Season 12 · Episode 4

Blues For Allah 50: Franklin’s Tower

GOOD OL' GRATEFUL DEADCAST · Grateful Dead

September 11, 20251h 20m

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Show Notes

The Deadcast examines how Franklin’s Tower bucked every trend on Blues For Allah to become one of the Dead’s all-time classics, including a tape of its studio creation, a look into the multi-tracks, & a rare line-by-line breakdown by lyricist Robert Hunter himself.

Guests: David Lemieux, Geoff Gould, Jürgen Fauth, Shaugn O’Donnell, Chadwick Jenkins, Will Backstrom, Max Ritchie, Hannah Grabbenstein

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