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GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST

Wake Of The Flood 50: Let Me Sing Your Blues Away

GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

The Deadcast explores Keith Godchaux’s only song for the Grateful Dead, the unassuming but complex “Let Me Sing Your Blues Away,” the debut single from Wake of the Flood & Grateful Dead Records, co-starring Donna Jean, company president Ron Rakow, & a gaggle of early Dead tapers.


GUESTS: Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, Ron Rakow, Steve Brown, Howard Wales, Marty Weinberg, Les Kippel, Harvey Lubar, Howie Levine, Jim Cooper, David Lemieux, Brian Kehew, Scott Metzger, Shaugn O’Donnell, Marc Masters, Dave Mandl

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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.

0:18.6

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow deadheads, welcome to season eight of The Good Old Grateful

0:23.4

Deadcast.

0:24.4

I'm your co-host Rich Mayhan, thank you very much for tuning in.

0:28.7

In this episode of The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, we continue our exploration into the

0:33.5

Grateful Dead's 1973 studio album, Wake of the Flood.

0:38.6

On the turntable today is Track Two from Side One, let me sing your blues away.

0:45.4

It's the 50th anniversary of Wake of the Flood, and to celebrate this, Rhino has a grand

0:50.3

50th anniversary release, which includes the original album Remastered, some really cool

0:55.9

early demos of songs from the album, and six songs from a live show at McGaw Memorial

1:01.5

Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from November 1st, 1973.

1:09.5

There will be special vinyl as well as a standard black vinyl, CDs, and digital versions

1:14.3

available.

1:15.3

More info and pre-orders are happening now at dead.net.

1:21.4

While you're at dead.net, head over to dead.net slash deadcast, check out all of our past

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episodes, including the complete seasons one through seven.

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you, leave us a review online, thank you very much.

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