New Riders Of The Purple Sage has been played on NTS over 20 times, featured on 23 episodes and was first played on 26 August 2017.

New Riders of the Purple Sage was an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco, California in 1969. The band's mainstays were David Nelson, John Dawson, and Jerry Garcia, and many future members of Grateful Dead rotated through.