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Grateful Dead artist page: interviews, features and/or performances archived at NPR Music
Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, has released a 2-CD career retrospective, Weir Here. The guitarist performs two songs and reflects on music and career with NPR's Scott Simon.
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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs work next week inspired by the music of the Grateful Dead. Composer Lee Johnson, who wrote Dead Symphony No. 6, discusses the piece's origins and talks about learning to become a "Deadhead."
()As part of our series about students and teachers, musicologist Bruce Nemerov describes the way that one song is recorded by several different musicians in different decades of the 20th century. The older musicians are teaching the younger musicians through the song "Sitting on Top of the World." We hear the song as recorded by Al Jolson, The Mississippi Sheiks, Howlin' Wolf, Eric Clapton, Bill Monroe and The Grateful Dead.
()The Grateful Dead began their musical journey in 1965, and continued to perform before sell-out crowds until their breakup in 1995. NPR's Scott Simon talks with the band's historian Dennis McNally about his book, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead.
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The University of California, Santa Cruz, is seeking an archivist for its collection of Grateful Dead materials. The job involves managing original documents, clippings, art, posters, recordings, publication and documentation of the band's famous network of fans, known as deadheads.
()A long-lost manuscript of composer Ludwig van Beethoven is auctioned by Sotheby's, bringing nearly $2 million. In a separate auction, a nonprofit group hopes to raise as much as $100,000 by offering home fixtures that once belonged to the Grateful Dead's late lead guitarist, Jerry Garcia.
()The a cappella group The Persuasions decided to do an album of Grateful Dead songs. As "The Dead" have been icons of sub-culture since the mid 60's, and have inspired more than one generation of devotees (Deadheads), they knew that covering the harmonies would not suffice. They would have to rediscover AND reinvent the music - both for themselves, and the audience.
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