Blues For Allah 50: Help On the Way

About this episode

The episode celebrates the 50th anniversary of Blues For Allah with insights from various guests and archival materials.

The Grateful Deadcast points itself towards 1975 to begin a song-by-song celebration of Blues For Allah’s 50th anniversary, loaded with raw session tapes, early lyric drafts, & the story of how the Dead built a new studio, musical language, batch of songs, & LP from the ground up.  Guests: David Lemieux, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Ron Rakow, Stephen Barncard, Ned Lagin, Steve Brown, Gary Lambert, Keith Eaton, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Matt Campbell 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, Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Ron Rakow, Stephen Barncard, Ned Lagin, Steve Brown, Gary Lambert, Keith Eaton, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Matt Campbell

Topics covered

• Blues For Allah
• Grateful Dead
• music history
• studio sessions
• songwriting
• 1975

Keywords

• Blues For Allah
• Grateful Dead
• 1975
• music
• studio
• songwriting
• session tapes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Grateful Dead

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