This Week’s Show:
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1957
Week of March 23, 2026
Part 1 26:41
BERTHA: Grateful Drag, Slayin’ in the Band, volume 1 (Grateful Drag Records)
CASSIDY
SPAGA Plays Dead (AM Records)
HEAVEN HELP THE FOOL
Grateful Shred, Might as Well (Liberty Hair Farm)
JACK STRAW
David Murray Octet, Dark Star (The Music of the Grateful Dead) (Astor Place)
ESTIMATED PROPHET
Part 2 29:10
Holly Bowling 2/23/24 International House, Berkeley CA
CASSIDY
Tunde Adebimpe, Lee Ranaldo & Friends, from Day of the Dead (4AD)
PLAYING IN THE BAND
Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead (Grateful Dead)
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
Bob Weir, Heaven Help the Fool (Arista)
EASY TO SLIP
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The Grateful Dead Hour is a nationally syndicated radio program that airs weekly on more than 75 public, community, college, and commercial radio stations.
The program features live concerts from the Grateful Dead’s vault, as well as music influenced by the Dead, live studio performances, in-depth interviews with core Dead members, and more.
The Grateful Dead Hour is hosted by David Gans, a guitarist, songwriter, journalist, and author, who has produced the show since 1987.