Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 1

On AllMusic, Jesse Jarnow said, "Rivaling the spring of 1972 as the most-plundered season in the Grateful Dead's live catalog, the spring of 1977 found the Dead playing at their platonic best. It was during that period that the Dead struck what, for many, remains the perfect balance of tightness and energy of performance... The band's April 30th show at the Palladium – the first release in their downloads series, and the sixth extended release from the spring of 1977, including one box set – has an advantage on the much revered show recorded in Ithaca on May 8th: an actual open-ended jam. A 15-minute "Not Fade Away" veers into deep, melodic abstraction before languidly segueing into Garcia's heart-wrenching ballad "Stella Blue"." ==Track listing==

Disc one First set: • "The Music Never Stopped" (John Perry Barlow, Bob Weir) - 7:05 • "Bertha" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) - 6:19 • "It's All Over Now" (Bobby Womack) - 8:04 • "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:11 • "Mama Tried" > (Merle Haggard) - 2:38 • "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) - 3:04 • "Peggy-O" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 7:46 • "Looks Like Rain" (Barlow, Weir) - 9:39 • "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:06 • "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) - 4:53 Disc two Second set: • "Scarlet Begonias" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:05 • "Fire on the Mountain" > (Hunter, Mickey Hart) - 11:27 • "Good Lovin' " (Rudy Clark, Artie Resnick) - 5:47 • "Friend of the Devil" (John Dawson, Hunter, Garcia) - 8:42 • "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) - 9:01 Disc three • "St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Phil Lesh) - 4:34 • "Not Fade Away" > (Buddy Holly, Norman Petty) - 14:57 • "Stella Blue" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:09 • "St. Stephen" > (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh) - 0:49 • "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) - 5:33 • Encore: "Terrapin Station" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:20 • "Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) - 14:18 • "Scarlet Begonias" > (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:45 • "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 10:17 7 - 9 are bonus tracks from 4/29/77 ==Personnel==

Grateful Dead • Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals • Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals • Keith Godchaux – keyboards • Mickey Hart – drums • Bill Kreutzmann – drums • Phil Lesh – electric bass • Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals Production • Betty Cantor-Jackson – recording • Jeffrey Norman – mastering ==References==