The Golden Road Box Set

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The Golden Road (1965-1973)
The Golden Road (1965-1973) cover
Compilation album by Grateful Dead
Released October 16, 2001
Recorded November 3, 1965 - 1972
Genre Country rock, Folk-rock, Rock
Label Rhino Records
Professional reviews
Grateful Dead chronology
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The Golden Road Box Set is a twelve-CD boxed set retrospect of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums during their time with Warner Bros. Records from 1965 to 1972. After 1972, the band went on to create its own label, Grateful Dead Records.

This compilation includes expanded and remasted versions of all of the albums during the bands time on contract with Warner Bros. Also included are numerous studio outtake and live tracks. The albums included are Birth of the Dead, The Grateful Dead, Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Live/Dead, Grateful Dead, Europe '72, and History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice).

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Early Morning Rain" (Lightfoot) – 3:22
  2. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:41
  3. "Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)" (Garcia, Lesh) – 2:41
  4. "The Only Time Is Now" (Grateful Dead) – 2:24
  5. "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Grateful Dead) – 3:17
  6. "Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead) – 3:04
  7. "Stealin' (instrumental)" (Cannon) – 2:40
  8. "Stealin' (w/ vocals)" (Cannon) – 2:36
  9. "Don't Ease Me In (instrumental)" (traditional) – 2:01
  10. "Don't Ease Me In (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 2:02
  11. "You Don't Have to Ask" (Grateful Dead) – 3:35
  12. "Tastebud (instrumental)" (McKernan) – 7:04
  13. "Tastebud (w/ vocals" (McKernan) – 4:35
  14. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 2:36
  15. "Cold Rain and Snow (instrumental)" (traditional) – 3:15
  16. "Cold Rain and Snow (w/ vocals)" (traditional) – 3:17
  17. "Fire in the City" (Krug) – 3:19

[edit] Disc two

  • Birth of the Dead - The Live Sides
  1. "Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 9:39
  2. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional) – 2:43
  3. "Pain in My Heart" (Neville) – 4:24
  4. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:51
  5. "It's All over Now, Baby Blue" (Dylan) – 5:12
  6. "I'm a King Bee" (Moore) – 8:52
  7. "Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith) – 5:11
  8. "Standing on the Corner" (Grateful Dead) – 3:46
  9. "In the Pines" (Bryant, McMichen) – 4:55
  10. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" (Johnson) – 4:15
  11. "Next Time You See Me" (Forest, Harvey) – 2:47
  12. "One Kind Favor" (Hopkins, Taub) – 3:44
  13. "He Was a Friend of Mine" (traditional) – 4:45
  14. "Keep Rolling By" (traditional) – 7:57

[edit] Disc three

  1. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Grateful Dead) – 2:07
  2. "Beat It on Down the Line" (Fuller) – 2:27
  3. "Good Morning Little School Girl" (Williamson) – 6:32
  4. "Cold Rain and Snow" (Grateful Dead) – 2:26
  5. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Jacobs, Carter) – 2:43
  6. "Cream Puff War" (Garcia) – 3:18
  7. "(Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 5:16
  8. "New, New Minglewood Blues" (traditional) – 2:40
  9. "Viola Lee Blues" (Lewis) – 10:09
  10. "Alice D. Millionaire" (Grateful Dead) – 2:22
    • Inspired by an autumn 1966 newspaper headline ("LSD Millionaire") about the Dead's benefactor and soundman Owsley Stanley.
  11. "Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)" (Jones, Shade) – 2:24
  12. "Tastebud" (McKernan) – 4:18
  13. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) – 5:20
  14. "Viola Lee Blues" (edited version) (Lewis) – 3:00
  15. "Viola Lee Blues" (live) (Lewis) – 23:13

[edit] Disc four

  1. "That's It For The Other One" – 7:40:
  2. "New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Petersen) – 8:26
  3. "Born Cross Eyed" (Weir) – 2:04
  4. "Alligator" (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 11:20
  5. "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 9:37
  6. "Alligator" (live) (Lesh, McKernan, Hunter) – 18:43
  7. "Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)" (live) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) – 11:38
  8. "Feedback" (live) (Grateful Dead) – 4:01
  9. "Born Cross-Eyed" (single version) (Weir) – 2:55

[edit] Disc five

  1. "St. Stephen" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 4:26
  2. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:32
  3. "Rosemary" (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:58
  4. "Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:41
  5. "Mountains Of The Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:02
  6. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:40
  7. "What's Become Of The Baby" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:12
  8. "Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:29
  9. "Clementine Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 10:46
  10. "Nobody's Spoonful Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 10:04
  11. "The Eleven Jam" (Grateful Dead) – 15:00
  12. "Cosmic Charlie" (live) – 6:47

[edit] Disc six

  1. "Dark Star" (Grateful Dead, Hunter) – 23:18
  2. "St. Stephen" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) – 6:31
  3. "The Eleven" (Hunter, Lesh) – 9:18
  4. "Turn On Your Lovelight" (Scott, Malone) – 15:05
  5. "Death Don't Have No Mercy" (Davis) – 10:28
  6. "Feedback" (McGannahan Skjellyfetti) – 7:49
  7. "And We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional-) – 0:37
  8. "Dark Star" (radio edit/single version)" – 2:44
  9. "Hidden Track" (radio promo) – 1:00

[edit] Disc seven

  1. "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:45
  2. "High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14
  3. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:14
  4. "New Speedway Boogie" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:06
  5. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 3:16
  6. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:43
  7. "Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 4:58
  8. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38
  9. "New Speedway Boogie" (alternate mix) – 4:10
  10. "Dire Wolf" (live) – 2:31
  11. "Black Peter" (live) – 9:07
  12. "Easy Wind" (live) – 8:09
  13. "Cumberland Blues" (live) – 4:52
  14. "Mason's Children" (live) (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 6:32
  15. "Uncle John's Band" (live) – 7:57

[edit] Disc eight

  1. "Box of Rain" (Hunter, Lesh) – 5:18
  2. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, Dawson, Hunter) – 3:24
  3. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 3:19
  4. "Operator" (Ron McKernan) – 2:25
  5. "Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
  6. "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09
  7. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:09
  8. "Till the Morning Comes" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:09
  9. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:14
  10. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 5:17
  11. "Truckin'" (edited single) – 3:17
  12. "Friend of the Devil" (live) – 4:21
  13. "Candy Man" (live) – 5:18
  14. "Till the Morning Comes" (live) – 3:20
  15. "Attics of My Life" (live) – 6:31
  16. "Truckin'" (live) – 10:10

[edit] Disc nine

  1. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:43
  2. "Mama Tried" (Haggard) – 2:43
  3. "Big Railroad Blues" (Lewis) – 3:35
  4. "Playin' in the Band" (Hart, Hunter, Weir) – 4:40
  5. "The Other One" (Kreutzmann, Weir) – 18:07
  6. "Me & My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:04
  7. "Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith) – 5:14
  8. "Me and Bobbie McGee" (Foster, Kristofferson) – 5:42
  9. "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 3:44
  10. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:32
  11. "Not Fade Away > Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (Holly, Petty) – 9:26
  12. "Oh, Boy!" (Petty, Tilghman, West) – 2:50
  13. "I'm a Hog for You" (Leiber, Stoller) – 5:20
  14. "Hidden track" (radio spot) – 1:00

[edit] Disc ten

  1. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh) – 5:43
  2. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:57
  3. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 4:49
  4. "Jack Straw" (Hunter, Weir) – 4:49
  5. "You Win Again" (Williams) – 4:00
  6. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:32
  7. "I Know You Rider" (traditional) – 5:03
  8. "Brown-Eyed Woman" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:38
  9. "It Hurts Me Too" (James, Sehorn) – 7:20
  10. "Ramble on Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04
  11. "Sugar Magnolia" (Hunter, Weir) – 7:10
  12. "Mr. Charlie" (Hunter, McKernan) – 3:39
  13. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:18
  14. "The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)" (McKernan) – 6:50

[edit] Disc eleven

  1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) – 13:06
  2. "Epilogue" (Grateful Dead) – 5:10
  3. "Prelude" (Grateful Dead) – 7:37
  4. "Morning Dew" (Dobson, Rose) – 11:41
  5. "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:42
  6. "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick) – 18:30
  7. "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 4:39
  8. "Who Do You Love?" (McDaniel – 1:43
  9. "Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 5:59
  10. "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick) – 3:09
  11. "Yellow Dog Story" (Grateful Dead) – 3:09

[edit] Disc twelve

  1. "Katie Mae" (Hopkins) – 4:44
  2. "Dark Hollow" (Browning) – 3:52
  3. "I've Been All Around This World" (traditional) – 4:18
  4. "Wake Up Little Susie" (Bryant, Bryant) – 2:31
  5. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:27
  6. "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) – 17:59
  7. "Hard to Handle" (Isbell, Jones, Redding) – 6:29
  8. "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick) – 8:56
  9. "Big Boss Man" (Dixon, Smith) – 4:53
  10. "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) – 15:11
  11. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Chatmon, Vinson) – 3:20

[edit] Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Additional performers:

  • for a comprehensive listing, see individual album pages

Production:

  • James Austin, David Lemieux - producers
  • Dennis McNally, Lou Tambakos - Birth Of The Dead concept & compilation
  • Peter McQuaid - executive producer
  • Michael Wesley Johnson - associate producer, research coordination
  • Eileen Law - archival researcher, archivist
  • Cassidy Law - coordinator
  • Dennis McNally - consultant
  • Jeffrey Norman - mixing
  • Joe Gastwirt/Oceanview Digital, Jo Motta - mastering and production consultants
  • Jimmy Edwards - product manager
  • Gary Peterson - discographical annotation
  • Shawn Amos - liner notes coordination
  • Vanessa Atkins - editorial supervision
  • Daniel Goldmark - editorial research
  • Hugh Brown - reissue art director
  • Malia Doss - business affairs at Rhino Records
  • Mickey Hart, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Bill Inglot, Steve Lang, Patrick Kraus, Jan Simmons, Blair Jackson, Steve Silberman, Hale Milgrim, David Gans, Owsley Stanley, Jeff Gold, Connie Mosley, Gary Lambert, Bill Belmont, Neil Ruttenberg - project assistants

[edit] Charts

Billboard

Chart Position
Billboard 200 191

RIAA Certification

Certification Date
Gold November 14, 2001

[edit] See also

The Grateful Dead
Members
Jerry Garcia • Bob Weir • Phil Lesh • Bill Kreutzmann • Mickey Hart • Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Brent Mydland • Keith Godchaux • Donna Godchaux • Vince Welnick • Tom Constanten
Spin-off bands
Jerry Garcia Band • Ratdog • Phil Lesh and Friends • Rhythm Devils • The Other Ones • The Dead
Related articles
Grateful Dead songs
Eric Andersen • John Perry Barlow • Dark Star Orchestra • Deadhead • Bob Dylan • Bill Graham • Gerrit Graham • The Grateful Dead Movie • Grateful Dead Records • Rick Griffin • David Grisman • Bruce Hornsby • Robert Hunter • Jazz Is Dead • Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band • Alton Kelly • Steve Kimock • Ned Lagin • Dick Latvala • Legion of Mary • Branford Marsalis • Stanley Mouse • New Riders of the Purple Sage • Old and in the Way • Reconstruction • Merl Saunders • Owsley Stanley • Sunshine Daydream • Howard Wales • Wall of Sound • Wharf Rats
Discography
Studio albums
The Grateful Dead | Anthem of the Sun | Aoxomoxoa | Workingman's Dead | American Beauty | Wake of the Flood | Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel | Blues for Allah | Terrapin Station | Shakedown Street | Go to Heaven | In the Dark | Built to Last
Live albums
Live/Dead | Grateful Dead | Europe '72 | History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear's Choice) | Steal Your Face | Reckoning | Dead Set | Without a Net | One From the Vault | Infrared Roses | Two from the Vault | Grayfolded | Hundred Year Hall | Dozin' at the Knick | Fallout from the Phil Zone | Terrapin Station (Limited Edition) | Live at the Fillmore East 2-11-69 | Ladies and Gentlemen ... The Grateful Dead | View From The Vault, Volume One | View From The Vault, Volume Two | Nightfall of Diamonds | Postcards of the Hanging | Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 | View from the Vault, Volume Three | Go to Nassau | Birth of the Dead | View from the Vault, Volume Four | The Closing of Winterland | Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack | Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966 | Truckin' Up to Buffalo | Fillmore West 1969 | Live at the Cow Palace | Dicks Picks (36 Volumes) | Digital Download Series (12 Volumes)
Compilations and box sets
Skeletons from the Closet: The Best of Grateful Dead | What a Long Strange Trip It's Been | Dead Zone: The Grateful Dead CD Collection (1977-1987) | The Arista Years | Selections from the Arista Years | So Many Roads (1965-1995) | So Many Roads (1965-1995) Sampler | The Golden Road (1965-1973) | The Very Best of the Grateful Dead | Beyond Description (1973-1989) | The Complete Fillmore West 1969
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