The Golden Road (1965 - 1973)

Grateful Dead - The Golden Road (1965 - 1973)

The Golden Road (1965 - 1973)
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Artist: Grateful Dead
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Rhino
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Early Morning Rain
  2. I Know You Rider
  3. Mindbender (Confusion's Prince)
  4. The Only Time Is Now
  5. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
  6. Can't Come Down
  7. Stealin' (Instrumental)
  8. Stealin' (With Vocals)
  9. Don't Ease Me In (Instrumental)
  10. Don't Ease Me In (With Vocals)
  11. You Don't Have To Ask
  12. Tastebud (Instrumental)
  13. Tastebud (With Vocals)
  14. I Know You Rider
  15. Cold Rain And Snow (Instrumental)
  16. Cold Rain And Snow (With Vocals)
  17. Fire In The City - Jon Hendricks
Music CD 2
  1. Viola Lee Blues
  2. Don't Ease Me In
  3. Pain In My Heart
  4. Sitting On Top Of The World
  5. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
  6. I'm A King Bee
  7. Big Boss Man
  8. Standing On The Corner
  9. In The Pines
  10. Nobody's Fault But Mine
  11. Next Time You See Me
  12. One Kind Favor
  13. He Was A Friend Of Mine
  14. Keep Rolling By
Music CD 3
  1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
  2. Beat It On Down The Line
  3. Good Morning Little School Girl (Full-Length Version)
  4. Cold Rain And Snow
  5. Sitting On Top Of The World (Full-Length Version)
  6. Cream Puff War (Full-Length Version)
  7. Morning Dew (Full-Length Version)
  8. New, New Minglewood Blues (Full-Length Version)
  9. Viola Lee Blues
  10. Alice D. Millionaire
  11. Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)
  12. Tastebud
  13. Death Don't Have No Mercy
  14. Viola Lee Blues (Edited Version)
  15. Viola Lee Blues (Live)
Music CD 4
  1. That's It For The Other One
  2. New Potato Caboose
  3. Born Cross-Eyed
  4. Alligator
  5. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
  6. Alligator (Live)
  7. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) (Live)
  8. Feedback (Live)
Music CD 5
  1. St. Stephen
  2. Dupree's Diamond Blues
  3. Rosemary
  4. Doin' That Rag
  5. Mountains Of The Moon
  6. China Cat Sunflower
  7. What's Become Of The Baby
  8. Cosmic Charlie
  9. Clementine Jam
  10. Nobody's Spoonful Jam
  11. The Eleven Jam
  12. Cosmic Charlie (Live)
Music CD 6
  1. Dark Star
  2. St. Stephen
  3. The Eleven
  4. Turn On Your Love Light
  5. Death Don't Have No Mercy
  6. Feedback
  7. And We Bid You Goodnight
Music CD 7
  1. Uncle John's Band
  2. High Time
  3. Dire Wolf
  4. New Speedway Boogie
  5. Cumberland Blues
  6. Black Peter
  7. Easy Wind
  8. Casey Jones
  9. New Speedway Boogie (Alternate Mix)
  10. Dire Wolf (Live)
  11. Black Peter (Live)
  12. Easy Wind (Live)
  13. Cumberland Blues (Live)
  14. Mason's Children (Live)
  15. Uncle John's Band (Live)
Music CD 8
  1. Box Of Rain
  2. Friend Of The Devil
  3. Sugar Magnolia
  4. Operator
  5. Candyman
  6. Ripple
  7. Brokedown Palace
  8. Till The Morning Comes
  9. Attics Of My Life
  10. Truckin'
  11. Truckin' (Single Version)
  12. Friend Of The Devil (Live)
  13. Candyman (Live)
  14. Till The Morning Comes (Live)
  15. Attics Of My Life (Live)
  16. Truckin' (Live)
Music CD 9
  1. Bertha
  2. Mama Tried
  3. Big Railroad Blues
  4. Playing In The Band
  5. The Other One
  6. Me & My Uncle
  7. Big Boss Man
  8. Me & Bobby Mcgee
  9. Johnny B. Goode
  10. Wharf Rat
  11. Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad
  12. Oh, Boy!
  13. I'm A Hog For You
Music CD 10
  1. Cumberland Blues
  2. He's Gone
  3. One More Saturday Night
  4. Jack Straw
  5. You Win Again
  6. China Cat Sunflower
  7. I Know You Rider
  8. Brown-Eyed Woman
  9. Hurts Me Too
  10. Ramble On Rose
  11. Sugar Magnolia
  12. Mr. Charlie
  13. Tennessee Jed
  14. The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion)
Music CD 11
  1. Truckin'
  2. Epilogue
  3. Prelude
  4. Morning Dew
  5. Looks Like Rain
  6. Good Lovin'
  7. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
  8. Who Do You Love?
  9. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks)
  10. Good Lovin'
Music CD 12
  1. Katie Mae
  2. Dark Hollow
  3. I've Been All Around This World
  4. Wake Up Little Susie
  5. Black Peter
  6. Smokestack Lightnin'
  7. Hard To Handle
  8. Good Lovin'
  9. Big Boss Man
  10. Smokestack Lightnin' (Version Two)
  11. Sitting On Top Of The World

Music reviews of The Golden Road (1965 - 1973)

Music Review: A box set for the ages
Rating: 5 Stars

This box set includes ALL the Warner Bros. Dead albums unlike Deyond Discription whitch omits Steal Your Face and Without A Net. It also includes the extra set Birth Of The Dead.

Birth Of The Dead:

The Grateful Dead: This is actually a pretty good album and it includes some fun early stuff. The songs are not as good as they would come up with later but it does give a good clue as to what the band was doing at that point in their career. Most of the songs on the album were covers. One of the songs - The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) has been a fan favorite for years. This was also before Robert Hunter came back into the scene to write the lyrics. The new bonus tracks are very good and a nice listen.

Anthem Of The Sun: The band's first truely great album. Very creative and different from anything else. This album mixed live and studio recordings together to create a seemless jam that sounds like nothing else. The only breaks are the brief pause between Born Cross-Eyed and the break for the side change. The new bonus songs are from the night before Two From The Vault was recorded. Back in 1971, both Anthem and Aoxomoxoa were remixed, Anthem by Phil and Aoxomoxoa by Jerry. Phil later regretted remixing this album promising that next time it came out it would be the original mix. Thankfully, they went for the original July '68 mix for the cd versions of this release and not the crappy 7/71 remix.

Aoxomoxoa: This album was first released in 6/69, then remixed and rereleased in 7/71. Most people who know the original, like me, perfer it. The album itself has many great songs on it - Saint Stephen, China Cat Sunflower, Cosmic Charlie, Dupree's Diamond Blues, and Rosemary among others. Even the one more obscure track What's Become Of The Baby is actually pretty interesting once you start getting into it. The bonus songs actually kick this up a star and have made this version a must have.

LiveDead: This is a very good album. The only reason I didn't give this version a five is because of the ommission of Bob's voice at the end of Lovelight. Get the original cd that still has Weir singing at the end of Lovelight.

Workingman's Dead: This is a longtime fan favorite and for good reason. Many of the songs on here would become signature tunes for the rest of the band's career. Uncle John's Band, Black Peter as well as Casey Jones. When the band started to work on the album, co-producer Bob Matthews had put together a tape of all the songs from live versions in the order of what would be the album. The band then went into the studio for a couple of weeks, as opposed to months after their last studio effort and cut the album after working hard on the tunes. All of the tunes here were already in the band's playlist which is why the live arrangements from the time don't differ much from the albums. As opposed to American Beauty where most of the songs were leared and even written in the studio.

American Beauty: This is a good introduction for newer fans who might find it difficult at first getting used to their more "spaced out" cds. All the songs are warm and easily accessible. This and Workingman's Dead also seem to appeal to non-Dead Head types. What a collection of songs - Box Of Rain, Truckin', Ripple, ect. A very warm disc all the way around.


Grateful Dead (aka Skull & Roses): This is a great live album dispite that it doesn't really represent the period right. Spring tour 1971 featured alot of Pigpen tunes in the setlists but only one appears here. Due to Pigpen's illness, most of his parts are erased and overdubbed by Merle Saunders. Vocal overdubs were also added. On all of the lp copies you hear Phil singing backing vocals on Bertha. For whatever reason, on all the new remixed, remastered and newly released albums for this period this also happens. Buy this disc with Ladies and Gentlemen and get a good dose of the Dead from spring'71. Not Fade Away/Goin' Down The Road is one of the all time best.

Europe '72: I couldn't decide between giving this four or five stars. A good album but like Grateful Dead(skull and roses)this one also has overdubs both on Pig's parts and vocal overdubs. In other words, the basic tracks were recorded live and then added to in the studio. A large bit of the bonus(Good Lovin'ect) is from 4-14-72 and, unlike most people, i've never been a big fan of that performance.

History Of The Grateful Dead (Bear's Choice): When Bear was picking the songs for this release, he wanted something that would pay tribute to Pigpen and also feature songs that, for the most part anyway, hadn't already appeared on an album and went back to one of his favorite run of shows 2-13 & 14-70 Fillmore East late shows in New York City (Dick's Picks 4 features more from this great run). Originally it was going to include some pre Dead tunes. While others seemed to not really pay much attention, as a kid, I loved it.

The first side showcases Bob and Jerry's acoustic outing with Bobby's singing on Dark Hollow was/is tear jerking and when Jerry joins in, it's something else. This IS REAL country here and not that phony laid back pop emotionless junk but really heartfelt. I've Been All Around The World is Jerry at his playful best and Black Peter always put me into a trace. The second half featured the electric Dead backing Pig. Smokestack Lightnin' is full of twists and turns. Thundering along in places and very quiet in other places. I love the sound of the guitars and very full of drums. Hard To Handle is straight up rockin'. Years ago, I used to be able to do a good Pig imitation and this was the song. The bonus songs are also great, Good Lovin'(from the early show, 2-13-70) rocks out at a nice clip. The second Smokestack (2-8-70 Fillmore West, San Francisco) shows how different the Dead could take even a basic blues tune in the very next version. Big Boss Man (2-5-70 Fillmore West) blows away the Grateful Dead (aka Skull & Roses) version. Sittin' On Top Of The World (2-8-70 Fillmore West) is again, execellent. I should also point out, that untill Reckoning was released in April 1981, this was the only place that you could officially get acoustic Dead and until the vaul reases starting in the early '90's, this was the only place you could get many of these tunes on record.
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Considering the amount of posthumous product released since Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead's demise in 1995, perhaps a better name for the band would be the Living Dead. However, there is no denying the fact that the Dead's music--at various times thrilling, adventurous, simple, futuristic, old-fashioned, ethereal, abominable, ridiculous, and sublime--bears this kind of deep exploration. Rhino's 12-disc bonanza is the definitive look at the Dead's formative years, a fantastically creative nine-year period for Warner Bros. In 1965, they were a bunch of ex-folk and bluegrass musicians who were looking to jump on the rock bandwagon driven by the Beatles. The ensuing decade found them travel a sort of circular path that began with revved-up renditions of their folk and blues favorites. Then they maneuvered through intense, far-reaching, mind-blowing psychedelic experiments, settled into timeless stripped-down Americana, and ended atop a mountain where folk, blues, country, jazz, and psychedelic rock lived in near-perfect harmony.

All of the band's nine official Warner releases (five studio discs, four live) have been superbly remastered and buffed with extra tracks that include unheard studio jams and outtakes, plus contemporaneous live cuts. There's also two discs' worth (one studio, one live) of rare early material that predates their Warner Bros. debut. Each "album" comes in its own package with its own notes, while the box itself offers a 75-page booklet filled with thoughtful essays, personal reflections, and great photos. Clearly, Rhino has thrown down the gauntlet to Deadheads everywhere: they know you have most of this stuff in a variety of forms, but with the bounty of bonus tracks, the superior sound, and the wonderful packaging it's as if they're issuing a challenge not to buy this exquisite collection. --Marc Greilsamer

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