RIP Sly and Brian...Jamfest kicks off 4-22: Stranger Bird Song...C.C. Madness...Help on the Way and Slipknot for all...The Fire Puke scare....Grateful Dead give it their all in New Haven, no short cuts, just extra effort....

A tribute to an all-time Garcia acoustic show...This recording was mislabeled as 5-5-82 for decades...Prime Garcia vocals and guitar picking...Brilliant performances of three major Garcia/ Hunter classics: Friend of the Devil, Ripple. and Reuben and Cerise...

Alabama > Straw brilliance for starters...Debut of She Belongs to Me....Awesome LSD to end the set, Jerry rips Saint and Deal...First Crazy Fingers in 18 months...A hyper runaway version of GDTRFB...Jerry in Beast Mode all night....

Betty Boards,,,Let my inspiration flow...the debut of Terrapin and Estimated...First set dominated by second set tunes...Help/ Slipknot!/ Franklin's = insanity....A grand opening show for a magnificent year....

A Sugaree Master Class for openers...Jerry's Soul Town...The hottest Valerie ever...Scorching Tangled Up in Blue...Weir and friends join JGB for a memorable double encore

A JGB show for the ages...The Melvin Seals factor in Mississippi Moon and Harder They Come...Awesome versions of Mission in the Rain, Deal, Sugaree, and Simple Twist of Fate...Jerry's guitar weeps Prudence tears for John Lennon....Jerry gives it his all for New York City

Doug Schmell joins the podcast to explore this iconic performance...Ripping renditions of T Jed, J Straw, and Music Never Stopped...The infamous Close Encounters jam is tucked between The Other One and St. Stephen...This is a show for the ages

A Complete Unknown, review of the marvelous Dylan movie...Branford joins the Dead for Birdsong...Immaculate improvisation in the first instrumental of Eyes...38 minutes of Dark Star magic...Knockin' on Heaven's Door just like so many times before