SisterBleach

The name Grateful Dead was chosen from a dictionary. According to Phil Lesh, in his biography “…Jer[ry Garcia] picked up an old Britannica World Language Dictionary…[and]…In that silvery elf-voice he said to me, ‘Hey, man, how about the Grateful Dead?’” The definition there was “the soul of a dead person, or his angel, showing gratitude to someone who, as an act of charity, arranged their burial.” According to Alan Trist, director of the Grateful Dead’s music publisher company Ice Nine, Garcia found the name in the Funk & Wagnalls Folklore Dictionary, when his finger landed on that phrase while playing a game of “dictionary”. In the Garcia biography, Captain Trips, author Sandy Troy states that the band was smoking the psychedelic DMT at the time.

1 Truckin’ 08:13
2 Bertha// 00:23
3 It Hurts Me Too 06:19
4 Loser 06:52
5 Dark Hollow 02:54
6 Hard To Handle 08:39
7 Ripple 04:42
8 Me And Bobby McGee 05:52
9 Casey Jones// 04:06
10 Morning Dew 09:35
11 New Mingle//wood Blues 03:05
12 Sugar Magnolia 06:32
13 Black Peter 09:00
14 Beat It On Down The Line 03:15
15 I Second That Emotion 05:07
16 Alligator [3:39] > 03:39
17 Dr//ums [0:51] > 00:50
18 Jam [9:13] > 09:13
19 Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad [4:59] > 04:59
20 Cold Rain And Snow 05:24
21 China Cat Sunflower [4:59] > 04:59
22 I Know You Rider 04:55
23 Greatest Story Ever Told [2:47] > 02:47
24 Johnny B.//Goode 04:12
25 Uncle John’s Band 06:19
26 In The Midnight Hour [9:21] > 09:21
27 And We Bid You Good Night 04:41