The Golden Road Archives

This week on the Golden Road, we are going to try something a little bit different. We are going to play tracks from the new Jerry Garcia: Before the Dead release and then play later versions of the same songs as performed by the Grateful Dead or Jerry Garcia. But starting us off this week we are going “out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels” with the incomparable Emmylou Harris and the Hot Band recorded live at the Beacon Theater, NYC on March 27th, 1976.

This week the Golden Road takes us to the Big Island! Yep, the Island of Hawaii for the Jerry Garcia Band recorded live at the Hilo Civic Auditorium in Hilo on May 20th, 1990. Jerry had the presence of mind to record the concert and this show was recently released as GarciaLive Volume 10. We are going to dig deep into the new eighteen song release on this week’s show. Plus, a couple of surprise songs by Jerry and Sara from May 4th, 1963!

This week the Golden Road returns to Harpur College in Binghamton, New York for a selection of Grateful Dead music from their May 2nd, 1970 concert. The Harpur College show is considered by many as the best Dead concert of all time. You can be the judge! Rounding out this week’s broadcast is the second half of the Dead’s May 1st, 1970 Alfred College acoustic set and a couple-three Kentucky Derby Day inspired songs to start the show.