
GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
Grateful Dead
4.9from 3,212 ratings
- 136
- Episodes
- 44
- Transcribed
- 3,212
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST
“The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast,” the official Grateful Dead podcast, is a series devoted to exploring the music and mythology behind one of the most enduring, progressive, and influential bands in the history of recorded music. The podcast’s tagline is “For The Committed And The Curious,” as episodes will invite new fans to explore the band’s enormous mythology in digestible chunks and enlighten life-long Dead Heads about corners of the band’s history they never knew existed. No topic will be off limits on “The Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast” as hosts Rich Mahan and Jesse Jarnow explore the band’s outrageous history, innovations, and impact from 1965 to today.
- Publisher
- Grateful Dead
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 9 Jul 2020
- Latest episode
- 15 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
44 of 136 episodes have a transcript.

15 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bobby Weir: Blue Mountain

27 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Summer Magic 1985: Merriweather Post Pavilion, 6/30 & 7/1

13 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Summer Magic 1985: Hersheypark Stadium, 6/28
Inside a recent episode

Bobby Weir: Blue Mountain
Published 15 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I had that in my back pocket. So Kaufman pitched Weir's Management on the idea of an album built on cowboy swagger. Bobby just calls like out of the blue. We end up talking for like two hours on the phone and he's singing to me, dude, like Blue Mountain, like a song that he learned on the Barlow family farm. […]
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- Dan English
- Bob Minkin
- Bobby Weir
- Sage Scully
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 2,257 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 955 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 68
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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