Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8

Infobox Album |
Name = Grateful Dead
Download Series Volume 8
Type = Live Album
Artist = Grateful Dead


Released = 2005
Recorded = December 10, 1973
Genre = Rock
Label = Grateful Dead Productions
Producer =
Last album = "Volume 7"
(2005)
This album = "Volume 8"
(2005)
Next album = "A Night at the Family Dog"
(2005)

Volume 8 is the eighth in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on December 6, 2005 and is a two-disc release of a nearly complete show the band performed on December 10, 1973 at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Three songs had to be left out from the first set due to issues over sound quality.

Volume 8 was mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

Disc one

# Bertha (Garcia, Hunter)
# Mexicali Blues (Weir, Barlow)
# Deal (Garcia, Hunter)
# Big River (Cash)
# Don't Ease Me In (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
# Playing In The Band (Weir, Hart, Hunter)
# Promised Land (Berry)
# Peggy-O (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
# Row Jimmy (Garcia, Hunter)
# Me and Bobby McGee (Kristofferson, Foster)
# Big Railroad Blues (Lewis, Arr. By Grateful Dead)

Disc two

# Truckin' > – 9:00 (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
# Nobody's Fault But Mine > – 5:07 (Johnson)
# Eyes Of The World > – 13:20 (Garcia, Hunter)
# Brokedown Palace – 6:23 (Garcia, Hunter)
# China Cat Sunflower > – 5:16 (Garcia, Hunter)
# I Know You Rider – 8:41 (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
# Sugar Magnolia > – 6:16 (Weir, Hunter)
# Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > – 8:46 (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead)
# Sunshine Daydream – 3:11 (Weir, Hunter)
# Casey Jones – 7:26 (Garcia, Hunter)

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Jerry Garcia: lead guitar, vocals

Keith Godchaux: piano

Bill Kreutzmann: drums

Phil Lesh: electric bass

Bob Weir: rhythm guitar, vocals

Recording by Kidd Candelario
Mastering by Jeffrey Norman