Title: New Riders Of The Purple Sage - Brujo
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1974, Rock, Country Rock, San Francisco
Matrix #: PC 33145
Condition: EX, sounds great, looks good, some light marks
Cultural Facts:
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Personal Struggle Drummer Spencer Dryden had already come out of the San Francisco scene worn down by the excess and burnout that followed the first psychedelic wave.
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Scene Ecology NRPS grew from the Grateful Dead orbit, with Jerry Garcia helping launch the band on pedal steel before they became a standalone act.
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Media Narrative By Brujo, they were part of the post-hippie shift where Bay Area musicians moved from acid-rock idealism into a looser country-rock world.
4/4/2026 CC