To celebrate the 50th anniversary release of the seminal Grateful Dead LP, "Workingman's Dead", I'm taking the next two hours to play music that influenced the band as well as incredible covers of the album, version like you have never heard before.

If you tune in regularly you know as much as I love the Grateful Dead, I almost never play them. I'm not really certain why that is? I know they are an acquired taste, but a lot of the music I play on my show is. Maybe I just need to take on a separate show where all I play is live GD? There's always room for that, right? Hello? HELLO???

Anyway, the first hour is full of band influences, playing songs the Dead has covered over the years. The second hour are bands covering songs from "Workingman's Dead".

Enough said.

Enjoy.

jh

Promised Land: Chuck Berry

I'm A Man: Bo Diddley
Maggie's Farm: Bob Dylan
Iko Iko: The Dixie Cups
Mama Tried: Merle Haggard

El Paso: Marty Robbins
Big River: Johnny Cash
Walking Blues: Muddy Waters

Samson and Delilah: Reverend Gary Davis
Big Railroad Blues: Cannon's Jug Stompers
Spoonful: Charlie Patton
It's A Man's World: James Brown

The Last Time: Rolling Stones
Tomorrow Never Knows: Beatles
Hard To Handle: Otis Redding
Turn On Your Lovelight: Bobby "Blue" Bland

Not Fade Away: Buddy Holly
Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad: Woody Guthrie
Morning Dew: Bonnie Dobson

Cumberland Blues: Charles Bradley and the Menahan Street Band
New Speedway Boogie: Courtney Barnett
Casey Jones: Warren Zevon

Black Peter: Anohni and yMusic
Friend of the Devil: Mumford and Sons
High Time: Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear
Easy Wind: Bill Callahan

Dire Wolf: The Lone Bellow and Friends
Wharf Rat: Midnight Oil

Uncle John's Band: Grateful Dead
I Bid You Goodnight: Joseph Spence