Dead Show/podcast for 11/28/24

The Deadpod

John Henrikson

Performing Arts, Gratefuldead, Grateful, Dead, Arts, Music

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🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving

As is the custom here on the Deadpod, this Thanksgiving we feature an acoustic set and I think we are especially fortunate this year as this set is one of the very best such sets from 1970.

From September 20, 1970 this set from the Fillmore East features both David Grisman and David Nelson on mandolin for much of the set, including a very unusual 'Big Railroad Blues' and an acoustic 'Truckin'. Jerry is in particular fine voice throughout, especially on 'To Lay Me Down'.

If you are a fan of acoustic Dead this is a set to savor .. I hope you enjoy..

Grateful Dead
Fillmore East
New York, NY 9/20/1970 - Sunday

One

Uncle John's Band [6:47]
Deep Elem Blues [5:51]
Friend Of The Devil [3:32]
Big Railroad Blues [3:14]
Dark Hollow [2:56]
Ripple [4:20]
To Lay Me Down [5:12]
Truckin' [5:35][0:12]
Rosalie McFall [2:24]
Cumberland Blues [5:04]
New Speedway Boogie [9:31]
Brokedown Palace [5:13]

You can listen to this week's Deadpod here:

http://traffic.libsyn.com/deadshow/deadpod112824.mp3

I have far more to be thankful for than I can express here.. first of all to all of you who reached out with your well wishes and concern during my recent surgery and recovery.. to my doctors and nurses who did such a wonderful job helping to get me back home.. and of course to my beautiful wife without which I never would have been able to see this through...

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Deadpod for Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 2024. This is a professor, so glad
0:05.5	it could pick us up this week. As usual, we come to you a day early on Thanksgiving morning
0:10.2	for you to share, to share these acoustic tunes that we traditionally play from the Grateful Dead on
0:17.5	Thanksgiving. We're going to start with really one of the best acoustic sets from
0:21.6	1970. I'm surprised this hadn't been played before, but it's from the Fillmore East, September 20th,
0:27.7	1970. It was a Sunday. It starts out with a great Uncle John's band. Deep Ellen Blues follows
0:34.0	Friend of the Devil, big railroad blues, slow but beautiful, dark hollow,
0:38.8	ripple to lay me down, a rare acoustic trucking, Rosie Lee McFall, Comberlin Blues,
0:45.4	New Speedway Boogie, and Brook Down Palace.
0:49.6	From the notes provided at the Dead List Project says that set one is acoustic dead, the complete set,
0:56.9	David Grisman plays mandolin on Friend of the Devil.
0:59.8	David Nelson joins with another mandolin on Big Railroad Blues.
1:03.6	Both continue through ripple.
1:05.6	There's a hint of harmonica on Dark Hollow, presumably pig pens.
1:09.3	The instrumentation on to lay me down is hard to figure
1:11.6	out, but the electric guitar is probably Bobby, and Jim Wise may be right that the piano is Jerry
1:16.0	on this tune. The piano on Truckin is Pigpen, however. Nelson and Grisman return on mandolin
1:21.6	for Rosalie McFall. Jerry switches to electric guitar for Cumberland and New Speedway, then back to
1:26.5	acoustic for Broke Down Palace.
1:29.6	Pigpen plays piano again on this tune.
1:32.5	Thanks to Deadless.com for that information on this set.
1:37.2	Hope you enjoy it.
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