High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wake the dead is a Northern California septet who specialize in blending traditional Celtic music with the songs of the Grateful Dead. They call themselves the World's First Celtic All-Star Grateful Dead Jam Band. They have released three albums to date. Their debut self-titled album was released in 2000, originally released on Grateful Dead/Arista Records.Their second album, Buckdancer's Choice, named after a line in the Grateful Dead song, Uncle John's Band, was released in 2003, followed by Blue Light Cheap Hotel in 2007.