Wake Of The Flood 50: Stella Blue

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🗓️ 5 October 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

A personal favorite of both Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter, we explore how “Stella Blue” grew from New York’s fertile Chelsea Hotel into one of the great American songs, plus Bruce Hornsby on how Wake of the Flood made him a Dead fan.

GUESTS: Elvis Costello, Bruce Hornsby, David Lemieux, Nick Paumgarten, Scott Metzger, Shaugn O’Donnell, Nick Bush

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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.
0:17.4	Ladies and gentlemen, fellow deadheads, welcome to season 8 of The Good Old Grateful
0:21.3	Deadcast.
0:22.5	I'm your co-host Rich Mayhan, thank you very much for tuning in.
0:27.0	In this episode of The Good Old Grateful Deadcast, we continue our exploration into The Grateful
0:33.0	Dead's 1973 landmark studio album, Wake of the Flood, by delving into one of the most
0:39.5	beautiful songs in The Grateful Dead Canon, Stella Blue.
0:43.7	And it is the 50th anniversary of The Grateful Dead's Wake of the Flood.
0:47.4	To celebrate this, Rhino has a grand 50th anniversary release, which includes the original
0:52.8	album Remastered, some really cool early demos of songs from the album, and six songs
0:58.3	from a live show at McGon Memorial Hall at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
1:04.1	from November 1st, 1973.
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