Finding Sobriety Through the Dead, with Grateful Don
We arrive at the last episode of our show, and a new understanding of the power of the Dead community. For this one, we’re turning our episode over to...
America's Dead
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Five decades after sparking the counterculture movement, the Grateful Dead are more alive than ever, and filmmaker Emmett Malloy wants to find out how. In this limited-run series from Sonos, join Emmett as he unpacks how a band of misfits changed American music, culture and consciousness forever, as told through the eyes of Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend), Animal Collective, mycologist Paul Stamets, Lila Downs, Margo Price and many more. What can the Grateful Dead tell us... about us? Produced by work x work for Sonos
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