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GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST

American Beauty 50, Episode 8: Till The Morning Comes / To Lay Me Down

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4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Jumping off from “Till the Morning Comes” and the outtake “To Lay Me Down” we hear from Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay on falling in love with (and to) the Dead, Bob Weir on the secret to recording Phil Lesh, Stephen Malkmus with a psychedelic book recommendation, and time travel to Winterland in October 1970.


Bob Weir, Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay, Stephen Barncard, Stephen Malkmus, Billy Strings, Nick Paumgarten, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert

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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.

0:20.0

Welcome to the good old Grateful Dead cast.

0:22.0

We've got a double header for you this episode as we dive

0:24.6

into track 8 on American Beauty till the morning comes and also the one track included in the

0:30.4

American Beauty demos that didn't make it onto the the album, The Sublime to Lay Me Down.

0:36.0

As an extra treat, we also have a special guest whose story weaves perfectly into this episode, Donna Jean God Show McKay.

0:44.8

Make sure to visit us at dead.net slash deadcast,

0:47.9

where you'll find the 10 episodes from last season,

0:50.5

which cover the eight songs on Working Man's Dead, plus two bonus episodes

0:54.4

loaded with music and insight. You can also catch up or revisit with the

0:59.0

American Beauty episodes we've already released, which also now include two special bonus episodes of their own.

1:05.0

Still hungry for more, we invite you to peruse the buffet of companion materials for each episode at our website dead.net slash deadcast and you can link from

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there to any and all of the podcasting platforms available. Please help us by

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subscribing hitting that like button and leave us a review.

1:24.6

Thank you very much.

1:27.6

It is the 50th anniversary of American Beauty and Working Man's Dead.

1:31.6

And the Grateful Dead have prepared a three-c-deeds set reissue of both of these albums.

1:37.0

They include a pristine remastering of the original albums,

1:40.0

and each has a live show from the Capitol Theater in early 1971.

1:45.0

The show on the American Beauty release is February 18th, 1971,

1:50.0

is remixed from the original 16 track reel-toto-reel multi-tracks at Bob Weir's

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