Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway

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Grateful Dead Download Series:
Family Dog at the Great Highway
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedDecember 6, 2005
RecordedFebruary 4, 1970
October 5, 1970
December 31, 1970
VenueFamily Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA
Winterland, San Francisco
Length79:43
Label Grateful Dead Productions
Grateful Dead chronology
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8
(2005)
Grateful Dead Download Series:
Family Dog at the Great Highway

(2005)
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 9
(2006)

Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on December 6, 2005, along with Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8 . It was recorded on February 4, 1970 at Family Dog at the Great Highway, in San Francisco, California. Three of the songs (tracks 1,4, and 5) were broadcast on an NET television special at the time. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Three bonus tracks also date from 1970 in San Francisco. "Dancing in the Streets" is from October 5, 1970; "Monkey and the Engineer" and "Good Lovin'" are from December 31, 1970 (see The Closing of Winterland for another track from the latter concert).

The album is not to be confused with the similarly titled Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70 , recorded the same year at the same venue.

Track listing

  1. "Hard to Handle" (Otis Redding, Allen Jones, Al Bell) – 6:43
  2. "Black Peter" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 9:33
  3. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:29
  4. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04 →
  5. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:53
  6. "St. Stephen" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter) – 2:18 →
  7. "Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 6:58 →
  8. "St. Stephen" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:22 →
  9. "In the Midnight Hour" (Wilson Pickett, Steve Cropper) – 8:16
Bonus tracks
  1. "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, William "Mickey" Stevenson, Ivy Jo Hunter) – 12:14
  2. "Monkey and the Engineer" (Jesse Fuller) – 2:45
  3. "Good Lovin' " (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 15:08
    • December 31, 1970 at Winterland, San Francisco

Personnel

Grateful Dead

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