Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973 The Complete Recordings (2009)

Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (Rhino)

When the recordings of the Grateful Dead’s November 9th - 11th, 1973 run at Winterland vanished from the Live Music Archive, I knew something must be up. After a very long wait, Rhino has delivered the goods with a NINE-DISC box set. This is the perfect example of Rhino taking music that has been free to traders for over 30 years and making it worth the sizable price tag. The tapes have been scrubbed clean, and this sounds as good as it probably did when it first floated up to the Winterland rafters. 1973 was a watershed year for the Grateful Dead: They had lost the whiskified blues of Ron “Pig Pen” McKernan, but they gained an austere jazz-sensibility in their playing. Their concerts were epic in size and scope (There are over 75 tracks here, folks) and oh, what jamming. The double-decker sonic sandwich of “Playing in the Band” into “Uncle John’s Band” into “Morning Dew” and back into “Uncle John’s” before finishing off the original “Playing” (whew!) from the night of the 10th and the EPIC “Dark Star” into the “Mind Left Body Jam” into “Eyes of the World” from the 11th are among the highlights that have earned these shows their place in Deadhead lore. But there are other, less daunting, gems sprinkled throughout (an exquisite take on the rarely played “To Lay Me Down”). With the hefty price tag and no less than three renditions of Bob Weir’s “Weather Report Suite,” this is aimed at serious heads only.
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Tracks

Live at Winterland, November 09, 1973
Disc 1:
01. Promised Land
02. Brown-Eyed Woman
03. Me & Bobby McGee
04. They Love Each Other
05. Black-Throated Wind
06. Don't Ease Me In
07. Mexicali Blues
08. Row Jimmy
09. The Race Is On
10. China Cat Sunflower
11. I Know You Rider

Disc 2:
01. Playing in the Band
02. Here Comes Sunshine
03. Me and My Uncle
04. To Lay Me Down
05. Big River
06. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
07. Greatest Story Ever Told
08. Bertha

Disc 3:
01. Weather Report Suite
02. Eyes of the World
03. China Doll
04. Around and Around
05. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad
06. Johnny B. Goode

Live at Winterland, November 10, 1973
Disc 4:
01. Bertha
02. Jack Straw
03. Loser
04. Looks Like Rain
05. Deal
06. Mexicali Blues
07. Tennessee Jed
08. El Paso
09. Brokedown Palace
10. Beat it on Down the Line
11. Row Jimmy

Disc 5:
01. Weather Report Suite
02. Playing in yhe Band
03. Uncle John's Band
04. Morning Dew
05. Uncle John's Band
06. Playing in the Band

Disc 6:
01. Big River
02. Stella Blue
03. Truckin'
04. Wharf Rat
05. Sugar Magnolia
06. One More Saturday Night
07. Casey Jones

Live at Winterland, November 11, 1973
Disc 7:
01. Promised Land
02. Bertha
03. Greatest Story Ever Told
04. Sugaree
05. Black-Throated Wind
06. To Lay Me Down
07. El Paso
08. Ramble on Rose
09. Me & Bobby McGee

Disc 8:
01. China Cat Sunflower
02. I Know You Rider
03. Me and My Uncle
04. Loose Lucy
05. Weather Report Suite
06. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
07. Big River

Disc 9:
01. Dark Star
02. Eyes of the World
03. China Doll
04. Sugar Magnolia
05. Uncle John's Band
06. Johnny B. Goode
07. We Bid You Goodnight

Live at Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati OH, December 4, 1973
Bonus Disc:
01. China Cat Sunflower
02. I Know You Rider
03. Truckin'
04. Stella Blue
05. Eyes Of The World
06. Space
07. Sugar Magnolia
08. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
09. Casey Jones

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