Hunter’s friend and collaborator David Nelson on “Movin’ Right Along,” a newly released song co-written by the Grateful Dead’s late literary maestro
The lyric is also imbued with a sense of mortality: “I’m about to blow this joint/So listen to my song/I have died to prove a point/Movin’ right along.” But Nelson insists Hunter wasn’t writing about himself. “I didn’t see it as a farewell song, and I don’t think he did either,” Nelson says. “But it’s a testament to him.”
But as Nelson saw, Hunter opted out of the musicians life. “We needed to do more gigs and he kind of said, ‘No, I’m more into writing,’” he says. “He always had that cantankerous edge. I remember one time when Garcia called Hunter and asked him to write lyrics for the Dead, and Hunter said, ‘I don’t write lyrics, I write novels.’ But Garcia had the wherewithal and will to talk him into it. And the next thing you knew, out came all those Grateful Dead songs.
Hunter’s death was as much a surprise for Nelson as it was for many in the Dead community, despite health issues that had dogged Hunter during the previous years. “Just shortly before he passed, I was talking to him on the phone,” he says. “I used to go to his house fairly regularly and we’d talk about ideas. Then one time I called and he said, ‘I’m not feeling well, so don’t come down to the house. We’ll get together some other time.
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