Released November 20, 2015 Release date 20 November 2015 | Recorded July 3–5, 2015 Genre Rock | |
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Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead is a live album consisting of audio and video recordings from the Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead concerts performed by the surviving members of Grateful Dead: Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, with Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti. The concerts were recorded on July 3–5, 2015, at Soldier Field in Chicago; the two Santa Clara shows (June 27 and 28, 2015, at Levi's Stadium are not included.
Contents
- July 3 2015
- July 4 2015
- July 5 2015
- Fare Thee Well July 5th 2015
- The Best of Fare Thee Well
- Personnel
- Songs
- References
The album was released in three versions:
July 3, 2015
- "Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter)
- "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter)
- "Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Hunter)
- "Passenger" (Lesh, Peter Monk)
- "The Wheel" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Hunter)
- "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, John Perry Barlow)
- "Mason's Children" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter)
- "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
- "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, Jeff Chimenti)
- "New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Bobby Petersen)
- "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hunter)
- "Jam" (Lesh, Weir, Kerutzmann, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
- "Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Help on the Way" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux)
- "Franklin’s Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
- "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Space Wheel"
- "Mountains of the Moon"
- "Praying for the Band"
- "Tripple"
- "Deal Breaker"
- "Deadometer"
- "Borrow from a Friend"
- "Grimes Surf Story"
July 4, 2015
- "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Liberty" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
- "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon)
- "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan)
- "Lost Sailor" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow)
- "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Foolish Heart" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
- "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
- "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir)
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Hallucinate a Solution"
- "Ginger Says"
- "Saturday's Children"
- "Eartha"
- "Split Pea Shell"
July 5, 2015
- "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
- "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
- "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
- "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
- "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
- "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty)
- "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Gilbert’s Groove"
- "Farewell Franklins"
- "Hat and Cane"
- "Never Too Late"
- "Scarlotta's Magnolias"
Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015
- "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
- "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
- "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
- "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
- "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
- "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty)
- "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)
The Best of Fare Thee Well
- "Box of Rain" (Lesh, Hunter) – July 3
- "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4
- "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5
- "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead) – July 5
- "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3
- "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4
- "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – July 4
- "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – July 3
- "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – July 5
- "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – July 3
- "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart) – July 5
- "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty) – July 5
- "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5
- "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5
Personnel
Production
Songs
1Box Of Rain (Live at Soldier Field - Chicago - IL 7/3/2015)5:28
2Shakedown Street (Live at Soldier Field - Chicago - IL 7/4/2015)15:24
3China Cat Sunflower (Live at Soldier Field - Chicago - IL 7/5/2015)7:19