American Beauty 50, Episode 5: Candyman
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
With the Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir, we examine how “Candyman” updates an old folk meme, we welcome David Crosby to talk about the hottest session guitarist in 1970 San Francisco, Jerry Garcia; plus a cavalcade of stars.
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| 0:00.0 | The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to the Good Old Grateful Dead cast. |
| 0:21.0 | This episode continues our celebration of the music on American Beauty with a deep dive into the final track on side one candy man |
| 0:28.9 | Our guest list for this episode might be the most inclusive yet and we can't wait to present such luminous |
| 0:35.0 | voices as Bob Weir, Amir Barlev, Ned Lajan, Howard Wales, Michael Brewer, |
| 0:41.2 | our resident Dead Colleges David Lemieu and Gary Lambert, and we're very pleased to announce |
| 0:46.3 | the deadcast debut of Mr. David Crosby, stoked Av Kras on the show. |
| 0:51.3 | We'll also have a track-by-track breakdown with tape Walters Mike |
| 0:54.8 | Johnson and Brian Kehue. If you dig this podcast and you're new to us, |
| 0:59.1 | welcome. We have a lot of other episodes for you to check out, so make sure to visit us at dead.net slash |
| 1:05.1 | Deadcast, where you will find the 10 episodes from season one which contain episodes about |
| 1:10.1 | the eight songs on Working Man's Dead and two amazingly wonderful bonus |
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| 1:34.4 | Thank you very much. |
| 1:36.2 | It is the 50th anniversary of American Beauty, and The Grateful Dead have prepared a three-cedes set reissue |
| 1:41.8 | of this classic album, which includes a pristine remastering |
| 1:45.0 | of the album's 10 tracks on Disc 1, as well as an unreleased live show from February 18, |
| 1:50.6 | 1971 at the Capitol Theater, which was mixed from the original 16-track real-to-reel |
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