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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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 1166

    Week of January 24, 2011

    A unique and powerful sequence from 1974, and a terrific musical history lesson from Jody Stecher.

    Enjoy!!

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 591

    Week of January 17, 2000

    Featured: Blair Jackson talks about his book Garcia: An American Life.

    Enjoy!!

    Interview: Blair Jackson

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 168

    Week of December 9, 1991

    Featured: Excerpt from from Halloween 1991, recorded a few days after concert promoter and longtime friend of the band Bill…

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 93

    Week of July 2, 1990

    The main feature of this program is a nice chunk of set 2 of 6/8/90 at Cal Expo.

    Enjoy!!

    Grateful Dead 9/17/82…

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    Grateful Dead Hour no. 44

    Week of July 3, 1989

    In the late '80s and early '90s, Phil Lesh and Gary Lambert hosted a monthly music program on KPFA (Berkeley, California). Originally…