Track Listing
DISC 1: BIRTH OF THE DEAD: THE STUDIO SIDES:
1. Early Morning Rain
2. I Know You Rider
3. Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)
4. Only Time Is Now, The
5. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
6. Can't Come Down
7. Stealin' - (TRUE instrumental)
8. Stealin' - (with vocals)
9. Don't Ease Me In - (TRUE instrumental)
10. Don't Ease Me In - (with vocals)
11. You Don't Have to Ask
12. Tastebud - (TRUE instrumental)
13. Tastebud - (with vocals)
14. I Know You Rider
15. Cold Rain and Snow - (TRUE instrumental)
16. Cold Rain and Snow - (with vocals)
17. Fire in the City - (with Jon Hendricks)
DISC 2: BIRTH OF THE DEAD: THE LIVE SIDES:
1. Viola Lee Blues
2. Don't Ease Me In
3. Pain in My Heart
4. Sitting on Top of the World
5. It's All Over Now Baby Blue
6. I'm a King Bee
7. Big Boss Man
8. Standing on the Corner
9. In the Pines
10. Nobody's Fault But Mine
11. Next Time You See Me
12. One Kind Favor
13. He Was a Friend of Mine
14. Keep Rolling By
DISC 3: THE GRATEFUL DEAD:
1. Golden Road, The (To Unlimited Devotion)
2. Beat It on Down the Line
3. Good Morning Little School Girl - (full-length version)
4. Cold Rain and Snow
5. Sitting on Top of the World - (full-length version)
6. Cream Puff War - (full-length version)
7. Morning Dew - (full-length version)
8. New, New Minglewood Blues - (full-length version)
9. Viola Lee Blues
10. Alice D. Millionaire
11. Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)
12. Tastebud
13. Death Don't Have No Mercy
14. Viola Lee Blues - (edited version)
15. Viola Lee Blues
DISC 4: ANTHEM OF THE SUN:
1. That's It For the Other One: Cryptical Envelopment I / Quadlibet For Tender Feet II / Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get, The III / We Leave The Castle IV
2. New Potato Caboose
3. Born Cross-Eyed
4. Alligator
5. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
6. Alligator
7. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
8. Feedback
9. Born Cross-Eyed - (alternate take, hidden track)
DISC 5: AOXOMOXOA:
1. St. Stephen
2. Dupree's Diamond Blues
3. Rosemary
4. Doin' That Rag
5. Mountains of the Moon
6. China Cat Sunflower
7. What's Become of the Baby
8. Cosmic Charlie
9. Clementine Jam
10. Nobody's Spoonful Jam
11. Eleven Jam, The
12. Cosmic Charlie
DISC 6: LIVE/DEAD:
1. Dark Star
2. St. Stephen
3. Eleven, The
4. Turn on Your Lovelight
5. Death Don't Have No Mercy
6. Feedback
7. And We Bid You Goodnight
8. Dark Star - (studio version, hidden track)
9. Live Dead Radio Spot - (hidden track)
DISC 7: WORKINGMAN'S DEAD:
1. Uncle John's Band
2. High Time
3. Dire Wolf
4. New Speedway Boogie
5. Cumberland Blues
6. Black Peter
7. Easy Wind
8. Casey Jones
9. New Speedway Boogie - (alternate mix)
10. Dire Wolf
11. Black Peter
12. Easy Wind
13. Cumberland Blues
14. Mason's Children
15. Uncle John's Band
16. Workingman's Dead Radio Spot - (hidden track)
DISC 8: AMERICAN BEAUTY:
1. Box of Rain
2. Friend of the Devil
3. Sugar Magnolia
4. Operator
5. Candyman
6. Ripple
7. Brokedown Palace
8. Till the Morning Comes
9. Attics of My Life
10. Truckin'
11. Truckin' - (single version)
12. Friend of the Devil
13. Candyman
14. Till the Morning Comes
15. Attics of My Life
16. Truckin'
17. Ripple - (alternate take, hidden track)
18. American Beauty Radio Spot - (hidden track)
DISC 9: GRATEFUL DEAD:
1. Bertha
2. Mama Tried
3. Big Railroad Blues
4. Playing in the Band
5. Other One, The
6. Me and My Uncle
7. Big Boss Man
8. Me and Bobby McGee
9. Johnny B. Goode
10. Wharf Rat
11. Not Fade Away / Goin' Down The Road Feelin' Bad
12. Oh Boy!
13. I'm a Hog For You
14. Grateful Dead Radio Spot - (hidden track)
DISC 10: EUROPE '72 (I):
1. Cumberland Blues
2. He's Gone
3. One More Saturday Night
4. Jack Straw
5. You Win Again
6. China Cat Sunflower
7. I Know You Rider
8. Brown-Eyed Woman
9. Hurts Me Too
10. Ramble on Rose
11. Sugar Magnolia
12. Mr. Charlie
13. Tennessee Jed
14. Stranger, The (Two Souls in Communion)
DISC 11: EUROPE '72 (II):
1. Truckin'
2. Epilogue
3. Prelude
4. Morning Dew
5. Looks Like Rain
6. Good Lovin'
7. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
8. Who Do You Love?
9. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
10. Good Lovin'
11. Dog Story by Bob Weir - (hidden track)
DISC 12: HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD VOL. 1 (BEAR'S CHOICE):
1. Katie Mae
2. Dark Hollow
3. I've Been All Around This World
4. Wake up Little Susie
5. Black Peter
6. Smokestack Lightnin
7. Hard to Handle
8. Good Lovin'
9. Big Boss Man
10. Smokestack Lightnin - (version 2)
11. Sitting on Top of the World
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Jon Hendricks | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The 12-CD box THE GOLDEN ROAD contains the Grateful Dead's Warner Brothers releases including THE GRATEFUL DEAD (1967)/ANTHEM OF THE SUN (1968)/AOXOMOXOA (1969)/ LIVE DEAD (1969)/WORKINGMAN'S DEAD (1970)/ AMERICAN BEAUTY (1970)/GRATEFUL DEAD (1971)/EUROPE '72 (1972)/HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD VOL. 1 (BEAR'S CHOICE) (1973) as well as live and previously unreleased material plus the specially compiled 2-CD THE BIRTH OF THE DEAD featuring rare early recordings. Also includes a 76-page booklet featuring rare photos and poster reproductions, an essay by Dennis McNally, and a complete Grateful Dead discography by Ihor Slablicky.
The Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia (vocals, acoustic, electric & pedal steel guitars, kazoo, piano, vibraslap); Bob Weir (vocals, acoustic & eelectric guitars, 12-string guitar, kazoo); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica, celesta, organ, keyboards, congas, clave, percussion); Phil Lesh (vocals, guitar, kazoo, trumpet, piano, harpsichord, bass, timpani, guiro); Donna Godchaux (vocals); Tom Constanten (piano, prepared piano, keyboards, tape); Keith Godchaux (piano); Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (drums, percussion); Robert Hunter (songwriter).
Additional personnel: Jon Hendricks (vocals).
Compilation producers: James Austin, David Lemiieux.
BIRTH OF THE DEAD compilation producers: Dennis McNally, Lou Tambakos.
Recorded between 1965 and 1973. Includes liner notes by Dennis McNally, James Austin, David Lemieux and Connie Bonner Mosley.
Digitally remastered using HDCD technology by Joe Gastwirt (Oceanview Digital, Los Angeles, California).
THE GOLDEN ROAD was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards For Best Album Notes.
The awe-inspiring 12-disc box set THE GOLDEN ROAD is a truly comprehensive document of the Grateful Dead's vintage period (late '60s through mid '70s). The format, which appends a generous number of bonus tracks to gloriously remastered versions of each of the band's albums from their Warner Brothers years, makes THE GOLDEN ROAD ideal for hardcore deadheads looking to upgrade their collection as well as those who've only dabbled in the oeuvre of these American countercultural icons.
A double-disc of pre-debut demos and live cuts from the band's earliest days reveals their roots in both jug-band music and garage rock, while the late-'60s tracks find the Dead at the vanguard of mind-bending improvisation, pushing the frontiers of rock into strikingly original, often avant-garde realms. Early '70s recordings see the eventuation of the group into a pared-down meld of rock, country, and folk that both paid homage to their influences and helped set the stage for the country-rock that loomed so large later in the decade. Along with a bevy of rare photos and an insightful, informative booklet, the bounty of previously unreleased tracks offer new perspectives on the band's transformation from gritty blues-rockers into expansive, improvisatory envelope-pushers, with stops along the path at various points on the Americana highway.
Editorial Reviews
...A long, strange, and beautiful trip all its own... - Rating: A
Entertainment Weekly (11/16/2001)
...150--plus tracks go beyond nostalgia to offer a definitive history of a heavily subscribed social experiment....sounded like LSD....represented their core catalogue with...respect...make it clear that the whole thing was about transformation...
Mojo (01/01/2002)
4 stars out of 5 - ...A perfect primer of the Dead's jamming exploits...
Down Beat (01/01/2002)
Ranked #10 in Mojo's Best [10] Box Sets & Compilations of 2001.
Mojo (01/01/2002)
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