Donna Jean
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2021
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
We are beyond honored to welcome former Grateful Dead vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay herself to hear the wondrous story of how she went from Alabama to the top of the charts before fate led her to San Francisco, Keith Godchaux, and the Grateful Dead.
GUEST: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay
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| 0:00.0 | The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Rich Mayhan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of The Grateful Dead |
| 0:14.6 | for the committed and the curious. |
| 0:19.2 | Hello friends, welcome back to The Good Old Grateful Deadcast. |
| 0:22.9 | We've got a special one for you today. |
| 0:24.6 | Our sole guest is the one and only Donna Jean Godshow McKay here to tell her story of |
| 0:30.6 | a life well spent making music. |
| 0:33.6 | Don't forget all through this season, season four, you can get new episodes of The Good |
| 0:37.9 | Old Grateful Deadcast right here every other week. |
| 0:42.9 | Visit us at our website, dead.net slash deadcast and check out the extra materials we have |
| 0:47.7 | for you to explore for this episode. |
| 0:50.5 | To a dead.net slash deadcast, or all of our past episodes, including the complete seasons |
| 0:56.2 | one, two, and three, and you can link from there to any and all the podcasting platforms |
| 1:01.6 | available so you can listen where you like to listen. |
| 1:05.0 | We also have our three St. Louis episodes there for you, so if you miss those, make sure |
| 1:10.4 | to check it out. |
| 1:11.4 | They dive heavily into the music from the new St. Louis Listen to the Riverbox set, which |
| 1:18.2 | is out now, and includes seven previously unreleased concerts from St. Louis recorded |
| 1:25.0 | on December 9th and 10th, 1971 at the Fox Theater, October 17th, 18th, and 19th, 1972 at |
| 1:33.0 | the Fox Theater, and the October 29th and 30th, 1973 shows at the Keele Auditorium. |
| 1:39.6 | This production of this 20 CD box set, the packaging is, you have to see it to believe |
| 1:45.6 | it. |
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