The Travelin' McCourys perform Grateful Dead tune "Loser" at DelFest 2015 

Who else cannot watch this video enough? Terrific job guys!

Robert Hunter & Jerry Garcia - Thanks, boys! R.I.P.

Jerry Garcia would love this version. Jerry loved authentic American music and you can't get any more authentic than The Del McCoury Band and Del's sons' band The Travelin' MCCourys. I just bought the latter's self-titled 2018 disk with Loser on it and the whole record is sensational. A tremendously talented band with Ronnie and Rob McCoury on mandolin and banjo respectively, the brilliant fiddler Jason Carter, and Alan Bartram on bass, both of whom can sing lead like Ronnie, and lastly the excellent guitar of Cody Kilby. Del and Jerry must be so proud. Do yourself a favour and buy this record by The Travelin' McCourys. It's absolute gold.

Ronnie sounds like his Dad. I'm happy the McCoury sound endures

This is my fav Dead tune! Can't believe there are thumbs down comments??? This is an awesome rendition!

What a fantastic rendition. These guys are in a class of their own.

I saw them do this with Del at The Farm in Eureka Springs, Arkansas a couple years ago. It was so good, it brought tears to my eyes. I’ve been listening to Robert Hunter’s lyrics since I was 16. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Don't know how it took me so long to see this. Now I have and I'm happy. That's the deal.

Holy Smokies...this is the best Loser I've ever heard! Those McCoury boys rock-blue.

Just like his Dad 100 % class act

possibly the best version? 🤯

Ole Jerry has got to be smilin' from the great beyond when he hears this!

Jerry is smiling bigger than you'll ever know.

This recording though. The McCoury folks know how to make roots music fill your speakers up from top to bottom. Who else picks up an acoustic bass like that? Damn!

I love Ronnie's mandolin playing, have been listening to him for years, he never disappoints. Not the flashiest player around but always solid, smooth, creative. His singing has improved with age. Sounds a lot like a young Del.

The bass holding it all together. That bass line is killer 🤤

That's pretty much the sweetest Loser I've ever heard. Very fine.

This is an amazing version, as well as performance, of this song...hearing it played this way really shows the influence blue grass had on jerry garcia and the influence jerry garcia had on american folk music (the extent of which is realized and grows more with each generation). Such a beautiful pairing of two incredible musical traditions!

Man, that 4 string E- mando is a sweet looking axe. Played by a master. Jerry would approve of this rendition. Thanks, from an bluegrasser dead head.

I love the fiddle and the banjo on this song.

OMG! I found this today and have already listened a dozen times. Just plain awesome!

Ronnie McCoury and the boys helping keep the music going. One of the best Losers ever.

Being one of those lucky souls that saw Jerry at his highs and lows-including the Dead at Cornell Univ. The vocal harmonies on this version of Loser must make Jerry happy every time it is played. Ronnie really has the vocal range needed. Great job lads.

This is an awesome Loser. Thank you McCourys. Another example of how GD is truly the greatest American band ever. Beautiful!

Damn this is great, miss Jerry but some how he remains because of people like this.

The Dead's American Beauty is one of the best bluegrass albums. Jerry got his start playing jug band music at folk and bluegrass festivals. Of course Old and In the Way (with Jerry on banjo, David Grisham, Vassar Clements and Peter Rowan) though short lived, was one of the best bluegrass bands ever.

Beautiful and emotional rendition of a wonderful Dead song.

I've watched this probably 50+ times

Goose Bumps like crazy i tell you... i love y'All:) Whoa!!!

I always considered “Loser” a so-so tune.......just nothing special about it. But with this performance, it now belongs to The Traveling McCoury Band.

Amazing how perfectly suited this song is to great bluegrass playing and singing. The light touch jazzy section toward the end has got to have Jerry's spirit beaming, and the same for Robert's spirit hearing his lyrics sung so perfectly. Didn't think the Billy Strings rendition could be matched, but this rendition is just as great.

Hot damn!

Herd them do this at Gettysburg Bluegrass Festival, from our camp site. NEVER herd a song sound SOOO good from the Hill behind the stage. Never forget it.

I think theres a banjo player out there in the great beyond smiling knowing his music is still being played long after he left this life, cant wait to see this group next week 💚🙏💚

jerry,s sitting upright for this one, keep going MCCOURYs

One of my favorite Garcia/Hunter tunes done extremely well and tastefully.

Damn! Jason Carter is the smoothest fiddler alive today. What a great rendering of this classic song.

That was a proper special evening that was.

I almost cry every time I listen to this amazing performance.

Daang... Ronnies voice is point.. and the picking is superb. this IS the internet win for today... for me...And I always have to wonder about the contrarians that put thumbs down on gems like this.

Best cover of this song ever. Those McCoury boys are no joke. Superb pickers and singers. I gained a whole new respect for them after hearing this song. Deep and soulful.

Over the years I have gathered that Jerry was a good guy too alot of people.

Love this. They really capture the essence of this song where most covers fall flat. So much soul and passion. Well done guys

Incredible stage presence by each musician as they conduct and then hand-off each solo by walking toward the next player.

One of the best bluegrass bands around. I have seen them dozens of times including another dozen with Del

And its such a great fiddle playing with incredible accents... so we see: less could be so much more!

I just love this cover! What a tribute! Del raised some great bluegrass boys!

Just....wow

Jesus Christ I'm in tears.

Excellent.

I am so thankful to whoever mixed the sound, recorded, and uploaded this. This may be my favorite thing on RU-vid. It is so well done.

I cant stop listening to this somg. Traveling mcourys are the best.

Best version ever.................

I am amuzed now, for certain.

This has become one of my new favOrites. Play it every day at least 2 or 3 imes.thanks for introducing me to them. Love this band. All great entertainers

You guys are atop group wonderful musicians love youguys james from Duncan oklahooma

can't stop listening to this! perfectly done.

My wife and I were there! I remember well The Travelin' McCourys playing this Saturday night. Love these guys, love this version of this song!

every time i watch this i wonder how in the world it would only 25k views? this is one of the best videos on all of youtube. RONNIE!

Maybe there is still hope for us. Peace to All.

Thank God for this moment in time.

The richness is astonishing thanks

This is truly one of the best version's of this song that I've ever heard and I've heard a lot !

One of my favorite Dead tunes, very well done!

I have seen a couple pictures from when Jerry met Del. I'll just say this, just like Ronny was saying, Jerry loved Bluegrass Music and it held a special place in his heart. Thanks so much for this. Wish there were more.

As a long-time deadhead, and now a veteran of about 60 -70 Del McCoury Shows, I truly love the Travelin McCoury's, if any McCoury or Jason Carter or Alan Bartram is involved........count me in!!! I have been lucky to have been able to go to every Delfest and this show was way over the top, not just this fabulous version of Loser, but everything they did was amazing!

Although written by Garcia’s friend Robert Hunter, this song was personal to Jerry and he sang it with a passion. Ronnie and the Travelin’ McCoury’s certainly do it justice with this arrangement which stays true to the original composition while adding some exceptional solo breaks.

The song, the band, the beautiful genre of bluegrass, that suit, it's all so beautiful

Chills!

Excellent rendition of Jerry's song from his "solo" album: "Garcia" (1971)

a tremendous rendition, Jerry smiling.....

One of my favorite covers of a dead tune, it is awsome

Dell fest is one of my favorite festivals. It is pricey with late night tickets. You can literally float down the river and hear everything playing bouncing off the mountain. Plus the musicians are playing top notch.

I love to hear this, this truly shows what Jerry was all about 🥰

This band is out of this world!

As good as it gets. Wow!

A perfectly touching rendition. Love it.

Beautiful, thank you.

Great job . I give you guys a 10+ Ya,your right he sure does sound like his dad.. you could mistake him for his dad if you didn't know it.

5 months til Delfest 2019! The countdown is on! 🤪

Nothing says Delfest like this says Delfest! Thank you, Ronnie, Rob, Jason & Cody for all the good times.

Who are the 4 people that gave a thumbs down? That had to be a accident! This was imo the best cover of this song I have ever heard!!!

Pretty cool Pretty neat 😎

how could any one alive not love this ?

A wonderful combination of bluegrass and Jerry Garcia.

Cosmic Ronnie.

Traveling mccoury play the festival in my town every October I missed it for the last 4 years do the reasons we won't talk about but I can't wait till next October

Would be cool to see @BillyStrings cover this song as well!!!

badass !

Any Loser with a “Sweet Susie” with just exactly perfect with me… and this version is about as good of a cover. Jerry is smilin from above. Well done Ronnie & dah boys. ✌️❤⚡️🎸

absolutely beautiful.

Jerry and the Deaths would love this version. A great song, superbly performed - well done guys !

That fiddle player absolutely kicked ass. Practically stole the show!

DEL YEAH! this still gives me chills. and i must say Cody certainly is a perfect fit.

I can at least say, i did see jerry albeit as a toddler. This performance is FULL of love and respect for jerry and it warms my heart. Hope this music never stops 🥲

One of the best "Loser" I ever heard......Great Job.

Love this version

Love how he threw sweet suzie in there

Y'all killed it! GREAT GREAT GREAT! Thank you!

Phenomenal!!!!