Product DescriptionConsidering the amount of posthumous product released since Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead's demise in 1995, perhaps a better name for the band would be the Living Dead. However, there is no denying the fact that the Dead's music--at various times thrilling, adventurous, simple, futuristic, old-fashioned, ethereal, abominable, ridiculous, and sublime--bears this kind of deep exploration. Rhino's 12-disc bonanza is the definitive look at the Dead's formative years, a fantastically creative nine-year period for Warner Bros. In 1965, they were a bunch of ex-folk and bluegrass musicians who were looking to jump on the rock bandwagon driven by the Beatles. The ensuing decade found them travel a sort of circular path that began with revved-up renditions of their folk and blues favorites. Then they maneuvered through intense, far-reaching, mind-blowing psychedelic experiments, settled into timeless stripped-down Americana, and ended atop a mountain where folk, blues, country, jazz, and psychedelic rock lived in near-perfect harmony. All of the band's nine official Warner releases (five studio discs, four live) have been superbly remastered and buffed with extra tracks that include unheard studio jams and outtakes, plus contemporaneous live cuts. There's also two discs' worth (one studio, one live) of rare early material that predates their Warner Bros. debut. Each "album" comes in its own package with its own notes, while the box itself offers a 75-page booklet filled with thoughtful essays, personal reflections, and great photos. Clearly, Rhino has thrown down the gauntlet to Deadheads everywhere: they know you have most of this stuff in a variety of forms, but with the bounty of bonus tracks, the superior sound, and the wonderful packaging it's as if they're issuing a challenge not to buy this exquisite collection. --Marc Greilsamer - Format: Original recording remastered, Live, Box set
- Track Listings : Disc 1
- Early Morning Rain
- I Know You Rider
- Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)
- The Only Time Is Now
- Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
- Can't Come Down
- Stealin' (Instrumental)
- Stealin' (With Vocals)
- Don't Ease Me In (Instrumental)
- Don't Ease Me In (With Vocals)
- You Don't Have To Ask
- Tastebud (Instrumental)
- Tastebud (With Vocals)
- I Know You Rider
- Cold Rain And Snow (Instrumental)
- Cold Rain And Snow (With Vocals)
- Fire In The City - Jon Hendricks
- Track Listings : Disc 2
- Viola Lee Blues
- Don't Ease Me In
- Pain In My Heart
- Sitting On Top Of The World
- It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
- I'm A King Bee
- Big Boss Man
- Standing On The Corner
- In The Pines
- Nobody's Fault But Mine
- Next Time You See Me
- One Kind Favor
- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- Keep Rolling By
- Track Listings : Disc 3
- The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
- Beat It On Down The Line
- Good Morning Little School Girl (Full-Length Version)
- Cold Rain And Snow
- Sitting On Top Of The World (Full-Length Version)
- Cream Puff War (Full-Length Version)
- Morning Dew (Full-Length Version)
- New, New Minglewood Blues (Full-Length Version)
- Viola Lee Blues
- Alice D. Millionaire
- Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)
- Tastebud
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
- Viola Lee Blues (Edited Version)
- Viola Lee Blues (Live)
- Track Listings : Disc 4
- That's It For The Other One
- New Potato Caboose
- Born Cross-Eyed
- Alligator
- Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
- Alligator (Live)
- Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) (Live)
- Feedback (Live)
- Track Listings : Disc 5
- St. Stephen
- Dupree's Diamond Blues
- Rosemary
- Doin' That Rag
- Mountains Of The Moon
- China Cat Sunflower
- What's Become Of The Baby
- Cosmic Charlie
- Clementine Jam
- Nobody's Spoonful Jam
- The Eleven Jam
- Cosmic Charlie (Live)
- Track Listings : Disc 6
- Dark Star
- St. Stephen
- The Eleven
- Turn On Your Love Light
- Death Don't Have No Mercy
- Feedback
- And We Bid You Goodnight
- Track Listings : Disc 7
- Uncle John's Band
- High Time
- Dire Wolf
- New Speedway Boogie
- Cumberland Blues
- Black Peter
- Easy Wind
- Casey Jones
- New Speedway Boogie (Alternate Mix)
- Dire Wolf (Live)
- Black Peter (Live)
- Easy Wind (Live)
- Cumberland Blues (Live)
- Mason's Children (Live)
- Uncle John's Band (Live)
- Track Listings : Disc 8
- Box Of Rain
- Friend Of The Devil
- Sugar Magnolia
- Operator
- Candyman
- Ripple
- Brokedown Palace
- Till The Morning Comes
- Attics Of My Life
- Truckin'
- Truckin' (Single Version)
- Friend Of The Devil (Live)
- Candyman (Live)
- Till The Morning Comes (Live)
- Attics Of My Life (Live)
- Truckin' (Live)
- Track Listings : Disc 9
- Bertha
- Mama Tried
- Big Railroad Blues
- Playing In The Band
- The Other One
- Me & My Uncle
- Big Boss Man
- Me & Bobby Mcgee
- Johnny B. Goode
- Wharf Rat
- Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
- Oh, Boy!
- I'm A Hog For You
- Track Listings : Disc 10
- Cumberland Blues
- He's Gone
- One More Saturday Night
- Jack Straw
- You Win Again
- China Cat Sunflower
- I Know You Rider
- Brown-Eyed Woman
- Hurts Me Too
- Ramble On Rose
- Sugar Magnolia
- Mr. Charlie
- Tennessee Jed
- The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion)
- Track Listings : Disc 11
- Truckin'
- Epilogue
- Prelude
- Morning Dew
- Looks Like Rain
- Good Lovin'
- Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
- Who Do You Love?
- Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
- Good Lovin'
- Track Listings : Disc 12
- Katie Mae
- Dark Hollow
- I've Been All Around This World
- Wake Up Little Susie
- Black Peter
- Smokestack Lightnin'
- Hard To Handle
- Good Lovin'
- Big Boss Man
- Smokestack Lightnin' (Version Two)
- Sitting On Top Of The World
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