Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8

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Download Series Volume 8
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Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedDecember 6, 2005
RecordedDecember 10, 1973
Length149:15
Label Grateful Dead Productions
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Download Series Volume 8

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Download Series Volume 8 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on December 6, 2005. It contains most of the concert that the band performed on December 10, 1973 at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

The songs omitted from the album are "Jack Straw", "Tennessee Jed", "El Paso", and "Brown-Eyed Women" from the first set, and "Me and My Uncle" from the second set.

Volume 8 was mastered in HDCD format by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

Disc one

First set:
  1. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) - 7:01
  2. "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) - 4:12
  3. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:50
  4. "Big River" (Cash) - 4:54
  5. "Don't Ease Me In" (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 4:03
  6. "Playing In The Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) - 20:52
Second set:
  1. "Promised Land" (Berry) - 3:40
  2. "Peggy-O" (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 6:03
  3. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) - 9:49
  4. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) - 5:59
  5. "Big Railroad Blues" (Lewis, Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 4:26

Disc two

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

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

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