Fall 1989: The Long Island Sound

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Tom Jurek said, "Taken together [the two concerts] provide irrefutable evidence of what fans already knew: that the JGB's flowering musical evolution peaked about this time, with the guitarist playing better than he had in years inside and outside the Grateful Dead.... The Garcia Band sets... are positively electric, crackling with energy and an obvious awareness among all players that what is transpiring is special.... The sound throughout is thoroughly remastered from soundboard tapes and is crystalline."

Track listing

September 5, 1989 – Hartford Civic Center:

Disc one – Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman

1. "Festival" (Bob Weir) – 5:58
2. "Fever" (Eddie Cooley, John Davenport) – 4:11
3. "K.C. Moan" (traditional, arranged by Weir and Rob Wasserman) – 3:45
4. "Desolation Row" (Bob Dylan) – 9:29
5. "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, John Barlow) – 8:08
6. "The Winners" (Weir, Rudyard Kipling) – 3:44
7. "Victim or the Crime" (Weir, Gerrit Graham) – 5:13
8. "Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. 1" (Wasserman) – 4:15
9. "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:17

Disc two – Jerry Garcia Band – first set

1. "Cats Under the Stars" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 9:09
2. "They Love Each Other (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:46
3. "Waiting for a Miracle" (Bruce Cockburn) – 6:49
4. "Run for the Roses" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:34
5. "Like a Road" (Don Nix, Dan Penn) – 9:22
6. "My Sisters and Brothers" (Charles Johnson) – 4:34
7. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:22

Disc three – Jerry Garcia Band – second set

1. Tuning – 0:49
2. "The Harder They Come" (Jimmy Cliff) – 12:31
3. "Mission in the Rain" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:02
4. "Forever Young" (Dylan) – 9:51
5. "Evangeline" (David Hidalgo, Louie Pérez) – 3:19
6. "Gomorrah" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:39
7. "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) – 13:55
8. "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home" (Delaney Bramlett, Leon Russell) – 6:04

September 6, 1989 – Nassau Coliseum:

Disc four – Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman

1. "Walking Blues" (Robert Johnson) – 4:48
2. "City Girls" (Weir, Graham) – 4:03
3. "Fever" (Cooley, Davenport) – 4:41
4. "Blackbird (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:47
5. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Dylan) – 4:46
6. "Shade of Grey" (Weir, Barlow) – 4:56
7. "The Winners" (Weir, Kipling) – 4:05
8. "Easy to Slip" (Lowell George, Martin Kibbee) – 6:44
9. "Wasserman Bass Improvisation No. 2" (Wasserman) – 3:33
10. "Heaven Help the Fool" (Weir, Barlow) – 6:44

Disc five – Jerry Garcia Band – first set

1. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 7:02
2. "Stop That Train" (Peter Tosh) – 7:59
3. "That's What Love Will Make You Do" (James Banks, Eddie Marion, Henderson Thigpen) – 8:58
4. "Mississippi Moon" (Peter Rowan) – 8:39
5. "I Second That Emotion" (Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland) – 8:46
6. "And It Stoned Me" (Van Morrison) – 6:43
7. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:53

Disc six – Jerry Garcia Band – second set

1. "The Harder They Come" (Cliff) – 11:26
2. "Dear Prudence" (Lennon, McCartney) – 10:37
3. "I Shall Be Released" (Dylan) – 7:42
4. "Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) – 9:11
5. "Evangeline" (Hidalgo, Pérez) – 3:41
6. "That Lucky Old Sun" (Beasley Smith, Haven Gillespie) – 12:17
7. "Tangled Up in Blue" (Dylan) – 12:17

Personnel

Bob Weir and Rob Wasserman

Jerry Garcia Band

Production