Shakedown Street (song)

Song_infobox
Name = Shakedown Street


Artist = the Grateful Dead
Album = Shakedown Street
Released = November 15, 1978
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Folk rock
Rock and roll
Length = 4:59
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer = Jerry Garcia
Label = Arista
Producer = Lowell George
[ Chart position = ]
prev = "France"
prev_no = 2
next = "Serengetti"
next_no = 4

"Shakedown Street" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia.Cite web|url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/shak.html|title=The Annotated "Shakedown Street"|accessdate=2007-02-21|author=Dodd, David|work=The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics|format=html] It was released as the title track on the album "Shakedown Street" in November of 1978. It was later released as Arista single 0410 in April of 1979, with the song "France" on the b-side; it did not chart.

The song was first performed live on August 31, 1978 at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre, in Morrison, Colorado. The song "From the Heart of Me" was also played for the first time during the performance.

Shakedown street is also a colloquial term for the area outside of a concert where various merchandise is bought and sold.

ee also

* Dark Star
* Musical improvisation

Notes

External links

* [http://dead.net/index2.php Dead.net] , the official site of the Grateful Dead.