<Tr> <Th> Associated acts </Th> <Td> Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.dead.net/band/robert-hunter </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer - songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead and for collaborating with singer - songwriter Bob Dylan . </P> <P> Hunter was born Robert Burns 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 . An early friend of Jerry Garcia, they played together in bluegrass bands (such as the Tub Thumpers) in the early sixties, with Hunter on mandolin and upright bass . </P>

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