Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. Recorded on May 15, 1970, and released on June 14, 2010, it was the eleventh of the "Road Trips" series of albums, and the first to contain three discs instead of two.

Recording

Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 was billed as a 40th anniversary celebration of the album Workingman's Dead

Workingman's Dead

Workingman's Dead is the fourth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded in February 1970 and originally released on June 14, 1970....

. It includes several versions, some acoustic and some electric, of seven of the eight songs that appear on that album, omitting only "High Time". The album contains material from two concerts — the early show and the late show — performed on May 15, 1970, at the Fillmore East

Fillmore East

The Fillmore East was rock promoter Bill Graham's rock venue on Second Avenue near East 6th Street in the East Village neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of New York City. It was open from 1968 to 1971, and featured some of the biggest acts in rock music at the time...

 in New York City

New York City

New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

. Like many early 1970 Grateful Dead shows, these concerts featured both acoustic and electric sets. The New Riders of the Purple Sage

New Riders of the Purple Sage

New Riders of the Purple Sage is an American country rock band. The group emerged from the psychedelic rock scene in San Francisco, California in 1969, and its original lineup included several members of the Grateful Dead. Their best known song is "Panama Red"...

 (NRPS), with whom Jerry Garcia was playing pedal steel guitar

Pedal steel guitar

The pedal steel guitar is a type of electric guitar that uses a metal bar to "fret" or shorten the length of the strings, rather than fingers on strings as with a conventional guitar. Unlike other types of steel guitar, it also uses pedals and knee levers to affect the pitch, hence the name "pedal"...

, also performed at these concerts, between the Dead's acoustic and electric sets. The NRPS sets are not included on this release.

A fourth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains additional material from the same concerts as well as four songs from the concert held the previous evening, May 14, 1970, at Meramec Community College in Kirkwood, Missouri

Kirkwood, Missouri

Kirkwood is an inner-ring suburb of St. Louis, located in St. Louis County, Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the city is named for James Pugh Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad through that town. It was the first planned suburb located west...

. The version of "Easy Wind" from May 15 was previously released on the album Fallout from the Phil Zone

Fallout from the Phil Zone

Fallout from the Phil Zone is a double compilation album of live recordings by the Grateful Dead handpicked by the band's bassist Phil Lesh. It contains the first Grateful Dead CD releases of "In the Midnight Hour" and Bob Dylan's "Visions of Johanna"...

. Including the material from the bonus disc, this release includes both May 15, 1970 Fillmore East Shows in their entirety except for the acoustic performance of "Candyman" from the late show.

Another live Grateful Dead album recorded during this same month is Dick's Picks Volume 8

Dick's Picks Volume 8

Dick's Picks Volume 8 is the eighth live album in the Dick's Picks series of releases by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on May 2, 1970 at Harpur College in Binghamton, New York. It was released in mid-1997....

, which also includes both acoustic and electric sets.

Sound quality

The album was released in HDCD format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

Disc One

May 15, 1970: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Early Show: Acoustic:

1. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 4:24
2. "I Know You Rider
   I Know You Rider
   "I Know You Rider" is a traditional woman's blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to the song's appearance in the 1934 book, American Ballads and Folk Songs, by the noted father and son musicologists and folklorists, John Lomax and Alan Lomax...
   
   " (traditional) – 8:39
3. "Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)" (Lightnin' Hopkins
   Lightnin' Hopkins
   Sam John Hopkins better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas...
   
   ) – 3:56
4. "Long Black Limousine" (Vern Stovall, Bobby George) – 4:54
5. "New Speedway Boogie" (Jerry Garcia
   Jerry Garcia
   Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
   
   , Robert Hunter
   Robert Hunter (lyricist)
   Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
   
   ) – 6:23

Early Show: Electric:

6. "Casey Jones
   Casey Jones (song)
   "Casey Jones" is a song by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia, and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. The song first appeared on the Dead's 1970 album Workingman's Dead. Subsequently it was included on a number of their live albums.The Grateful Dead...
   
   " (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:02
7. "St. Stephen
   St. Stephen (song)
   "St. Stephen" is a song by the Grateful Dead, written by Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and originally released on the 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa. The same year, a live version of the song was released on Live/Dead, their first concert album...
   
   " > (Garcia, Phil Lesh
   Phil Lesh
   Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
   
   , Hunter) – 5:47
8. "That's It for the Other One" > (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
   
   , Lesh, Ron McKernan, Bob Weir
   Bob Weir
   Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
   
   ) – 24:29
   • I. Cryptical Envelopment
   • II. Drums
   • III. The Other One
   • IV. Cryptical Envelopment
9. "Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:59

Early Show: Encore: Electric:

10. "New Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis
    Noah Lewis
    Noah Lewis was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica.-Life and career:...
    
    ) – 3:36

Disc Two

May 15, 1970: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Late Show: Acoustic:

1. "Deep Elem Blues" (traditional) – 5:42
2. "The Ballad of Casey Jones" (traditional) – 4:49
3. "Silver Threads and Golden Needles" (Jack Rhodes
   Jack Rhodes
   Andrew Jackson Rhodes was an American country music producer and songwriter, penning such hits as "A Satisfied Mind", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Conscience I'm Guilty", "The Waltz of the Angels", "Beautiful Lies", and "Till the Last Leaf Shall Fall"...
   
   , Dick Reynolds) – 3:49
4. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter)" – 7:23
5. "Friend of the Devil
   Friend of the Devil
   "Friend of the Devil" is a song recorded by the Grateful Dead. The music was written by Jerry Garcia and John Dawson and the lyrics are by Robert Hunter. It is the second track of the Dead's 1970 album American Beauty....
   
   " (Garcia, John Dawson
   John Dawson (musician)
   John Collins Dawson IV, nicknamed "Marmaduke" , was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.-Musical career:...
   
   , Hunter) – 4:06
6. "Uncle John's Band
   Uncle John's Band
   "Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead...
   
   " (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:01
7. "She's Mine" (Hopkins) – 2:54
8. "Katie Mae" (Hopkins) – 4:38
9. "A Voice from On High" (Bill Monroe
   Bill Monroe
   William Smith Monroe was an American musician who created the style of music known as bluegrass, which takes its name from his band, the "Blue Grass Boys," named for Monroe's home state of Kentucky. Monroe's performing career spanned 60 years as a singer, instrumentalist, composer and bandleader...
   
   ) – 2:52

Late Show: Electric:

10. "China Cat Sunflower
    China Cat Sunflower
    "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album Aoxomoxoa. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song is typically sung by Jerry Garcia. The first live recording of this song...
    
    " > (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:58
11. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 4:39
12. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:14
13. "Hard to Handle
    Hard to Handle (song)
    "Hard to Handle" is a 1968 song originally recorded by Otis Redding and written by Redding, Al Bell and Allen Jones. It was released posthumously after Redding's death in 1967 on the album The Immortal Otis Redding...
    
    " (Alvertis Isbell
    Al Bell
    Al Bell is an American record producer, songwriter, and record executive. Bell is best known as one of the key figures behind and a co-owner of Memphis, Tennessee-based Stax Records during the latter half of the label's nineteen-year existence...
    
    , Allen Jones
    Allen Jones
    Allen Jones is the name of:*Allen T Jones ceo*Allen Jones , Continental Congress delegate*Allen Jones , British pop artist...
    
    , Otis Redding
    Otis Redding
    Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
    
    ) – 5:51
14. "Morning Dew
    Morning Dew
    "Morning Dew", also known as " Morning Dew", is a post-apocalyptic folk-rock song written by Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962.According to Dobson in a 1993 interview, "Morning Dew" was inspired by the film On the Beach....
    
    " (Bonnie Dobson
    Bonnie Dobson
    Bonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew"...
    
    , Tim Rose
    Tim Rose
    Timothy Alan Patrick Rose , best known professionally as Tim Rose, was an American singer-songwriter, who spent much of his life in London, England and had more success in Europe than in his native country...
    
    ) – 10:53
15. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:54

Disc Three

May 15, 1970: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Late Show: Electric:

1. "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark is an American songwriter about whom little biographical information seems to be known. Supposedly a former mail carrier hailing from New York City, he was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s...
   
   , Arthur Resnick) – 13:45
2. "Dark Star
   Dark Star (song)
   "Dark Star" is a song released as a single by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by lead guitarist Jerry Garcia; however, compositional credit is sometimes extended to include Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, the late Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and Bob Weir...
   
   " > (Garcia, Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
   
   , Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 19:40
3. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 6:04
4. "Not Fade Away
   Not Fade Away (song)
   "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957...
   
   " > (Buddy Holly
   Buddy Holly
   Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
   
   , Norman Petty
   Norman Petty
   Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
   
   ) – 6:53
5. "Turn On Your Love Light
   Turn On Your Love Light
   "Turn On Your Love Light" is an R&B-style blues song recorded by Bobby Bland in 1961. It was a both an important R&B and pop chart hit for Bland and has become one of his most identifiable songs...
   
   " (Joseph Scott, Deadric Malone) – 27:45

Late Show: Encore: Acoustic:

6. "Cold Jordan" (traditional) – 2:33

Bonus Disc

May 15, 1970: Fillmore East, New York, NY

Early Show: Acoustic:

1. "Friend Of The Devil" (Garcia, Dawson, Hunter) – 4:02
2. "Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:11
3. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 4:52
4. "Cold Jordan" (traditional) – 2:30

Early Show: Electric:

5. "Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 8:17
6. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:46

Late Show: Electric:

7. "Beat It on Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller
   Jesse Fuller
   Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...
   
   ) – 3:17 (listed as 3:08 on CD)
8. "Next Time You See Me
   Next Time You See Me
   "Next Time You See Me" is a blues song recorded in 1956 by Junior Parker . The song was Parker's first record chart appearance after joining Duke Records and one of his most successful singles in both the R&B and pop charts...
   
   " (Frank Forest, William G. Harvey) – 3:32

May 14, 1970: Meramec Community College, Kirkwood, Missouri

9. "New Speedway Boogie" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:25
10. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 6:30
11. "Not Fade Away" > (Holly, Petty) – 9:44 (listed as 6:37 on CD)
12. "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) – 17:38

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
   – Electric and Acoustic Lead Guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , Vocals
• Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
  
   – Drums
• Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
  
   – Drums
• Phil Lesh
  Phil Lesh
  Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
  
   – Electric Bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , Vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – Vocals, Organ
  Organ (music)
  The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
  
  , Percussion, Harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
  , Acoustic Guitar
  Acoustic guitar
  An acoustic guitar is a guitar that uses only an acoustic sound board. The air in this cavity resonates with the vibrational modes of the string and at low frequencies, which depend on the size of the box, the chamber acts like a Helmholtz resonator, increasing or decreasing the volume of the sound...
  
  
• Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
   – Electric and Acoustic Rhythm Guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , Vocals

Additional musicians

• John Dawson
  John Dawson (musician)
  John Collins Dawson IV, nicknamed "Marmaduke" , was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage.-Musical career:...
  
   – harmony vocals on "A Voice from On High" and "Cold Jordan"
• David Nelson
  David Nelson (musician)
  David Nelson is an American guitarist and musician.Although he started his musical career playing folk and bluegrass music Nelson is probably best known as one of the original members of psychedelic country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage...
  
   – mandolin
  Mandolin
  A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...
  
  on "A Voice from On High" and "Cold Jordan"

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Compilation Produced by David Lemieux & Blair Jackson
• Recorded by Bob Matthews
• CD Mastering by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, Petaluma, CA
• Cover Art by Scott McDougall
• Interior Photos by Amalie Rothschild and Peter Simon
• Historical Essay by Blair Jackson
• Package Design by Steve Vance

Full Set Lists

Following are the full set lists for the concerts included in Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3:

May 14, 1970 - Meramec Community College, Kirkwood, Missouri

• Acoustic Grateful Dead "Don't Ease Me In", "Friend of the Devil", "Deep Elem Blues", "Silver Threads and Golden Needles", "Candyman"
• New Riders of the Purple Sage' "Six Days on the Road", "Whatcha Gonna Do", "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man", "I Don't Know You", "Cecilia", "Can't Pay the Price", "Henry (interrupted)", "Henry", "Garden of Eden", "Fair Chance To Know", "Last Lonely Eagle", "Lodi", "Honkytonk Woman", "The Weight"
• Electric Grateful Dead "Casey Jones", "China Cat Sunflower" >, "I Know You Rider", "Mama Tried" >, "High Time", "Drums" >, "Good Lovin'" >, "Drums" > "Good Lovin'", "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl", "Me & My Uncle", "Direwolf", "Cold, Rain & Snow", "Attics of My Life", "Cumberland Blues", "New Speedway Boogie"** >, "Nobody's Fault But Mine Jam"** > "New Speedway Boogie"** >, "St. Stephen"** >, "Not Fade Away"** > "Turn On Your Lovelight"**
• Encore: "Cold Jordan"

May 15, 1970, Early Show - Fillmore East, New York, New York

• Acoustic Grateful Dead "Don't Ease Me In"*, "I Know You Rider"*, "Ain't It Crazy (The Rub)"*, "Friend of the Devil"**, "Long Black Limousine"*, "Candyman"**, "Cumberland Blues"**, "New Speedway Boogie"*, "Cold Jordan"** (with New Riders)
• New Riders of the Purple Sage' "Six Days on the Road", "Whatcha Gonna Do", "I Don't Know You", "Henry", "Portland Woman", "Fair Chance To Know", "Last Lonely Eagle"
• Electric Grateful Dead' "Casey Jones"*, "Easy Wind"**, "Attics of My Life"**, "St. Stephen"* >, "The Other One"* >, "Cosmic Charlie"*
• Encore: "New Minglewood Blues"*

May 15, 1970, Late Show - Fillmore East, New York, New York

• Acoustic Grateful Dead "Deep Elem Blues"*, "The Ballad of Casey Jones"*, "Silver Threads and Golden Needles"*, "Black Peter"*, "Friend of the Devil"*, "Uncle John's Band"*, "Candyman", "She's Mine"*, "Katie Mae"*, "A Voice From On High"*
• New Riders of the Purple Sage' "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man", "Louisiana Lady", "Can't Pay the Price", "Truck Drivin' Man", "All I Ever Wanted", "Workingman's Blues", "Henry", "I Don't Know You", "Lodi", "Last Lonely Eagle", "Mama Tried"@,"Sawmill"@, "Me & My Uncle"@, "Connection"@ (@ with Bob Weir)
• Electric Grateful Dead' "China Cat Sunflower"* >, "I Know You Rider"*, "Cumberland Blues"*, "Hard To Handle"*, "Beat It On Down The Line"**, "Morning Dew"*, "Good Lovin'"*, "Direwolf"*, "Next Time You See Me"**, "Dark Star"* >, "St. Stephen"* >, "Not Fade Away"* > "Turn On Your Lovelight"*
• Encore: "Cold Jordan"* (with New Riders)

*Included in the Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3

**Included in the Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 bonus disc