The Golden Road 1965-1973

This Rhino box set consists of all the early Grateful Dead albums (remastered, and with bonus tracks) plus two CDs of very early material. The individual remastered albums have now also been released separately (with bonus tracks etc), and have effectively superseded the original albums.

I've listed the previously unreleased tracks here, but not repeated the tracks on the original albums. The live tracks below were later released as downloads in the "Complete Live Rarities Collection" and the studio tracks in the "Complete Studio Rarities Collection".

Advance orders received a bonus recording of the Grateful Dead Documentary
 
BIRTH OF THE DEAD - The Studio Sides
Early Morning Rain demo 3 Nov 1965
I Know You Rider demo 3 Nov 1965
Mindbender (Confusion's Prince) demo 3 Nov 1965
The Only Time Is Now demo 3 Nov 1965
Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) demo 3 Nov 1965 (note 1)
Can't Come Down demo 3 Nov 1965 (note 1)
Stealin' (instrumental) studio Jun 1966
Stealin' studio Jun 1966
Don't Ease Me In (instrumental) studio Jun 1966
Don't Ease Me In studio Jun 1966
You Don't Have To Ask studio Jun 1966
Tastebud (instrumental) studio Jun 1966
Tastebud studio Jun 1966
I Know You Rider studio Jun 1966
Cold Rain And Snow (instrumental) studio Jun 1966
Cold Rain And Snow studio Jun 1966
Fire In The City studio Mar 1967
 
BIRTH OF THE DEAD - The Live Sides
Viola Lee Blues live Jul 1966
Don't Ease Me In live Jul 1966
Pain In My Heart live Jul 1966
Sitting On Top Of The World live Jul 1966
It's All Over Now Baby Blue live Jul 1966
I'm A King Bee live Jul 1966
Big Boss Man live Jul 1966
Standing On The Corner live Jul 1966
In The Pines live Jul 1966
Nobody's Fault But Mine live Jul 1966
Next Time You See Me live Jul 1966
One Kind Favor live Jul 1966
He Was A Friend Of Mine live Jul 1966
Keep Rolling By live Jul 1966
 
Grateful Dead (first LP)
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl studio 1967 (extended version)
Sitting On Top Of The World studio 1967 (extended version)
Cream Puff War studio 1967 (extended version)
Morning Dew studio 1967 (extended version)
New Minglewood Blues studio 1967 (extended version)
Alice D Millionaire studio 2 Feb 1967
Overseas Stomp (Lindy) studio 2 Feb 1967
Tastebud studio 2 Feb 1967
Death Don't Have No Mercy studio 2 Feb 1967
Viola Lee Blues studio Jan 1967
Viola Lee Blues live 3 Sep 1967
 
ANTHEM OF THE SUN
All the original tracks, plus:
Alligator 23 Aug 1968
Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) 23 Aug 1968
Feedback 23 Aug 1968
Born Cross-Eyed (hidden track) single version
 
AOXOMOXOA
All the original tracks, plus:
Clementine Jam studio 13 Aug 1968
Nobody's Spoonful Jam studio 13 Aug 1968
The Eleven Jam studio 13 Aug 1968
Cosmic Charlie 25 Jan 1969
 
LIVE DEAD
All the original tracks, plus:
Dark Star (hidden track) single version
Radio ad for Live Dead (hidden track)
 
WORKINGMAN'S DEAD
All the original tracks, plus:
New Speedway Boogie studio 1970
Dire Wolf 27 Jun 1969
Black Peter 10 Jan 1970
Easy Wind 16 Jan 1970
Cumberland Blues 17 Jan 1970
Mason's Children 24 Jan 1970
Uncle John's Band 23 Dec 1970 (note 2)
Radio ad for Workingman's Dead (hidden track)
 
AMERICAN BEAUTY
All the original tracks, plus:
Truckin' single version
Friend Of The Devil 15 May 1970
Candyman 15 Apr 1970
Till The Morning Comes 4 Oct 1970
Attics Of My Life 6 Jun 1970
Truckin' 26 Dec 1970
Ripple (hidden track) single version
Radio ad for American Beauty (hidden track)
 
GRATEFUL DEAD (Skull & Roses)
All the original tracks, plus:
Oh Boy 6 Apr 1971
I'm A Hog For You Baby 6 Apr 1971
Radio ad for Skull & Roses (hidden track)
 
EUROPE '72
All the original tracks, plus:
The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion) 26 Apr 1972
Looks Like Rain 8 Apr 1972
Good Lovin' > 14 Apr 1972
Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) > 14 Apr 1972
Who Do You Love > 14 Apr 1972
Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) > 14 Apr 1972
Good Lovin' 14 Apr 1972
Bob Weir's Yellow Dog Story (hidden track) ?8 Apr 1972
 
HISTORY OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD VOL 1 (Bear's Choice)
All the original tracks, plus:
Good Lovin' 13 Feb 1970 (early show)
Big Boss Man 5 Feb 1970
Smokestack Lightning 8 Feb 1970
Sitting On Top Of The World 8 Feb 1970
Notes
(1) previously released on So Many Roads (1965-1995)
(2) according to Mike Dolgushkin, the date for this track should be 4 October 1970, not 23 December.



Further Information
For more information on this recording see Matt Schofield's Grateful Dead Family Discography

 


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