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Only new Grateful Dead releases and major changes are noted here. Other items are added and amended regularly but not listed on this page.

May 2008Add a page for Donna Jean And The Tricksters to the related groups section

  Updated information and reformatted pages for the songs on the Garcia/Grisman release Not For Kids Only; Arkansas Traveler, Freight Train, Hop Along Peter, A Horse Named Bill, Hot Corn, Cold Corn, Jenny Jenkins, The Miller's Will, Shenandoah Lullaby, Teddy Bear's Picnic, There Ain't No Bugs On Me, Three Men Went A-Hunting and When First Unto This Country.

April 2008Updated information and reformatted pages for another batch of Old & In The Way songs; Down In The Willow Garden (aka Willow Garden or Rose Connelly), Eating Out Of Your Hand, Midnight Moonlight and When The Golden Leaves Begin To Fall.

  Updated information and reformatted pages for a batch of songs performed by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band in 1987; Blue Yodel #9 (Standin' On The Corner), Bright Morning Stars, Drifting With The Tide, The Girl At The Crossroads Bar, Gone Home, I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail, If I Lose, It's A Long Long Way To The Top Of The World, Poison Love, Ragged But Right and Spike Driver Blues.

  Added the live concert recordings of all the Ratdog tours in 2007 to the Ratdog page.

  Updated information and reformatted pages for another batch of Old & In The Way songs; Angel Band, Blue Mule, How Mountain Girls Can Love, I Ain't Broke (But I'm Badly Bent), Katy Hill, Little Bessie, Old & In The Way, Old & In The Way Breakdown, Rank Stranger and True Life Blues.

March 2008Updated information and reformatted the page for Dark Hollow which was covered by the Grateful Dead and Old & In The Way.

  Added an initial page for the Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings, Grateful Dead box set.

  Updated information and reformatted pages for a number of other songs performed by Old & In The Way; Cedar Hill, Drifting Too Far From The Shore, Fanny Hill, A Good Woman's Love, Hard Hearted, Home Is Where The Heart Is, Lost, Mississippi Moon, On And On, Panama Red, Tragic Romance, Tramp On The Street, Uncle Pen, White Dove, Wicked Path Of Sin and Wild Horses.

Feb 2008Added a Dick's Picks by date page which lists Dick's Picks releases in order of show date
  Added entry for Road Trips: Vol 1, Number 2: October 1977, Grateful Dead, a 2 CD (plus bonus disc) release of live music from October 1977 tour. Second in a proposed series of similar releases
  Updated information and reformatted pages for a number of songs performed by Old & In The Way; Cheyenne, Down Where The River Bends, Fields Have Turned Brown, Going To The Races, The Hobo Song, I'm On My Way Back To The Old Home, Kissimmee Kid, Katie Dear, Lonesome Fiddle Blues, Lonesome LA Cowboy, Love Please Come Home, Monroe's Hornpipe, New Campdown Races, Roanoke, That High Lonesome Sound and You'll Find Her Name Written There.
Jan 2008Added a Vassar Clements discography to the site. There are now discographies for the five main member of Old & In The Way; Vassar Clements plus Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, John Kahn and Peter Rowan.
Dec 2007Updated information and formatting for a number of songs performed by the Jerry Garcia Band including I'll Be With Thee, I'll Take A Melody, Last Train From Poor Valley, Lonesome and a Long Way From Home, Mighty High, My Sisters And Brothers, Strange Man and Who Was John? .
Nov 2007Added initial entry for Road Trips: Vol 1, Number 1: Fall 1979, Grateful Dead a 2 CD (plus bonus disc) release of live music from the Fall 1979 tour. First in a proposed series of similar releases
  Updated information and formatting for the pages for the Stevie Wonder songs covered by Jerry Garcia: Another Star, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Creepin', I Was Made To Love Her and Ngiculela.
Oct 2007Updated information and formatting for the pages for the Nicky Hopkins songs covered by the Jerry Garcia Band in 1975: Edward, Girl From Mill Valley, Lady Sleeps, No Time, Pig's Boogie and Refugee Blues.
  Updated information and formatting for the pages for the Van Morrison songs covered by the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, The Dead, Ratdog and Phil Lesh & Friends: Gloria, And It Stoned Me, Bright Side Of The Road, Crazy Love, He Ain't Give You None, Tupelo Honey, Astral Weeks and Into The Mystic.
Sept 2007Continuation of cover song page updating including Peggy-O.
  Added discographies for Country Weather, The Frantics, Mistress and The Virtues to the Bay Area bands page.
  Updated information and formatting for the pages for the Jesse Winchester songs covered by Jerry Garcia: Biloxi, Every Word You Say and That's A Touch I Like.
August 2007 Continuation of cover song page updating including Just A Hand To Hold (aka He Was A Friend Of Mine) and Turn On Your Lovelight.
  Added more venues and recordings to the various Bay Area music venues discographies section including a discography for The Saloon in North Beach.
July 2007 Continuation of cover song page updating including Ballad Of A Thin Man, Catfish John and Hey Pocky Way and That Would Be Something.
  Added more information and reformatted pages for Alligator, Box Of Rain, Casey Jones, Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks), Cosmic Charlie, Dark Star, Doin' That Rag, Dupree's Diamond Blues, The Eleven, Feedback, Mountains Of The Moon, Rosemary, St. Stephen, Truckin' and Uncle John's Band
June 2007Added more information about cover versions and reformatted pages for Alabama Getaway, Black Muddy River, China Cat Sunflower, Crazy_Fingers, Cumberland Blues, Dire Wolf, Franklin's Tower, Friend Of The Devil, Let It Grow, Ripple, Scarlet Begonias, Shakedown Street, Stella Blue, Sugaree, Touch Of Grey and What's Become Of The Baby
  Updated the Eric Andersen discography.
  Continuation of cover song page updating including Desolation Row and Sing Me Back Home.
May 2007Added initial page for Three From The Vault, Grateful Dead
  Continuation of song page updating including El Paso, I've Been All Around This World, Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie, Queen Jane Approximately and Silver Threads And Golden Needles.
April 2007Further updating of song pages including those for BIODTL, Cold Rain & Snow, Don't Ease Me In, Little Sadie, Me & My Uncle, Monkey And The Engineer, Rosa Lee McFall, Viola Lee Blues and Visions of Johanna.
March 2007Added new Bruce Hornsby album Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby
  Started updating cover song pages. Those with a more comprehensive list of recordings and a new look include Morning Dew, And We Bid You Goodnight, Big Railroad Blues and I Know You Rider.
  General updating of the Sam Francisco/Sixties Music bookshelf page and the Bay Area music venues discographies.
Feb 2007Added discographies for the sixties Bay Area groups the New Delhi River Band, Transatlantic Train, The Dutch Masters, Everything Is Everything, The Bedouins, The Soul Owners, Organized Confusion, The Psy-Kicks, Generation, The Savonics, Faun and The Poor Souls to the Bay Area bands page.
  Added a discography for Creedence Clearwater Revival to the Bay Area bands page.
Jan 2007Added sections for Reconstruction, the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (JGAB), the Heart Of Gold Band, the Donna Jean Band, Comfort, Dinosaurs, Missing Man Formation, the Great American Music Band, Weir / Wasserman, RD3, Phil Lesh & The Hep Kats, David & The Dorks, the Rhythm Devils, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box, the Diga Rhythm Band, Planet Drum, Mickey Hart Band, Roadhog, Robert Hunter And Larry Klein, SerialPod, the Chords, the Crescents, Second Story Men, Mickey And The Hartbeats, Bob Weir and Friends, Bobby Ace and the Cards from the Bottom of the Deck, the Bob Weir Band, The Uncalled Four, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions, Batdorf & Rodney, Silver, the Healy Treece Band, Phil Lesh school and college bands and orchestra, Bobby Hi-Test and the Octane Kids, the Bruce Hornsby Band and the Sheena Easton touring band to the groups with a Dead connection section
  Added a discography for The Waybacks
  Added discographies for the sixties groups William Penn and His Pals, the Berkeley String Quartet, Public Nuisance, Sawbuck, Initial Shock, The Fourth Way, Denise & Company, The Flying Circus, Sound Hole, The Outfit and the Tiny Hearing Aid Company to the Bay Area bands page.
  Added a Grateful Dead Family Discography UK amazon.co.uk astore to the site.
Dec 2006Added a page of Grateful Dead (and related) TV appearances and references.
  Added a Grateful Dead Family Discography amazon.com astore to the site.
  Added the live recordings of the Ratdog Fall 2006 tour to the Ratdog page.
Nov 2006Added an initial page for Live at the Cow Palace: New Year's Eve 1976, Grateful Dead.
  Added a Dark Star Orchestra discography.
  Added information about Kettle Joe's Psychedelic Swamp Revue, the Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble and the Psychedelic Keyboard Trio to the related groups section
Oct 2006Added pages for the Phil Lesh and Friends Live at the Warfield double CD and DVD. These comprise different highlights from the May 18 and 19,2006 shows at the Warfield
  Added the live recordings of the Ratdog Summer 2006 tour to the Ratdog page.
  Added the live recordings from the Phil Lesh & Friends Summer 2006 tour to the Phil Lesh & Friends and Phil Lesh pages.
Sept 2006Deaddisc vacation
August 2006Added an initial page for The Best Of Jerry Garcia
July 2006Added Pure Jerry: Hampton, Virginia, November 9, 1991
June 2006Added about 25 albums to the list of albums that include covers of Grateful Dead songs
May 2006Added more venues to the Bay Area music venues discographies section.
  Added a list of songs performed and recorded to the Kingfish discography.
  Added pages for Ned Lagin / Phil Lesh, PhilHarmonia, Southern Comfort and Broken Angels to the related groups section
April 2006Added pages for Dose Hermanos, Mickey And The Daylites / Robert Hunter And The Mystery Band, Second Sight, Touloos Ta Track and The Valentines to the related groups section
  Added a discography for the Bay Area group Horses
  Updated the Ratdog discography to include all concert CD release up to the April 3, 2006 show.
  Updated the Bruce Hornsby discography to include live concert releases.
  Added a list of songs performed and recorded to the Bobby And The Midnites discography.
  Added the new release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 12 - 4/17/69
March 2006Added the new release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 11 - 6/20/91
  Reorganised the Dead releases by recording date page.
  Added a Sly & The Family Stone discography to the Bay Area bands page.
Feb 2006Added the new release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 10 - 7/21/72
Jan 2006Added the new release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 9 - 4/2 & 3/89
  Moved the site to a new host and restructured in the background.
  Expanded the promo/sampler/bonus disc section.
  Updated the String Cheese Incident discography. On The Road releases from the Fall 2005 tour include a cover versions of Casey Jones (On The Road: October 23, 2005, Knoxville, TN) and Friend Of The Devil (On The Road: October 19, 2005, Charlotte, NC. Also a number of versions of 45th Of November with lyrics by Robert Hunter and a number of songs (Drive, Give Me The Love, It Is What It Is, Just Passin' Through, These Waves and Tinder Box) with lyrics by John Perry Barlow.
Dec 2005Added the two new releases in the official Grateful Dead Download Series Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 8: 12/10/73, Grateful Dead and Grateful Dead Download Series - A Night At The Family Dog 2/4/70, Grateful Dead
  Expanded the Dead releases by recording date page.
Nov 2005Added entry for the seventh release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 7: 9/3 & 4/80, Grateful Dead
  Expanded the section that lists groups that have included at some time a member of the Grateful Dead Related Groups and musicians. Will add biographical/dicographical pages for all these groups over the next few months
Oct 2005Added entry for the sixth release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 6: 3/17/68, Grateful Dead, 2005
  Added initial page for Dick's Picks, Vol. 36, Grateful Dead, 2005 4 CD set from 9/21/72
  Added initial page for Fillmore West 1969: Compilation, Grateful Dead, 2005
Sept 2005Added Bay Area Venues discography listing albums and part albums recorded live at major Bay Area venues
  Added initial page for Garcia Plays Dylan, Jerry Garcia Band / Grateful Dead
  Added a KFOG radio discography
  Added entry for the fifth release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 5: 3/27/88
Aug 2005Added entry for the fourth release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 4: 6/18/76
  Added a String Cheese Incident discography.
July 2005Added entry for the third release in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 3: 10/26/71
  Added initial pages for the Grateful Dead box set Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, also added pages for new Jerry Garcia releases Live at Shoreline DVD, The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary and Pure Jerry: Warner Theatre, March 18, 1978
June 2005Added entries for the first two releases in the official Grateful Dead Download Series: Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 1: 4/30/77 and Grateful Dead Download Series Vol. 2: 1/18/70
  Added entry for Dick's Picks, Vol. 35
  Updated The Ratdog discography with concert CDs released in 2004 and 2005.
  Added a page of songs performed by Phil Lesh & Friends since 1994.
  Added a list of songs performed by Old & In The Way to the existing Old & In The Way page and added a list of songs performed by Garcia/Grisman to the existing Garcia / Grisman page.
May 2005Added the soundboard CD releases of Robert Hunter sets from the Summer 2004 tour to the Robert Hunter page.
  Updated The Dead discography with concert CDs released in 2004. Also added a list of songs performed by The Dead.
  Added pages for the CD release and DVD release of Truckin' Up To Buffalo.
  Added a discography for The Count Five.
April 2005Added a Grateful Dead covers by song page which provides a song by song listing of cover versions of Grateful Dead songs. The original covers page that provides a chronological list of albums that include covers of Dead songs is retained
  Added discographies for a few more of the less well known Bay Area bands: Cave Dwellers, The Chosen Few and The Knight Riders.
March 2005Added entry for Rare Cuts and Oddities 1966, Grateful Dead
  Added discographies for a number of less well known Bay Area bands: Abel, Ariel, The Banshees, The Bees, Black Pearl, Big Foot, Children Of Stone, Family Tree, Group "B", Immediate Family, The Marauders, The Newcastle Five, The Opposite Six, Second Coming, The Shillings, Smokestack Lightning, The Strawberry Window, The Tokays, Us, The Venus Flytrap and Waphphle.
  Added entry for Pure Jerry: Merriweather Post Pavilion, September 1 & 2, 1989
Feb 2005Added discographies for Tower Of Power, Ernie Fischbach / Charles Ewing and Peter Wheat and The Breadmen
  Added discographies for The Answer, The Drongos and Haymarket Riot
  Added entry for Dick's Picks, Vol. 34
Jan 2005Added discographies for John Cipollina and Peter Rowan
Dec 2004Continued expanding the various book lists on the site: Grateful Dead books, San Francisco books and Source and reference material. New sections includes a Richard Brautigan bibliography and a section on magazines and fanzines
Nov 2004Expanded and added detail to the various book lists on the site: Grateful Dead books, San Francisco books and Source and reference material.
  Added entries for Dick's Picks, Vol. 33 and Pure Jerry: Keystone Berkeley, September 1, 1974
Oct 2004Added list of Source and reference material used during research for the site
  Added a discography for Fever Tree and for the US group Kaleidoscope
  Added initial pages for the new Pure Jerry releases Lunt-Fontanne, NYC, 10/31/87 and Lunt-Fontanne, NYC, Best Of The Rest
Sept 2004Added a discography for The Ace Of Cups
  Added entries for the DVD release of the Grateful Dead movie, the 5 CD Grateful Dead movie soundtrack, Festival Express and After Midnight the second release in the Pure Jerry series.
  Added a number of entries to the GD books and San Francisco books sections
Aug 2004Added an initial page for Beyond Description (1973-1989)
July 2004Added a page for Dick's Picks, Vol. 32
  Added discographies for Santana, Clover and The Hedds
June 2004Added a page for the first release in the Jerry Garcia 'Pure Jerry' live archive series Pure Jerry Theatre 1839
  Added a section of selected Grateful Dead and related promotional releases Grateful Dead promotional releases
May 2004Added a page for the Jerry Garcia box set All Good Things
  Amalgamated the existing Robert Hunter song list into a single list of all Hunter songs that have been recorded Robert Hunter songs recorded by Hunter, the Grateful Dead and/or other performers
  Amalgamated the existing lists of albums that include Robert Hunter songs into a single list of all non Hunter and non Grateful Dead albums that include one or more of his songs Recordings that include Robert Hunter songs
April 2004Added a page for the new 'From The Vault' release Rockin' The Rhein
  Added list of the main Grateful Dead studio and live releases organised by the date of recording: Grateful Dead by recording date
  Added a separate page about the Dick's Picks series.
  Added more discographies for Bay Area groups of the mid to late 1960's: Black Swan, Mint Tattoo, Mill Valley Bunch, The Wildflower, Mount Rushmore, The Stepping Stones, Womb and Transatlantic Railroad
March 2004Added discographies for a number of Bay Area groups of the mid to late 1960's: The Electric Company, Day Blindness, Teddy And His Patches, Harbinger Complex, The Bethlehem Exit and Stained Glass
  Added a list of songs written by John Perry Barlow to the John Perry Barlow page.
  Added Dick's Picks, Vol. 31 4 CD set Aug 4 & 5 1974, Philadelphia; Aug 6, 1974, Jersey City
Jan/Feb 2004Added and updated more song pages.
  Added planned track listings for All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions, Been All Around This World, Garcia/Grisman and Weir Here: The Best Of Bob Weir
Dec 2003Added and updated more song pages. Added page of songs recorded or performed live by Ratdog. Added page about songs performed live or recorded by the New Riders Of The Purple Sage.
 Updated and merged existing pages to produce a comprehensive list of Songs recorded by Garcia as group leader or co-leader or with other groups and performers
Nov 2003Added a discography for Copperhead
Oct 2003Added and updated many song pages. These additions will form the basis of various song list pages. The first of these is a list of songs recorded by the New Riders Of The Purple Sage
  Added Dick's Picks, Vol. 30, The Very Best Of The Grateful Dead and The Closing of Winterland
Sept 2003Added a discographies for the Raccoon label and The Final Solution
August 2003Added discographies for The Youngbloods, The Living Children and The Rear Exit
  Added an initial page for The Dead
July 2003Added discography for the San Francisco record label
  Added discographies for Robert Petersen and Gerrit Graham
  Added discographies for Gold and Hammer
June 2003Added Dick's Picks, Vol. 29
  Added a discography for Eric Andersen
May 2003Expanded and corrected the Songbooks list and added a list of books about San Francisco music in the second half of the 1960's
  Added discographies for Joy Of Cooking and Butch Engle & The Styx
April 2003Added View From The Vault IV and Dick's Picks, Vol. 28
  Added discographies for We Five, The Brogues, The Golliwogs, The Tears and Grootna
  Added discography for the Big Beat series of releases Nuggets From The Golden State
March 2003Added a Record label glossary
  Added information about the remastered, expanded versions of Europe '72, Skull & Roses, Bear's Choice and added a page for the double CD release of Birth Of The Dead
  Added discographies for Lee Michaels and The Baytovens
Feb 2003Added information about the remastered, expanded versions of Grateful Dead (1st album), Anthem Of The Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Live/Dead, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty
  Initial stages of updating all song page information
Jan 2003Added Dick's Picks, Vol. 27
  Added the Dylan-Dead Connections section and a basic discography of Bob Dylan
Dec 2002Added the Songs performed by the Dead section
Nov 2002Added discographies for The E-Types and Salvation
Oct 2002Added discographies for Cold Blood and The Flamin' Groovies following a request (and some assistance)
  Added entries for Dick's Picks 26 and Go To Nassau
Sept 2002Added discography for Lamb
Aug 2002Added discographies for Stoneground, Everpresent Fullness, Tongue & Groove and Orphan Egg
  Added View From The Vault 3
July 2002Added discographies for Pacific Gas & Electric and The Maze
  Release of Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72
  Dick's Picks 25 added
June 2002Added discographies for Fifty Foot Hose, Mourning Reign, Afterglow, The Travel Agency, Jorma Kaukonen and Shades Of Joy
May 2002Added discographies for Morning Glory, The Savage Resurrection, Blue Cheer (following a request) and Barry Melton
April 2002Added discographies for The Beau Brummels, Tripsichord (aka Tripsichord Music Box), Autumn Records and Steve Miller Band (following a request)
March 2002Postcards Of The Hanging added
  Added discographies for Electric Flag and Mother Earth
Feb 2002Dick's Picks 24 added
  Added discographies of a more Bay Area bands including Chocolate Watch Band, Syndicate Of Sound and the Vejtables
  Howard Wales discography added
Jan 2002Added discographies of a number of Bay Area bands including Hot Tuna, Big Brother & The Holding Company and The Mystery Trend
Dec 2001Seatrain discography added
Nov 2001Jefferson Airplane discography added
Oct 2001Workingman's Dead and Amercian Beauty DVDAudios added
  Dick's Picks 23 added
Sept 2001Expansion and redesign of the bookshelf section
  Garcia/Grisman discography added
  Grateful Dawg, Nightfall Of Diamonds and Golden Road Box Set added
  List of Grateful Dead DVDs added
  List of Grateful Dead songbooks added
  Quicksilver Messenger Service discography added
Aug 2001David Gans discography added
July 2001Grateful Dead Bookshelf added
  Reorganistion of Jerry Garcia discography to include song lists.
  Rob Wasserman discography added
June 2001View From The Vault II added
  Reorganistion of Robert Hunter discography to include song lists
  Zero discography added
  Tribute album discography added
  Dick's Picks Volume 22 added
May 2001Bob Bralove discography added
  David Grisman discography added
March 2001Dick's Picks Volume 21 and Shining_Star added
  Songs with a Dead connection discography added
Feb 2001Design change to list and index pages
  John Dawson discography added
Jan 2001Don't Let Go (JGB) added
  Dick's Picks Volume 20 added
  David Nelson discography added
  Martin Fierro discography added
  Addition of Songs Recorded by the Dead section
Dec 2000Search function added
  John Kahn discography added
Nov 2000Discography lists for Old and In The Way, The Other Ones and Ratdog
  Addition of Relix Records discography
Sep 2000Jerry Garcia discography now on site
  Addition of Acoustic Disc discography
Aug 2000Addition of Merl Saunders discography
  Addition of Grateful Dead Records (73-76) and Round Records sections
  Addition of Dead on Warner Brothers section
  Launch of full version of discography at www.deaddisc.com
  Expansion of Rex Foundation section
July 2000Addition of Rex Foundation section
  Launch of trial version of discography (gdfd.port5.com)