Ronald C. Pigpen McKernan was a founding member of the Grateful Dead. McKernan contributed a blues element to the group, regularly performing such songs as Good Morning Little Schoolgirl, Easy Wind, and his trademark song Turn On Your Love Light? a Bobby Bland cover that served as the finale for many Grateful Dead concerts.
A heavy drinker since his teenage years, McKernan was diagnosed with liver damage in 1970, which eventually forced him to stop touring in 1972. He died the next year. In 1994...
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