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 september 29, 1997

    This week's program is titled "Well, This Job I Got," and it's built around a montage of people saying what they do for a living, collected…

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    Week of February 12, 1996

    Featured: an interview with Alan Trist, longtime member of the Grateful Dead family, who in 1990 published The Water of Life: A Grateful Dead Folk Tale. Alan…

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    Week of May 2, 1994

    Another all-music show, with a particularly wonderful musical reference to the film Close Encounters…

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    Week of February 13, 1995

    Continuing an all-music sequence that began last week. "Playing in the Band" from this performance was included on the boxed set…

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    Week of February 6, 1995

    Regular DeadNet poster Jaime Gomez Morales requested this all-music GD Hour, featuring highlights of a dynamite show from the 1988 Laguna Seca Daze weekend.…