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 March 26, 1990

    This week's program, originally broadcast in the spring of 1990, begins with a warning to fans and others from Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh. The parking…

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    Week of November 13, 1989

    A show from early in my radio career, featuring my first interview with keyboardist and composer…

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    Week of February 10, 1992

    This week's archival GDH post is a "roots" piece, pairing some important Grateful Dead covers with the originals on which the Dead based their interpretations.

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    Week of February 3, 1992

    An almost-all-music show featuring highlights of July 13, 1984 at the Greek Theater in Berkeley, California. The audience (including me) was delighted when…

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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…