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  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: High Time  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Dire Wolf  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: New Speedway Boogie  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Cumberland Blues  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Black Peter  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Easy Wind  ()  [transcript]
Workingman’s Dead 50: Casey Jones  ()  [transcript]
BONUS: Bear Drops: What’s With the Bear(s)?  ()  [transcript]
BONUS: Jerry Garcia: American Folkie  ()  [transcript]

Season 2

American Beauty 50: Box of Rain  () 
American Beauty 50: Friend of the Devil  () 
American Beauty 50: Sugar Magnolia  () 
American Beauty 50: Operator  () 
American Beauty 50: Candyman  () 
American Beauty 50: Ripple  () 
American Beauty 50: Brokedown Palace  () 
American Beauty 50: Till the Morning Comes / To Lay Me Down  () 
American Beauty 50: Attics of My Life  () 
American Beauty 50: Truckin’  () 
BONUS: Dead Behind / Dead Ahead  () 
BONUS: A Visit to Planet Drum with Mickey Hart  () 
BONUS: The Nedcast with Ned Lagin  () 

Season 3

Hug The Heat, or the Story of the First Dead Tape  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Side A  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Side B  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Side C  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Side D  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Fillmore East Late Show  () 
Skull & Roses 50: Closing of the Fillmore West  () 
Playing Dead, part 1  () 
Playing Dead, part 2  () 
Garcia  () 
BONUS: Over There: The Dead in England  () 
BONUS: Keys To The Rain: Celebrating Robert Hunter’s 80th  () 

Season 4

Enter Keith Godchaux   ()  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, December 1971  ()  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Fox Theatre, October 1972  ()  [transcript]
Listen To The River: Kiel Auditorium, October 1973  ()  [transcript]
Donna Jean  ()  [transcript]
Dead Freaks Unite  ()  [transcript]
Dead Studies  ()  [transcript]
Infrared Roses  ()  [transcript]
BONUS: Bear Drops: LA ‘66  ()  [transcript]
BONUS: Inside the Vault  ()  [transcript]

Season 5

Europe ‘72: Prelude  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Empire Pool & City Hall  ()  [transcript]
Europe '72: Denmark  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: West Germany  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: France  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Bickershaw  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: The Netherlands  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Lille, Luxembourg, Munich  ()  [transcript]
Europe '72: Lyceum Ballroom  ()  [transcript]
Europe ‘72: Epilogue  ()  [transcript]

Season 6

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

Season 7

The Adventures of Pigpen, Part 1  ()  [transcript]
The Adventures of Pigpen, Part 2  ()  [transcript]
Bear’s Choice 50  ()  [transcript]
T.C.  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: Grateful Dead & Co.  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: Garcia '73  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: Des Moines, 5/13/73  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: Santa Barbara, 5/20/73  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: Kezar Stadium, 5/26/73  ()  [transcript]
Here Comes Sunshine: RFK Stadium, 6/73  ()  [transcript]

Season 8

Watkins Glen Summer Jam ‘73, Part 1  ()  [transcript]
Watkins Glen Summer Jam ‘73, Part 2  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Let Me Sing Your Blues Away  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Row Jimmy  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Stella Blue  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Here Comes Sunshine  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Eyes of the World  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Prelude/Tuesday Night Jam  ()  [transcript]
Wake Of The Flood 50: Weather Report Suite  ()  [transcript]

Season 9

From the Mars Hotel 50: U.S. Blues  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: China Doll  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Unbroken Chain  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Loose Lucy  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Scarlet Begonias  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Pride of Cucamonga  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Money Money  ()  [transcript]
From the Mars Hotel 50: Ship of Fools  ()  [transcript]
BONUS: Tales of the Great Rum Runners 50  ()  [transcript]

Season 10

Friend Of the Devils: Florida, 4/78  ()  [transcript]
Friend Of the Devils: Atlanta, 4/78  ()  [transcript]
Friend Of the Devils: Duke University, 4/78  ()  [transcript]
Friend Of the Devils: Virginia, 4/78  ()  [transcript]
Friend Of the Devils: West Virginia, 4/78  () 
The Dead and the Sufi Choir, 3/71  () 
Robert Hunter’s The Silver Snarling Trumpet, part 1  () 
Robert Hunter’s The Silver Snarling Trumpet, part 2  () 

Season 11

Phil 85, Part 1  () 
Phil 85, Part 2  () 
Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 1  () 
Enjoying the Ride: Bay Area, Part 2  () 
Enjoying the Ride: East Coast, Part 1  () 
BONUS: Tiger Rose 50  ()