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GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST

BONUS: Keys to the Rain: Celebrating Robert Hunter’s 80th

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4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate the 80th birthday of the late Robert Hunter, the Grateful Dead’s primary lyricist, exploring his extraordinary partnership with Jerry Garcia and work with other collaborators, as well his poetry, fiction, and solo career.


GUESTS: Raymond Foye, Greg Anton, Jim Lauderdale, Alex Allan, Nicholas Meriwether

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0:00.0

The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.

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I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead

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for the committed and the curious.

0:18.8

Hello friends, welcome back to The Good Old Grateful Dead cast.

0:22.2

We have a very special episode for you this time around, focusing on the great lyricist

0:27.1

Robert Hunter, the man who gave the dead songs, the literary qualities that truly make

0:32.0

them the enduring works they are.

0:34.7

This episode lands just in time to celebrate Mr. Hunter's 80th birthday.

0:40.6

We have some new visitors to the dead cast this time around, including singer-songwriter

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Jim Lauderdale, drummer and songwriter Greg Anton, and Hunter Advocates Raymond Foye

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and Alex Allen.

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As always, you can get new episodes of The Good Old Grateful Dead cast right here every

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other week.

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Visit us at our website, dead.net slash dead cast, and check out the extra materials we have

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for you to explore for this episode.

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Also at dead.net slash dead cast are all of our past episodes, including the complete

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Thank you very much.

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You have probably heard that it is the 50th anniversary of the Dead's live double album

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