Sorry about my mistake in chronology (re Europe '72 vs those two iconic studio albums). My bad!

Of course, mine was not the only such time-line confusion in this discussion ;^)

It's not surprising that one might mistake a Hunter/Garcia composition as a true traditional number ("Black Muddy River"). In any discussion of songwriters who truly write "in the tradition," those two ~ espcially lyricist Robert Hunter ~ absolutely must be recognized among the very greatest, as true masters.