Cornell 5/8/77

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Cornell 5/8/77
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedMay 5, 2017
RecordedMay 8, 1977
Venue Barton Hall (Ithaca, New York)
Genre Rock
Length154:56
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
May 1977: Get Shown the Light
(2017)		Cornell 5/8/77
(2017)		 Long Strange Trip
(2017)

Cornell 5/8/77 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead, recorded on May 8, 1977, at Barton Hall, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York. In 2011, the recording was selected for inclusion in the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress. [1] [2]

Contents

Background

The May 8, 1977, show is a fan favorite, and is widely considered to be one of the band's best performances. [3] Tickets to attend the general admission concert cost $7.50 (equivalent to $38in 2023), [4] and the soundboard recording was made by longtime Grateful Dead audio engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson. During this tour, the Grateful Dead visited Ithaca's Moosewood Restaurant, "only to go unrecognized by the members of the collective." [5]

The album of the show was released as a three-disc CD and as a five-disc LP on May 5, 2017, three days shy of the 40th anniversary of the original performance. [6] [7] [8] [9] The same recording was also released on May 5, 2017 as part of the four-concert, eleven-CD box set May 1977: Get Shown the Light . [10] [11]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [12]
Jazzwise Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine on AllMusic wrote, "Sourced from the original soundboard recordings by Betty Cantor-Jackson, the sound is colorful and vivid, an excellent complement to a prime Dead performance. What makes this such an exceptional performance isn't that it's the Grateful Dead at their most experimental... but at their warmest.... If this isn't the best Grateful Dead show ever – a hard thing to quantify – it's nevertheless at the sweet spot of providing hardcore Deadheads with plenty to savor while offering a good introduction for neophytes, which is more than enough to make it essential." [12]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:34
  2. "Loser" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 7:58
  3. "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:51
  4. "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:29
  5. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 6:29
  6. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:10
  7. "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 3:26
  8. "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) – 4:48
  9. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:49
  10. "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 3:12
  11. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:14

Disc 2

  1. "Dancing in the Street" (William Stevenson, Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter) – 16:32
Second set:
  2. "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:15
  3. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 15:40
  4. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:49

Disc 3

  1. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 5:03
  2. "Not Fade Away" > (Norman Petty, Charles Hardin) – 16:20
  3. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 1:54
  4. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 14:17
Encore:
  2. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:10

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart (2017)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [14] 121
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [15] 35
Italian Albums (FIMI) [16] 83
Scottish Albums (OCC) [17] 67
US Billboard 200 [18] 25

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