Blues For Allah 50: Sage and Spirit

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 140 minutes

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Summary

The Deadcast explores Bobby Weir’s guitar étude, “Sage and Spirit,” speaking with one of the song’s namesakes, Sage Scully, before taking an extended trip to legendary Dead show at the Great American Music Hall in August 1975, where the song received its only full live performance.

Guests: David Lemieux, Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay, Sage Scully, Ron Rakow, Al Teller, Steve Brown, Roger Lewis, Lee Brenkman, Steve Schuster, Gary Lambert, Deb Trist, Ed Perlstein, Danno Henklein, Joan Miller, Steve Silberman, Michael Parrish, Keith Eaton, Shaugn O’Donnell, Benny Lander

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0:28.5	drink responsibly. It's with incredible sadness that we say goodbye to Donna Jean Godshaw
0:34.6	McKay. In her remarkable first career, Donna Thatcher was a backup vocalist on sessions for Elvis Presley,
0:41.3	Percy Sledge, Cher, and others.
0:44.1	Officially joining the Grateful Dead as 1971 turned into 1972, Bobby Weir was the first
0:50.1	golfer Donna Jean, and she was no backup singer, but a member of the band's front line,
0:55.7	becoming fully salaried in 1973. After starting to write songs on her Whirlitzer for 1975's
1:03.0	Keith and Donna album while raising their son Zion, it was Jerry Garcia who encouraged her to bring
1:08.5	original material to the dead. A member of the Jerry Garcia band from 1976 through 1978, she remained a fully vested part of the dead's music and mayhem until 1979 and a family member for the rest of her life.
1:22.9	It's been the privilege of privileges to include Donna Jean and her laugh as a regular feature of the
1:28.1	dead cast over the past few years, and both can be heard in today's episode. Fairly well, Dege.
1:35.7	Keep on dancing. Keep on dancing to the day line love.
1:40.3	Grim the morning and a song.
1:49.0	No one's noticed. Put bands off back and gone Was it ever here at all?
1:53.0	But they kept on dancing
1:59.0	The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
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