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Grateful Dead Hour no. 1238

Week of June 11, 2012 Part 1 29:39 Grateful Dead 9/22/91 Boston Garden ME AND MY UNCLE -> MAGGIE’S FARM BROWN EYED WOMEN LET IT GROW Part 2 26:24 Bob Weir 4/26/12 Charlottesville VA MY BROTHER ESAU DEAR PRUDENCE MEXICALI BLUES Bob Weir’s 4/26/12 solo acoustic performance is available from gnomesandhobbits.com, along with other selected shows from the solo acoustic tour, the Robinson-Greene-Weir trio, and Furthur live shows.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival July 19–22 in Central Ohio, at Legend Valley (formerly known as Buckeye Lake, where the Grateful Dead did shows in the 80s and 90s). The Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby with Branford Marsalis, Mickey Hart Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Railroad Earth, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yonder Mountain, Lotus, Tea Leaf Green, The Flaming Lips, and nearly 40 more acts with no overlapping sets. And special thanks to Rock Mitzvah.

Sycamore Slough String Band 5/22/12: recording available online

Sycamore Slough String Band May 22, 2012
With special guests Aaron Redner, Melody Walker and Jacob Groopman
Sweetwater Music Hall, Mill Valley CA

Recorded and mastered by Bob Cogswell
Download or stream it here!

Cassidy
Goin’ Down the Road Feelin’ Bad
Eyes of the World
Me and My Uncle
Candyman
Shakedown Street
Brokedown Palace
Tennessee Jed
Midnight Moonlight

Row Jimmy
New Speedway Boogie
China Cat Sunflower
Me and Bobby McGee
Get Up Jake
Cumberland Blues
It Must Have Been the Roses
Scarlet Begonias
Wharf Rat
Deal
Ship of Fools

Source: SBD/stage mic matrix
Lineage: Sound Devices 744T>Samplitude7.2Pro>TLH

DG and Garrin on the KPFA archive

Garrin Benfield and I played live on KPFA’s Sing Out! with Larry Kelp last night. You can hear it on the KPFA archive – we start a few minutes into the program, after Maddy Streicek’s song. The archive will be up until June 20.

We’re promoting our show at the Freight and Salvage tonight, which will be webcast via Concert Window starting at 8pm PDT. You can order the webcast here for only $3.

Thursday, June 7, 8pm: DG and Garrin Benfield at the Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley.

More info on my musical adventures at https://www.dgans.com/gigs.html

Grateful Dead Hour no. 1237

Week of June 4, 2012

Part 1 28:14
Grateful Dead 7/8/78 Red Rocks Amphitheater, Morrison CO
TERRAPIN->
ONE MORE SATURDAY NIGHT
WEREWOLVES OF LONDON

Rev. Gary Davis, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead
SAMSON AND DELILAH

Part 2 27:47
Grateful Dead 9/22/91 Boston Garden
SHAKEDOWN STREET->
CC RIDER->
IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from the All Good Music Festival July 19–22 in Central Ohio at Legend Valley, formerly known as Buckeye Lake, where the Grateful Dead did shows in the 80s and 90s. The Allman Brothers Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Bob Weir and Bruce Hornsby with Branford Marsalis, Mickey Hart Band, Dark Star Orchestra, Railroad Earth, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Yonder Mountain, Lotus, Tea Leaf Green, The Flaming Lips and nearly 40 more acts with no overlapping sets.

Special thanks to Rock Mitzvah