Show Notes
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest places, if you look at it right. And if you get confused, just listen to the music play. This week, resident Deadheads Isabella Gomez Sarmiento and Felix Contreras help host Robin Hilton hear what he’s been missing in the music of the Grateful Dead.
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Featured songs:
(00:00) Intro and “King Solomon’s Marbles”
(08:54) “China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider” Alpine Valley, WI 7.17.89
(11:03) “Help On the Way / Slipknot / Franklin’s Tower”
(16:39) “Ripple”
(23:34) “Morning Dew (Europe ‘72)”
(26:17) “I Shall Be Released (Live)”
(30:05) “Black Muddy River”
(31:34) “One More Saturday Night”
(32:09) “Sunrise”
(33:21) “Shady Grove”
(39:14) “Birdsong”
(41:45) “Uncle John’s Band”
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