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 11, 1999

    This week's post is a sort of prelude to the next two, which feature an interview with author…

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    Week of February 28, 1994

    This week's archival post is an interview with bassist Rob Wasserman. The bassist was a musical…

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    Week of July 30, 1990

    Another Merl Saunders interview from the GD Hour archive. This program contains the same "Mystery Train" we heard in past week's podcast; at the time…

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    Week of February 2, 1998

    San Francisco keyboardist Merl Saunders was a musical partner of Jerry Garcia's starting in 1970. As you'll hear in this interview, their work together was…

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    Week of June 2, 2003

    More unreleased music from the awesome Europe '72 tour (continued from last week's post), plus a track that is unrelated to the Grateful Dead except for the…