Grateful Dead Download Series Family Dog

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Grateful Dead Download Series
A Night at the Family Dog
Grateful Dead Download Series A Night at the Family Dog cover
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released 2005
Recorded February 4, 1970
Genre Rock
Label Grateful Dead Productions
Grateful Dead chronology
Volume 8
(2005)
A Night at the Family Dog
(2005)
Volume 9
(2006)

A Night at the Family Dog is the first non-sequential release in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on December 6th, 2005 alongside Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8. The show was recorded from a February 4, 1970 show at the Family Dog at the Great Highway in San Francisco, CA. Three of the songs were actually aired on a PBS special during that time.

Additional material was added to complete the disc. Dancing in the Streets from October 5, 1970 and Good Lovin' from December 31, 1970 made it onto the release.

A Night... was mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman.

[edit] Track listing

  1. Hard To Handle (Redding, Jones, Isbell)
  2. Black Peter (Garcia, Hunter)
  3. Me And My Uncle (Phillips)
  4. China Cat Sunflower > (Garcia, Hunter)
  5. I Know You Rider (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
  6. St. Stephen > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
  7. Not Fade Away > (Petty, Holly)
  8. St. Stephen > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
  9. In the Midnight Hour (Pickett, Cropper)
  10. Dancing in the Street (Gaye, Stevenson, Hunter)
  11. Monkey and the Engineer (Fuller)
  12. Good Lovin' > (Resnick, Clark)

[edit] Personnel

Grateful Dead:
Jerry Garcia: lead guitar, vocals
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan: organ, harmonica, vocals
Mickey Hart: drums
Bill Kreutzmann: drums
Phil Lesh: electric bass
Bob Weir: rhythm guitar, vocals

Mastering by Jeffrey Norman