Blues For Allah 50: Blues For Allah

About this episode

The season finale explores the title track of Blues For Allah, its album art, and the coalition behind the Dead's 1975 Golden Gate Park show.

The Deadcast’s overstuffed season finale unpacks Blues For Allah’s oft-misunderstood title track, the unlikely story of its album art, & the remarkable coalition that manifested the Dead’s September 1975 Golden Gate Park show, officially the New Age Bio-Centennial Unity Fair. Guests: David Lemieux, Ron Rakow, Al Teller, Ned Lagin, Steve Brown, Bill McCarthy, Larry Weissman, Gary Lambert, Ed Perlstein, Joan Miller, Geoff Gould, Dan Hanklein, Raymond Foye, Nicholas Meriwether, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Keith Eaton See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Guests: David Lemieux, Ron Rakow, Al Teller, Ned Lagin, Steve Brown, Bill McCarthy, Larry Weissman, Gary Lambert, Ed Perlstein, Joan Miller, Geoff Gould, Dan Hanklein, Raymond Foye, Nicholas Meriwether, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Keith Eaton

Topics covered

• Blues For Allah
• album art
• Golden Gate Park show
• New Age Bio-Centennial Unity Fair
• Grateful Dead history

Keywords

• Blues For Allah
• Grateful Dead
• album art
• Golden Gate Park
• 1975
• New Age Bio-Centennial Unity Fair
• music history

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grateful Dead

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