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Donna Jean Godchaux

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The Resume

    (August 22, 1947- )
    Born in Sheffield, Alabama
    Birth name was Donna Jean Thatcher
    Backing vocalist with the Grateful Dead (1971-79)
    Wife of Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux
    With Keith formed the Heart of Gold Band (1979)
    Recorded the solo albums 'Donna Jean' (1988) and 'Donna Jean and the Tricksters' (2008)

Why she might be annoying:

    Jerry Garcia said, 'She had a hard time singing in key on stage.'
    She said about her performances with the Dead, 'I can't listen to so much of it. I just go, 'Oh my God, what was I thinking?''
    She and Keith totaled their BMWs playing bumper cars in a parking lot.
    She said, 'I would never be able to count the hotel rooms that I completely destroyed.... In one town, all the band came up because they heard it was the best job that had ever been done on a room.'
    She broke Keith's arm by whacking a chair over it.

Why she might not be annoying:

    She was a professional session singer at Muscle Shoals Studio in Alabama by age 15.
    She provided backing vocals on songs by Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin.
    Looking for adventure, she left Alabama for California, saw her first Grateful Dead show and told a friend, 'When I sing again, it's going to be with that band.'
    She did half a tour missing a tooth Keith had knocked out.
    She performed with the Dead while she was eight months pregnant with her son Zion and noted, 'No wonder he's a musician -- it's in his bones.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 78 Votes: 53.85% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 15 Votes: 46.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 19 Votes: 63.16% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 64 Votes: 67.19% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 12 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 98 Votes: 65.31% Annoying