The Golden Road (1965-1973) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Golden Road is a twelve-CD

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boxed set

Boxed set

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retrospect of 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...

's studio

Studio album

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and live album

Live album

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s during their time with Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

from 1965 to 1973. After 1973, the band went on to create its own label, Grateful Dead Records

Grateful Dead Records

In 1973, the Grateful Dead established their own record label, Grateful Dead Records. The band released several vinyl record LPs on this label in the mid-1970s, including Wake of the Flood in 1973, From the Mars Hotel in 1974, Blues for Allah in 1975, and a live double album, Steal Your Face, in...

.

This compilation includes expanded and remastered versions of all of the albums during the bands time on contract with Warner Bros. Also included are numerous studio outtake and live tracks. The albums included are Birth of the Dead
Birth of the Dead
Birth of the Dead is a two-CD compilation album chronicling the early years of the San Francisco psychedelic band the Grateful Dead. The set was originally part of the twelve-CD box set The Golden Road , released on October 16, 2001, but was released as a stand-alone album on March 25, 2003...

, The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead (album)
The Grateful Dead is the debut album of the Grateful Dead. It was recorded by Warner Bros. Records, and was released in March 1967. According to bassist Phil Lesh in his autobiography Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead, the album was released as San Francisco's Grateful...

, Anthem of the Sun
Anthem of the Sun
Anthem of the Sun is the second studio album by the Grateful Dead, released in 1968. It is the first album to feature second drummer Mickey Hart, who joined the band in September 1967...

, Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa is the third studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was originally titled Earthquake Country. Many Deadheads consider this era of the Dead to be the experimental apex of the band's history. It is also the first album with Tom Constanten as an official member of the band...

, 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....

, American Beauty
American Beauty (album)
American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records...

, Live/Dead
Live/Dead
Live/Dead is the first official live album released by the San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead. It was recorded over a series of live concerts in early 1969 and released later in the year on November 10...

, Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead (album)
Grateful Dead is the seventh album by the Grateful Dead, released in October 1971 on Warner Bros. Records, catalogue 2WS-1935. It is their second live double album, and also known generally by the names Skull and Roses and Skull Fuck Grateful Dead is the seventh album by the Grateful Dead,...

, Europe '72
Europe '72
Europe '72 is a 1972 live triple album of performances by the Grateful Dead, recorded during their tour of Western Europe in early 1972.-History:...

, and History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One is the ninth album and the fourth live album by the Grateful Dead, released in July 1973 on Warner Bros. Records, catalogue BS 2721...

.

Disc one

Birth of the Dead
Birth of the Dead
Birth of the Dead is a two-CD compilation album chronicling the early years of the San Francisco psychedelic band the Grateful Dead. The set was originally part of the twelve-CD box set The Golden Road , released on October 16, 2001, but was released as a stand-alone album on March 25, 2003...

- The Studio Sides

"Early Morning Rain" (Lightfoot) – 3:22
"I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:41
"Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)" (Garcia, Lesh) – 2:41
"The Only Time Is Now" (Grateful Dead) – 2:24
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) – 3:17
"Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead) – 3:04
"Stealin' (instrumental)" (Cannon) – 2:40
"Stealin' (w/ vocals)" (Cannon) – 2:36
"Don't Ease Me In (instrumental)" (traditional) – 2:01
"Don't Ease Me In (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 2:02
"You Don't Have to Ask" (Grateful Dead) – 3:35
"Tastebud (instrumental)" (McKernan) – 7:04
"Tastebud (w/ vocals" (McKernan) – 4:35
"I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:36
"Cold Rain and Snow (instrumental)" (traditional) – 3:15
"Cold Rain and Snow (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 3:17
"Fire in the City" (Krug) – 3:19

Disc two

Birth of the Dead - The Live Sides

"Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 9:39
"Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 2:43
"Pain in My Heart" (Neville) – 4:24
"Sitting on Top of the World" (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:51
"It's All over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 5:12
"I'm a King Bee" (Moore) – 8:52
"Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith) – 5:11
"Standing on the Corner" (Grateful Dead) – 3:46
"In the Pines" (Bryant, McMichen) – 4:55
"Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Johnson) – 4:15
"Next Time You See Me" (Forest, Harvey) – 2:47
"One Kind Favor" (Hopkins, Taub) – 3:44
"He Was a Friend of Mine" (traditional) – 4:45
"Keep Rolling By" (traditional) – 7:57

Disc three

The Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead (album)
The Grateful Dead is the debut album of the Grateful Dead. It was recorded by Warner Bros. Records, and was released in March 1967. According to bassist Phil Lesh in his autobiography Searching for the Sound: My Life with the Grateful Dead, the album was released as San Francisco's Grateful...

"The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (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...

) – 2:07
"Beat It on Down the Line" (Fuller
Jesse Fuller
Jesse Fuller was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues".-Early life:...

) – 2:27
"Good Morning Little School Girl
Good Morning, School Girl
"Good Morning, School Girl" or "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" is a blues standard that has been "covered countless times across the decades"...

" (Williamson
Sonny Boy Williamson I
Sonny Boy Williamson was an American blues harmonica player and singer, and the first to use the name Sonny Boy Williamson.-Biography and career:...

) – 6:32
"Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) – 2:26
"Sitting on Top of the World" (Jacobs, Carter) – 2:43
"Cream Puff War" (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...

) – 3:18
"(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (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"...

, 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...

) – 5:16
"New, New Minglewood Blues" (traditional) – 2:40
"Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis
Noah Lewis
Noah Lewis was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica.-Life and career:...

) – 10:09
"Alice D. Millionaire" (Grateful Dead) – 2:22
- Inspired by an autumn 1966 newspaper headline
  Headline
  The headline is the text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a...
  
  ("LSD Millionaire") about the Dead's benefactor and soundman Owsley Stanley
  Owsley Stanley
  Owsley Stanley also known as Bear, was an essential and transitional personality in the development of the San Francisco Bay counter-culture. Spanning the Beat-era years of Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters scenes, he was equally pivotal to the explosion of 1960's Psychedelia culture...
  
  .
"Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)" (Jones, Shade
Will Shade
Will Shade was an African American Memphis blues musician, best known for his membership in the Memphis Jug Band. Shade was commonly called Son Brimmer, a nickname from his grandmother Annie Brimmer, because "son" is short for "grandson"...

) – 2:24
"Tastebud" (McKernan) – 4:18
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis
Reverend Gary Davis
Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was an American blues and gospel singer and guitarist, who was also proficient on the banjo and harmonica...

) – 5:20
"Viola Lee Blues" (edited version) (Lewis) – 3:00
"Viola Lee Blues" (live at DANCE HALL - Rio Nido, CA 9/3/67) (Lewis) – 23:13

Disc four

Anthem of the Sun
Anthem of the Sun
Anthem of the Sun is the second studio album by the Grateful Dead, released in 1968. It is the first album to feature second drummer Mickey Hart, who joined the band in September 1967...

"That's It For The Other One" – 7:40:
- "Cryptical Envelopment" (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...
  
  )
- "Quodlibet For Tenderfeet" (Garcia, 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
  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....
  
  , McKernan, 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...
  
  )
- "The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get" (Kreutzmann, Weir)
- "We Leave The Castle" (Constanten
  Tom Constanten
  Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.-Biography:...
  
  )
"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Petersen) – 8:26
"Born Cross-Eyed" (Weir) – 2:04
"Alligator" (Lesh, McKernan, 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...

) – 11:20
"Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 9:37
"Alligator" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM - Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 18:43
"Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM - Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 11:38
"Feedback" (live at SHRINE AUDITORIUM - Los Angeles, CA 8/23/68) (Grateful Dead) – 4:01
"Born Cross-Eyed" (single version) (Weir) – 2:55

Disc five

Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa
Aoxomoxoa is the third studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was originally titled Earthquake Country. Many Deadheads consider this era of the Dead to be the experimental apex of the band's history. It is also the first album with Tom Constanten as an official member of the band...

"St. Stephen" (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...

, 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...

, 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....

) – 4:26
"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:32
"Rosemary" (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:58
"Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:41
"Mountains Of The Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:02
"China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:40
"What's Become Of The Baby" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:12
"Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:29
"Clementine Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 10:46
"Nobody's Spoonful Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 10:04
"The Eleven Jam" (studio jam 8/13/68) (Grateful Dead) – 15:00
"Cosmic Charlie" (live at AVALON BALLROOM - San Francisco, CA 1/25/69) – 6:47

Disc six

Live/Dead
Live/Dead
Live/Dead is the first official live album released by the San Francisco-based band Grateful Dead. It was recorded over a series of live concerts in early 1969 and released later in the year on November 10...

"Dark Star" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 2/27/69) (Grateful Dead, 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...

) – 23:18
"St. Stephen" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 2/27/69) (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 6:31
"The Eleven" (live at AVALON BALLROOM - San Francisco, CA 1/26/69) (Hunter, Lesh) – 9:18
"Turn On Your Lovelight" (live at AVALON BALLROOM - San Francisco, CA 1/26/69) (Scott, Malone) – 15:05
"Death Don't Have No Mercy" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (Davis
Reverend Gary Davis
Reverend Gary Davis, also Blind Gary Davis, was an American blues and gospel singer and guitarist, who was also proficient on the banjo and harmonica...

) – 10:28
"Feedback" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (McGannahan Skjellyfetti) – 7:49
"And We Bid You Goodnight" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 3/2/69) (traditional-) – 0:37
"Dark Star" (single version)" – 2:44
"Hidden Track" (radio promo) – 1:00

Disc seven

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....

"Uncle John's Band" (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...

, 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...

) – 4:45
"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14
"Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:14
"New Speedway Boogie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:06
"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, 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....

) – 3:16
"Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:43
"Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 4:58
"Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38
"New Speedway Boogie" (alternate mix) – 4:10
"Dire Wolf" (live at VETERANS MEMORIAL HALL - Santa Rosa, CA 6/27/69) – 2:31
"Black Peter" (live at GOLDEN HALL COMMUNITY CONCOURSE - San Diego, CA 1/10/70) – 9:07
"Easy Wind" (live at SPRINGER'S INN - Portland, OR 1/16/70) – 8:09
"Cumberland Blues" (live at OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY - Corvalis, OR 1/17/70) – 4:52
"Mason's Children" (live at CIVIC AUDITORIUM - Honolulu, HI 1/24/70) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, 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...

) – 6:32
"Uncle John's Band" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA - San Francisco, CA 10/4/70) – 7:57

Disc eight

American Beauty
American Beauty (album)
American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records...

"Box of Rain" (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...

, 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....

) – 5:18
"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
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...

, Dawson, Hunter) – 3:24
"Sugar Magnolia
Sugar Magnolia
"Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'," "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," and "Touch of Grey."...

" (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...

, Hunter) – 3:19
"Operator" (Ron McKernan) – 2:25
"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
"Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09
"Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09
"Till the Morning Comes" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:09
"Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14
"Truckin'
Truckin'
"Truckin'" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album American Beauty. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure....

" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 5:17
"Truckin'" (single edit) – 3:17
"Friend of the Devil" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 5/15/70) – 4:21
"Candyman" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA - San Francisco, CA 4/15/70) – 5:18
"Till the Morning Comes" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA - San Francisco, CA 10/4/70) – 3:20
"Attics of My Life" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 6/6/70) – 6:31
"Truckin'" (live at LEGION STADIUM - El Monte, CA 12/26/70) – 10:10
"Ripple" (single mix) - 4.09 (hidden bonus track)
"American Beauty Radio Spot - 1.00 (hidden bonus track)

Disc nine

Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses)
Grateful Dead (album)
Grateful Dead is the seventh album by the Grateful Dead, released in October 1971 on Warner Bros. Records, catalogue 2WS-1935. It is their second live double album, and also known generally by the names Skull and Roses and Skull Fuck Grateful Dead is the seventh album by the Grateful Dead,...

"Bertha" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/27/71) (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...

, 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...

) – 5:43
"Mama Tried" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...

) – 2:43
"Big Railroad Blues" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER - New York City, NY 4/5/71) (Lewis
Noah Lewis
Noah Lewis was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica.-Life and career:...

) – 3:35
"Playin' in the Band" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER - New York City, NY 4/6/71) (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...

, Hunter, 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...

) – 4:40
"The Other One" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/28/71) (Kreutzmann
Bill Kreutzmann
Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...

, Weir) – 18:07
"Me and My Uncle
Me and My Uncle
"Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins...

" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/29/71) (John Phillips
John Phillips (musician)
John Edmund Andrew Phillips , was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter . Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas...

) – 3:04
"Big Boss Man" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Dixon, Smith) – 5:14
"Me and Bobbie McGee" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/27/71) (Foster, Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson
Kristoffer "Kris" Kristofferson is an American musician, actor, and writer. He is known for hits such as "Me and Bobby McGee", "For the Good Times", "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down", and "Help Me Make It Through the Night"...

) – 5:42
"Johnny B. Goode
Johnny B. Goode
"Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock and roll song written and originally performed by American musician Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences peaking at #2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.The song is one of Chuck Berry's...

" (live at WINTERLAND ARENA - San Francisco, CA 3/24/71) (Berry
Chuck Berry
Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

) – 3:44
"Wharf Rat" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 4/26/71) (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:32
"Not Fade Away > Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER - New York City, NY 4/5/71) (Holly
Buddy Holly
Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...

, Petty) – 9:26
"Oh, Boy!" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER - New York City, NY 4/6/71) (Petty, Tilghman, West) – 2:50
"I'm a Hog for You" (live at MANHATTAN CENTER - New York City, NY 4/6/71) (Leiber, Stoller) – 5:20
"Hidden track" (radio spot) – 1:00

Disc ten

Europe '72
Europe '72
Europe '72 is a 1972 live triple album of performances by the Grateful Dead, recorded during their tour of Western Europe in early 1972.-History:...

"Cumberland Blues" (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL - London, England 4/8/72) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 5:43
"He's Gone" (live at the CONCERTGEBOUW - Amsterdam, The Netherlands 5/10/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:57
"One More Saturday Night" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/24/72) (Weir) – 4:49
"Jack Straw" (live at L'OLYMPIA - Paris, France 5/3/72) (Hunter, Weir) – 4:49
"You Win Again" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/24/72) (Williams) – 4:00
"China Cat Sunflower" (live at L'OLYMPIA - Paris, France 5/3/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:32
"I Know You Rider" (live at L'OLYMPIA - Paris, France 5/3/72) (traditional) – 5:03
"Brown-Eyed Woman" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38
"It Hurts Me Too" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/24/72) (James, Sehorn) – 7:20
"Ramble on Rose" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04
"Sugar Magnolia" (live at L'OLYMPIA - Paris, France 5/4/72) (Hunter, Weir) – 7:10
"Mr. Charlie" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Hunter, McKernan) – 3:39
"Tennessee Jed" (live at L'OLYMPIA - Paris, France 5/3/72) (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:18
"The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)" (live at JAHRHUNDERT HALLE - Frankfurt, West Germany 4/26/72) (McKernan) – 6:50

Disc eleven

Europe '72
Europe '72
Europe '72 is a 1972 live triple album of performances by the Grateful Dead, recorded during their tour of Western Europe in early 1972.-History:...

"Truckin'" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 13:06
"Epilogue" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Grateful Dead) – 5:10
"Prelude" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Grateful Dead) – 7:37
"Morning Dew" (live at the STRAND LYCEUM - London, England 5/26/72) (Dobson, Rose) – 11:41
"Looks Like Rain" (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL - London, England 4/8/72) (Barlow, Weir) – 7:42
"Good Lovin'" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Clark, Resnick) – 18:30
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark, 4/14/72)(Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 4:39
"Who Do You Love" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Ellas McDaniel) – 0:22
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 1:43
"Good Lovin'" (live at TIVOLI CONCERT HALL - Copenhagen, Denmark 4/14/72) (Clark, Resnick) – 5:59
"The Yellow Dog Story" (live at WEMBLEY EMPIRE POOL - London, England 4/8/72) (Grateful Dead) – 3:09

Disc twelve

History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice)
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One is the ninth album and the fourth live album by the Grateful Dead, released in July 1973 on Warner Bros. Records, catalogue BS 2721...

"Katie Mae" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/13/70) (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...

) – 4:44
"Dark Hollow" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/14/70) (Browning) – 3:52
"I've Been All Around This World" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/14/70) (traditional) – 4:18
"Wake Up Little Susie" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Bryant, Bryant) – 2:31
"Black Peter" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:27
"Smokestack Lightning
Smokestack Lightning
"Smokestack Lightning" is a classic of the blues. In 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded the song and it became one of his most popular and influential songs...

" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf
Chester Arthur Burnett , known as Howlin' Wolf, was an influential American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player....

) – 17:59
"Hard to Handle" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/14/70) (Isbell, Jones, 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...

) – 6:29
"Good Lovin'" (live at FILLMORE EAST - New York City, NY 2/13/70) (Clark, Resnick) – 8:56
"Big Boss Man" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 2/5/70) (Dixon, Smith) – 4:53
"Smokestack Lightning" (Version Two) (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 2/8/70) (Howlin' Wolf) – 15:11
"Sitting on Top of the World" (live at FILLMORE WEST - San Francisco, CA 2/8/70) (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:20

Personnel

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...

:

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...

- lead guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel guitar, piano, kazoo, vibraslap, vocals
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...

- rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string guitar, kazoo, vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, organ, celesta, acoustic guitar, harmonica, congas, claves, percussion, vocals
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, percussion

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....

- bass, guitar, piano, harpsichord, trumpet, kazoo, timpani, 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, percussion
Tom Constanten
Tom Constanten
Tom Constanten is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with the Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.-Biography:...

- keyboards, prepared piano, piano, electronic tape
Keith Godchaux
Keith Godchaux
Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...

- piano
Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
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...

- songwriter

Additional performers:

for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages

Production:

James Austin, David Lemieux - producers
Dennis McNally, Lou Tambakos - Birth Of The Dead concept & compilation
Peter McQuaid - executive producer
Michael Wesley Johnson - associate producer, research coordination
Eileen Law - archival researcher, archivist
Cassidy Law - coordinator
Dennis McNally - consultant
Jeffrey Norman - mixing
Joe Gastwirt/Oceanview Digital, Jo Motta - mastering and production consultants
Jimmy Edwards - product manager
Gary Peterson
Gary Peterson (record producer)
Gary Peterson is an American record producer. He is probably best known as the creator of Golden Throats. Peterson and partner Pat Sierchio produced four volumes of the series for Rhino Records, which collect bizarre examples of celebrities singing pop music classics.Peterson began as Rhino's first...

- discographical annotation
Shawn Amos - liner notes coordination
Vanessa Atkins - editorial supervision
Daniel Goldmark - editorial research
Hugh Brown - reissue art director
Malia Doss - business affairs at Rhino Records
Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Bill Inglot, Steve Lang, Patrick Kraus, Jan Simmons, Blair Jackson, Steve Silberman, Hale Milgrim, David Gans, Owsley Stanley, Jeff Gold
Jeff Gold
Jeff Gold is an American record label executive, Grammy award-winning art director, music historian and archivist, and music memorabilia collector-dealer, who was executive vice president/general manager of Warner Bros...

, Connie Mosley, Gary Lambert, Bill Belmont, Neil Ruttenberg - project assistants

Charts

Billboard

Year	Chart	Position
2001	Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	191

RIAA Certification
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...

Certification	Date
Gold	November 14, 2001

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