Thanks to everyone for reading in the past year and making this project fun. This calendar day marks a personal anniversary of loss as well, so Brokedown Palace is particularly apt on a personal level for today too. But given that it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this was the version chosen for the big send off. I’ve waxed nostalgic about Dozin’ At The Knick earlier this month and in these pages previously, so I’ll spare you re-hashing that. This is the last performance of the song on the fabled Spring 1990 tour (available digitally here and here). Over the span of this project there have been 365 selections accounting for 379 individual tracks (as the CD spins) and 53 hours, 15 minutes, and 6 seconds of music.Īs for Brokedown Palace, it’s a song that was played 214 times between 19 – so not that often. As far as I know folks should still be able to contact me through my email address on the website, or I will be available on Facebook and Twitter if anyone wants to reach out to me there. I’m very proud of this site and I hope that people will continue to use it as a reference tool in the future. I’ll probably go through all of the posts at some point and clean up some of the coding, etc., but beyond that I plan to leave them as is. I will continue to update the latter as is appropriate and time permitting. I hope that I’ve been able to create some useful reference guides for people with my Listening Guide, and one stop locations for the Dick’s Picks, Download, Road Trips, and Garcia Live series. It had the effect of sending us out of the show on a gentle pillow of sound, the band bidding us Fare you well, fare you well The story the song may be telling for any one of us is wide open. The Facebook and Twitter pages will remain, and the Twitter feed will continue to re-post archived posts. After the 1974 hiatus, Brokedown Palace appeared almost exclusively as the closing song of the show, as an encore. Perhaps an occasional post or two will occur, but a lot depends on my available time. So what’s the future of the site? I do not plan to make daily updates any longer. I owe a significant debt of gratitude to Mike Healy at Delaware Digital who did an awesome job getting this site moved from its blogspot origins, putting together this wonderful space, and helping me with technical issues and questions as they arose. I’m sure more paid advertising would have helped, but I’m actually pretty proud that almost everything I’ve done for growing this site has been done organically. ![]() Covering expenses would have been nice, but I didn’t even manage that. ![]() And while I’ve provided a lot of buying options for the music here I never expected to make any money doing this. There were times when I had to push myself to get posts ready, but for the most part I really enjoyed doing this blog. Part of this project was just to test my resolve and to see if I could stay committed to it for an entire year. It’s enabled me to maintain my writing chops, familiarized me with some new technologies, and prompted a deeper foray into the digital content realm ( I’ve learned a lot about what not to do, too!). This site has had practical value as well. You can study something until you’re blue in the face, but even so those with first-hand knowledge and experience will always have a leg up I’ve really cherished all of the shared experiences along the way. For someone who never saw the Dead with Jerry it’s been wonderful to read reactions and responses from those that did. It’s enabled me to engage with the Grateful Dead community in a way I have never done before. It’s changed my mind about some previous Grateful Dead convictions I’ve held (like softening a bit on some of the Dylan covers). It’s forced me to listen to some of my favorite music at a deeper level than ever before and find new appreciation for it. You can find the rest of the lyrics here.This has been a valuable experience for me on many levels. Lovers come and go – the river roll roll rollįare you well, fare you well I love you more than words can tell ![]() ![]() On the banks green edge it will grow grow grow Goin home, goin home by the waterside I will rest my bones Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul This Grateful Dead funeral-appropriate song, “Brokedown Palace,” speaks to the many emotions in all of us. Some music is straightforward, while other is more subtle or subliminal - sometimes, we can’t quite point to the specific feeling music touches.īut we all know a particular song or composition that speaks precisely to an emotion in us. We use it to heal and to express rage and love. We use music to inspire, mourn, remember, signify and symbolize the life of another as we cope with death. It soothes those dealing with grief and serves as a soundtrack to life and death. Music expresses an endless amount of human emotion.
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