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Week of November 5, 2018 Part 1 29:16 Grateful Dead 6/23/93 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN LOSER BROKEN ARROW EASY ANSWERS California Kind (unreleased) TENNESSEE JED Part 2 26:19 Grateful Dead 6/23/93 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN SAMSON AND DELILAH WAY TO GO HOME Joe Craven and the Sometimers, Garcia Songbook (Blender Logic) FRANKLIN’S TOWER

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Late night talk show legend and comedian Conan O’Brien performs stand-up at The Cap on Wednesday, November 7, and Edie Brickell, known for having enchanted Jerry Garcia with her gentle vocals, comes to The Cap with New Bohemians on Thursday, November 8. Wednesday is Grateful Dead night at Garcia’s. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com. The Capitol Theatre & CEG Present Dead On Live: Winterland ’74 “Wall of Sound” on Friday, December 14! Dead On Live pays tribute to the Grateful Dead’s historic PA with selections from the Winterland ’74 run that became the Grateful Dead Movie and the ‘Steal Your Face’ album. A truly unique presentation of this historic era of Grateful Dead’s long and illustrious history, as presented by Dead On Live and Asbury Audio. Lillie Belle Farms hand made chocolates, Recognized as one of America’s top 10 chocolatiers by Pastry Arts and Design. Lillie Belle’s award-winning creations include the 80% Dark Star bar, the 70% Ramblin Rose, and more. Made by heads, for heads. Rhino Entertainment, presenting the GRAMMY®-nominated Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip, out now on DVD and Blu-Ray. All versions include the original documentary in stereo and 5.1 surround. The Deluxe Edition includes previously unreleased video from the band’s first overseas gig, May 24, 1970 in England, including six full songs along with backstage footage. The Long Strange Trip Deluxe Edition is available at Dead.net

Week of October 29, 2018

Part 1 28:44
Grateful Dead 6/23/93 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville IN
GOOD TIMES
HELL IN A BUCKET
LAZY RIVER ROAD
STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN

Part 2 27:17
Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (Rhino) (5/19/74)
CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER->
I KNOW YOU RIDER
Stephen Inglis, Cut the Dead Some Slack (Rhythm & Roots)
DAYS BETWEEN

A couple of summers ago I played a complete Grateful Dead show recorded 6/22/93 at Deer Creek in Indiana. I liked the show that happened the next day, too, and that’s what we’re going to be hearing here for the next few weeks.

Last year, Stephen Inglis invited me to sing some harmonies on his wonderful double album of Hawaiian-flavored Grateful Dead music, Cut the Dead Some Slack. I played a gig with him in Honolulu that wound up providing some bonus material for that disc, and we have done some touring together on the mainland since then. We’re working a Kickstarter campaign right now to launch a recording by a band we’re calling FRAGILE THUNDER (which also includes the harpist Anela Lauren).

“Days Between” is the last song that Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter wrote together, and to my mind and heart it is one of the deepest and most powerful songs in the canon. It is the Dead’s own story. It’s been an intense and spiritual experience to perform it in concert with Stephen.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. Southern-rockers Blackberry Smoke head to The Cap on Friday, December 7 to play their blend of country, funky soul, and blistering heavy rock. In the past few years, they’ve collaborated with Cap friends and family like Gregg Allman, Bob Weir, and Robert Randolph, and The Cap is psyched to welcome them to the stage. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

Lillie Belle Farms hand made chocolates, recognized as one of America’s top 10 chocolatiers by Pastry Arts and Design. Lillie Belle’s award-winning creations include the 80% Dark Star bar, the 70% Ramblin Rose, and more. Made by heads, for heads.

Week of October 22, 2018

Part 1 35:25
Grateful Dead 7/15/88 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
SPACE->
I NEED A MIRACLE->
THE WHEEL->
GIMME SOME LOVIN’->
MORNING DEW

Part 2 20:19
Grateful Dead, Pacific Northwest ’73-’74: The Complete Recordings (5/19/74) (Rhino)
EL PASO
Joe Craven and the Sometimers, Garcia Songbook (Blender Logic)
CRAZY FINGERS
Grateful Dead 7/15/88 Greek Theatre, Berkeley CA
LOVELIGHT

“El Paso” is one of several songs in the first set of 5/19/74 in which the vocals are missing, probably a result of some switching around of things onstage. I enjoy listening to these tracks because it allows us to hear what the instrumentalists are doing during the singing part of the song.

Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from:

The Capitol Theatre and Garcia’s in Port Chester, New York. The Cap is excited to host Thanksgiving Weekend with Twiddle on November 23 and 24. Twiddle is calling this run Friendsgiving. And Ween returns to let the Boognish rise over Port Chester with a two-night run on December 15 and 16. Events, information, and ticketing at thecapitoltheatre.com.

Lillie Belle Farms hand made chocolates, recognized as one of America’s top 10 chocolatiers by Pastry Arts and Design. Lillie Belle’s award-winning creations include the 80% Dark Star bar, the 70% Ramblin Rose, and more. Made by heads, for heads.