American Beauty 50, Episode 8: Till The Morning Comes / To Lay Me Down
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9 • 2.3K 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 |
| 1:15.4 | there to any and all of the podcasting platforms available. Please help us by |
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| 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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