A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
Playlists, program notes, and discussion of Dead to the World (Wednesdays 8-10pm on KPFA 94.1 Berkeley CA)
Feel Like a Stranger Friend of the Devil New Minglewood Blues Tennessee Jed Cassidy It Must Have Been the Roses She’s On the Road Again-> Beat It On Down the Line Stagger Lee I Need a Miracle-> Bertha – Grateful Dead 8/10/82 U Of Iowa Fieldhouse – Iowa City, IA Dan Hicks and the Lickmen … Read more
St. Stephen-> The Eleven – Ratdog 10/19/09 Grand Ballroom, New York NY Throwing Stones – Ratdog 10/20/09 Grand Ballroom, New York NY Morning Dew – Ratdog 10/24/09 Beacon Theater, New York NY Easy Wind – Jemimah Puddleduck 11/20/09 Harbor Lights, Sausalito CA Jemimah Puddleduck’s November 20 show is now available for download from archive.org. Where … Read more
Tonight: Mark Karan is my guest for the full two hours (8-10pm PST). He brings with him a double handful of digital recordings from recent performances by Jemimah Puddleduck, Ratdog, and other special musical events. We’ll talk about his new CD Walk Through and Fire and his upcoming gigs with Jemimah Puddleduck. Don’t Let Go … Read more
Pig’s Boogie Band Intros Sitting in Limbo Sugaree – Jerry Garcia Band, Let It Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection, volume 2 Fennario – Among the Oak and Ash Hooray for Captain Spaulding – Big Lou’s Polka Casserole, Doctors of Polka-Ology Drip Dryin’ – The Two Man Gentlemen Band, Drip Dryin’ Nobody’s Fault But Mine – … Read more
Alabama Getaway-> Greatest Story Ever Told Terrapin-> Playing in the Band – Grateful Dead, Road Trips vol 3 no 1 (12/28/79) Jeeziz, Jeffrey Norman did an amazing job restoring this tape! Sounds terrific on the speakers here at KPFA. Fennario – Donna the Buffalo w/ David Gans 10/25/09 MagnoliaFest, Live Oak FL Edward (The Mad … Read more
I’ll Take a Melody Lady Sleeps – Jerry Garcia Band, Let It Rock: The Jerry Garcia Collection, volume 2 Jam Bertha-> Good Lovin’ Estimated Prophet-> Friend of the Devil Feel Like a Stranger Brown-Eyed Women Hell in a Bucket – Furthur 9/19/09 Fox Theater, Oakland CA I Never Was a Cool One – Mad Tea … Read more
One more week of FUND-RAISING, friends – but tonight it’s online-only, so I won’t be interrupting the music with pitching. Please make a donation online – KPFA needs our support. Stella Blue-> Viola Lee Blues-> Throwing Stones ~ Gloria – Bob Weir and Ratdog 9/2/09 House of Blues, Las Vegas NV Ratdog shows are available … Read more
It’s a FUND-RAISER, friends! Please make a donation online or call 510-848-5732 or toll-free 1-800-439-5732 Friend of the Devil (6/8/77) – Grateful Dead, Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings Stand! – Sly and the Family Stone, The Woodstock Experience Some Days You Write the Song – Guy Clark, Some Days the Song Writes You Jackaroe … Read more
It’s a FUND-RAISER, friends! Please make a donation online or call 510-848-5732 or toll-free 1-800-439-5732 Gomorrah – Jerry Garcia Band, Pure Jerry: Bay Area 1978 Lazy Lightning’-> Supplication (6/8/77) – Grateful Dead, Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings While My Guitar Gently Weeps – Beatles, White Album (Mono remaster) Mystery Train – Jerry Garcia Band, … Read more
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