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Released
  
October 15, 1996

Length
  
152:07

Release date
  
15 October 1996

Recorded
  
1977–1990

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Label
  
Arista/Grateful Dead

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The Arista Years(1996)
  
Selections from the Arista Years(1997)

Genres
  
Rock music, Jam band, Folk rock

Producers
  
Jerry Garcia, Lowell George

Similar
  
Grateful Dead albums, Jam band albums, Other albums

The Arista Years is a compilation album that chronicles the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums during their time with Arista Records. The album was released on two-CD and two cassette tapes on October 15, 1996. It contains tracks from Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, Reckoning, Dead Set, In the Dark, Built to Last, and Without a Net. The set does not contain any new or expanded recordings. A media outlet sampler, Selections from the Arista Years, was released by Arista in January 1997.

Contents

Track listing

Disc one
  1. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir)  – 5:37
  2. "Passenger" (Lesh, Monk)  – 2:49
  3. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional)  – 3:27
  4. "Terrapin Station [medley]" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 16:20
  5. Tracks 1–4 originally released on the album Terrapin Station.
  6. "Good Lovin'" (Resnick, Clark)  – 4:48
  7. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 4:59
  8. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)  – 3:46
  9. "I Need a Miracle" (Barlow, Weir)  – 3:33
  10. Tracks 5–8 originally released on the album Shakedown Street.
  11. "Alabama Getaway" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 3:35
  12. "Far from Me" (Mydland)  – 3:39
  13. "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir)  – 5:40
  14. Tracks 9-11 originally released on the album Go to Heaven.
  15. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 3:21
  16. "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir)  – 4:33
  17. Tracks 12–13 originally released on the album Reckoning.
  18. "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir)  – 5:47
  19. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann)  – 5:37
  20. Tracks 14–15 originally released on the album Dead Set.
Disc two
  1. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 5:48
  2. "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir)  – 5:36
  3. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 6:37
  4. "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir)  – 7:19
  5. "Black Muddy River" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 5:57
  6. Tracks 1–5 originally released on the album In the Dark.
  7. "Foolish Heart" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 5:10
  8. "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 5:03
  9. "Just a Little Light" (Barlow, Mydland)  – 4:41
  10. "Picasso Moon" (Barlow, Bralove, Weir)  – 6:40
  11. "Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 5:20
  12. Tracks 6–10 originally released on the album Built to Last.
  13. "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter)  – 16:25
  14. Track 11 originally released on the album Without a Net.

Personnel

Grateful Dead
  • Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
  • Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
  • Keith Godchaux – keyboards, vocals
  • Mickey Hart – drums
  • Bill Kreutzmann – drums
  • Phil Lesh – bass
  • Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
  • Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
    • Additional performers
  • Jordan Amarantha – percussion
  • Branford Marsalis – saxophone (soprano, tenor)
  • Matthew Kelly – harmonica, harp
  • Tom Scott – saxophone, lyricon
    • Production
  • Jerry Garcia, Lowell George – producers
  • Bob Bralove – programming, associate producer
  • Betty Cantor-Jackson, John Cutler, Dan Healy, Gary Lyons, Keith Olsen – producers, engineers
  • Guy Charbonneau, David DeVore, Tom Flye, Justin Kreutzmann, Bob Matthews, Peter Miller, Jeffrey Norman, David Roberts, Jeff Sterling, Pete Thea, Chris Wiskes – engineers
  • Amy Finkle, Stanley Mouse, Gilbert Shelton, Jim Welch – art directors
  • Joe Gastwirt – remastering, digital remastering
  • Rick Griffin – illustrations
  • John Kahn – associate producer, horn arrangements
  • Cameron Sears – coordination
  • Bob Seidemann – photography
  • Christopher Stern – design
  • Robbie Taylor – production manager

    • Charts

    Album – Billboard

    Songs

    1Estimated Prophet5:37
    2Passenger2:48
    3Samson & Deliliah3:29

    References

    The Arista Years (Grateful Dead album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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