Saint of Circumstance

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Saint of Circumstance
Saint-of-Circumstance.jpg
Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedSeptember 27, 2019
RecordedJune 17, 1991
Venue Giants Stadium
East Rutherford, New Jersey
Genre Rock
Label Rhino
Producer Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991
(2019)		Saint of Circumstance
(2019)		 Dave's Picks Volume 32
(2019)
Ticket stub from the concert Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium 6-17-1991 Concert Ticket.jpg
Ticket stub from the concert

Saint of Circumstance is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 17, 1991. It was released on September 27, 2019, on three CDs or five LPs. The same recording was also released the same day as part of the 14-CD album Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 . [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

A video of this concert was shown in theaters on August 1, 2019 as that year's Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies. [5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [7]

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "A somewhat legendary taper's classic, the band's second night at New Jersey's 80,000 capacity Giants Stadium in the summer of 1991 was a predictably unpredictable behemoth lauded more for its oddities than overall cohesion. Boasting the relatively short-lived two-man keyboard battery of Bruce Hornsby (piano, accordion) and Vince Welnick (synths), the show's lush tonal palette was a hallmark of this era.... ["Dark Star"] seems to exist as more of a spiritual undercurrent, spurring on other improvisations, some of which get quite heady." [7]

Doug Collette of All About Jazz commented: "Garcia's guitar playing is pointed and precise, while his navigation of the ensemble is careful, purposeful and rife with surprise in both selection of song(s) and the segues between them." He noted: "this setlist is full of material through which the late cultural icon speaks or tenders implicit personal observation that add weight even to otherwise slight songs like 'Loose Lucy'." [6]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Eyes of the World" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 15:26
  2. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson, arranged by Bob Weir) – 7:01
  3. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:10
  4. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 1:32
  5. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Bob Dylan) – 5:28
  6. "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:16
  7. "Cassidy" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 7:11
  8. "Might as Well" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41

Disc 2

Second set:
  1. "Saint of Circumstance" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:55
  2. "Ship of Fools" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:01
  3. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 1:14
  4. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 6:55
  5. "New Speedway Boogie" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:12
  6. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 0:55
  7. "Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:18
  8. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 8:05
  9. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 12:30

Disc 3

  1. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 8:47
  2. "China Doll" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:07
  3. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 4:35
  4. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:53
Encore:
  2. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:20

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart (2019)Peak
position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ) [8] 19

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