Workingman’s Dead 50, Episode 3: Dire Wolf

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🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Our close listen to the Grateful Dead’s remastered Workingman’s Dead 50th anniversary edition continues with “Dire Wolf.” Album co-producer Bob Matthews reveals recording tricks. With David Nelson of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, we get a look inside Jerry Garcia’s living room as he learns how to play pedal steel guitar. We untangle the connections between “Dire Wolf,” the Zodiac Killer, and Sherlock Holmes to figure out the exact date the song was written, examine session outtakes from the Angel’s Share, hear from bluegrass phenom and Dead fan Billy Strings, discuss how “Dire Wolf” is only one of many connections between the Dead and Game of Thrones writer George RR Martin, and debut a "Dire Wolf" supercut.

GUESTS: David Nelson, Bob Matthews, Billy Strings, Jeffrey Alexander, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert, Brian Kehew, Mike Johnson

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the good old Grateful Dead cast.
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0:39.1	Have you checked out the new Working Man's Dead 50th anniversary deluxe edition?
0:44.1	Besides the original album being expertly remastered and sounding better than ever, the set includes
0:49.4	a show from February 21st, 1971 from the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, mixed by Jeffrey Norman from the original
0:56.7	16 track analog reel-to-reel tapes over at Bob Weir's TRI Studios, and it really sounds great. Make sure to check that one out and you can do so at dead.net.
1:08.8	We are working our way through Working Man's Dead track by track and this episode is devoted to one of my favorite
1:14.5	tracks on the album Dyer Wolf. Of course it's a great song as all the songs on
1:19.0	this album are but it's the high water mark for Jerry Garcia's pedal steel playing in the studio
1:24.8	and wait till you hear what we uncovered about the Genesis of this Grateful Dead favorite.
1:30.3	Time to go back down the rabbit hole with Jesse Jarno. Working Man's Dead is organic and warm sounding, a familiar and reassuring musical feeling that sustains itself with seeming effortlessness from the first drop of the needle to the final runout groove.
1:58.0	That apparent effortlessness perhaps blurs over not only the song's musical complexities and idiosyncrasies, but also how genuinely
2:06.0	different the eight songs are from one another.
2:10.0	Following the invocatory call to joy of Uncle John's band, with its stacked vocal harmonies,
2:15.2	comes the hushed pleading of high time, featuring Bob Weir's spidery guitar counterpoint and
2:20.3	Robert Hunter's most naked lyrics to date.
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