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GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST

“The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, is a series devoted to exploring the music and mythology behind one of the most enduring, progressive, and influential bands in the history of recorded music. The podcast’s tagline is “For The Committed And The Curious,” as episodes will invite new fans to explore the band’s enormous mythology in digestible chunks and enlighten life-long Dead Heads about corners of the band’s history they never knew existed. No topic will

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01:30:31

Donna Jean

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/11/11

We are beyond honored to welcome former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay herself to hear the wondrous story of how she went from Alabama to the top of the charts before fate led her to San Francisco, Keith Godchaux, and the Grateful Dead.

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01:29:10

Listen To The River: Kiel Auditorium, October 1973

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/10/28

The Deadcast finishes our tour of St. Louis at the Kiel Auditorium in fall 1973, featuring Warlocks-era insider Steve Brown, local heads, the return of musicologist Graeme Boone to go deep into Dead’s jams, & a visit from Rich’s parents.

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01:32:46

BONUS: Bear Drops: LA ‘66

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/10/21

We explore the Grateful Dead’s formative early 1966 months in Los Angeles under the patronage of Owsley Stanley, LSD chemist & the band’s new sound engineer, featuring Owsley’s assistants Tim Scully & Don Douglas, Merry Pranksters, Rosie McGee, & an archival interview with Owsley.

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01:33:39

Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, October 1972

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/10/14

We go behind the scenes, into the crowd, around the specially-installed mirror ball, & inside the music at the Dead’s 3 legendary 1972 shows at St. Louis’s Fox Theatre with promoters Sepp Donahower & Tony Dwyer, musicologist Graeme Boone, & Dead freaks who were there.

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01:36:08

Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, December 1971

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/09/30

The Grateful Dead’s relationship with St. Louis went deep as the new Listen To The River box set and this Deadcast prove, featuring promoter Tony Dwyer, offstage jams at Scotty’s Music, and the time the Dead crashed Richie Gerber’s bar mitzvah.

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01:15:32

Enter Keith Godchaux

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/09/16

The Deadcast opens its 4th season with one of the most unlikely but totally true stories in Grateful Dead history: how Keith & Donna Jean Godchaux approached Jerry Garcia at a bar and announced that Keith was the Dead’s new keyboardist, going deep into Godchaux family history.

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01:12:46

Garcia

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/08/05

The Deadcast takes a special season-closing look at Jerry Garcia’s classic eponymous debut with co-producer Bob Matthews and friends, recorded during the summer of 1971 by Garcia and a small crew of close collaborators including Bill Kreutzmann and Robert Hunter.

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01:59:22

Playing Dead, Part 2

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/07/22

A truly all-star Deadcast examines the infinite approaches to playing Dead music, from traditional to radical, with a massive span of musicians who’ve played it, from jazz arrangers to indie rock heroes, from actual Dead members to Japanese cover bands.

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01:15:07

Playing Dead, Part 1

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/07/08

The Deadcast examines how the Grateful Dead became a genre and school of music unto themselves, tracing the history of Dead covers to New Jersey in 1969, Calcutta in 1975, & beyond, featuring special appearances by Phish’s Trey Anastasio & Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan.

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01:24:05

Skull & Roses 50: Closing of the Fillmore West

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/06/24

The Deadcast finishes its all-star “Skull & Roses” dive with cosmic diplomat Alan Trist, Courtenay Pollack’s new tie-dye speakers, a surprise trip abroad, the closing of the Fillmore West, studio parties, explorations of the album’s legendary art & infamous original name, & more.

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01:09:51

BONUS: Keys to the Rain: Celebrating Robert Hunter’s...

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/06/23

We celebrate the 80th birthday of the late Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead’s primary lyricist, exploring his extraordinary partnership with Jerry Garcia and work with other collaborators, as well his poetry, fiction, and solo career.

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01:01:02

BONUS: Over There: The Dead In England

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/06/14

The Grateful Dead only visited England a half-dozen times in 30 years, but the quintessential American band’s relationship ran deeper than it might seem, filled with unexpected connections & fans as devoted as any Dead Heads back home, including lyric scholar Alex Allan.

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00:44:02

Skull & Roses 50: Fillmore East Late Show

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/06/10

The Deadcast sticks around the Fillmore East for even more backstage stories with stage crew member Allan Arkush, including movie nights with Jerry Garcia and the guitarist’s brief stint doing Hollywood sound effects.

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01:14:09

Skull & Roses 50: Side D

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/05/27

The Deadcast trucks into Bill Graham’s Fillmore East, where the Grateful Dead recorded the bulk of Skull & Roses in April 1971, featuring stage crew member Allan Arkush, tour manager Sam Cutler, & a deep dive into “Wharf Rat” with Darkside’s Dave Harrington.

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01:24:16

Skull & Roses 50: Side C

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/05/13

After special guest Judy Collins joins us to untangle the surprising origins of the Dead’s most-performed song, “Me & My Uncle,” the Deadcast wades into the oversold 3-night April 1971 Dance Marathon that became part of “Skull & Roses,” guided by tour manager Sam Cutler and friends.

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01:14:41

Skull & Roses 50: Side B

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/04/29

Our celebration of the Skull & Roses 50th anniversary reissue continues as we explore the “spaceship in construction” of the Grateful Dead in 1971 with Rosie McGee, luthier Rick Turner (maker of Jerry Garcia’s Peanut guitar), tie-dye pioneer Courtenay Pollack, & rare audio.

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01:35:26

Skull & Roses 50: Side A

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/04/15

We begin our 50th anniversary celebration of 1971’s live album Skull & Roses with co-producer Bob Matthews, lighting director Candace Brightman, tour manager Sam Cutler, David Crosby, & David Freiberg, plus lost sessions, a 6-night false start, dream telepathy, song origins & more.

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00:37:43

Hug the Heat, or the Story of the First Dead Tape

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2021/04/01

We wish you a merry Pranks Day with a surprise Deadcast about the first known live Grateful Dead tape, from 1966, and reveal what happens when you try to shut down an Acid Test, featuring Merry Pranksters Ken Babbs and Denise Kaufman, with additional storytelling by Jerry Garcia.

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01:32:35

American Beauty 50, Episode 10: Truckin’

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2020/12/10

The Deadcast season finale wraps up American Beauty and looks at the iconic Truckin’, the autobiographical album-closing road anthem, unpacking the band’s history from its verses, lost lyrics, and never-heard original ending.

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01:34:55

BONUS: The Nedcast

GOOD OL" GRATEFUL DEADCAST ·

2020/12/05

A surprising and wide-ranging conversation with Ned Lagin, the pioneering jazz-trained electronic composer whose friendship with the Grateful Dead began when the band crowded into his M.I.T. dorm room to jam and would encompass contributions to American Beauty and Wake of the Flood, nearly 20 onstage appearances with the band between 1970 and 1975, and Lagin’s own Seastones project, released by Jerry Garcia’s Round Records, featuring contributions by Garcia, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart, David Crosby,

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