Since I mentioned a couple months back that 2015 was the year of Grateful Dead books here’s a quick overview of what’s new…

Bill Kreutzmann with Benjy Eisen, Deal: My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs with the Grateful Dead. Billy and Benjy, what’s not to love?

David Browne, So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead. Coming later this month, builds its narrative around individual days over the band’s history.

Peter Richardson No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead

DeadBase 50. It returns! I don’t have a cover image yet so here’s the well-worn cover to DeadBase III, which has been on my book shelf for over 25 years. [Update: Here’s the cover of the new DeadBase

Blair Jackson and David Gans This Is All a Dream We Dreamed: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead. Due out this fall. Blair and David, share their perspectives and insightful interviews.

Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America. Not due until next year, I have big expectations for this one. His bio reads, “Jesse Jarnow is the author of Big Day Coming: Yo La Tengo and the Rise of Indie Rock. His work has appeared in the London Times, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and hosts The Frow Show on the independent Jersey City radio station WFMU.”

I guess that makes Relix, where he’s a contributing editor and this site, where he was a columnist and point person on CD for 14 years as “elsewhere.”

That’s okay, I still have big expectations for this book.

I don’t have a cover image so here is Jesse at the merch table during our 1999 Jambands.com tour [Update: here’s the cover…]

NOT new (but what the heck, this is my “From the Editor” piece. Don’t forget Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. Chapter Four, “A Bunch of Wooly Freaks,” focuses on GDTS, the Grateful Dead’s own ticketing enterprise, which has been the subject of numerous articles d as of late due to Fare Thee Well.