Grateful Dead Book Reviews

Bill Kreutzmann’s Deal is not a historian’s chronicle of the Grateful Dead. It reads like a field recording from the drummer’s stool told by the man who held the beat. Co-written with journalist Benjy Eisen, the book is exceptionally candid, percussive and sometimes messy in a way that feels honest rather than careless.

DeadBase contains the most complete and accurate listing of Grateful Dead concerts and song lists known.

You buy an old VW microbus. While cleaning it out, you discover a Deadhead’s scrapbook—part tour diary, part time capsule, part reliquary. That’s the setup for Deadhead Forever: Property of Haze, a fictional journal presented as “found” ephemera: musings, newspaper clippings, setlists, Ticketron stubs, photos, “Dupree’s Diamond News”–style odds & ends and a hundred little scraps that stitch together a surprisingly cohesive narrative. The story is invented, but the details are