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 April 24 2012

    Featuring the complete first set of 4/15/88 in Chicago, which opens with an unusual selection. Enjoy!

    Grateful Dead 4/15/88 Rosemont Horizon, Chicago…

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    Week of May 27, 1996

    Bob Weir tells a great story about his guest appearance with Bruce Hornsby and band, at which he was somewhat upstaged by the rarely-seen (at that time) Phil Lesh.…

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    Week of February 10, 2003

    Featuring an audience recording of 7/31/74, the soundboard master of which is about to be released as…

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    Week of March 12, 2012

    Featuring recent live performances by the Grateful Dead's drummers, Bill Kreutzmann (with 7 Walkers) and Mickey Hart. I've…

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    August 7, 1995

    These two studio tracks show the surprising development of "Crazy Fingers." Compare them with the final version on Blues for Allah.

    Also: A nice pair of songs…