Vintage: The Very Best of Moby Grape is an acclaimed retrospective collection of Moby Grape

Moby Grape

Moby Grape is an American rock group from the 1960s, known for having all five members contribute to singing and songwriting and that collectively merged elements of folk music, blues, country, and jazz together with rock and psychedelic music...

 songs, many previously unreleased, originally issued in 1993, as part of Columbia Records

Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

' "Legacy" series. Included in the collection was the entire eponymous first album

Moby Grape (album)

Moby Grape is the rock band Moby Grape's eponymous 1967 debut album. Coming from the San Francisco scene, their reputation quickly grew to immense proportions, leading to a bidding war and a contract with Columbia Records...

 of the group, generally considered to be one of the most important albums of its era. Noted rock critic David Fricke

David Fricke

David Fricke is a senior editor at Rolling Stone magazine, where he writes predominantly on rock music. In the 1990s, he was managing editor before stepping down.-Background:David Fricke is a graduate of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania...

 wrote the liner notes to the compilation.

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Hey Grandma" (Miller, Stevenson) 2:45
2. "Mr. Blues" (Mosley) 2:00
3. "Fall on You" (Lewis) 2:50
4. 8:05 (Miller, Stevenson) 2:33
5. "Come in the Morning" (Mosley) 2:17
6. "Omaha" (Spence) 2:45
7. "Naked, If I Want To" (Miller) :57
8. Rounder [instrumental] (Spence) 2:03
9. "Someday" (Miller, Spence, Stevenson) 3:31
10. "Ain't No Use" (Miller, Stevenson) 1:40
11. "Sitting by the Window" (Lewis) 2:47
12. "Changes" (Miller, Stevenson) 3:24
13. "Lazy Me" (Mosley) 1:47
14. "Indifference" (Spence) 4:15
15. "Looper" [Audition Version] (Lewis) 2:39
16. "Sweet Ride" (Lewis, Miller, Mosley, Spence, Stevenson) 3:12
17. "Bitter Wind" [Alternate Version] (Mosley) 2:39
18. "The Place and the Time" [Alternate Version] (Miller, Stevenson)
19. "Rounder" [live at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco - March 22, 1968] (Spence) 2:02
20. "Miller's Blues" [live at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco - March 22, 1968] (Miller) 6:07
21. "Changes" [live at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco - March 22, 1968] (Miller, Stevenson) 4:20
22. "Hey Grandma" [mono single version] (Miller, Stevenson) 2:32
23. "Omaha" [mono single version] (Spence) 2:23
24. "Big" (Miller, Stevenson) 4:44

Disc Two

1. "Skip's Song" [demo version] (Spence) 3:24
2. "You Can Do Anything" [demo version] (Spence) 2:50
3. "Murder in My Heart for the Judge" (Miller, Stevenson) 2:59
4. "Bitter Wind" (Mosley) 3:07
5. "Can't Be So Bad" (Miller, Stevenson) 3:26
6. "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot" (Spence) 2:56 With Lou Waxman and His Orchestra
7. "He" (Lewis) 3:37
8. "Motorcycle Irene" (Spence) 2:25
9. "Funky-Tunk" (Spence) 2:13
10. "Rose Colored Eyes" (Mosley) 4:20
11. "If You Can't Learn From My Mistakes" [Peter Lewis Solo Version] )(Lewis) 1:26
12. "Ooh Mama Ooh" (Miller, Stevenson) 2:28
13. "Ain't That a Shame" (Lewis, Miller, Stevenson) 2:30
14. "Trucking Man" (Mosley) 2:02
15. "Captain Nemo" (Miller, Stevenson) 1:46
16. "What's to Choose" (Lewis) 1:57
17. "Going Nowhere" (Miller, Stevenson) 2:04
18. "I Am Not Willing" (Lewis) 3:00
19. "It's a Beautiful Day Today" (Mosley) 3:07
20. "Right Before My Eyes" (Lewis) 2:05
21. "Truly Fine Citizen" (Dell'Ara) 1:49
22. "Hoochie" (Mosley) 4:25
23. "Soul Stew" (Mosley) 2:20
24. "Seeing" (Spence) 8:06

Following a few minutes of silence there two hidden tracks on Disc Two. One is an out-take from the recording sessions of "Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot" where Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Godfrey

Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer who was sometimes introduced by his nickname, The Old Redhead...

 records his spoken introduction to the song. The second is an original radio advertisement for the album Truly Fine Citizen

Truly Fine Citizen

Truly Fine Citizen is the rock band Moby Grape's fourth album. After the departure of Bob Mosley, the remaining trio headed to Nashville where they cut this album in just three days with legendary Columbia Records producer Bob Johnston. This album fulfilled the band's contract with Columbia Records...

.