Every Dark Star: Introduction

This blog will document a project several of us on the Steve Hoffman music forum have undertaken: to listen to every existing iteration of the Grateful Dead's Dark Star. I am going to assume that most people who are still reading are already familiar with this piece of music.

Here are some links to information and scholarship about Dark Star. This is not a complete list, and readers are encouraged to do more research:


The Dark Star Document

Song Statistics

Dark Star 1968

Dark Star - Evolution

The Annotated Dark Star

Songfacts



Here's an updated Dark Star Document. It is missing some of the commentary from the original, but the information is more up to date.