Grateful Dead Shares Remastered ‘Not Fade Away’ From Cornell ’77

In a little over a week, an official recording of the most famous Grateful Dead show of all-time will finally be released. The band will issue an 11-disc box set titled May 1977: Get Shown The Light via Rhino Records on May 5. Not only does the set include the first official release of the Dead’s epic May 8, 1977 concert at Barton Hall on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, it also features three other shows from May 1977.

The Cornell show will also be released by itself on CD and vinyl and today Relix has premiered remastered audio of the 16-minute cover of Buddy Holly’s “Not Fade Away” from the landmark performance:

“Since the moment that the board tape of Cornell began circulating in the late 1980s, its legend was instantly created,” Lemieux said in a statement. “Although plenty of Grateful Dead shows have been called their ‘best ever,’ in the case of Cornell this statement is rarely contested. It’s long been a dream of everyone in the Grateful Dead organization to release the definitive version of Cornell, drawn from the master tapes, and we’re as thrilled as the fans are that this show is finally being released.”

In addition to Cornell ’77, May 1977: Get Shown The Light will feature the Grateful Dead’s stops in New Haven (May 5, 1977), Boston (May 7, 1977) and Buffalo (May 9, 1977). The new box set and vinyl/CD releases of Cornell ’77 are available for pre-order via Dead.net.

Watch David Lemieux’s Seaside Chat about May 1977: Get Shown The Light:

May 1977: Get Shown The Light Tracklist

May 5, 1977 @ Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum – New Haven, CT

Disc One

• 1. Promised Land
• 2. Sugaree
• 3. Mama Tried
• 4. El Paso
• 5. Tennessee Jed
• 6. Looks Like Rain
• 7. Deal
• 8. Lazy Lightning>
• 9. Supplication
• 10. Peggy-O
• 11. The Music Never Stopped

Disc Two

• 1. Bertha
• 2. Estimated Prophet
• 3. Scarlet Begonias>
• 4. Fire On The Mountain>
• 5. Good Lovin’
• 6. St. Stephen>
• 7. Sugar Magnolia
• 8. Johnny B. Goode

May 7, 1977 @ Boston Garden – Boston, MA

Disc One

• 1. Bertha
• 2. Cassidy
• 3. Deal
• 4. Jack Straw
• 5. Peggy-O
• 6. New Minglewood Blues
• 7. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo>
• 8. Big River
• 9. Tennessee Jed
• 10. The Music Never Stopped

Disc Two

• 1. Terrapin Station
• 2. Samson and Delilah
• 3. Friend Of The Devil
• 4. Estimated Prophet

Disc Three

• 1. Eyes Of The World>
• 2. Drums>
• 3. The Wheel>
• 4. Wharf Rat>
• 5. Around and Around
• 6. U.S. Blues

May 8, 1977 @ Barton Hall – Ithaca, NY

Disc One

• 1. New Minglewood Blues
• 2. Loser
• 3. El Paso
• 4. They Love Each Other
• 5. Jack Straw
• 6. Deal
• 7. Lazy Lightning>
• 8. Supplication
• 9. Brown-Eyed Women
• 10. Mama Tried
• 11. Row Jimmy

Disc Two

• 1. Dancing In The Street
• 2. Scarlet Begonias>
• 3. Fire On The Mountain
• 4. Estimated Prophet

Disc Three

• 1. St. Stephen>
• 2. Not Fade Away>
• 3. St. Stephen>
• 4. Morning Dew
• 5. One More Saturday Night

May 9, 1977 @ Buffalo Memorial Auditorium – Buffalo, NY

Disc One

• 1. Help On The Way>
• 2. Slipknot>
• 3. Franklin’s Tower
• 4. Cassidy
• 5. Brown-Eyed Women
• 6. Mexicali Blues
• 7. Tennessee Jed
• 8. Big River
• 9. Peggy-O
• 10. Sunrise
• 11. The Music Never Stopped

Disc Two

• 1. Bertha>
• 2. Good Lovin’
• 3. Ship Of Fools

Disc Three

• 1. Estimated Prophet>
• 2. The Other One>
• 3. Drums>
• 4. Not Fade Away>
• 5. Comes A Time>
• 6. Sugar Magnolia
• 7. Uncle Johns Band