KC Turner Presents: Cookout Concert Series David’s 83rd Birthday Celebration! David Nelson (guitar/ vocals) Founding member of the New Riders of the Purple Sage and long time musical partner of Jerry Garcia’s dating back to 1962 in the pre-Grateful Dead bluegrass band, The Wildwood Boys. Nelson was also a member of the Jerry Garcia Acoustic B and (and appears on their 1988 album release “Almost Acoustic” and 2010’s “Ragged But Right”) and performed on three Grateful Dead albums – “Aoxomoxoa”, “Workingman’s Dead” & “American Beauty” – playing the iconic electric guitar solo on ‘Box of Rain’. Nelson has also performed as a member of Phil Lesh and Friends.