Volume 3 of Dead Letters is here! (As I post this, the web site is way out of date, but maybe by the time you read it the site will be current.)
DEAD LETTERS: Essays on the Grateful Dead Phenomenon is edited by Nick Meriwether. This issue includes my October 1984 interview with Bill Graham, and:
- The Taoist Perspective in “Weather Report Suite” by Melinda Belleville
- How Did the Song Go? Tracing the Roots of the Grateful Dead’s Cover Songs by Eric Levy
- “What’s Become of the Baby?” The Dead After Garcia by Daniel J. Dasaro
- Reviews of the Grateful Dead Movie soundtrack, Dick’s Picks vol. 36, Searching for the Sound, Home Before Daylight
And more. This is a legitimate scholarly publication, but the writing is not so dry and academic. I know most of the contributors from attending the Grateful Dead caucus of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association a few times, and I can vouch for their ‘head cred and their grasp of the pleasures of the GD experience.
Copies of volume 3 can be ordered for $15.95 plus $2.95 S&H for first copy, $1.59 for each one after that. Send check or money order to:
Nicholas Meriwether
Oral Historian
South Caroliniana Library
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
To inquire about the pricing of volumes 1 and 2, contact Nick via email.