Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.
“Echolalia”
A memorial for the deportees
From Sue Kern at KFCF in Fresno:
Woody Guthrie’s song, “Deportees,” about the plane that caught fire over Los Gatos canyon, was actually about a crash that occurred in Coalinga, in Fresno County. The 28 Mexican nationals who died were being deported back to Mexico after working in the California fields, and the news accounts at the time reported the names of the INS agents and flight crew – but the deportees weren’t named. Hence Woody’s song.
One of our local authors, Tim Z Hernandez, discovered where the unmarked grave was located while researching another book he was writing, and he talked with Lance Canales (one of our treasured local musicians – blues guitar and native flute, of Lance Canales and the Flood). Together they came up with this project to find out the names of all the deportees, contact their families, and put up a memorial headstone to commemorate them. They’re working with the Fresno Catholic Diocese and specifically Carlos Rascon, director of their cemetery, trying to raise $10,000 for the project. The Woody Guthrie Foundation and Nora Guthrie are co-sponsoring it.
The benefit takes place at Fulton 55 (875 Divisadero Street, Fresno) this coming Thursday, April 18th, starting at 7:30 pm, and will feature Lance Canales and the Flood, Jemmy Bluestein, and Conjunto Califas, as well as Tim Hernandez reading his poetry. Lance has recorded a version of “Deportees” that includes a reading of the names of all the dead.
Learn more about the concert and the history here. Hear Woody’s poem sung by son Arlo Guthrie, here. For tickets, call 1-877-987-6487, or go here.
If you can’t make it to the concert but want to contribute to the Memorial Headstone, donations can be mailed to Saint Peter’s Cemetery, 264 N. Blythe Ave., Fresno, Ca 93706. On the memo part of the check please indicate: Holy Cross Memorial. All donations are tax deductible.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1282
Week of April 15, 2013
Part 1 30:53
Grateful Dead, Olympia Theatre, Paris, France 5/4/72
GOOD LOVIN’
NEXT TIME YOU SEE ME
Part 2 25:12
Grateful Dead 3/1/87 Henry J Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland CA
TOUCH OF GREY
LITTLE RED ROOSTER
Jim Page, Whose World Is This
DOWN TO EUGENE
Bobby “Blue” Bland, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead
TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend valley in central Ohio, featuring Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin’ McCourys, Leftover Salmon, and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. More information and tickets at www.allgoodfestival.com.
Grateful Dead Hour no. 1281
Week of April 8, 2013
Part 1 34:31
Grateful Dead 6/8/69 Fillmore West, San Francisco
THINGS I USED TO DO w/ Elvin Bishop
WHO’S LOVIN’ YOU TONIGHT w/ Elvin Bishop
THAT’S IT FOR THE OTHER ONE->
COSMIC CHARLIE
Part 2 21:36
Grateful Dead, So Many Roads (1965-1995) (7/27/73)
WATKINS GLEN SOUNDCHECK JAM
According to the DeadNet Store, a stash of So Many Roads (1965-1995) in the original slip case were found in a distributor’s warehouse, “so limited quantities are available!”
Lost Live Dead is an indispensable resource if you’re interested in the history of the Grateful Dead and related historical and musical subjects. Here is the entry on the fascinating events of a weekend at the Fillmore West in June of 1969.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:
The Wanee Music Festival, April 18-20 at the Spirit of the Suwanee Music Park in Live Oak, Florida. Two nights of both the Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic, plus Gov’t Mule, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Electric Hot Tuna, Leon Russell, Tower of Power, Maceo Parker, Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang, Galactic & Friends, Steel Pulse, and dozens of additional artists. Tickets are available now at livenation.com or waneefestival.com.
The All Good Music Festival, July 18-21 at Legend Valley in central Ohio, featuring Furthur, Primus, Pretty Lights, Yonder Mountain, John Butler Trio, STS9, Grace Potter, Keller Williams and the Travelin McCourys, Leftover Salmon, and over 30 more with no overlapping sets. Information and tickets at allgoodfestival.com.
Sycamore Slough String Band: “El Paso”
A rough mix of an outtake from the first rehearsals of Sycamore Slough String Band, January 2012.