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 October 21, 1996

    The Grateful Dead took 20 months off from live performing, from October 1974 to June 1976. In that time they completed the Grateufl Dead Movie, worked on solo…

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    Week of May 26, 1997

    A one-off acoustic performance (minus Keith and Donna) at Loyola University in Chicago, on the afternoon before the regularly-scheduled show at the Uptown Theater.…

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    Week of February 7, 1994

    This week's program features an interview with three collaborators on a stage musical about the life of baseball legend Satchel Paige: Grateful Dead guitarist…

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    Week of December 12, 2011

    Conclusion of a two-part interview with Julian Dawson, author of And on Piano... Nicky Hopkins. See the notes in last week's post.

    Enjoy!

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    Week of December 5, 2011

    Part 1 of an interview with Julian Dawson, author of And on Piano... Nicky…