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It was our great honor at Real Gone Music to issue all 36 volumes of Dick's Picks, The Grateful Dead's landmark live concert series. Well, our diligence in releasing Dick's Picks has had a "Ripple" effect, for now the band is entrusting us with releasing it's subsequent live concert series, Road Trips! Unlike Dick's Picks, which saw about two-thirds of it's titles go to regular retail in their original incarnations, NONE of the entries in the Road Trips series were offered to retail outlets outside of the Dead's own website. Since it worked so well with Dick's Picks, we are reissuing the last titles first, and we have enlisted the series' original designer, Steve Vance, to convert the original wallet packaging to customer-friendly triple-CD slimline jewel cases. This volume dates back to 1982, which, despite having been among the best years of touring for the Brent Mydland-era Grateful Dead, had seen only one authorized release (Dick's Picks Vol. 32) from that year prior to the August 2011 release of this concert, and only one other since (one of the shows included in the Thirty Trips Around the Sun box); it remains probably the least-documented year in the band's history when weighed against it's overall quality. But that's just one of the reasons Road Trips Vol. 4 No. 4 belongs in any Deadhead's library; this show, which hails from one of the band's best and favorite venues, the Philadelphia Spectrum, kicks off a rock solid first set with "Cold Rain and Snow" segue-ing into "Promised Land" and follows it with sparkling versions of "Big Railroad Blues," "Jack-A-Roe," and "It's All Over Now" among others, while set two gets off to a similarly strong start with an irresistibly funky "Shakedown Street" and winds up with a sublime encore of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," with exceptional versions of "Truckin'," "The Other One," and "Morning Dew" in between. Bonus material from the previous night (including the rarely-performed "Deep Ellem Blues") just add to the early '80s goodness, all presented in HDCD sound.
Condition: NEW
TRACK LISTING
- Disc 1 -
1 Cold Rain and Snow
2 Promised Land
3 Candyman
4 C.C. Rider
5 Brown-Eyed Woman
6 Mama Tried
7 Mexicali Blues
8 Big Railroad Blues
9 Looks Like Rain
10 Jack-A-Roe
11 ItS All Over Now
12 Might As Well
- Disc 2 -
1 Shakedown Street
2 Lost Sailor
3 Saint of Circumstance
4 Terrapin Station
5 Rhythm Devils
6 Space
7 Deep Elem Blues
8 Althea
9 Man Smart, Woman Smarter
- Disc 3 -
1 Truckin
2 The Other One
3 Morning Dew
4 Sugar Magnolia
5 ItS All Over Now, Baby Blue
6 Bertha
7 Playing in the Band
8 Ship of Fools
9 Playing in the Band
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