30 Days of Dead

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It's a Dead Head's most wonderful time of the year! Welcome to another 30 days of unreleased Grateful Dead tracks from the vault, one for every day of the month, selected by archivist and producer David Lemieux. The tracks are yours, 100% free gua-ran-teed, but the real fun is taking part in the challenge for the chance to win some sweet swag from the Dead.

Those of you who know what to do, feel free to skip right on ahead. For those of you who need a refresher, here's the drill:

You know your Ables from your Bakers from your C's, but can your finely tuned ears differentiate the cosmic "comeback" tour from a spacey 70s show? Each day we'll post a song from one of the Dead's coveted shows. Will it be from that magical night at Madison Square Garden in '93 or from way back when they were just starting to warm it up at Winterland? Is that Pigpen's harmonica we hear? Brent on keys? If you think you know, lob your answer in and you just might find yourself taking home our daily prize of a 2025 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize – a copy of limited, numbered, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL '78 boxed set!

Today's Song
Mississippi Half-Step, Black-Throated Wind, Bird Song
Hint:
Three tracks, two of which debuted in 1972 and one in 1971
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576 comments

  • ivansbacon
    1 week 4 days ago
    MP3's

    I take em cause they are free. I hate digital music, I only buy analog vinyl
    (no plangnet crap files on vinyl) I will not pay money for that.
    MP3 are the worst.
    PLEASE , stop putting plangent files on vinyl. save it for CD's.

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    tnjed98
    1 week 4 days ago
    Same here

    Really stumped on this one as well, great pick for Day 2 after a relatively easy Day 1.

    The comment made regarding the noodling after the song made me even more confused though, as I spent a long time trying to deduce that to no avail. Some people just have an ear for this that I do not yet I suppose..

    All I can say is this one has some pretty sweet playing by Weir..

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    bpolits
    1 week 4 days ago
    Baffled

    "From the post Candyman noodling I was able to correctly identify the next tune played..." How, in God's name? I'm a musician and pretty dang well-versed in the repertoire, all I get is "some song in the key of C".

  • proudfoot
    1 week 4 days ago
    The Heel?

    Wake up, derpenthaler!

  • spiritwide
    1 week 4 days ago
    Your finger also slipped...

    ... and you mistyped "Thank you for making these treasures, the source of your living, available for free."
    Seems to be going around.

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Family Dog at the Great Highway
The St. Stephen>The Eleven combination was played frequently in late 1968 through 1969, and makes up a quarter of Live/Dead. Here, rather than heading to Lovelight or Death Don't Have No Mercy, they segue into Drums and High Time
Yesterday's Winner...
michael
Pittsfield
MA

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