music.wikisort.org - CompositionThe 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.
2003 greatest hits album by Grateful Dead
The Very Best of Grateful Dead |
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Released | September 16, 2003 |
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Recorded | Various |
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Genre | Rock |
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Length | 77:05 |
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Language | English |
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Label | Warner Bros./Rhino Records |
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Producer | James Austin David Lemieux |
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A songbook under the same name was released alongside this album which provides lyrics and musical tablature.
Critical reception
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Allmusic |     [1] |
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
- "Truckin'" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 5:08
- "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:50
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 3:19
- Originally released on American Beauty
- "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:28
- "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
- "Estimated Prophet" (John Perry Barlow, Weir) – 5:38
- "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
- "Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:20
- Originally released on American Beauty
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
- "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia) – 2:12
- "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
- "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
Grateful Dead
- Tom Constanten – keyboards
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel, vocals
- Donna Godchaux – vocals
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards
- Mickey Hart – drums
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums and percussion
- Phil Lesh – bass guitar
- Ron McKernan – organ on "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" and "One More Saturday Night"
- Brent Mydland – keyboards
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
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Additional musicians
- Jordan Amarantha – percussion on "Fire on the Mountain"
- The English Choral – on "Estimated Prophet"
- David Grisman – mandolin on "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple"
- John Kahn – horn arrangements on "Fire on the Mountain"
- Matthew Kelly – harmonica on "Fire on the Mountain"
- David Nelson – electric guitar on "Box of Rain"
- The Martyn Ford Orchestra – on "Estimated Prophet"
- Merl Saunders – organ on "One More Saturday Night" (later studio overdubs)
- Steven Schuster – saxophone on "The Music Never Stopped"
- Tom Scott – lyricon and saxophones on "Estimated Prophet"
- Dave Torbert – bass guitar on "Box of Rain"
- Howard Wales – organ on "Truckin'"
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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
Album - Billboard
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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
Grateful Dead |
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Studio albums | |
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Live albums | Contemporary | |
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Retrospective | 1990s | |
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2000s | |
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2010s |
- Crimson White & Indigo
- Formerly the Warlocks
- Europe '72: The Complete Recordings
- Europe '72 Volume 2
- Dark Star
- Spring 1990
- Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It
- Winterland: May 30th 1971
- May 1977
- Sunshine Daydream
- Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70
- Live at Hampton Coliseum
- Spring 1990 (The Other One)
- Wake Up to Find Out
- Houston, Texas 11-18-1972
- 30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995
- 30 Trips Around the Sun
- Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967
- Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77
- July 1978: The Complete Recordings
- Red Rocks: 7/8/78
- July 29 1966, P.N.E. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada
- May 1977: Get Shown the Light
- Cornell 5/8/77
- Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989
- Fillmore West 1969: February 27th
- Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings
- Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It
- Playing in the Band, Seattle, Washington, 5/21/74
- The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980
- Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991
- Saint of Circumstance
- Ready or Not
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View from the Vault | |
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Dick's Picks | |
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Road Trips | |
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