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Getting Baked at the Kennedy Center Honors
A sentimental and smoky night celebrating the honorees, including the Grateful Dead, Francis Ford Coppola, and Bonnie Raitt.
After walking to center stage, Letterman, who frequently had the Dead on his late-night talk shows, looked out at the Washington, D.C., crowd of arts patrons and politicians, including the president, First Lady, vice-president, and First Gentleman, and announced: “I’m so fucked-up.” “The Black community agreeing on something.” The tribute to the Apollo also, naturally, featured several musical numbers, including a lively medley of hits belted out by husband-and-wife duo the War and Treaty that culminated with “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” After admitting that they all blur together to an extent, she remembered going to three nights of the 50th anniversary Fare Thee Well tour, staged by the living members of the band in Chicago in 2015 and dancing like a maniac to the song “Terrapin.”
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