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GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST

Workingman's Dead 50, Episode 7: Easy Wind

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4.92.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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DESCRIPTION: We explore how “Easy Wind” was the only song on Workingman’s Dead sung by Pigpen and the first Dead tune solely written by lyricist Robert Hunter, featuring rarely heard radio promo spots recorded by Hunter.


GUESTS: Bob Matthews, Rhoney Stanley, Eric Schwartz, Gary Lambert, David Lemieux, Mike Johnson, Brian Kehew

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0:00.0

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

0:09.9

I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.

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Thanks for tuning in to the good old Grateful Dead cast, ladies and gentlemen.

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0:27.5

just a little more ground. We're down to the last couple of episodes about the

0:32.3

50th anniversary of Working Man's Dead.

0:35.0

You can visit our website to check out all of the episodes we've already released,

0:39.0

and there are links there to your favorite podcast platforms so you can get your listen on.

0:44.8

The newly remastered version of Working Man's Dead really is a Sonic improvement over past

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releases, and the three CDs set includes content in the form of a show from February 21st, 1971 at the Capitol

0:57.5

Theater in Portchester, New York.

0:59.8

It was mixed by Jeffrey Norman from the original 16- Analog Real to Real T.R. I.

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Studios.

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There's also a collectible 12 inch vinyl picture disc featuring the Working Man's Dead album art, very cool, also pressed from the

1:15.8

2020 remastered mixes.

1:18.4

Did you know we have a feature on the Deadcast page, dead.net slash Deadcast, where you can record yourself telling a story about anything

1:26.4

grateful dead related. Share your magic moments, adversity overcome, and side-splitting happenings with the rest of your fellow dead heads.

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You just might hear yourself telling your story in a future episode of the Deadcast.

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Submit your story at stories dot dead dot net.

1:45.0

Well easywind is the focus to this episode on the good old grateful dead cast

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