	Pain In My Heart
from The Very Best of Otis Redding (2007)
McCoy Tyner	Autumn Leaves
from Today and Tomorrow (2005)
Ligntin' Hopkins	C C Rider
from The History of the Guitar - from Renaissance to Rock and Roll, from Andres Segovia to Jimi Hendrix (2006)
Charles Mingus	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
from Mingus Ah Um (1999)
Memphis Jug Band	Stealin' Stealin'
from The Best of the Memphis Jug Band (2005)
Son House	Walkin' Blues
from The Road to Robert Johnson and Beyond, CD A (2007)
GHANA High-Life and Other Popular Music	Bus Conductor
from Explorer Series Africa: Music from the Nonesuch Explorer Series (2006)
Chuck Berry	Roll Over Beethoven
from Chuck Berry Is On Top (1988)
Miles Davis	So What
from Kind of Blue (1997)
Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan	Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68: III. un Poco Allegretto e Grazioso
from Brahms: The 4 Symphonies (2003)
Bo Diddley	I'm a Man
from 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Blues Rock Songbook (2003)
Howlin' Wolf	Back Door Man
from His Best (Chess 50th Anniversary Collection) (1997)
Babatunde Olatunji	Oya (Aw-Yah)
from Drums of Passion (2002)
Johnny Cash	Get Rhythm
from Greatest (1958)

Comment:

The beauty — and the induplicability — of the Dead springs from their outrageously diversified portfolio of musical mentors, taking the concept of "eclectic" to a nearly schizo extreme. A spacious, spirit-expanding improvisation runs all through John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme, Pt. 1: Acknowledgement (Live)" — and like the Dead's Phil Lesh, his bassist Jimmy Garrison isn't merely holding the bottom end down, but also reacting to Coltrane's wandering muse. And leave it to Lesh to cite Charles Ives as a major influence; conductor Leopold Stokowski called Ives' [i]Symphony No. 4[/i] (from which we hear "Fugue: Andante Moderato III.") "the most difficult piece of music I have ever played." Jerry Garcia's jug-band roots poke through from Flatt & Scruggs' bumpkin banjo breakdown masterpiece, "Don't Let Your Deal Go Down." And the soulful moan of Lightnin' Hopkins' stripped-down-and-dirty acoustic version of "C.C. Rider" bonds the Dead's resident blues hound, Pigpen, in a tradition as old as the guitar itself. From Chuck Berry to Babatunde Olatunji, we've got — quite literally — a whole world of music that the Grateful Dead funneled into a single, transcendent sound.

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