Yesterday we premiered the new Ernie Hendrickson video. “I Need You,” which features Lera Lynn, will appear on his forthcoming album One for the Dreamers, produced by Chad Cromwell (Neil Young, Mark Knopfler).

Hendrickson acknowledges the impact of the Grateful Dead on his music and shared the following thoughts on the matter with Relix, “It is true that The Grateful Dead are probably my biggest musical influence. I really admire how they established a brand new model for how a band can operate, and that they made their own rules. They functioned as a unit and their sense of musical adventure and exploration was second to none, all rooted in American traditions but reaching for the cosmos at the same time. And in the case of The Dead, it is definitely true that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. But alone Jerry too, if I had to single out one person would have to be my greatest single influence. Not only with the Dead but with all of his projects, with Dave Grisman, with Old and in the Way, with JGB and the JG Acoustic Band, he explored so many avenues of the American songbook it is literally staggering. From old timey and bluegrass to rockabilly, blues, country and Motown, he really had a knack for finding material and brought his unique melodic and heartfelt musical sensibility out with them, and made them his own.”