The Very Best of Grateful Dead
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Released | September 16, 2003 | |||
Recorded | Various | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 77:05 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Warner Bros./Rhino Records | |||
Producer | James Austin 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.
A songbook under the same name was released alongside this album which provides lyrics and musical tablature.
Critical reception
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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."[1]
Track listing
[edit]- "Truckin'" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 5:08
- Originally released on the 1970 album American Beauty
- "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
- Originally released on the 1987 album In the Dark
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:19
- Originally released on American Beauty
- "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:28
- Originally released on the 1970 album Workingman's Dead
- "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:46
- Originally released on Workingman's Dead
- "Friend of the Devil" (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) – 3:24
- Originally released on American Beauty
- "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:33
- Originally released on the 1975 album Blues for Allah
- "Estimated Prophet" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
- Originally released on the 1977 album Terrapin Station
- "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
- Originally released on the 1973 album Wake of the Flood
- "Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:20
- Originally released on American Beauty
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
- Originally released on the 1974 album From the Mars Hotel
- "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia) – 2:12
- Originally released on the 1967 album The Grateful Dead
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:50
- Originally released on the 1972 live album Europe '72
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 3:48
- Originally released on the 1978 album Shakedown Street
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:35
- Originally released on Blues for Allah
- "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
- Originally released on In the Dark
- "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:10
- Originally released on American Beauty
Personnel
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Technical personnel
- James Austin – compilation producer
- David Lemieux – compilation producer
- Cameron Sears – album coordination
- Robin Hurley – associate producer
- Jimmy Edwards – product manager
- Joe Gastwirt – remastering
- Gary Peterson – discographical annotation
- Vanessa Atkins – editorial supervision
- Stanley Mouse – cover art, lettering
- Hugh Brown – art direction
- Linda Cobb – design
- Michael Ochs Archive – photography
- Bob Seidemann – photography
- Herb Greene – photography
- Bruce Polonsky – photography
- Fred Ordower – photography
- Hale Milgrim – project assistant
- Kevin Gore – project assistant
- Scott Pascucci – project assistant
Mark Pinkus – project assistant
- Tim Scanlin – project assistant
- Steven Chean – project assistant
- Dennis McNally – project assistant
- Jeffrey Norman – project assistant
Charts
[edit]Album - Billboard
Year | Chart | Position |
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2003 | The Billboard 200 | 69[2] |
- The album debuted on the Billboard 200 album chart on October 4, 2003. It spent 4 weeks on the chart.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. The Very Best of Grateful Dead at Allmusic. Retrieved July 4, 2013.
- ^ "Billboard album chart history-Grateful Dead". Retrieved March 1, 2009.