Reckoning (Grateful Dead album)

Reckoning
Live album by The Grateful Dead
Released April 1, 1981
Recorded September 25, 1980 – October 31, 1980
Genre Country rock, Folk-rock, Rock
Length 72:21
Label Arista (original release)
Rhino (2006 reissue)
Producer Dan Healy
Betty Cantor-Jackson
Jerry Garcia
The Grateful Dead chronology
Go to Heaven
(1980)		 Reckoning
(1981)		 Dead Set
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Robert Christgau (B+)[2]

Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead.

It consists of acoustic material recorded live in September and October 1980. Some of the tracks are shortened versions of the live performances.

The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set. But the format of the music subsequently steered them towards the release of the two double albums, this and Dead Set. Jerry Garcia commented on this in an interview: "We really ended up with so much good material that it was a struggle. The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly."[3]

Initial CD releases omitted one track for space reasons. One CD and LP release, by Pair/Arista Records in 1984, was given the title For The Faithful.[3] In 1988 the album was re-issued with the original title.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Dire Wolf" (Garcia/Hunter) – 3:20
  2. "The Race Is On" (Rollins) – 2:58
  3. "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie" (Cotten) – 6:28 (Initially omitted from the CD release, included on 2006 remaster.)
  4. "It Must Have Been The Roses" (Hunter) – 6:56
  5. "Dark Hollow" (Traditional rec. Browning) – 3:49
  6. "China Doll" (Garcia/Hunter) – 5:22
  7. "Been All Around This World" (Traditional) – 4:31
  8. "Monkey And The Engineer" (Fuller) – 2:37
  9. "Jack-A-Roe" (Traditional) – 4:05
  10. "Deep Elem Blues" (Traditional) – 4:51
  11. "Cassidy" (Weir/Barlow) – 4:38
  12. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia/Hunter) – 8:59
  13. "Rosalie McFall" (Monroe) – 2:54
  14. "On The Road Again" (Traditional) – 3:15
  15. "Bird Song" (Garcia/Hunter) – 7:34
  16. "Ripple" (Garcia/Hunter) – 4:38

2006 Bonus Material, Disc two

  1. "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia/Hunter) – 9:12
  2. "Iko Iko" (Live) (Traditional/Crawford) – 4:23
  3. "Heaven Help The Fool [instrumental version]" (Weir/Barlow) – 6:18
  4. "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:41
  5. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:14
  6. "Little Sadie" (Traditional) – 2:45
  7. "It Must Have Been The Roses" (Hunter) – 7:01
  8. "Dark Hollow" (Traditional) – 4:30
  9. "Jack-A-Roe" (Traditional) – 5:08
  10. "Cassidy" (Weir/Barlow) – 5:06
  11. "China Doll" (Garcia/Hunter) – 5:52
  12. "Monkey And The Engineer" (Fuller) – 2:37
  13. "Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie" (Cotten) – 7:13
  14. "Ripple" (Garcia/Hunter) – 4:37
  15. "Tom Dooley" (Live, 1978) (Traditional) – 3:33
  16. "Deep Elem Blues" (Traditional) – 3:42

Musical personnel

Credits

Greg Fulginiti: Mastering

Recording dates

All tracks (except for the first and the last two on the bonus CD) have been recorded during a 23 show run in September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and at Radio City Music Hall in New York.

Recording dates:

Charts

Album: Billboard

Year Chart Position
1981 Pop Albums 43

Singles: Billboard

Year Single Chart Position
1981 "Dire Wolf" Mainstream Rock 37

References

  1. ^ Allmusic review
  2. ^ Robert Christgau review
  3. ^ a b Grateful Dead Family Discography: Reckoning. Retrieved 25 June 2009.