Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 4

Infobox Album |
Name = Grateful Dead
Download Series Volume 4
Type = Live Album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = 2005
Recorded = June 18, 1976
Genre = Rock
Label = Grateful Dead Productions
Producer =
Last album = "Volume 3"
(2005)
This album = "Volume 4"
(2005)
Next album = "Volume 5"
(2005)

Volume 4 is the fourth in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on August 2nd, 2005 and is a three disc set featuring virtually all of the June 18, 1976 show from the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, New Jersey. "Tennessee Jed" was omitted because the master tape was plagued with technical problems that could not be fixed in mastering. As a supplement to this omission, the third disc contains highlights from concerts later in June 1976 in Philadelphia and Chicago.

June 1976 was the beginning on a near non-stop touring circuit by the Dead that would last up until the band dissolving in 1995 after Jerry Garcia's death. Also, Mickey Hart had just recently returned as the second drummer to the band after a five year hiatus. In the middle of June, the band played three nights at the Capitol Theatre.

New songs for 1976 included "The Music Never Stopped", "Crazy Fingers", "Samson and Delilah", and "The Wheel". The show also featured one of only five Grateful Dead performances of Garcia's song "Mission In The Rain".

Volume 4 was mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

Disc one

#"The Music Never Stopped" (John Barlow, Bob Weir)
#"Sugaree" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia)
#"Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard)
#"Crazy Fingers" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Big River" (Johnny Cash)
#"Brown-Eyed Women" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir)
#"Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir)
#"Mission In the Rain" (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Promised Land" (Chuck Berry)

Disc two

#"Samson and Delilah" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead)
#"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh)
#"Not Fade Away" > (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty)
#"St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh)
#"Eyes of the World" > (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Drums" > (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)
#"The Wheel" > (Hunter, Garcia)
#"Sugar Magnolia/Sunshine Daydream" (Hunter, Weir)
#"U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia)

Disc three (bonus tracks)

# Scarlet Begonias "(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Lazy Lightning > "(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Supplication "(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Candyman "(6/21/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Playing In the Band > "(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Drums > "(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# The Wheel > "(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# Playing In the Band "(6/22/76 Tower Theatre, Philadelphia, PA)"
# High Time "(6/28/76 Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, IL)"

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Jerry Garcia: lead guitar, vocals

Donna Jean Godchaux: vocals

Keith Godchaux: Piano

Mickey Hart: drums

Bill Kreutzmann: drums

Phil Lesh: electric bass

Bob Weir: rhythm guitar, vocals

Recording by Betty Cantor-Jackson
Mastering by Jeffrey Norman