Grateful Dead Completes ‘30 Days Of Dead’ 2021
Stream or download all 30 selections picked by archivist David Lemieux.
By Scott Bernstein Dec 3, 2021 • 7:29 am PST
Publicity Photo by Ed Eguedelo via Arista/Ren Grevatt Associates
Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux picked 30 live tracks shared throughout the month of November for this year’s 30 Days Of Dead audio series. Each of the tracks, with some containing multiple songs from the same night, are available for free streaming or download as MP3 via Dead.net.
30 Days Of Dead 2021 features tracks from the band’s vault spanning 1969 through 1994. Twelve days were devoted to music from the 1970s, while the 1980s were represented on 11 days and six were drawn from the Grateful Dead’s 1990s concerts.
Highlights include a rousing “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire On The Mountain” sequence from San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre on October 14, 1980; an expansive “Playing In The Band” from October 15, 1984; a powerful “He’s Gone”/”The Other One” pairing from December 5, 1979 and a fiery “The Wheel” > “Terrapin Station” from April 22, 1977. Most track were previously unreleased.”
Follow this link to download a ZIP file featuring MP3 of all 30 tracks.
30 Days Of Dead 2021 Tracklist
- Bird Song, Jack Straw (10/12/1989 — East Rutherford, NJ)
- Bertha (11/14/1971 — Fort Worth, TX)
- Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain (10/14/1980 — San Francisco, CA)
- Loose Lucy, Black-Throated Wind (07/25/1974 — Chicago, IL)
- Box Of Rain (5/26/1973 — San Francisco, CA)
- Dire Wolf, My Brother Esau (9/16/1987 — New York City, NY)
- Playing In The Band (10/15/1984 — Hartford, CT)
- Wharf Rat (11/15/1972 — Oklahoma City, OK)
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (5/26/1973 — Baltimore, MD)
- Feel Like A Stranger (10/19/1994 — New York City, NY)
- Cold Rain and Snow (4/3/1988 — Hartford, CT)
- Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower (4/21/1984 — Philadelphia, PA)
- He’s Gone > The Other One (12/5/1979 — Chicago, IL)
- Cumberland Blues (2/11/1970 — New York City, NY)
- Estimated Prophet > Crazy Fingers (6/28/1988 — Saratoga Springs, NY)
- Stagger Lee (2/25/1990 — Oakland, CA)
- Looks Like Rain, Box Of Rain, He’s Gone (3/29/1993 — Albany, NY)
- Touch Of Grey, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose (3/18/1991 — Landover, MD)
- Blow Away (7/29/1988 — Monterey, CA)
- Scarlet Begonias (10/01/1976 — Indianapolis, IN)
- High Time (11/07/1969 — San Francisco, CA)
- Peggy-O (3/21/1992 — Hamilton, ON)
- The Wheel > Terrapin Station (4/22/1977 — Philadelphia, PA)
- Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance > Deal (04/04/1985 — Providence, RI)
- Stella Blue (7/16/1972 — Hartford, CT)
- Playing In The Band > China Doll > Jam (8/31/1983 — Eugene, OR)
- Far From Me (6/23/1990 — Eugene, OR)
- Cassidy, Tennessee Jed (04/01/1986 — Providence, RI)
- Weather Report Suite (11/23/1973 — El Paso, TX)
- Dark Star > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue (10/25/1973 — Madison, WI)
