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Reckoning (Grateful Dead album)

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Released
  
April 1, 1981

Reckoning (1981)
  
Dead Set (1981)

Release date
  
1 April 1981

Producers
  
Dan Healy, Jerry Garcia

Length
  
72:21

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Label
  
Arista Records

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Recorded
  
September 25, 1980 – October 31, 1980

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk rock, Country rock

Similar
  
Grateful Dead albums, Rock music albums

Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead. It consists of acoustic material recorded live in September and October 1980. Some of the tracks are shortened versions of the live performances.

Contents

The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set. But the format of the music subsequently steered them towards the release of the two double albums, this and Dead Set. Jerry Garcia commented in an interview: "We really ended up with so much good material that it was a struggle. The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly."

Initial CD releases omitted one track for space reasons. One CD, tape, and LP release, by Pair/Arista Records in 1984, was given the title For the Faithful…. In 1988 the album was re-issued with the original title.

Personnel

  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
  • Phil Lesh – bass guitar
  • Brent Mydland – piano, harpsichord, vocals
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums
  • Mickey Hart – drums

    • Production Greg Fulginiti - mastering

    Recording dates

    All tracks (except for the first and the last two on the bonus CD) were recorded during a 23 show run in September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

    Recording dates:

  • "To Lay Me Down" (disc 2) recorded at Club Front, San Rafael on September 14, 1980 (studio rehearsal)
  • "Rosalie McFall" and "Ripple" (disc 1) recorded at Warfield Theatre on September 26, 1980
  • "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (disc 1) recorded at Warfield Theatre on September 30, 1980
  • "Dark Hollow" (disc 1) and "Iko Iko" (disc 2) recorded at Warfield Theatre on October 7, 1980
  • "Jack-A-Roe" (disc 1) recorded at Warfield Theatre on October 10, 1980
  • "Dire Wolf" and "Deep Elem Blues" (disc 1) recorded at Warfield Theatre on October 11, 1980
  • "The Race Is On" (disc 1) & "El Paso" (disc 2) recorded at Warfield Theatre on October 13, 1980
  • "China Doll," "Been All Around This World," "Cassidy" and "Bird Song" (disc 1) recorded at Warfield Theatre on October 14, 1980
  • Tracks 7–14 (disc 2) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 23, 1980 (Complete acoustic first set missing only the opening track; "On The Road Again")
  • "To Lay Me Down" (disc 1) & "Heaven Help The Fool" (disc 2) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 25, 1980
  • "It Must Have Been The Roses" (disc 1) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 26, 1980
  • "Monkey And The Engineer" (disc 1) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 27, 1980
  • "On The Road Again" (disc 1) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 30, 1980
  • "Sage & Spirit" and "Little Sadie" (disc 2) recorded at Radio City Music Hall on October 31, 1980
  • "Tom Dooley" and "Deep Elem Blues" (disc 2) recorded at Rambler Room, Chicago on November 17, 1978

    • Charts

    Album: Billboard

    Singles: Billboard

    Songs

    1Dire Wolf3:20
    2The Race Is On2:57
    3It Must Have Been the Roses

    References

    Reckoning (Grateful Dead album) Wikipedia
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