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Here is the latest news from David Gans, producer and host of the Grateful Dead Hour.

Grateful Dead Hour #999

Week of November 12, 2007 Part 1 25:41 Obray Ramsey, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead RAIN AND SNOW Mutilaudio by David Gans BRICKSHAKE #7 Grateful Dead, So Many Roads (1965-1995) EYES OF THE WORLD (10/19/74) Part 2 29:44 Might as Well: The Persuasions Sing Grateful Dead HERE COMES SUNSHINE MIGHT AS WELL All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions LOSER (Alternate Take) Postcards of the Hanging: Grateful Dead Play the Songs of Bob Dylan ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER Widespread Panic, from Stolen Roses: Songs of the Grateful Dead CREAM PUFF WAR Well-Matched: The Best of Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders I SECOND THAT EMOTION For GD Hour number 1000 minus one, I made a somewhat self-indulgent (and, frankly, expedient) decision to play tracks from the CDs I have had the privilege of producing or co-producing over the course of my career in Deadland.
Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: eDeadshop.com, an online store offering t-shirts, hats, stickers, tie dyes, gifts and other rock and roll holiday items from such acts as the Grateful Dead, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Santana, and Pink Floyd. More information and complete product catalog can be found at eDeadshop.com. Island Girl Records, presenting the release of Postcards from the Road Volume 1, a new live album by keyboardist, guitarist and singer/songwriter Aaron Ferguson. Recorded live in Philadelphia, this seven-track CD features Aaron’s traditional acoustic songwriting and includes several extended experimental jams. More information is available at aaronferguson.com.
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Grisman, Haynes, and Aiken on the Saturday Ham Jam!

This just in from Tim Lynch:

KPIG Saturday Ham Jam
1:00-3:00pm on KPIG 1510-AM Piedmont / San Francisco

Tomorrow’s (Saturday, November 10) guests are David Grisman, Warren Haynes, and Caroline Aiken!

Grisman just put out a terrific duet CD with John Sebastian, titled Satisfied.

I spent some quality time with Caroline Aiken at the Folk Alliance western regional conference last weekend. She’s playing at Caffe Trieste in Berkeley tonight, 8-10pm, and my wife and I will be in the audience. She is a fine singer, songwriter, and guitarist!

And y’all know who Warren Haynes is, of course! Gov’t Mule’s latest, Mighty High, is reggaelicious, with the great Toots Hibbert among the guests and a kickass cover of “The Shape I’m In,” too.

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Rex Foundation launches a blog

This just in via email from the Rex Foundation:

Dear Friends,

In 1983, the same year the Rex Foundation began, Buckminster Fuller announced, “We can now solve all the problems of hunger and need across the world, having all the available resources and technology; all that we need is the political will.”

Perspectives on The Will to Change, the new Rex newsletter, now in the mail and also accessible online, seeks to launch a conversation about what it might take to generate the necessary will — in our nations, in our communities, and in ourselves — to bring about positive change, and in a positive way. We hope you’ll join in.

We invite you to visit the Rex Foundation Blog and share your thoughts about The Will to Change. And keep checking in, as over the next few weeks we’ll be presenting different issues that were raised in the newsletter to invite more of your ideas. Together, we can use technology’s tools to brainstorm and share information, to spark connections and ideas that help generate the will that’s still very much in need.

Check out the Rex Foundation home page for information on all upcoming events. We look forward to the fun, connections, and beneficial results of traveling with you on the philanthropic bus of the Rex Community Caravan.

Thank you for all of your support!

Sandy Sohcot
Executive Director

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