Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead (album)

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Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead is a live album consisting of audio and video recordings from the Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead concerts. These shows were performed by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, along with Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, and Jeff Chimenti. The album was recorded on July 3, 4, and 5, 2015, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The other two Fare Thee Well concerts, played on June 27 and 28 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California are not included. The album was released on November 20, 2015. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Contents

Versions

The album was released in three versions:

Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set

Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set
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Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set
Live album
ReleasedNovember 20, 2015
RecordedJuly 3–5, 2015
Venue Soldier Field, Chicago
Genre Rock
Label Rhino
Producer David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus

July 3, 2015

Disc one
  1. "Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter)
  2. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter)
  3. "Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Passenger" (Lesh, Peter Monk)
  5. "The Wheel" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Hunter)
  6. "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter)
  7. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, John Perry Barlow)
Disc two
  1. "Mason's Children" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
  2. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter)
  3. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter)
  4. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
  5. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, Jeff Chimenti)
Disc three
  1. "New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Bobby Petersen)
  2. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hunter)
  3. "Jam" (Lesh, Weir, Kerutzmann, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
  4. "Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow)
  5. "Help on the Way" (Garcia, Hunter)
  6. "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux)
  7. "Franklin’s Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
  8. "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc four
Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
  1. "Space Wheel"
  2. "Mountains of the Moon"
  3. "Praying for the Band"
  4. "Tripple"
  5. "Deal Breaker"
  6. "Deadometer"
  7. "Borrow from a Friend"
  8. "Grimes Surf Story"

July 4, 2015

Disc five
  1. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "Liberty" (Garcia, Hunter)
  3. "Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips)
  5. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
  6. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
  7. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon)
  8. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter)
  9. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc six
  1. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan)
  3. "Lost Sailor" (Weir, Barlow)
  4. "Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow)
  5. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc seven
  1. "Foolish Heart" (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
  3. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
  4. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter)
  5. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir)
  6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc eight
Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
  1. "Hallucinate a Solution"
  2. "Ginger Says"
  3. "Saturday's Children"
  4. "Eartha"
  5. "Split Pea Shell"

July 5, 2015

Disc nine
  1. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
  3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
  4. "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
  5. "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
  6. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
  7. "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc Ten
  1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
  2. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
  3. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
  5. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
Disc eleven
  1. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
  2. "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
  3. "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty)
  5. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
  6. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc twelve
Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
  1. "Gilbert’s Groove"
  2. "Farewell Franklins"
  3. "Hat and Cane"
  4. "Never Too Late"
  5. "Scarlotta's Magnolias"

Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015

Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015
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Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015
Live album
ReleasedNovember 20, 2015
RecordedJuly 5, 2015
Venue Soldier Field, Chicago
Genre Rock
Label Rhino
Producer David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus
Disc one
  1. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
  3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
  4. "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
  5. "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
  6. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
  7. "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc two
  1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
  2. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
  3. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
  5. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
Disc three
  1. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
  2. "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
  3. "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty)
  5. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
  6. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)

The Best of Fare Thee Well

The Best of Fare Thee Well
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The Best of Fare Thee Well
Live album
ReleasedNovember 20, 2015
RecordedJuly 3–5, 2015
Venue Soldier Field, Chicago
Genre Rock
Label Rhino
Producer David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus
Disc one
  1. "Box of Rain" (Lesh, Hunter) – July 3 – 5:27
  2. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4 – 15:23
  3. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 7:18
  4. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead) – July 5 – 7:25
  5. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3 – 7:49
  6. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4 – 10:16
  7. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – July 4 – 7:05
  8. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 7:56
  9. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – July 3 – 10:12
Disc two
  1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – July 5 – 14:00
  2. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3 – 11:36
  3. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – July 3 – 6:37
  4. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart) – July 5 – 15:35
  5. "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty) – July 5 – 13:50
  6. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 8:36
  7. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 6:41

Personnel

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