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Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer best known as a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1972 to 1979. In addition to the Dead, she performed with the Jerry Garcia Band and the short-lived Heart of Gold Band , all alongside her first husband, Keith Godchaux .
Keith & Donna is an album by Keith Godchaux and Donna Jean Godchaux. Their only studio album as a duo leading their own band, it was released in 1975 on the Round Records label. Produced as a vinyl LP, it has not been released on CD.
The Grateful Dead organization is celebrating 50 years of 'Europe '72' at 'Meet-Up at the Movies.' Donna Jean Godchaux shares her memories.
“He was really on fire about a new era of the Grateful Dead,” Donna Godchaux says of Garcia. The singer and her late husband Keith Godchaux joined the group in the fall of 1971, she on backing ...
The Donna Jean Godchaux Band (sometimes known as the Donna Jean Godchaux Band with Jeff Mattson) is an American rock music group. [1] [2] [3] ...
With a "Meet-Up at the Movies" screening, new box set and a podcast, the Grateful Dead organization is celebrating 50 years of 'Europe '72."
Donna Godchaux called the light and bouncy tone of the album "almost tongue-in-cheek". [8] The week of the album's release, the Grateful Dead appeared on Saturday Night Live at the behest of Al Franken and Tom Davis. Their first of two appearances on the show, it was also their first time on a major network broadcast.
The album was the first to include pianist Keith Godchaux and his wife, vocalist Donna Jean Godchaux, and the last to feature founding member Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, who died shortly after its release. The European tour was expensive and logistically complicated, and the band's record company hoped that a live album would recoup its costs.