Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast Index & Transcripts

The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast launched in July 2020. Below is a complete index of all episodes to date, with transcripts linked in brackets where available, featuring links to music and more.

Our Europe ‘72 transcripts will be filled in as they are completed, season 4 is nearly complete, and we will soon be going back and filling out our first three seasons soon after. Transcripts prepared by Ben Easton.

Season 1

Workingman’s Dead 50: Uncle John’s Band  (5/20/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: High Time  (7/14/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Dire Wolf  (7/23/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: New Speedway Boogie  (7/29/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Cumberland Blues  (8/5/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Black Peter  (8/12/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Easy Wind  (8/20/20)  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Casey Jones  (8/26/20)  [transcript]
BONUS: Bear Drops: What’s With the Bear(s)?  (7/13/20)  [transcript]
BONUS: Jerry Garcia: American Folkie  (8/7/20)  [transcript]

Season 2

American Beauty 50: Box of Rain  (9/30/20) 
American Beauty 50: Friend of the Devil  (10/7/20) 
American Beauty 50: Sugar Magnolia  (10/22/20) 
American Beauty 50: Operator  (10/29/20) 
American Beauty 50: Candyman  (11/5/20) 
American Beauty 50: Ripple  (11/12/20) 
American Beauty 50: Brokedown Palace  (11/19/20) 
American Beauty 50: Till the Morning Comes / To Lay Me Down  (11/26/20) 
American Beauty 50: Attics of My Life  (12/3/20) 
American Beauty 50: Truckin’  (12/10/20) 
BONUS: Dead Behind / Dead Ahead  (10/15/20) 
BONUS: A Visit to Planet Drum with Mickey Hart  (11/14/20) 
BONUS: The Nedcast with Ned Lagin  (12/5/20) 

Season 3

Hug The Heat, or the Story of the First Dead Tape  (4/1/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Side A  (4/15/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Side B  (4/29/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Side C  (5/12/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Side D  (5/27/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Fillmore East Late Show  (6/10/21) 
Skull & Roses 50: Closing of the Fillmore West  (6/24/21) 
Playing Dead, part 1  (7/7/21) 
Playing Dead, part 2  (7/22/21) 
Garcia  (8/5/21) 
BONUS: Over There: The Dead in England  (6/13/21) 
BONUS: Keys To The Rain: Celebrating Robert Hunter’s 80th  (6/23/21) 

Season 4

Enter Keith Godchaux   (9/16/21)  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, December 1971  (9/30/21)  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, October 1972  (10/13/21)  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Kiel Auditorium, October 1973  (10/28/21)  [transcript]
Donna Jean  (11/11/21)  [transcript]
Dead Freaks Unite  (11/25/21)  [transcript]
Dead Studies  (12/9/21)  [transcript]
Infrared Roses  (12/23/21)  [transcript]
BONUS: Bear Drops: LA ‘66  (10/21/21)  [transcript]
BONUS: Inside the Vault  (12/16/21)  [transcript]

Season 5

Europe ‘72: Prelude  (4/7/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Empire Pool & City Hall  (4/7/22)  [transcript]
Europe '72: Denmark  (4/14/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: West Germany  (4/20/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: France  (4/28/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Bickershaw  (5/4/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: The Netherlands  (5/11/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Lille, Luxembourg, Munich  (5/19/22)  [transcript]
Europe '72: Lyceum Ballroom  (5/26/22)  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Epilogue  (6/1/22)  [transcript]

Season 6

Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, 8/27/72, Part 1  (8/18/22)  [transcript]
Sunshine Daydream: Veneta, 8/27/72, Part 2  (8/25/22)  [transcript]
FEED SWAP: Comes A Time: Pete Shapiro  (9/1/22) 
In and Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden, 3/81  (9/15/22)  [transcript]
In and Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden, 9/82  (9/22/22)  [transcript]
In and Out Of The Garden: Madison Square Garden, 10/83  (9/29/22)  [transcript]
Ace 50  (10/13/22)  [transcript]
Bobby 75  (10/27/22)  [transcript]
Long Strange Tech, Part 1  (11/10/22)  [transcript]
Long Strange Tech, Part 2  (11/17/22)  [transcript]

Season 7

The Adventures of Pigpen, Part 1  (3/8/23) 
The Adventures of Pigpen, Part 2  (3/16/23) 
Bear’s Choice 50  (3/30/23) 
T.C.  (4/13/23) 
Here Comes Sunshine: Grateful Dead & Co.  (5/2/23) 
Here Comes Sunshine: Garcia '73  (5/4/23) 
Here Comes Sunshine: Des Moines, 5/13/73  (5/10/23) 
Here Comes Sunshine: Santa Barbara, 5/20/73  (5/18/23) 
Here Comes Sunshine: Kezar Stadium, 5/26/73  (5/25/23)