Robert Hunter, Grateful Dead Collaborator and Lyricist, Dead at 78

Question

Sad news that Robert Hunter has died.  I searched but did not find a profile for him.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robert-hunter-grateful-dead-dead-889788/

Comments

I believe you are correct, Caryl. I also see no profile for him out there yet. If you want to get one started, please feel free. :)

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Could this be him?  Not sure but I didn't want to create a duplicate.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burns-4276

Edit: after a closer look I do not think this is him.  I will create the profile.

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I created the profile with his birth record from family search.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Burns-11809

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Oh no! I just created his profile too. Sorry! we can merge them.

Exactly 2 minutes after yours. Merge proposed

Burns-11810

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No worries!  I merged.

Answer 1

He and Jerry wrote one of the most beautiful songs in the English language. Ripple.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=671AgW9xSiA

Answer 2

From Wikipedia:  Hunter was born Robert Burns on 23 June 1941 in Oceano, California. In a 1973 Rolling Stone profile of the Grateful Dead, Charles Perry reported that he is a great-great grandson of noted Romantic poet Robert Burns.

Sounds interesting...

Comments

Here is sort of a peerage of Robert Burns descendants, and it does not appear that an unbroken line of male descendants survived to end up with a Robert Burns as the great-great grandson of Robert Burns the poet. Not to mention that it would take a few more generations to bridge the gap.

https://www.burness.ca/g0/p92.htm#i919

It was a nice story, though.