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After All is Said and Done: Taping the Grateful Dead, 1965-1995 by Mark A. Rodriguez
For Deadheads, music archivists or anyone curious about participatory fan culture, "After All is Said and Done" provides a detailed, enthusiastic and remarkably thorough guide to a practice that helped the music—and the myth—endure to the present day.
Stuart Ake
Dec 3, 20253 min read


ABCs of the Grateful by Dead Howie Abrams and Michael "Kaves" McLeer
The ABCs of the Grateful Dead takes a whimsical, kid-friendly approach to the band’s sprawling mythology, distilling decades of cultural history into a brightly illustrated alphabetical tour of the Grateful Dead’s world.
Stuart Ake
Nov 23, 20253 min read


Deadheads Photographs by Jay Blakesberg Curated by Ricki Blakesberg
Shot on film across twenty years—from parking lots in the late ’70s to the bittersweet final tours toward the mid-’90s—Deadheads is akin to a family album. The grain and haze of analog film feel right here; memory itself seems to seep from the negatives. Blakesberg isn’t chasing perfection. He’s chasing spirit—the stoney smile under a tie-dyed bandana, the spontaneous ritual of strangers dancing in time.
Stuart Ake
Nov 23, 20253 min read


Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead by Steve Parish
Steve Parish was not a star of the Grateful Dead; as a roadie, he was one of the custodians of their myth, the guy who hauled heavy crates and stayed awake long after the encore, the friend and fixer who knows the cracks in the mirror.
Stuart Ake
Nov 23, 20254 min read
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