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- ↑ David G. Dodd; Alan Trist (2015). The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. Simon and Schuster. p. 13. ISBN 978-1-501-12332-0.
- ↑ "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions - Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ↑ Rock Scully (2001). Living with the Dead: Twenty Years on the Bus with Garcia and the Grateful Dead. Cooper Square Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-461-66113-9.
- ↑ John W. Scott, Stu Nixon, Mike Dolgushkin (2015). Dead Base 50. Watermark Press. p. 578. ISBN 978-0-692-47093-0.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
- ↑ Scott Schinder, Andy Schwartz (2008). Icons of Rock. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 344. ISBN 978-0-313-33847-2.
