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The Very Best of Grateful Dead

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Released
  
September 16, 2003

Length
  
77:05

Artist
  
Grateful Dead

Label
  
Rhino Entertainment

Genres
  
Rock music, Folk rock

Recorded
  
Various

Language
  
English

Release date
  
16 September 2003

Producer
  
David Lemieux

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The Very Best of Grateful Dead is a single-CD compilation album chronicling all the years of the San Francisco psychedelic band the Grateful Dead. It is the first release to document every label the band recorded on: Warner Bros. Records, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists Records and Arista Records. It was released on September 16, 2003.

Contents

A songbook under the same name was released alongside this album which provides lyrics and musical tablature.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said, "The Very Best of Grateful Dead marks the first attempt to do a thorough single-disc overview of the group's career, encompassing not just their classic Warner albums but also the records they cut for their own Grateful Dead/UA and Arista. As always with the Dead, it's hard to condense the band's free-ranging, freewheeling output onto one disc [..] but the 17 tracks here do present nearly all sides of the Dead while hitting their biggest songs. [..] The collection would have been better if sequenced a little more chronologically, but nevertheless it provides a first-class introduction to a band whose catalog can often seem a little unwieldy."

Track listing

  1. "Truckin'" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 5:08
  2. Originally released on the 1970 album American Beauty
  3. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
  4. Originally released on the 1987 album In the Dark
  5. "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:19
  6. Originally released on American Beauty
  7. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:28
  8. Originally released on the 1970 album Workingman's Dead
  9. "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
  10. Originally released on Workingman's Dead
  11. "Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) – 3:24
  12. Originally released on American Beauty
  13. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:33
  14. Originally released on the 1975 album Blues for Allah
  15. "Estimated Prophet" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
  16. Originally released on the 1977 album Terrapin Station
  17. "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
  18. Originally released on the 1973 album Wake of the Flood
  19. "Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:20
  20. Originally released on American Beauty
  21. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
  22. Originally released on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel
  23. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia) – 2:12
  24. Originally released on the 1967 album The Grateful Dead
  25. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:50
  26. Originally released on the 1972 live album Europe '72
  27. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 3:48
  28. Originally released on the 1978 album Shakedown Street
  29. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
  30. Originally released on Blues for Allah
  31. "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
  32. Originally released on In the Dark
  33. "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
  34. Originally released on American Beauty

Personnel

Technical personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard

  • The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on October 4, 2003. It spent 4 weeks on the chart.

    • Songs

    1Truckin’5:06
    2Touch of Grey5:49
    3Sugar Magnolia3:19

    References

    The Very Best of Grateful Dead Wikipedia
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