Blues For Allah 50: Help On the Way

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🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 91 minutes

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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

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0:34.9	The good old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of the Grateful Dead.
0:39.9	I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:47.4	Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Deadheads, welcome to season 12 of the Good Old Grateful Deadcast.
0:52.6	I'm your co-host, Rich Mahan. Thank you so much for tuning in. In this episode of the Good Old Grateful Deadcast. I'm your co-host, Rich Mayhan.
0:55.9	Thank you so much for tuning in.
0:58.8	In this episode of the Good Old Grateful Dead cast,
1:01.3	we peel off the cellophane on the Grateful Dead's 1975 studio masterpiece, Blues for Allah.
1:05.1	And we dropped the needle on side one, track one,
1:08.7	help on the way.
1:10.9	Announcing the Grateful Dead Blues for all a 50th anniversary deluxe edition,
1:15.3	arriving September 12th, this three-cd-sette features the newly remastered album with unreleased
1:20.5	soundcheck and concert recordings.
1:23.3	Check this out.
1:24.4	The set features almost two hours of unreleased recordings.
1:27.6	Among the highlights are rehearsals from the band's August 12th, 1975.
1:31.8	Soundcheck at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall,
1:35.8	including the album track, Sage, and Spirit,
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