friends, we’ve the reached the “scarlet begonias” episode of the good ol’ #GratefulDead-cast & it is W-I-L-D. alongside the studio multitracks (& a supercut thereof) & excellent jams, we’ve got vampire weekend’s chris tomson, the story of how robert hunter met the woman in scarlet begonias, and... https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#podcast /1
today’s deadcast includes an interview with one of the 2 people in this photograph! photographer/filmmaker lee jaffe (& ron rakow) on the never-told true story of how the the #GratefulDead came legitimately close to signing #BobMarley to their own record company in early 1974?! (not hallucinated by a chatbot!) https://www.dead.net/deadcast/mars-hotel-50-scarlet-begonias#reggae /2
I think more than any genre I am at the moment enjoying #reggae on #vinyl – also, I have so much still to discover here; to my shame I only vaguely knew this fantastic Birmingham (UK) band until recently.