A personal favorite of both Jerry Garcia & Robert Hunter, we explore how “Stella Blue” grew from New York’s fertile Chelsea Hotel into one of the great American songs, plus Bruce Hornsby on how Wake of the Flood made him a Dead fan.
by Jesse Jarnow
Elvis Costello visited with us during our Europe ‘72 season, talking about his epic teenage experience seeing the Dead in the mud on our Bickershaw festival episode.
Robert Hunter posted the original draft of the “Stella Blue” lyrics to his website.
You can play with the isolated tracks from “Stella Blue” with the Playing In The Band applet.
Grateful Dead Hour #265 featured a live performance of “Playing in the Band” by Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids, featuring Bruce Hornsby, which you can listen to here.
Guitarist Scott Metzger (of Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, LaMP, Wolf!, and more) is probably gigging near you soon.