Released December 6, 2005 Genre Rock music | Recorded February 4, 1970 Release date 6 December 2005 | |
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Label Grateful Dead Productions Grateful Dead Download Series Family Dog at the Great Highway(2005) Similar Grateful Dead albums, Rock music albums | ||
Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway is the first non-sequential release in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead. It was released on December 6, 2005 along with Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8. The album was recorded February 4, 1970 at Family Dog at the Great Highway, in San Francisco, California. Three of the songs (tracks 1,4 & 5) were broadcast on an NET television special at the time.
Contents
Three bonus tracks also date from 1970 in San Francisco. "Dancing in the Streets" is from October 5, 1970; "Monkey and the Engineer" and "Good Lovin'" are from December 31, 1970 (see The Closing of Winterland for another track from the latter concert).
The album is not to be confused with the similarly-titled Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70, recorded the same year at the same venue.
Track listing
- "Hard to Handle" (Redding, Jones, Isbell) – 6:43
- "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:33
- "Me and My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:29
- "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04
- "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:53
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:18
- "Not Fade Away" > (Petty, Holly) – 6:58
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:22
- "In the Midnight Hour" (Pickett, Cropper) – 8:16
- "Dancing in the Street" (Gaye, Stevenson, Hunter) – 12:14
- "Monkey and the Engineer" (Fuller) – 2:45
- "Good Lovin'" (Resnick, Clark) – 15:08
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Production