Very Best Of Grateful Dead (2003)

Product Summary Label: Rhin/mesa/bluemoon Records UPC: 00081227389925 Release Date: 9/16/2003 Buy.com Sku: 60613144 Item#: M24GPY Buy.com Sales Rank: 48419 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Truckin' ~ Grateful Dead 2. Touch Of Grey ~ Grateful Dead 3. Sugar Magnolia ~ Grateful Dead 4. Casey Jones ~ Grateful Dead 5. Uncle John's Band ~ Grateful Dead 6. Friend Of The Devil ~ Grateful Dead 7. Franklin's Tower ~ Grateful Dead 8. Estimated Prophet ~ Grateful Dead 9. Eyes Of The World ~ Grateful Dead 10. Box Of Rain ~ Grateful Dead 11. U.S. Blues ~ Grateful Dead 12. Golden Road, The (To Unlimited Devotion) ~ Grateful Dead 13. One More Saturday Night - (live, 1972) ~ Grateful Dead 14. Fire On The Mountain ~ Grateful Dead 15. Music Never Stopped, The ~ Grateful Dead 16. Hell In A Bucket ~ Grateful Dead 17. Ripple ~ Grateful Dead   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Grateful Dead: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards, organ, congas, percussion); Jerry Garcia (vocals, guitar, pedal steel, piano); Phil Lesh (vocals, guitar, piano, bass); Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Brent Mydland (vocals, keyboards); Donna Godchaux (vocals); Tom Constanten (piano, keyboards); Bill Kreutzmann (drums, percussion). Producers include: Grateful Dead, Dave Hassinger, Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor, Keith Olsen. Complition producers: James Austin, David Lemieux. Recorded between 1967 & 1987. Includes liner notes by James Austin. All tracks have been remastered using HDCD technology. Even though the two-disc WHAT A LONG STRANGE TRIP IT'S BEEN may have more fully anthologized the Grateful Dead's fruitful Warner years, no previous anthology has ever summarized the band's entire career, on through the slim-pickin's mid-1970s to their celebratory late-'80s comeback. In this respect, THE VERY BEST OF... can be called a nearly definitive collection. Still, this is an entry point for the casual passerby, so the psychedelic largesse of the Dead's late-'60s albums is entirely eschewed in favor of the shorter, more concise songs of their folk-rock period ("Uncle John's Band," "Friend of the Devil," etc.). Consequently, this becomes a tribute not to the improvisational warrior Dead but to the creatively songful Dead, even as we hear them age gracefully into the older, wiser "Touch of Gray," which brought them a whole new generation of admirers.   Compilation Appearances Fillmore-Last Days Great Expectations Around The Fire Masked And Anonymous (Bonus Tracks) (Limited Edition) Masked And Anonymous Joel Whitburn Presents: billboard #1' Guitar Rock: Rock Classic 70s / Various Ultimate Pickin On Jam Session Casey Kasem: 80s Rocks Greatest Hits / Variou Ladder To The Stars: Garcia Plays Dylan 4 Decades Of Folk Rock:return Of The Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970   Associated Artists and Works Artists, Various The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful... ~ Artists, Various Artists, Various Artists, Various Artists, Various Long Strange Trip: Pickin' On The Dead... ~ Artists, Various Artists, Various Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead ~ Artists, Various Backbone (Rock) Billy & Terry Smith Constanten, Tom Dead Ringers Dylan, Bob The Blues For Allah Project ~ Gallant, Joe Gallant, Joe The Blues For Allah Project ~ Gallant, Joe & Illuminati Gallant, Joe & Illuminati Garcia, Jerry Hart, Mickey Heart Of Gold Band Hunter, Robert Blue Light Rain ~ Jazz Is Dead The Blues For Allah Project ~ Joe Gallant & Illuminati Joe Gallant & Illuminati Kingfish Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Cham Mother McCree's Uptown Jug... Murray, David Murray, David (Jazz) New Riders Of The Purple Sage Old & In The Way Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ~ On, Pickin' Oswald, John Oswald, John Other Ones (Pop) (The) Other Ones (The) (Pop) Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ~ Pickin' On Rhythm Devils (The) Siamese Stepbrothers Trichromes Various Artists The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful Dea ~ Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Long Strange Trip: Swingin' And Pickin' On The Gra ~ Various Artists Various Artists Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead ~ Various Artists Vince Welnick & Missing Man For Weir, Bob Welnick, Vince Zero   Technical Info Release Date : 09/16/2003 Original Release Date : 2003 Catalog ID : 73899 Label : Rhino Records (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00081227389925   Product Image