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“If I Had Known”

If I Had Known by Greg Brown, from a compilation titled If I Had Known – Essential Recordings, 1980-1996 I first heard the song last summer, playing on the PA before my performance at Neverdun Farm in Maine. I bought it right away. It came up in my shuffle-stream yesterday while I was driving through the farmlands of Pennsylvania. I listened to it three times in a row, and I was in tears by the end of the second play. I don’t think there is a man alive who hadn’t had the experience that is summed up in the perfect line, “Summer was invented for her to wear that dress.”

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1248

Week of August 20, 2012

Part 1 21:29
Grateful Dead, Dave’s Picks vol. 3 (10/21/71)
TRUCKIN’
BIG RAILROAD BLUES

Grateful Dead, History of the Grateful Dead, vol. 1 (Bear’s Choice)
KATIE MAE

Part 2 34:16
Grateful Dead 3/16/90 Capital Center, Landover MD
SCARLET BEGONIAS->
ESTIMATED PROPHET

Grateful Dead (aka Skull and Roses)
NOT FADE AWAY->
GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD FEELIN’ BAD

Bear’s Choice is the latest audiophile GD release on 180-gram virgin vinyl from Audio Fidelity.

The 3/16/90 material will be released soon as part of a new boxed set of Spring 1990 shows.

Dave’s Picks vol. 3 is the complete show of 10/22/71 plus a full CD of highlights from the night before.

DG in Buffalo 8/19/12 – recording on the archive

Lenny Stubbe recorded my performance at Duke’s Bohemian Grove Bar in Buffalo last night. It was great to meet him in person after corresponding for 20 years! Here’s a link to his blog, which has a set list and links to his recording.

(There is an aborted “Stagger Lee” in this show. I had played it in a campsite jam at A Bear’s Picnic on Saturday, but I forgot a chord and just got completely lost, so I gave up. These things happen! I’ll get it properly committed to memory eventually.)

Big thanks to Kevin Kukoda of ECE Presents and the Garcia Preservation Society for taking the initiative to invite me to Buffalo!