Ready or Not (Grateful Dead album)

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Ready or Not
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Live album by
ReleasedNovember 22, 2019
RecordedJune 23, 1992 – April 2, 1995
Genre Rock
Length79:53
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Dave's Picks Volume 32
(2019)
Ready or Not
(2019)
Dave's Picks Volume 33
(2020)

Ready or Not is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains nine songs recorded at various venues from 1992 to 1995. It was released on November 22, 2019, in LP and CD format. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Unfinished Grateful Dead album

In February 1992, the Grateful Dead began work on recording a new studio album. That album was never completed, and the group disbanded in 1995 following the death of Jerry Garcia. Most likely the unfinished studio album would have included the songs that appear on Ready or Not. [2] [3] [4]

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Fred Thomas wrote, "Ready or Not indeed offers a glimpse of what another studio album from what turned out to be the group's later phase would have sounded like, only with the buffer of comfort that comes from them working out the songs on-stage. It's a document not quite like any of the Dead's hundreds of other archival releases, zeroing in on unfamiliar and exciting material." [5]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Liberty" (October 14, 1994 at Madison Square Garden)Garcia6:14
2."Eternity" (April 2, 1995 at Memphis Pyramid)Weir10:10
3."Lazy River Road" (March 25, 1993 at Dean Smith Center)
  • Garcia
  • Hunter
Garcia6:54
4."Samba in the Rain" (March 30, 1995 at Omni Coliseum)Welnick6:44
5."So Many Roads" (June 23, 1992 at Star Lake Amphitheatre)
  • Garcia
  • Hunter
Garcia7:33
6."Way to Go Home" (June 28, 1992 at Deer Creek Music Center)
Welnick6:02
7."Corrina" (October 14, 1994 at Madison Square Garden)
Weir15:27
8."Easy Answers" (September 13, 1993 at The Spectrum)
  • Hunter
  • Bralove
  • Weir
  • Welnick
  • Wasserman
Weir7:00
9."Days Between" (December 11, 1994 at Oakland Arena)
  • Garcia
  • Hunter
Garcia13:25
Total length:79:53

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
US Billboard 200 [6] 172

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