Nick Paumgarten, who writes about Grateful Dead “tapeheads” in this week’s issue, breaks down his thirteen essential, commercially ignored Dead recordings.

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Read Nick Paumgarten’s Annals of Obsession “Deadhead,” in this week’s magazine.

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In this week’s issue, Nick Paumgarten goes inside the world of Grateful Dead “tapeheads,” and looks at the band’s “vast archive of live concert recordings …something intended to be spontaneous and ephemeral [that has] became a curated body of work.” Continue reading.