Grateful Dead Sleep Stories | Before the Dead: Jerry Garcia's Banjo Years, the Coffeehouses, and the Jug Band and more
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Tonight, back before the beginning: a few small towns on the Peninsula south of San Francisco in the first years of the sixties, where young people with banjos, washboards and borrowed guitars slept in cars, crowded into coffeehouses, and played old songs for whoever would listen. Folk songs, bluegrass, and a jug band. A bookstore that let people stay all day, a room above a pizza parlor, and a music shop where a banjo teacher waited on New Year's Eve. A long, calm story for a long night. CHAPTERS 0:00 Settle in 1:56 The Tangent in Palo Alto 7:00 Kepler's Books 12:11 Garcia leaves the Army 17:14 Robert Hunter and Jerry 22:21 The Chateau in Menlo Park 27:20 Learning banjo from records 32:34 The Hart Valley Drifters 37:55 Black Mountain Boys 43:20 The trip east in 1964 48:41 Pigpen's record collection 53:59 Pigpen at the Tangent 59:05 Bob Weir on New Year's Eve 1:04:08 Forming Mother McCree's 1:09:35 The Kweskin Jug Band 1:15:06 Dana Morgan Music 1:20:25 Sara and Jerry 1:26:01 Phil Lesh at KPFA 1:31:18 The Boar's Head 1:36:28 Monterey Folk Festival 1:41:37 Doc Watson 1:46:59 Hunter's early songs 1:52:04 Perry Lane and Kesey 1:57:21 The jug band tapes 2:02:31 The jug band breaks up 2:07:27 Drifting off The Shakedown Archives Sleep Stories are long, calm, spoken-word journeys through the real history of the Grateful Dead, made to help you fall asleep and stay asleep. No jarring music, no ads breaking the spell, no bright screen. Just a quiet voice and two hours of true stories from the band, the scene, and the people who lived it. Perfect for insomnia, winding down, long nights, travel, or anyone who loves the Dead and wants to drift off inside the history. Dim the lights, get comfortable, and let it carry you off. If this helped you sleep, following the show is the one thing that keeps them coming. Sweet dreams. TAGS: jug band, mother mccrees uptown jug champions, jerry garcia banjo, robert hunter, pigpen, bob weir, phil lesh, the tangent, keplers books, the chateau, dana morgan music, boars head, hart valley drifters, black mountain boys, sandy rothman, david nelson, palo alto, folk revival, bluegrass, grateful dead sleep story, sleep story, sleep stories for adults, history for sleep, fall asleep fast, bedtime story for grown ups, boring history for sleep, calm history narration, long sleep story, stories to fall asleep to, insomnia sleep story, grateful dead history, deadhead
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