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Robert Hunter

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Songwriter

The Resume

    (June 23, 1941-September 23, 2019)
    Born in San Luis Obispo, California
    Lyricist and 'non-performing band member' of the Grateful Dead
    Notable Dead songs include 'China Cat Sunflower,' 'Dark Star,' 'Uncle John's Band,' 'Casey Jones,' 'Truckin,' 'Friend of the Devil,' 'Box of Rain,' 'Sugar Magnolia,' 'Playing in the Band,' 'Franklin's Tower' and 'Terrapin Station'
    Recorded the solo albums 'Tales of the Great Rum Runners' (1974), 'Tiger Rose' (1975), 'Jack O' Roses' (1980), 'Amagamalin St.' (1984), 'Rock Columbia' (1986), 'Liberty' (1988) and 'Patchwork River' (2010)

Why he might be annoying:

    He said, 'Before I wrote songs, I was a stoned James Joyce head.'
    He said of the song China Cat Sunflower, 'I wrote part of it in Mexico and part of it on Neptune.'
    He is a former Scientologist.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He turned down a request from Muzak to license Dead songs.
    He wrote several volumes of poetry and translated Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Duino Elegies' and 'Sonnets to Orpheus.'
    He said the best compliment his lyrics received was when a miner heard 'Cumberland Blues' and said, 'I wonder what the guy who wrote this song would've thought if he'd known something like the Grateful Dead was gonna do it?'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 25.00% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 99 Votes: 46.46% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 48 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 49 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying