Every Wednesday we present another show from the archives of the Grateful Dead Hour - "A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of the Grateful Dead." Since 1985, the show has featured exclusive interviews, music from the roots and branches of the band's musical family tree, and of course a generous helping of unreleased live and studio recordings.

You can browse and/or search the Grateful Dead Hour program logs on the show's home page, gdhour.com. Let us know if there's a particular show you'd like to hear, and feel free to post requests and comments here or by email to gdhour [at] dead.net

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    Week of January 27, 1992

    Continuing the 12/28/91 set 2 highlights that began in GDH 174, plus a sort of grab bag of interesting stuff in part 1. "Arabia" is the instrumental…

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    Week of January 20, 1992

    Another mostly-music show, featuring unreleased live music from 12/28/91. This was the first performance of "The Same Thing" in nearly 20 years, and…

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    Week of November 22, 2010

    This week's archival post is a very recent show, featuring bluegrass legend Jesse McReynolds, whose Songs of the Grateful Dead is one of my favorite…

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    Week of June 7, 1999

    A companion to GD Hours 369 and 370, featuring material that didn't fit onto the two-disc set Hundred…

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    Week of October 23, 1995

    Conclusion of a two-part interview with Bob Weir and Phil Lesh around the time of the release of