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Curtain call: Mickey, Bill, Phil, Bob, Warren and Jeff, feelin’ the love from the audience at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 5/10/09. Photo: ©Jay BlakesBerg

How does the song go?: The Dead running some tunes with Branford Marsalis in the rehearsal room at Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ, 4/29/09 Photo: © Jay BlakesBerg

Home field advantage: Playing one for the locals, at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA, 5/10/09  Photo: © roBert Minkin

Friends of the devil: Jeff gets his horns, cape and pitchfork from Mickey and Bill (with Mike Gordon hovering), Madison Square Garden, NYC, 4/25/09 Photo: ©Jay BlakesBerg

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CHANGEIf there was one word that charac-terized the past year, that was it: Change, for good or ill, was in the air everywhere; Political change, societal change, cultur-al change — and, more ominously, global climate change and cataclysmic econom-ic change (the latter of which had a good many folks worrying about spare change). Change being the dominant constant in our corner of the Universe for more than four decades, we here in DeadWorld felt right at home in the midst of the tumult.

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The surviving members of the Grateful Dead and extended family were an integral part of the process of effecting change, through their active role in the his-toric campaign, election and inauguration of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States. That activity in turn gave impetus to positive change on the musi-cal front, as Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart (abetted by Warren Haynes and Jeff Chimenti) reconvened (as The Dead) to perform to-gether for the first time in five years. In a continuation of a sequence of events that began with the “Dead Heads for Obama” benefit in San Francisco in February 2008, the band played another fundraiser for the Democratic candidate in October — the

“Change Rocks” show (with the Allman Brothers Band) in the battleground state of Pennsylvania. Shortly thereafter came the hoped-for announcement that The Dead would do a full-on tour in the spring of 2009.

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The band gave New York City a delec-table taste of things to come with a breath-less jaunt through the Big Apple on March 30th, with an event called “Free The Dead!” (aka “The Taxi Tour”): three shows in dif-ferent Manhattan venues in one day, all of them free of charge (with tickets given away online and through radio stations). It started out with an acoustic afternoon show by Phil, Bob and Warren at the Angel Orensanz Center, a beautiful 19th Century former synagogue-turned-arts-center on the Lower East Side; then it was on to elec-tric full-band fun at the Gramercy Theater (a cozy converted movie house); and final-ly the venerable Roseland Ballroom near Times Square. It was a day those lucky enough to attend won’t soon forget.

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The big tour (just one show at one venue a day, thank you!) started for real on April 12th in Greensboro, NC, made its way to many of the longtime Dead strongholds in the Northeast, then hopped from the Midwest to the Rockies to the West Coast, ending up in Washington state in mid-May. The net result: 22 dates in all, over 150 different songs played, countless minds blown. Among the high points were spec-tacular shows at some of the most revered GD venues, including Madison Square

Garden and (for the last time, as it’s scheduled for demo-lition) Philadelphia’s Spectrum; a cou-ple of gigs in New Jersey with old friend Branford Marsalis providing added inspiration; an amazing night at the L.A. Forum that did considerable damage to the no-tion that Southern

Californians are too mellow – those folks gave the New York and Philly crowds a run for their money in the energy and enthusi-asm department! The musical results were impressive, to say the least — the group-mind was in full effect and The Zone open for business, with Warren and Jeff hav-ing no trouble at all jumping into the con-versation with the Core Four. In fact, Mr. Chimenti, who was a crucial participant in the nightly sonic safaris with Bill and Mickey, was accorded a rare honor indeed — induction, in a backstage ceremony in New York, into the ranks of the Rhythm Devils (complete with presentation of horns, cape and pitchfork)!

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— save for a one-off show in July at the Rothbury Festival in Michigan — returned to their individual endeavors and collabo-rations. What the future portends for The Dead as a group is unknown, but this much can be said: for that fleeting precious pe-riod they spent together this year, they did honor to a great legacy and, for all of us who

were fortunate to share the experience, put the “grateful” back in the equation in no uncertain terms.

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One of the most gratifying elements of experiencing RatDog on tour in 2009 was the chance to observe the continued good health and creative revitalization of Mark Karan, whose recovery from can-cer and return to peak musical form — as-sisted immeasurably, he says, by all the love and good wishes sent his way by fam-ily, friends and fans — is as moving and in-spiring as it gets. Mark took advantage of some of his RatDog downtime to complete his long-awaited solo album Walk Through The Fire, about which you’ll find more on page 5. And for all the latest info on Mark: markkaran.com

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ture called FURTHUR, a melding of new and old friends featuring guitarist John Kadlecik (of the Dark Star Orchestra) and drummer Joe Russo (Benevento-Russo Duo), joining the familiar faces of RatDog’s Jay Lane and Jeff Chimenti. The combination of players deeply rooted in the traditions of Grateful Dead music and others relatively new to the scene offered the potential for some very intriguing cre-ative chemistry indeed. Exciting previews of coming attractions turned up in the form of online videos from the group’s rehears-als, and the high expectations were fully satisfied as the new combo made its debut with three wildly successful performances in September at Oakland’s beautifully re-stored Fox Theatre.

Summing up the shows, our corre-spondent Blair Jackson wrote (in de-tailed reviews you can read in full at dead. net): “Whew. This band is for real. Keep an open mind. And don’t miss ’em if they come to your town!”

And will they be coming to your town? Well, just as we were going to press, a batch of new dates were announced for December in the Northeast. You can get de-tailed info about these, and any fast-break-ing news of more to come, at furthur.net

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Further adventures: (Above) The new group (L-R: Chimenti, Lesh, Russo, Lane, Weir, Kadlecik) on-stage during the triumphant debut weekend at the Oakland Fox;

(Right) Feelin’ some love of their own.

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Like fine wine… Bob Weir joins Taj Mahal at a Rex Foundation benefit, 6/11/09 at Silver Oaks Cellar, Oakville, CA. More on Rex below in the Community Corner. Photo: © roBert Minkin

late-night gigs after the Dead shows, mak-ing lots of new fans along the way. You can join the ranks of those fans by visiting bandofbrotherz.org

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Congratulations are due Mickey Hart, whose Global Drum Project (with Zakir Hussain, Sikiru Adepoju and Giovanni Hidalgo) took the Grammy Award in the “Best Contemporary World Music” album category. Mickey, Zakir, Sikiru and Giovanni were previously part-nered on the groundbreaking 1991 release Planet Drum, which won the very first Grammy ever awarded in that category.

Mickey, Zakir and Sikiru were part of a celebration of a more somber kind on September 9th, when they joined saxo-phonist Paul Winter for a beautiful per-formance at a memorial event in tribute to the great broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite, who died on July 17th at the age of 92. Mickey, who enjoyed a long friendship with the legendary CBS News anchorman, was one of several speakers (including President Obama) who eulogized Mr. Cronkite, offering affectionate remem-brances of their times together (which in-cluded several Grateful Dead shows. That’s right: Walter Cronkite was One Of Us!).

Mickey also had a major hand in one of the most poignant music releases of 2009: A Promise Kept, a posthumous tes-tament by talented Bay Area singer-song-writer Jim McPherson, who passed away in 1985 at the far-too-young age of 40. The promise referred to in the title was a si-lent pledge to McPherson from his wife Evy, to see the album to completion and release. 24 years later, that promise has indeed been kept, and the music world is richer for it. The album was recorded at Hart’s barn at his former home in Novato, CA, and featured a stellar cast of Northern California talent, including, in addition to Mickey on drums, the late Merl Saunders on keyboards, Bobby Vega on bass, sing-er/multi-instrumentalist Vicki Randle, harmonica ace Norton Buffalo and

guitarist Michael Hinton. For more in-formation and to purchase the CD, visit jimmcpherson.net

And for all the latest from Mickey’s world: mickeyhart.net

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Bill Kreutzmann’s latest musical ad-venture, the BK3, begun last year in part-nership with guitarist Scott Murawski and bassist Oteil Burbridge, continued to evolve and, yes, change. Oteil, one of the busiest, most in-demand players anywhere, had to bow out of the project due to a few too many musical and personal obligations

— hey, a guy has to go home sometime! But ready to jump in was another terrific bass player: James “Hutch” Hutchinson, probably best known for his long (and still ongoing) tenure in the band of Bonnie Raitt. Hutch has a well-deserved reputa-tion as a great “in-the-pocket” blues/R&B/rock ‘n’ roll player, but he’s also got deep roots in the Bay Area improv-rock scene, and only too happy to bust out of that pocket every now and again and stretch out. The BK3 provides a perfect opportunity to do so, and Hutch rose to the task with ease. The 3 became a 4 on its successful late-spring tour, when the multi-talented singer/song-writer/guitarist/fiddler/etc Tara Nevins, from the wonderful roots-rock band Donna The Buffalo joined the party.

Bill’s also found time to get in some enjoyable and productive time with the Mississippi-born, Louisiana-raised, Texas-based guitarist/singer/songwriter Papa Mali ( papamali.com)

For more on the BK3 (or 4) and other Kreutzmann news, check out Bill’s spiffy brand-new website: billkreutzmann.com

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Need we tell you what was happen-ing in the world of Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay? You got it — change! After a couple of happy years with Donna Jean and the Tricksters, Donna went back to basics with a smaller, leaner, funkier band, now called simply the Donna Jean Godchaux Band. Staying on from the DJ/Tricksters period is the great guitarist/singer Jeff Mattson, joined by one of Jeff’s old pals from the Zen Tricksters, drummer Joe Chirco, plus Donna’s husband David MacKay on bass and Mark Adler on key-boards. The resulting sound is a bit closer to the Southern Soul feel that Donna grew to love as a child in the fabled music com-munity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but still leaves lots of room for the jamming that her Dead Head fans crave. Learn more at: don-najeangodchauxband.com

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Saint Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie is a hugely entertaining, moving and inspir-ing new documentary by filmmaker Michelle Esrick: a labor of love ten years in the making, tracing the amazing journey of Wavy Gravy — the man, the clown, the ice cream flavor — from his days in the 1950s/early 60s as a poet/standup comic (then known as Hugh Romney) in Greenwich Village, opening shows for jazz icons including Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane and hanging out with such pals as Bob Dylan and Lenny Bruce; to his lifelong commitment to political and social activism; his role as patriarch of the rolling commu-nal family known as the Hog Farm, which attained international renown for providing

free food, freak-out counseling, peacekeep-ing and other assistance to the stranded and hungry hordes at the Woodstock festival 40 years ago this past summer; and perhaps most remarkably of all, his tireless work as co-founder/fundraiser/goodwill ambassador of the Seva Foundation, an organization dedicated for more than three

decades to a philosophy of “compassion in action,” serving people around the world who are struggling for health, cultural survival and sustainable communi-ties. The film features rare archival footage of Wavy from all phases of his life, as well as recently filmed sequences of the man at work and play, plus first-hand testimony and music

from such friends, colleagues and admirers as Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, Buffy Sainte-Marie and the band with whom Wavy was most closely associ-ated over the years, the Grateful Dead.

Saint Misbehavin’ has enjoyed successful theatrical engagements in New York and

Community Corner Los Angeles, and is available for showings at colleges and film festivals. To learn more about the film and future opportunities to see this indispensable cultural document, visit rippleeffectfilms.com

Wavy’s own home in cyberspace: wavygravy.net

And to learn how you can help the Seva Foundation continue its ongoing tradition of compassion in action: seva.org

The Rex Foundation was on the road again this past summer, making friends on the festival circuit, raising consciousness and needed funds for a variety of good causes.

Since the Grateful Dead's first Rex Benefit in the spring of 1984, fans have made it possible for the Rex Foundation to grant $8.4 million to over 1,000 programs across the United States and internation-ally. The Rex Foundation grants support grassroots programs working in bold, innovative ways to secure a healthy en-vironment, promote individuality in the

arts, provide social and economic justice, preserve indigenous cultures, build strong communities and educate children and adults everywhere.

Since the Grateful Dead ended its touring life in 1995, Rex has relied on the generosity and activism of you, the mem-bers of the Dead Head community and others who have joined the cause as the Foundation has broadened its focus and its outreach over the years.

To continue your support of Rex, visit rexfoundation.org

In Memoriam:Ustad Ali Akbar Khan (1922-2009)Master musician and educator; founder of the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael, CA (recipient of the Rex Foundation’s 2008 Ralph J. Gleason Award).

John “Marmaduke” Dawson (1945-2009)Singer/songwriter/guitarist; Co-founder of New Riders of the Purple Sage; co-writer (with Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter) of “Friend of the Devil”

“May the four winds blow you safely home…”

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CD TWO1. SCARLET BEGONIAS>2. FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN>3. GOOD LOVIN’4. CANDYMAN5. ESTIMATED PROPHET>6. HE’S GONE>7. DRUMS

CD THREE1. SAMSON AND DELILAH2. TERRAPIN STATION>3. MORNING DEW>4. AROUND AND AROUND5. UNCLE JOHN’S BAND6. U.S. BLUES

CD ONE1. BERTHA2. JACK STRAW3. TENNESSEE JED4. LOOKS LIKE RAIN5. PEGGY-O6. FUNICULI FUNICULA7. EL PASO8. FRIEND OF THE DEVIL9. THE MUSIC NEVERSTOPPED

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CD EIGHT1. SAMSON AND DELILAH

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CD NINE1. ESTIMATED PROPHET>

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Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1

Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings

Jerry Garcia Band Let it Rock

Box set? Yeah, we got your box set right here, buddy! We’ve gotten such an over-whelmingly favorable reaction to our box sets covering entire show runs—includ-ing Fillmore West 1969 and Winterland 1973—that we’re gonna make a habit of this! Which brings us to our latest release: the nine-CD set Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings. “Did you say ’77?!” you sputter with a combination of amazement and sheer joy. “Best year ever?” Well, that’s a matter of opinion, of course, but yes, ’77 it is, and not any ol’ ’77, but the spring of ’77—specifically June 7-9—the end of a tour that is justifiably one of the most famous and revered in the band’s history. Fresh off recording their Terrapin Station album and completing the Grateful Dead Movie, the Dead were in great form all spring as they hit the road to hone some of their new material, including “Terrapin,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Passenger” and “Fire on the Mountain” (which wouldn’t be recorded until the following year). It was a year filled with superb versions of all those tunes, as well epic readings of everything from “Help on the Way” > “Slipknot!” > “Franklin’s Tower” to “St. Stephen” and “Not Fade Away.” All of those tunes, and so much more are available on this truly spectacular box. Why, the “Help-Slip-Frank” alone covers more than 31 min-

The latest installment in our popular Road Trips series, now entering its third big year (and ninth release overall) is bound to become a favorite. Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1 is the complete show from December 28, 1979, part of the sparkling run that has already given us the excel-lent Dick’s Picks: Vol. 5 (from 12/26/79). You’ll recall that these year-end concerts, held at the Oakland Auditorium be-cause Winterland had closed down for good the previous New Year’s Eve, were the first holiday shows featuring new keyboardist Brent Mydland, who joined the band in April 1979. The new lineup had been gaining momentum with each passing tour since that spring, and by December was truly hitting its stride. It helped, too, that the band was in the midst of recording their Go to Heaven album, so they were really playing together a lot during this period. This 12/28/79 concert is a blast: a super high-energy rock and roll show that also has its share of spacey jams and exploratory passages. The first set in-cludes fine versions of “Sugaree,” “High Time” (rare enough that it always felt like a treat!) and “The Music Never Stopped,” while the second set opens with the al-

Meanwhile on the suddenly busy Jerry Garcia front, we’re happy to announce a third 2009 release: Let It Rock: Jerry Garcia Band 1975 is 2-CD set recorded November 17 and 18, 1975 at the Keystone Berkeley, featuring the very first version of the Jerry Garcia Band, with the magnificent British pianist Nicky Hopkins, drummer Ron Tutt and ol’ reliable—bassist John Kahn. This marks the first-ever full release of material from the brief but fruitful Garcia-Hopkins union (August through December ’75), and it shows the group at its best, rolling though a broad range of styles, from the churning opener, “Let It Rock,” to Dead favorites like “Sugaree,” “They Love Each Other” and a lively “Friend of the Devil,” to boppin’ R&B—“Tore Up Over You,” “Roadrunner”—a 19-minute workout on the Stones’ “Let’s Spend the Night Together,” and Nicky’s ex-

utes! Add to that a great “Scarlet > Fire,” “Good Lovin’,” “Morning Dew,” “The Other One”—you name it, it’s probably here, and played magnificently. And if it ain’t here, maybe it’s on the special Bonus Disc you will receive if you order the box soon: In this case it’s been culled from a show that’s not even in general circulation among trad-ers, the 5/12/77 concert from the magical Auditorium Theater in Chicago, includ-ing “Dancing in the Street,” “Terrapin,” “Playing in the Band,” “Comes A Time,” and more.

As was the case with our previous Complete Recordings boxes, Winterland ’77 comes in a trippy, beautifully designed package that includes a fat booklet con-taining vintage photos from the ol’ arena, a wonderful essay by Rolling Stone senior writer David Fricke, plus a couple of me-mentos you’re sure to enjoy. For the full song lists and more, go to dead.net, of course!

· 9-CD set featuring three consecutive Winterland shows (over 9 hours of music)

· Mind-bending artwork from acclaimed artist Emek

· 28-page booklet with essay by David Fricke

· Exclusive bonus disc for early orders

ways potent pair of “Alabama Getaway” > “Greatest Story Ever Told,” turns deep and introspective with “Playing in the Band” and “Terrapin,” and then later turns into a non-stop party with “Uncle John’s Band,” “I Need A Miracle,” “Bertha” and “Good Lovin’.” If you’re not wiped out after that, the double-encore will waste you—“Casey Jones” and “Saturday Night”! The limited

edition Bonus Disc we’re sending out with this one (if you order promptly) is a win-ner from beginning to end, too. It includes the heart of the second set from 12/30/79, including a fantastic “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire on the Mountain,” which then goes into a surprise “Let It Grow.”

ceptional instrumental track “Edward.” The sound on these discs is impeccable: They were mixed from 16-track master tapes by Jeffrey Norman, who has mixed and mastered countless Dead-related projects through the years. The clarity of

the vocals and instruments is absolutely stunning; it’s a must for Jerry freaks (and doesn’t that include all of us?)!

Road Trips Vol. 3, No. 1, available for order now!

Jerry Garcia, Let It Rock, 2-CD set available for order now!

Winterland June 1977: The Complete Recordings 9-CD set available for order now!

For more inFo, track listings and ordering inFo, go to: www.dead.net/almanac

take, fate and faith—faith in our footsteps. We weren’t following anything but our

own footsteps. We learned to trust ourselves and each other. I learned that both

from the LSD and from the experience of leaving home and jumping into that

huge scene. It all amounted to an ability to think on our feet.”

I asked Weir if he believed if that all could have happened in

the beginning, on stage, without the anything-goes gasoline of

acid. He smiled. “I have no doubt we would have developed that

stuff anyway,” Weir replied. “I don’t know if we’d have gotten so

thick and fast into completely crazy improvisation as we did with-

out the use of LSD.” But, he quickly added, even when the new-

born Dead played at communal-trip events like the 1965–66 Acid

Tests, “we weren’t a concert band. We were a dance band.

“Our job,” Weir said proudly, “was to find the beat and get

people dancing.”

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That is what happens, again and again, in this box of paradise and circus. This

was not quite the Dead that Weir described in 2007. McKernan died in 1973 from

hard living and a worn-out liver at the age of 27. Keith and Donna Godchaux—

husband and wife, on keyboards and vocals—were in their fifth year with the band

and had triggered subtle lasting changes in the music through Keith’s jazzy inflec-

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CD FIVE1. BERTHA>2. GOOD LOVIN’3. RAMBLE ON ROSE4. ESTIMATED PROPHET>5. EYES OF THE WORLD>6. DRUMS

CD SIX1. THE OTHER ONE>2. WHARF RAT>3. NOT FADE AWAY>4. GOIN’ DOWN THE ROAD

FEELING BAD>5. JOHNNY B. GOODE6. BROKEDOWN PALACE

CD FOUR1. NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES2. SUGAREE3. MEXICALI BLUES4. ROW JIMMY5. PASSENGER6. SUNRISE7. BROWN-EYED WOMEN8. IT’S ALL OVER NOW9. JACK-A-ROE

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There were three other Road Trips re-leases in ’09, each as different from each other as “Dark Star” is from “Mama Tried.” In the winter, Road Trips Vol. 2, No. 2 presented the full February 14, 1968 Valentine’s Day show from the Carousel Ballroom in San Francisco, mixed down from the original 8-track tapes (or, in

some cases, pulled from the best avail-able 2-track sources). This legendary show, which no less an authority than Phil Lesh once proclaimed his favorite show, cap-tures the Dead as they were flowering into true psychedelic beasts—Mickey had been in the band nearly half a year at this point, and a combination of relentless rehearsal and a new dedication to original song-writing was taking the music in fascinat-ing and bizarre new directions. This show contains early versions of such then-un-recorded gems as “Dark Star,” “China Cat Sunflower,” “The Eleven,” and “Lovelight,” as well as fiery takes on all the songs that would appear on Anthem of the Sun in a few months—indeed, bits from the this show even turn up in the live-studio mashup that album became, and the second set/disc here features the entire album played in order! Talk about a smoking crater… this is the primal ooze at its core!

0P1For Road Trips Vol. 2, No. 3, we jump forward six years to the summer of ’74

and the Wall of Sound! Just as ’77 has its fierce partisans, so does 1974, with its huge spacey jams and wild, free play-ing, made all the more special by the fact that it was being pumped through the most magnificent sound system the world had ever seen—stacks of hundreds of speakers, piled high behind the band, emitting the cleanest and clearest sound imaginable to legions of Dead Heads coast to coast (and even in Europe). It was a bitch to haul around, but don’t tell that to the fans, who dug it to the max. Sound system aside, ’74 is famous for its varied and adventurous shows, and the two represented on this Road Trips re-

lease have long been esteemed by seri-ous collectors—6/16/74 from the State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Iowa, of all places; and 6/18/74 from Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky. (Just goes to show you the magic has always revealed itself “in the strangest of places…”) The Des Moines selections include one of those great, loping ’74 versions of “China Cat” > “I Know You Rider” and a 29-min-ute “Playing in the Band” that takes you flyin’ and tumblin’ every which way; and the Kentucky disc contains “Eyes of the World” into “China Doll,” plus a mind-blowing sequence coming out of “Weather Report Suite” that touches down at “The Other One,” “It’s a Sin” and “Stella Blue,” with many indescribable vista points along the way.

0P1Fast forward another 19 years for our sum-mer Road Trips excursion, Vol. 2, No. 4, featuring the best from May 26-27, 1993

at Cal Expo Amphitheatre in Sacramento, one of the cooler venues frequented by the band. This is considered one of the best of the band’s latter-day runs, and it’s easy to see why: The “Playing in the Band” on Disc One is surely one of the best post-’70s versions, a twisting, constantly mutating jamming journey; it is satisfyingly “fin-ished” (reprised) on Disc Two. There’s an emotional “Box of Rain,” a gnarly “Victim or the Crime,” a lilting “Crazy Fingers,” a funkified “Shakedown”… all sorts of neat stuff that will surprise those Heads who might be casually dismissive of ’90s Dead, and delight those who have fond memories of some of the excellent shows that were played in that era.

0P1Another major Grateful Dead release in 2009 was To Terrapin: Hartford ’77, a beautifully packaged 3-CD set encompass-ing every note played by the band at the Hartford Civic Center on May 28, 1977… yep, another jewel from the spring of ’77! This one kicks off in style with “Bertha” > “Good Lovin’” and then really gets into

There were many other cool releases in 2009 that you may or may not be familiar with, so let us take a moment to either educate you or remind you!

the groove with the 19-minute “Sugaree” that follows—“Shake it!” There are plenty of ’70s faves in the first set (“Jack Straw,” “Passenger,” “Candyman”) and then the second set ranges from “Samson” to “Estimated” to “Playing in the Band” to “Terrapin,” and, on the back end, “Wharf Rat,” a killer “Not Fade Away” and more. Can you own too much ’77? Absolutely not; this is yet another indispensible winner!

0P1Dipping back to the Garcia side of the tracks, there were two other disparate releases ear-lier this year. The eighth installment in the

ever-popular Pure Jerry series marked the first release of acoustic music from Jerry and John Kahn, a complete show from the intimate Marin Veteran’s Memorial Auditorium, February 28, 1986. This is the duo up close and personal—it practi-cally sounds like you’re onstage with them! The song selection and performances are both outstanding—it includes such tunes as “Little Sadie,” “Friend of the Devil,” “When I Paint My Masterpiece,” “Run for the Roses” and, probably the highlight of the whole disc, a high-flying “Bird Song.” Definitely a feel-good disc.

0P1And this past summer the Pure Jerry series took a trip in Mr. Peabody’s Way-Back machine for Bay Area 1978, a dy-namite two-disc set drawn from four

Northern California shows, featuring the band with Jerry, John, Keith and Donna, drummer Buzz Buchanan and occasional guest Maria Muldaur. This set shows the group at its jammiest on way extended versions of “Lonesome and a Long Way From Home” and “Don’t Let Go,” but also the beautiful power of the Jerry-Donna-Maria vocal trio on numbers like “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “I’ll Be With Thee,” and what nearly everyone agrees is the best version of Paul McCartney’s “Let Me Roll It” the group ever played. Toss in standouts such as “Mission in the Rain” and “Mystery Train,” among others, and you’ve got a set with tons of vitality and variety. This one is a great companion to the Pure Jerry Warner Theatre March 18, 1978 release from a few years ago.

0P1You can learn more about every project on these pages simply by going to dead.net. And—surprise, surprise—once there, you’ll also to be able to use your handy mouse to click through and buy any (or all!) that strike you. There’s lots of good listenin’ on these pages… and also a promise of lots more to come!

But wait, it’s not just archival music that’s been coming out this year and flying off the warehouse shelves. There are also a few releases of new music you should know about by Dead Family members:

This past summer, Grateful Dead compadres New Riders of the Purple Sage put out their first album of new material in 20 years, Where I Come From. Led by original guitarist David Nelson, the current Riders group also includes pedal steel player Buddy Cage (from their classic early ’70s lineup), longtime Hot Tuna rhythm guitarist Michael Falzarano, bassist Ronnie Penque and drummer Johnny Markowski. The album features seven fine new tunes co-written by Nelson and Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, as well as strong contribu-tions from the others. This version of the Riders is maybe a bit more rockin’ and jammy than the original band, but you’ll find that their new music fits nicely with the group’s long, distin-guished tradition. A really solid effort.

RatDog lead guitarist Mark Karan had been striving to cut a solo album for many years, but it was a serious bout of cancer a couple of years ago, followed by his miraculous recovery, that finally pushed him to complete this dream project, titled Walk Through the Fire. The album collects a number of excellent original tunes Mark has written through the years, along with an eclectic selection of covers, includ-ing Randy Newman’s “Think It’s Gonna Rain,” Joe Jackson’s “Fools In Love,” the Robert Johnson blues “Love in Vain,” the Dead’s “Easy Wind,” and a song you might not know but should defi-nitely hear: Susan Sheller’s “Memphis Radio.” Mark sings and plays all manner of acoustic and electric axes on the disc, and he’s helped out by an illustrious bunch of very musical friends, including Bonnie Raitt bassist Hutch Hutchinson, keyboardists such as Mike Finnigan and Little Feat’s Bill Payne, and first-rate vo-calists like Chris and Lorin Rowan, The Persuasions, Jackie and Gloria from the JGB and Delaney Bramlett. Mark defi-nitely shows musical sides of himself you probably didn’t know he had.

Last, but certainly not least, is the lat-est project from former Grateful Dead electronics/MIDI/programming guru Bob Bralove called Ultraviolet Licorice. Bob was an important and influential member of the Dead’s crew beginning in the late ’80s. It was Bralove who put together the trippy GD Drums-and-Space live album Infrared Roses. Since his days with the Dead, he’s shown himself to be a very imaginative and creative musician, working both with others (such as his duo with ex-GD key-boardist Tom Constanten, known as Dose Hermanos) and alone (as shown on his 2007 project Stories in Black and White). The keyboardist’s new CD is a collaboration with avant-guitarist Henry Kaiser, and as you might expect from two master free-form improvisers, the tunes on this CD are all over the map stylistically, ranging from abstract ex-pressions to lovely melodic musings, using both electric and acoustic instru-ments. Definitely music for the mind and soul.

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