I love the podcast order as well. Now that we have explored how the Dead got to the place where they could right such thoughtful and earnest songs and musically reallign to deliver WD and AB, let us look forward to 1969? WD and AB is the bridge between Live Dead and Europe 72, I understand wanting to put the two 1970 albums together, they are mythologized as one at this point, but from a narrative perspective episode 2 is not quite as smooth.
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@spilledleche made this point just before. He is NOT wrong