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  • Notes from Dawson 2011 re Nicky Hopkins

     

  • Book on Nightstand at Serenity Knolls

    I thought I remember that one of the big Garcia/GD auctions of some years back offered a copy of the book that was found on Jerry’s nightstand at Serenity Knolls. Does that ring a bell for anyone? Anyone remember what book it was?

  • Fare Thee Well

    I just read Joel Selvin’s latest, Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead’s Long Strange Trip. I have seen many Deadheads bashing it, but I thought it was just fine. For better or for worse, but probably not surprisingly to readers of this blog, I haven’t paid much attention to the post-8/9/95…

  • Mother American Night

    Barlow, John Perry, with Robert Greenfield. 2018. Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times. New York: Crown Archetype. This was an awesome read. By “hanging around with intent” (p. 71), Barlow managed to play a role in many of the most seismic changes to shake the postwar West, Forrest Gump with brilliance, vision and…

  • Folk Songs of America, 2: map

    Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter

  • Reading Notes: Jackson and Gans 2015

    Jackson, Blair and David Gans. 2015. This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. Flatiron Books. Blair Jackson and David Gans, like Dennis McNally and David Browne earlier in my reading year, exceed my very high expectations. I don’t generally do book reviews, and won’t here, either, but I…

  • Reading Notes: Browne 2015

    Browne, David. 2015. So Many Roads: The Life And Times Of The Grateful Dead. Boston, MA: Da Capo Press [a member of the Perseus Books Group]. I stand by my initial assessment – this book is the real deal, chock full of great tidbits, fluently written. This is a great addition to the canon, standing…

  • Reading Notes: McNally 2015

    McNally, Dennis, ed. 2015. Jerry on Jerry: The Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews. New York: Black Dog and Leventhal Publishers. I didn’t quite know what to expect. On a read, it felt like this was all material that I already knew. From a strictly informational perspective I didn’t feel like I got anything I didn’t know…

  • Banjo

    Dubois, Laurent. 2016. The Banjo: America’s African Instrument. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. en route as of 20160417 Keïta, Cheick M. Chérif. 1995. Massa Makkan Diabaté: Un Griot mandingue à la rencontré de l’écriture. Paris: Éditions L’Harmattan. to read

  • Reading Notes: Arthur Koestler, Act of Creation

    This book has had tremendous impact on me. Single logic of creation comedy, science and art Blurb: “bisociative thinking” – the creative leap which connects previously unconnected frames of reference and makes us experience reality on several planes at once. “there are no frontiers where the realm of science ends and that of art begins,…