Grateful Dead Listening Party Discussion

Welcome to Grateful Dead Listening Party and before I go on any longer, I want to tell

you this week is going to be a little bit different and to do that I need to make a

confession. The contours of grief are interesting and surprising to say the least and it's just

a tough week. I'm just hitting a tough week when it comes to losing Bobby. Dreams are

funny things. They're TV shows that you're forced to watch in your sleep and they set

your day up before you even have a say in how your day is supposed to go. They just

preload your day with feelings and so in an effort to neither cry all over you nor fake

my way through not wanting to cry all over you, I'm going to play you a couple songs

that I heard this week that I've really fallen in love with and I have great points to make

about them and then I'm going to throw to some best of stuff, but it's not because I

don't care about you or want to do the work because I'm sitting here now, but I'm going

to play two songs for you and then later on in the episode I am going to reveal next

week's guest host. So I thank you in advance and from afar for your understanding that

sometimes you just get punched in the face some weeks when it comes to loss. So the first

song I want to play for you and these are songs I heard at Andy Cohen's apartment once

again is an Althea that when I heard it, I just had not yet heard this particular style

of playing the tune and I know that forever and ever I'm going to still discover songs

that I had not known the Grateful Dead had played in a particular style. This is a very

gentle Althea. It's from Barton Hall at Cornell University, but it's not the most famous one.

It's from 1981, which has sent me on a 1981 spiral, which I will share with you on a future

Grateful Dead listening party. Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 16th, 1981. It's Althea.

I told Althea that treachery was tearing me, me, I'm from Flint.