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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.

What's New entries for the years 2000 to 2012 have been archived to the What's New Archive page.



Oct 2023Added a page for the Dave's Picks Volume 48 a 3 CD release of music from the Pauley Pavilion, Los Angeles show on November 20, 1971. Plus some music from the October 24, 1970 St. Louis show.

  Started to reformat the many song pages that are still in the old format - adding information to pages at the same time. Songs reformatted and updated so far include: Acadian Driftwood, Astronomie Domine, The Blues Is Alright, Bud's Bounce, Crazy Arms, Devil's Dream, Dixie Chicken, Don't Put Her Down, Fire On The Bayou, Fly Like An Eagle, Further On Up The Road/Farther Up The Road, Hello Mary Lou, Patchwork Quilt, Swing '42 and Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You.

Sept 2023Added a page for the Wake Of The Flood: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition a 2 CD release comprising a remastered version of the Wake Of The Flood album, two demo tracks and live music from the 11/1/73 Evanston show. Also added a page summarising the Wake Of The Flood: 50th Anniversary LP releases : black vinyl, colored vinyl and picture disc LP releases of the remastered album.

  Added a page listing releases that mark the 50th Anniversaries of Grateful Dead Albums.

  Added a page for Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share a digital only release of outtakes from the Wake Of The Flood recording sessions in August 1973.

  Added pages for a number of songs played by Bob Weir in various settings over the last ten years or so. Songs added include: Baby Did A Bad Bad Thing, Best Of My Love, Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain, Even It Up, Kashmir, New Kid In Town, No Woman No Cry, Poor Elijah - Tribute To Johnson, Queen Of California, Right On Be Free, Seven Curses, The Seventh Son, Stay A Little Longer and Texas 1947.

Aug 2023Updated the Billy & The Kids page to include information about shows played this year. Also updated the song list on the page. Added pages for a number of songs played by the band in the last couple of years: Because The Night, Could You Be Loved, Good Times Roll, Join Together, and Sunflower, Vol. 6.

  Added pages for the Dead & Company Summer Tour shows that have been released on CD and digitally. Updated the Dead & Company page to include these shows.

  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 47 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show at the Kiel Auditorium, St. Louis, MO on December 9, 1979.

  Added a page for the Might As Well: A Round Records Retrospective a 2 LP compilation of tracks from Jerry Garcia's releases on Round Records between 1972 and 1982.

July 2023Updated and reformatted the Merl Saunders discography page. Additions include pages for Merl Saunders singles and also for recent various artist compilations that include Merl Saunders tracks. Also added to the page a list of Merl Saunders compositions that have been released.

  Added a page for the 8 LP edition of the RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73 Grateful Dead show.

  Added pages for the Here Comes Sunshine 1973 17 CD, 5 show box set and for RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73 a 4 CD release of the June 10, 1973 Grateful Dead shows.

  Added a page for Garcia Live: Volume 20 a 2 CD release of the JGB show at Cape Cod Coliseum on June 18, 1982, with four bonus tracks from the JGB show at The Stone on June 1, 1981.
June 2023Added a page for the Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2023, a single CD with music from the September 3 & 19, 1972 Grateful Dead shows.

May 2023Added a page for the digital release of the Goose show Cancún, Mexico, Jan 15, 2023 with Bob Weir sitting in on three songs. Also added pages for a number of other digital releases of Goose shows that include covers of Grateful Dead songs: 04/20/19 (Bridgeport, CT), 05/26/19 (Louisville, KY), 08/10/19 (Indianapolis, IN), 10/19/19 (Cambridge, MA), 12/11/19 (St. Louis, MO), 06/16/21 (Perry, NY), 06/18/21 (Thornville, OH), 12/31/21 (Chicago, IL), 06/10/22 (Thornville, OH), and 04/02/23 (Birmingham, AL). These shows are available via the Goose Bandcamp page.

  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 46 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show at the Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles on September 9, 1972.

  Added pages for the 2023 Record Store Day releases Boston 5/7/77, a 5 LP limited edition release of the May 7, 1977 show, and How Sweet It Is, a double LP release of the Jerry Garcia Band live album that was originally released in 1997.

  Added the Spring 2023 Bob Weir and Wolf Bros shows that have been released on nugs.net to the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page. Also updated the song list on that page to include all new (to the group) songs played in all 2022/2023 shows.

  Added pages for the three Dead & Company January 2023 shows and updated the Dead & Company page.

March 2023Added a number Grateful Dead related studios and other Bay Area studios to the Bay Area Studios page including discography pages for Ace's, The Barn, Club Front and Rudy Records.

  Added more labels to the Bay Area Record Labels page including discography pages for Arhoolie, Bay Records, Black Jazz and Palo Alto 8000 series.

  Added another batch of song pages for songs played by various Phil Lesh groups over the last ten or so years. Songs added include: Back In The USSR, Crash On The Levee (Down In The Flood), Down On The Bottom, Forever Man, Free Mexican Airforce, Freeway To The Canyon, The Genetic Method, Kingfish, Let's Go, Let's Go, Let's Go, Light Up Or Leave Me Alone, Midnight In Harlem, Never Been To Spain, No Quarter, Ooh La La, and Poor Old Dirt Farmer.

  Added about 20 venues to the Bay Area venues page. Also added a few new venue discography pages including the Ashkenaz Music & Dance Community Center (Berkeley), Catalyst (Santa Cruz), Chateau Liberté (Los Gatos), Civic Auditorium (Santa Cruz), Long Branch Saloon (Berkeley), and Margarita's (Santa Cruz).

  Updated the discography pages of the Great American Music Hall and the Warfield Theater.

Febrary 2023Updated the Bay Area Record Labels page. Expanded the Fantasy Records section and added pages for Rag Baby, Metalanguage, Landmark, Scorpio (Fantasy subsidiary) and a number of smaller record labels.

January 2023Added the All For One Band and Philco to the Groups With A Dead Connection page.

  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 45 a 4 CD release of the two Grateful Dead shows in Portland on October 1 & 2, 1977.

  Added a page for Ace: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition a 2 CD release of the Bob Weir solo album from 1972 plus live Bob Weir & Wolf Bros performances of the Ace songs from a 2022 show.

  Added a page listing songs played by Phil Lesh away from the Grateful Dead / Other Ones / Furthur / The Dead.

  Added another batch of song pages for songs played by various Phil Lesh groups over the last ten years. Songs added include: Sweet Talking Hippie, Third Floor Story, Train Leaves Here This Morning, Tweeter And The Monkey Man, Umbrella, Via Chicago, Way Down In The Hole, The Way It Goes, Weed With Willie, West Nashville Boogie, White_Lightning, Who Knows Where The Time Goes?, Wild About My Lovin', Winter, and Yes We Can.

December 2022Added a page for 30 Days Of Dead 2022 listing the 30 day-by-day tracks released on dead.net through November 2022.

  Added a page for Lyceum '72 a single CD release of the New Riders of the Purple Sage set from the May 26, 1972 Grateful Dead / NRPS show at the Lyceum in London.

  Added another batch of song pages for songs played by various Phil Lesh groups over the last ten years. Songs added include: Can't Blame The Youth, Factory Girl, Fire And Brimstone, Free Man In Paris, Hot Burrito #1, Jammin' Me, Love Minus Zero No Limit, Machine Gun Kelly, Maybe I'm Amazed, Merry Christmas From The Family, Rip This Joint, Summer Days, Taken At All, and You Don't Miss Your Water.

November 2022Added a page for Wembley Empire Pool, London, England, 4/7/1972 a 5 LP limited edition Record Store Day Black Friday release of the Grateful Dead show in London on April 7, 1972.

  Added another batch of song pages for songs played by various Phil Lesh groups over the last ten years. Songs added include: I Lost It, I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain, I Threw It All Away, I Will Follow You Into The Dark, I Won't Back Down, I'll Feel A Whole Lot Better, If I Needed You, Isis, It Makes No Difference, and It's Good To Be King.

  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 44 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show in Eugene on June 23, 1990.

  Started adding song pages for songs played by various Phil Lesh groups over the last ten years, that are not already on the site. Songs added include: 555, Ain't Got No Home, Airline To Heaven, All Things Must Pass, All We Really Want To Do, Anyday, Baby Don't You Do It, Burn One Down, Can't Find My Way Home, Caravan, The Circle Game, Doctor My Eyes, Free, and Yarmouth Road. Whilst adding the songs the Play The Beatles, Play Van Morrison, and Play Phish pages have been updated to include relevant songs.

October 2022Updated the song list on the Keith And Donna Band page. Added three new song pages for songs that were played by the group: Mr. Clean, Sweet Inspiration, and That's Enough. Updated and reformatted four further song pages: Knock On Wood, River Deep - Mountain High, A Strange Man, and Tough Mama.

  Added Phil Lesh & The Midnight Ramble Band to the Groups With A Dead Connection page. Also added a page for the song Atlantic City which they played on August 20, 2022.

  Added pages for Garcia Live: Volume 19 a 2 CD release of the Jerry Garcia Band live at Oakland Coliseum Arena on October 31st, 1992 and Live In Colorado, Vol. 2 more music from Bob Weir & Wolf Bros shows in June 2021.

  Added pages for In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83 and Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 3/9/81.

  Added pages for a number of songs played by Jerry Garcia away from the Grateful Dead including Follow The Drinking Gourd, It's Raining Here This Morning, Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, Oh, Mary Don't You Weep, Paddy Works On The Railway, Santy Anno, That's How I Can Count On You, Trouble In Mind, Warm And Tender Love, and Wasn't That A Time?.

September 2022Added pages for a number of songs and jams played, or partly played, by the Grateful Dead including Chevrolet, A Day In The Life, Footprints, A Love Supreme, Mickey Mouse March, My Old Kentucky Home, (Put Another Nickel In) Music! Music! Music!, Sweet Betsy From Pike, Topsy, and Tupelo Blues (aka The Mighty Flood).

  Reviewed the songs played by Jerry Garcia when sitting in with Bob Dylan. Added a page for the song Ain't Gonna Go To Hell For Anybody and updated and reformatted the song pages for Cat's in The Well, Covenant Woman, Girl From The North Country, The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar, Idiot Wind, Just Like A Woman, Slow Train, Solid Rock, and When You Gonna Wake Up?.

  Updated the Record Store Day page to include new Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia RSD releases for the last few of years. Added pages for the following releases:
2019: Electric on the Eel August 10th, 1991 (4 LP) and Garcia Live: Volume One (5 LP)
2020: The Very Best Of Jerry Garcia (5 LP) and Garcia Live: Volume Two (4 LP)
2021: Olympia Theatre, Paris, France, 5/3/1972 (6 LP)
2022: Wembley Empire Pool, London, England, 4/8/1972 (5 LP) and Ragged But Right, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (2 LP).

  Added pages for more songs played by Bob Weir away from the Grateful Dead including Breaking The Hold, Cryin' Time, The Four Mills Brothers, Heartache Tonight, King Of The Hill, New Country, The Sound Of Sunshine, Stomp And Holler, Why Not Me, and You Can't Hurt Me No More.

  Added the series of Wilderness Sessions digital albums by Holly Bowling that were released in 2021. All albums in the series include covers of Grateful Dead songs.The Wilderness Sessions: Vol. 1 Lake Tahoe, Vol. 2 Yosemite, Vol. 3 Salt Flats, Vol. 4 Bruneau Canyon, Vol. 5 Beartooth Mountains, Vol. 6 Badlands, Vol. 7 Casco Bay, Vol. 8 Taos, Vol. 9 Breckenridge, Vol. 10 Hardscrabble Mountain, and Vol. 11 Moab.

August 2022Added the Dead & Company June and July 2022 shows to the Dead & Company page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website. Updated the song list that is on the Dead & Company page to include new songs played during these shows.

  Added the 2022 Bob Weir and Wolf Bros shows that have been released on nugs.net to the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page. Also updated the song list on that page to include all new (to the group) songs played in all 2022 shows.

  Added pages for Grateful Dead and related albums released over the last few months including: Dave's Picks Volume 42, Dave's Picks Volume 43, Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings, Garcia Live: Volume 18: Keystone Berkeley, November 2, 1974, Fillmore West 1969: March 1st, From The Bay To The Pool: Live 1971-1978 (compilation) and Naught Again, Zero.

  Added pages for a number of songs played by Jerry Garcia in various settings including: De Kalb Blues, Dixie Hoedown, Down By The Riverside, Drown In My Own Tears, Five Long Years, I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome, I'm Tore Down, I've Got A Home In That Rock, I've Got A Lovely Bunch Of Coconuts, Ridin' That Midnight Train, Right Now Is The Hour, Stuck On You, and Will You Be Loving Another Man.

  Added two groups (Bobby & The Chew Toys, and The Lame Ducks) to the Groups With A Dead Connection page.


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March 2022Amended a number of song pages for songs played by the Grateful Dead or members of the Grateful Dead in other settings. This has involved correcting mistakes, expanding the pages and reformatting to include images. The songs involved include Addams Family Theme Tuning, Blackberry Blossom, Every Time You Go Away, Forever Young, Games People Play, Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You, Hoochie Coochie Man, It Hurts Me Too, Mule Skinner Blues, Okie From Muskogee, Rip It Up, Spanish Jam, Take Me To The River, Virgin's Lament / Maiden's Prayer, and You've Got To Hide Your Love Away.

  Added pages for more songs played by Bob Weir away from the Grateful Dead including The Blacksmith, Blues, Why Do You Worry Me?, Brick House, Coming Into Los Angeles, Eighteen Wheels, Every Body Is Some Body, Fast As You, Love Can Build A Bridge, Love Thine Enemy, Me And The Devil Blues, My Sweet Lord, Personal Jesus, Saint Dude, Sigh No More, and Suva Serenade.

February 2022Updated the David Grisman discography page. As a result of this update three expanded Deluxe Edition releases of Garcia/Grisman albums have been added: Not for Kids Only: Deluxe Edition, Shady Grove: Deluxe Edition, and Been All Around This World: Deluxe Edition. All the deluxe editions have additional tracks. In addition the David Grisman's Acoustic Christmas: Deluxe Edition has a live Garcia/Grisman bonus track.

  Updated the page of songs played by Bob Weir away from the Grateful Dead with songs played recently and songs missing from the list. Also added pages for a number of songs that are on that list including A Girl I Used To Know, Here Comes The Sun, If Six Was Nine, Little Bluebird, Love's Made A Fool Of You, Mardi Gras Day, No One Else On Earth, Peace And Understanding (Is Hard To Find), Pusherman, Salt Pork, West Virginia, Stay, T-Bone Shuffle, and Time And Trouble.

January 2022Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 41 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show in Baltimore on March 26, 1977.

  Added the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros shows from the last couple of years that have been released on nugs.net to the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page. Also updated the song list on that page to include all new (to the group) songs played in all 2020 and 2021 shows.

  Added a page for 30 Days Of Dead 2021 listing the 30 day-by-day tracks released on dead.net through November 2021.

  Combined the two Grateful Dead song lists on the site (songs played and songs released) to produce a single list of songs played and released by the Grateful Dead.

  Added pages for more songs played by Jerry Garcia in various settings away from the Grateful Dead. Songs added include As Tears Go By, Blue Grass Stomp, Brand New Shoes, Breaking Up Somebody's Home, Lover Man, Me And My Chauffeur Blues, Nica's Dream, Octopus's Garden, Please Send Me Someone To Love, San Francisco Bay Blues, Silver Rainbow, Slowly But Surely, Tennessee Blues, and Walkin' One And Only. All the new songs that have been added are listed on the Songs Played By Jerry Garcia page.

December 2021Added pages for a number of songs played by Jerry Garcia in various settings away from the Grateful Dead. Songs added include All The Things You Are, Beaumont Rag, Big Fool Of The Year, Christmas Time's A-Comin', Eighth Of January, Everybody Loves Satuday Night, Heart Of Fire, Love Having You Around, Maybe You Will Change Your Mind, Mother's Not Dead, Thirsty In The Rain, and Woody's Rag. All the new songs that have been added are listed on the Songs Played By Jerry Garcia page.

  Realised a few songs were missing from the page of songs written by Robert Hunter so have updated the page and added quite a number of songs and lyrics to the list. There are now just over 600 entries - and probably still quite a few missing.

  Added pages for a number of releases that include recent(ish) songs with lyrics by Robert Hunter. These include: an Anton Guberman Project single, the Jim Lauderdale album Hope, three David Nelson Band digital singles (Movin' Right Along / Man Overboard / Klondike Blues), three Greg Anton digital singles (American Spring / Heaven Only Knows / I Will Love You), the Jerry Lawson album Just A Mortal Man, the Bruce Hornsby album Absolute Zero and the Casual Coalition album The Rendering Of A Ghost.

November 2021Added lots more albums that include covers of Grateful Dead songs. Links to these new album pages have been added to the Grateful Dead covers by date and Grateful Dead covers by song pages. Well over 20 of these added albums include covers of the most covered Dead song: Friend Of The Devil.

  Added a page for Dave's Picks Vol 40 a 4 CD release of two Grateful Dead shows from Deer Creek: 7/18/90 and 7/19/90.

  Added pages for the last two releases in the Grateful Dead singles reissue series: Vol. 20: Throwing Stones / When Push Comes to Shove and Vol. 21: Foolish Heart / We Can Run.

  Added the Front Street Sheiks to the Groups With A Dead Connection page.

  Updated the show list and song list on the Dead & Company page with information about for the Dead & Company August, September and October shows. Added pages for the shows that are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website.

  Added pages for the two July 2021 Billy & The Kids shows that were available via nugs.net. Updated the Billy & The Kids page to include these shows and to include songs played at all 2021 shows.

  Added The Friends Of Montezuma to the Groups With A Dead Connection page.

October 2021Added a Joe Russo's Almost Dead page that lists shows that are available via nugs.net and provides a list (no doubt incomplete) of songs played by the group.

  Added pages for lots of albums that include covers of Grateful Dead songs. These are mainly releases from 2020 and 2021. Links to these new pages have been added to the Grateful Dead covers by date and Grateful Dead covers by song pages.

  Added pages for Grateful Dead releases since the last site update: Buffalo 5/9/77 5 LP set, Dave's Picks Vol 38 Nassau Col, 9/8/73, Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2021 Nassau Col, 9/7/73, Dave's Picks Volume 39 Philadelphia, 4/26/83, Fox Theatre, St. Louis, 12/10/71 3 CD set, Listen to the River St. Louis '71 '72 '73 20 CD box set, Light Into Ashes 2 LP St. Louis, 10-18-72, Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) 50th Anniv Exp Ed 2 CD expanded release, Fire On The Mountain Soundtrack soundtrack compilation, Single Collection, Vol. 18 Don't Ease Me In / Far From Me, Single Collection, Vol. 19 Touch Of Grey / My Brother Esau, 2021.

  Added pages for Jerry Garcia releases since the last site update: Garcia Live: Volume 15 May 21st, 1971 Keystone Korner, Garcia / Saunders, Garcia Live: Volume 16 MSG, Nov 15, 1991, Jerry Garcia Band, Garcia Live: Volume 17 Norcal '76, Jerry Garcia Band.


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March 2021Added a Meet-Up At The Movies page.
  Added a page for the latest release in the Grateful Dead singles reissue series: Vol. 17: Alabama Getaway / Far From Me.
February 2021Added a page for Dave's Picks Vol 37 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show in Williamsburg on April 15, 1978 show.
  Updated the Grateful Dead tributes page.
January 2021Added pages for lots of albums that include covers of Grateful Dead songs. These are mainly releases from the last few years. Links to these new pages have been added to the Grateful Dead covers by date and Grateful Dead covers by song pages.
  Added a page for the latest release in the Grateful Dead singles reissue series: Vol. 16: Shakedown Street / France.
December 2020Added a page for the 2020 edition of 30 Days Of Dead and updated the 30 Days Of Dead page to include 2020.
November 2020Added a page for the new Seastones: Set 4 and Set 5, Ned Lagin album. A limited edition vinyl release that includes previously unreleased and previously released material.
  Added a page for the Holly Bowling album Seeking All That's Still Unsung which comprises piano versions of Grateful Dead songs. During March to May 2020 Holly Bowling released a series of digital, home recorded, albums all of which include a number of Grateful Dead songs. There were 8 albums in this series which had the overall title Alone Together: The Living Room Sessions. The releases in the series were: Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5, Vol. 6, Vol. 7, Vol. 8.
October 2020Added pages for three American Beauty 50th anniversary releases: Deluxe CD Edition a 3 CD release with the original album plus music from the Port Chester 2/18/71 show, American Beauty 50th Anniversary Picture Disc LP a picture disc LP version of the original LP, and American Beauty 50th Anniversary Colored Vinyl LP a colored vinyl edition of the original album.
  Added a page for American Beauty: The Angel's Share a digital release of demos and outtakes from the American Beauty recording sessions.
  Added a page for Dave's Picks Vol 36 a 4 CD release of the Grateful Dead shows at Hartford on March 26 & 27, 1987.
  Added a page for the latest release in the Grateful Dead singles reissues series: Vol. 15: Good Lovin' / Stagger Lee.
  Added pages for Garcia Live: Volume 14 the Jerry Garcia / John Kahn set from January 27, 1986 and for the Garcia Live Volume 14 Bonus CD which comprises the Garcia / Kahn set from January 28, 1986.
July 2020Added an initial page for The Story Of The Grateful Dead a 14 lp reissue of 8 previously released Grateful Dead albums.
  Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 35 3 CD release of Philadelphia, April 20, 19844 show.
  Added pages for Workingmans Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) a 3 CD release of the original album plus live music from February 22, 1971 and Workingmans Dead (50th Anniversary LP) a picture disc LP release of the album

  Added a pages for the latest two releases in the Grateful Dead singles reissues series: Vol. 13: Dancing In The Streets / Terrapin Station and Vol. 14: Passenger / Terrapin Station.
  Added a page for Dave's Picks Vol 34 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show in Miami in 6/23/74 and a page for Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2020 a single CD of music from the 6/22/74 Miami show.
  Added a page for Garcia Live: Volume 13 a 2 CD release of the Jerry Garcia Band show on Sept 16, 1989.
March 2020Added a Grateful Dead related groups play Phish page listing Phish songs played by members of the Grateful Dead.
  Added new song pages or updated existing pages for all the Phish related songs performed by members of the Grateful Dead including: 46 Days, Chalk Dust Torture, Character Zero, Down With Disease, First Tube, Ghost, Miss You, Sample In A Jar, Shine, Twist and Waves.
  Added a Grateful Dead (and friends) play reggae page listing reggae songs played by the Grateful Dead and related groups.
  Added new song pages for more songs performed by members of the Grateful Dead including: 54-46 Was My Number, The Apartment Song, Blue Bayou, Fake Empire, Hanginaround, Intensified, Monkey Man, Pressure Drop and Three Little Birds.
  Added a page listing songs performed or recorded by Bob Weir away from the Grateful Dead.
  Added new song pages for songs performed by members of the Grateful Dead or by related groups including: 19th Nervous Breakdown, Angel From Montgomery, Beware Of Darkness, Breakdown, Cecilia, Helter Skelter, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy, People Have The Power, Petrified Man, Whole Night Sky and Winding Down.
February 2020Added a page for the June 1976 box set a 15 CD set of 5 Grateful Dead shows from June 1976. The shows are from Boston (10th and 11th), NYC (14th and 15th) and Passaic (19th).
  Reformatted and restructured the book pages on the site. There are now a number of separate pages instead of a long list. The pages include: Grateful Dead books, Jerry Garcia books, Bob Weir books, Songbooks, books about deadheads, photography books, books about posters, tape/setlist books, comics, books about Kesey/pranksters, books about San Francisco music in the sixties, and more.
  Added the the February shows that are available as CD/downloads to the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page. Also updated the songs played section of the page to include songs introduced to the repertoire during these shows.
  Reformatted the Grateful Dead videos/DVDs page.
  Added a page for Dave's Picks Vol 33 a 3 CD release of the Dekalb, 10/29/77 Grateful Dead show.
  Added the Dead & Company January shows to the Dead & Company page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website.
January 2020Restructured and reformatted the main Grateful Dead discography. There are now separate pages for Grateful Dead albums, singles, compilations, download only releases, various artist compilation appearances, and promotional releases.
  Added the Dead & Company December shows to the Dead & Company page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website.
  Added a page for the 2019 edition of 30 Days Of Dead and updated the 30 Days Of Dead page to include 2019.
  Added initial pages for the standard edition and deluxe edition of the Grateful Dead Origins graphic biography by Chris Miskiewicz and Noah Van Sciver.
December 2019Added a Play Hank Williams page. Also expanded and reformatted the Hank Williams song pages including: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry, Jambalaya (On The Bayou), Nobody's Lonesome For Me, Why_Dont_You_Love_Me and You Win Again.
  Updated and expanded the page for the Warlocks. Also added new song pages or updated existing song pages for some of the songs (possibly) performed by the Warlocks including: Alley Oop, Cleo's Back, Get Off Of My Cloud, Mystic Eyes, Off The Hook and Wooly Bully.
November 2019Added an initial page for Garcia Live: Volume 12 the full Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders show on January 23, 1973 at The Boarding House.
  Added the Dead & Company Fall tour shows to the Dead & Company page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website.
  Reformatted the Dick's Picks and Dick's Picks by performance date pages.
  Updated and reformatted the Grateful Dead tributes page.
  Added a page for The Big Swell.
  Updated the groups with a Dead connection page to include recent groups that have included a member of the Grateful Dead.
October 2019Updated the Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page to show all shows that are available as CD/downloads from nugs.net and listing all songs played to date.
  Added a page for the 2018 Bobby and Phil Duo tour. Listing shows available on CD/download and the songs performed.
  Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 32 Philadelphia, 3/24/73.
  Completed the update and restructure of the Bay Area venues page. Added a concise venues list as an alternative entry to the list of venues. Added new venues and updated and reformatted the existing individual venue pages.
  Added an initial page for Ready Or Not, Grateful Dead, 2019.
September 2019Updated the David Grisman and Acoustic Disc pages.
  Updated and restructured the Bay Area venues page. Added new venues and updated and reformatted many of the existing individual venue pages including the Fillmore West, Carousel, Warfield Theater, The Stone, Selland Arena, Berkeley Art Museum and the San Francisco Tape Music Center.
August 2019Updated the Bruce Hornsby; Vince Welnick; and Rob Wasserman pages.
  Added pages for the Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 box set a 14 CD / 2 DVD release of 5 Giants Stadium shows, and the 3 CD or 5 LP set Saint Of Circumstance: Giants Stadium, 6/17/91 standalone release of the 6/17/91 show of one of the shows from the larger box set.
  Updated and restructured Peter Rowan related pages. There are now four pages: a Peter Rowan discography; a list of songs recorded by Peter Rowan; a list of songs written by Peter Rowan; and a list of albums that include covers of Peter Rowan songs.
July 2019Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 31, music from the December 3, 1979 show in Chicago.
  Added the Dead & Company Summer tour shows to the Dead & Company page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads via the Dead & Company website.
  Added a page listing books by or about, or partly by or about, Robert Hunter .
  Added a page listing books by or about, or partly by or about, Jerry Garcia .
June 2019Added a page for the new Garcia Live release Garcia Live: Volume Eleven: Nov 11, 1993, Providence, Jerry Garcia Band .
  Added a page listing songs composed or co-composed by Bob Weir .
  Added a Grateful Dead fiction page listing novels and short story collections that have some sort of Dead related link.
  Added a Bob Weir and Wolf Bros page listing the songs they have performed to date.
  Added a Bob Weir Campfire Tour Band page listing the songs they have performed to date.
  Added pages for the Woodstock 50th anniversary releases: Woodstock: Back To The Garden: 50th Anniversary Archive (38 CDs including full Grateful Dead set), Woodstock: Back To The Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience 10CD, (10 CD set with 2 Grateful Dead tracks), Woodstock: Back To The Garden: 50th Anniversary Collection 3CD (3 CD set with 1 Grateful Dead track), and Woodstock: Back To The Garden: 50th Anniversary Collection 5LP (5 LP set with 1 Grateful Dead track).
  Added a Bill Kreutzmann / Voodoo Dead page listing released concert recordings and the songs performed.
May 2019Updated the Grateful Dead books page with entries for books published over the last couple of years.
  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 30 the complete 2/1/70 show from Fillmore East plus 5 songs from 3/1/70. Added a page for the Dave's Picks Bonus CD for 2019, a single CD featuring more music from the 3/1/70 Fillmore East show.
  Added or updated a number of song pages for songs from the Garcia Before The Dead album, including All My Trials, Back Up and Push, Blow the Candles Out, Goodbye Old Pal, I Was Born Ten Thousand Years Ago, Monroe's Hornpipe (Jody's Hornpipe), and Noah's Breakdown.
April 2019Added pages for the Aoxomoxoa 50th Anniversary 2 CD Deluxe Edition and the Aoxomoxoa 50th Anniversary LP that are due for release in June.
  Added or updated a number of song pages for songs from the Hart Valley Drifters album Folk Time, including Clinch Mountain Backstep, Cripple Creek, Flint Hill Special, Ground Speed, Paddy On The Turnpike, Roving Gambler, Sittin' On Top Of The World, and Think Of What You've Done.
  Added or updated a number of song pages for songs from the Garcia repertoire including Fireball Mail, First Whippoorwill, I'll Never Make You Blue, Don't you Hear Jerusalem Moan, Pistol Packing Mama, Rawhide, and Toy Heart.
March 2019Added a number of tribute albums that have been released over the last couple of years Dead Giveaway (Be Gulls), Grateful Dub (Roots Of Creation), Cut The Dead Some Slack (Stephen Inglis), and Garcia Songbook (Joe Craven & The Sometimers).
  Added a number of albums that include covers of Dead songs that have released over the last couple of years including Dennis' Picks Volume One (Dump) Murder In The Second Degree (Yo La Tengo) Southern Blood (Gregg Allman) Crew Licks (Dead Rider) How Long (Steven Graves) Humanities (David Ake) Tarantoga (Tiger Family) The Lookout (Laura Veirs) Music Of Our People: Songs Of The Roaring Sixties (Darol Anger/Emy Phelps) Fudge Sandwich (Ty Segall) World Gone Mad (The Weight Band).
  Added a page that summarises the writing collaboration of Robert Hunter and Bob Dylan.
Feb 2019Added all Grateful Dead releases for the last two years including Dave's Picks, May '77, Pacific Northwest '73-'74, 7" singles collection, 30 Days Of Dead and Record Store Day releases.
  Added Jerry Garcia recordings released over the last two years including Garcia Live: Volume Nine; Garcia Live: Volume Ten; and Electric on the Eel.
  Added Dead & Company shows from 2017, 2018 and 2019 that have been released on CD and as downloads to the Dead & Company page.


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March 2017Added a page for Garcia Live: Volume Eight a 2 CD release of the Jerry Garcia Band show on November 23, 1991 at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.
  Added details of the first release in the 7" Single Collection series Stealin' / Don't Ease Me In.
  Added new pages or in a couple of cases updated existing pages for a number of songs performed by Ratdog including Back Door Man, Fields of Athenry, Horses, Hindsight, Misty, Money (That's What I Want) and Tequila. Updated the Play Motown page to include an entry for Money (That's What I Want) and updated the Play Willie Dixon page to include an entry for Back Door Man.
Feb 2017Added details of Dave's Picks Volume 21 a 3 CD release of the Grateful Dead show at Boston on April 2, 1973.
Jan 2017Added details of the 50th anniversary release of the first album The Grateful Dead (50th Anniversary LP and deluxe CD).
  Added details of Better Left Unsung an album of solo piano versions of Grateful Dead songs by Holly Bowling.
  Added details of Christmas Time's A-Comin' a digital single taken from a Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band performance at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on December 6, 1987.
Dec 2016Updated and reformatted more of the venue discography pages including the Jazz Workshop, Keystone Korner, Keystone Berkeley, Keystone Palo Alto, and Shoreline.
  Updated and reformatted more of the individual venue discography pages including the Oakland Auditorium, Oakland Coliseum, Oakland Coliseum Arena and The Omni.
Nov 2016Added pages for groups who regularly cover Grateful Dead songs in shows and release recordings of the shows on livedownloads.com. Recently added groups are Hot Buttered Rum, Infamous Stringdusters, Leftover Salmon, moe. and Yonder Mountain String Band. These discography pages lead to pages for the shows that include covers of Dead songs.
  Updated the site index page.
  Added a page for the new Bob Weir studio album Blue Mountain.
  Added a PhilRAD page.
Oct 2016Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 20 a 3CD release of the December 9, 1981 show from the University of Colorado in Boulder.
  Updated and reformatted the pages for the String Cheese Incident songs that have lyrics by Robert Hunter (45th Of November) and John Perry Barlow (Drive, Give Me The Love, It Is What It Is, Just Passin' Through, These Waves and Tinder Box). Also added pages for the concert recordings for 2016 that include these songs. These are accessed from the 2016 section of the String Cheese Incident page.
  Added pages for all the Gov't Mule shows that are available as downloads on livedownloads.com that have some sort of Grateful Dead connection. Access to these pages is via a list of all of the downloadable Gov't Mule shows.
  Updated the Phil Lesh & Friends page to include links to all the 2015 and 2016 shows that have been made available as downloads and on CD on livedownloads.com. Also updated the song list on that page.
  Updated and reformatted more of the individual venue pages including the Warfield Theater and Winterland.
Sept 2016Updated and restructured the Bay Area venues page. Also updated and reformatted more of the individual venue pages including the Blackhawk, the Berkeley Community Theater and the Great American Music Hall.
  Updated the Billy & The Kids page to include five shows that are available as downloads.
  Updated and reformatted a number of the venue pages including the Avalon, Basin Street West and the Boarding House.
  A few years ago I added a number of pages of discographies of albums recorded at specific Bay Area studios in the 1965 to 1975 period. For some reason these pages were never fully linked to the site. This mistake has now been rectified. Studios covered so far are listed on the Bay Area Studios page. The studios included to date are: Alembic, Coast Recorders, Columbus Recording, Different Fur, Funky Features, Golden State, His Master's Wheels, Mercury Sound Studios West, Pacific High, Pacific Recording, Peninsula Sound, Record Plant (Sausalito), Sierra Sound Labs, Studio 10, and Wally Heider's.
Aug 2016Updated the Dead & Company page to include the last shows of the Summer tour. All shows from the tour are available as downloads and on CD via the Dead & Company website. Also updated song pages for all songs included on these releases.
  There are now two versions of the Dead By Date page - the page that lists Grateful Dead releases by date of recording. The first version includes only Grateful Dead releases: Dead By Date: Grateful Dead only. The second version includes Grateful Dead releases and Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir and other solo releases recorded during the during the 1964 to 1995 period: Dead By Date: Grateful Dead and solo releases.
  Finally updated the Fare Thee Well page to include a list of songs played and the Circles Around The Sun release.
July 2016Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 19: Honolulu, 1/23/70.
  Added a page for Billy & The Kids.
  Updated the Dead & Company page to include Summer tour shows (to 07/03/16) that are available as downloads and on CD.
  Updated the Garcia / Saunders band page.
  Updated the Grateful Dead books and Songbooks pages.
  Started catching up. Added pages for Shrine Exposition Hall, 11/10/1967, Dave's Picks Volume 17, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77, Dave's Picks Volume 18, July 1978: The Complete Recordings, Red Rocks: 7/8/78, Garcia Live: Volume Six, and Day Of The Dead.
Dec to June-
Nov 2015Added a page for the 30 Days Of Dead downloads released since 2010.
  Added a Dead & Company page.
Oct 2015Added initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 16 a 3 CD set of the March 28, 1973 Grateful Dead show in Springfield, MA.
  Added a page for the Dave's Picks Bonus CD for 2015, a single CD featuring music from March 21 and 27, 1972.
Aug 2015Added initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 15 a 3 CD set of the April 22, 1978 Grateful Dead show in Nashville, TN.
  Added initial pages for the 12 CD / 7 DVD set Fare Thee Well July 3, 4 & 5 2015 Complete Box, the 4 CD/ 2 DVD set Fare Thee Well July 5, 2015 and the 2 CD set The Best Of Fare Thee Well.
July 2015Added a page for Bill Kreutzmann's Trypto Band.
June 2015Added initial pages for the 30 show box set 30 Trips Around The Sun Box Set and the 4 CD sampler of the box set 30 Trips Around The Sun: The Definitive Live Story: 1965-1995.
  Added an initial page for On Broadway: Act One: Oct 28, 1987, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band / Jerry Garcia Band.
Feb/Apr 2015Background reorganisation, updating and error correction.
Jan 2015Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 14 a 3 CD set of music from the Grateful Dead show at the Academy Of Music, NYC, on March 26, 1972.
Jan 2015Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 13 a 3 CD set of music from the Grateful Dead show at Winterland on February 24, 1974.
  Added an initial page for The Best Of The Grateful Dead a 2 CD compilation of tracks from Grateful Dead studio albums.
Nov 2014Added a page for Houston, Texas, 11/18/1972 a double LP, Record Store Day, release of most of the music from the second set of the Grateful Dead show in Houston on November 18, 1972.
  Updated the Tom Constanten and Bob Bralove discography pages to include the 2014 Dose Hermanos album Batique and a number of less recent releases.
  Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 12 complete Hamilton, 11/4/77 show plus music from Toronto 11/2/77.
Oct 2014Added a page for Dave's Picks Bonus CD 2014 a CD of music from the Dec 11, 1969 Grateful Dead show in Los Angeles. The three Dave's Picks bonus CDs released to date have also now been added to the Dave's Picks and Dave's Picks By Date pages.
Sept 2014Added an initial page for Garcia Live: Volume Five a 2 CD release of the December 31st, 1975 Jerry Garcia Band show at the Keystone, Berkeley.
August 2014Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 11 the complete Wichita, November 17, 1972 show plus filler from Oklahome on November 15, 1972.
July 2014Added an initial page for Spring 1990 (The Other One) the limited edition 23 CD, 8 show box set of Grateful Dead shows from March and April 1990. AAdded an initial page for Wake Up To Find Out: Nassau Coliseum, 3/29/90 a 3 CD set of the 3/29/90 show which is being released separately as well as being part of the Spring 1990 (The Other One) box set.
  Also added a Spring 1990 page which lists all Spring 1990 releases.
  Added a page for Garcia Live: Volume Four a 2 CD release of the Jerry Garcia Band show at the Veteran's Hall in Sebastopol, California on March 22nd 1978.
  Added pages for the June shows of the Ratdog Summer Tour. These shows are listed on the Ratdog discography page and are available on CD and as downloads for a limited period from ratdoglive.com.
June 2014Added pages for the Ratdog Spring Tour shows. Added links to these shows to the Ratdog discography page. The shows are available on CD and as downloads for a limited period from ratdoglive.com.
  Added song pages, and in a couple of cases updated existing pages, for Allman Brothers Band songs played in recent years by Phil Lesh & Friends: Don't Keep Me Wonderin', In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed, Jessica, Les Brers In A Minor, Little Martha, Melissa, Midnight Rider, Ramblin' Man and Stand Back. Also updated the page for the Phil Lesh/Warren Haynes song Spots Of Time which has been played in the last couple of years by the Allman Brothers.
May 2014Updated the Play The Stones page to incorporate the Rolling Stones songs played in the last year by Phil Lesh & Friends. Added song pages for: Can't You Hear Me Knocking, It's Only Rock N' Roll (But I Like It), Jumpin' Jack Flash, Live With Me, Midnight Rambler, Rocks Off, Street Fighting Man and Tumbling Dice.
  Added pages for the Peter Rowan songs recently played by Phil Lesh & Friends with Peter Rowan: Fetch Wood Carry Water, Pulling The Devil By The Tail and The Raven. Also updated the Play Peter Rowan page to incorporate these songs. Updated the Peter Rowan discography adding some recent, and some not so recent, releases.
  Added pages for the Phil Lesh & Friends April shows that have been released on CD and as downloads. Links to these shows have been added to the Phil Lesh & Friends page. New songs performed during the run have been added to the song list on same page.
  Added pages for 10 Railroad Earth concert recordings that include covers of Grateful Dead songs and one that includes a cover of the entire Old & In The Way LP. See links from the song pages for Box Of Rain, Casey Jones, Crazy Fingers, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Terrapin Station and The Wheel.
  Added pages for about 100 more albums that include covers of Grateful Dead songs. Links to these have been added to the Grateful Dead covers by date and Grateful Dead covers by song pages.
  Added pages for a number of Chris Robinson Brotherhood concert recordings that include covers of Grateful Dead songs. See links from the song pages for Althea, Bertha, Brown Eyed Women, Mr. Charlie, New Speedway Boogie, Sugaree, They Love Each Other, West LA Fadeaway and The Wheel.
April 2014Added a Jim Lauderdale / Robert Hunter page which lists the songs they have co-written and the albums that include those songs. Also added pages for the two recent Lauderdale albums made up entirely of Hunter / Lauderdale songs: Black Roses and Blue Moon Junction.
  Added a page for Live At Hampton Coliseum the double LP Record Store Day release of music from May 4, 1979.
  Added pages for Dave's Picks Volume 9: Missoula, 5/14/74 and Dave's Picks Volume 10: Thelma, Los Angeles, 12/12/69.
November 2013Added a page for Family Dog at the Great Highway, 4/18/70 a record store day release of acoustic Dead and solo Pigpen from Apeil 1970.
October 2013Added a page for Dave's Picks Volume 8 3 CD set from Fox Theatre, Atlanta on November 30, 1980.
  Added the Furthur Fall tour shows to the Furthur page. These shows will be available for a limited period on CD and as downloads via the Furthur website.
  Added an initial page for Garcia Live: Volume Three a 3 CD set of Legion of Mary on December 14-15, 1974, at Portland and Eugene.
  Added an initial page for Sunshine Daydream DVD / 3 CD release of Sunshine Daydream movie and all the music from Veneta on August 27, 1972.
August 2013Added a page of Grateful Dead and related releases for Record Store Day.
  Added a Grateful Dead and related bands play Bill Monroe page.
  Added the Furthur Summer tour shows to the Furthur page. These shows will be available for a limited period on CD and as downloads via the Furthur website.
July 2013Added a Grateful Dead (and others) play Willie Dixon page.
  Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 7: Horton Field House, Illinois State, Normal, 4/24/78, Grateful Dead.
  Added an initial page for Superorganism, Mickey Hart Band.
May 2013Added an initial page for Garcia Live: Volume Two: August 5th 1990 Greek Theatre, Jerry Garcia Band.
  Added an initial page for the May 1977 14 CD box set.
  Added a page for the limited period digital release Garcia Live: June 26, 1981, Warfield Theatre, Jerry Garcia Band.
  Added a page for the Daves Picks 2013 Bonus CD.
  Added the Furthur Spring tour shows to the Furthur page. These shows will be available for a limited period on CD and as downloads via the Furthur website.
April 2013Updated and reformatted the pages of a number of songs performed by Jerry Garcia including All Go Hungry Hash House, Black Mountain Rag, Dawg's Rag, Get Together, The Good Old Rebel, (Hold On ) Annie Mae, Long Black Veil, Merl's Tune and Mystery Train.
  Added pages or updated existing pages for a number of songs performed by the Terrapin Family Band including Angel Dream, The Devil's Right Hand, Harlem River Blues, My Back Pages, One More Cup Of Coffee, Shooting Star, Southbound, Tom Ames' Prayer, Tombstone Blues and You And Tequila.
  Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 6 a 3 CD set of shows from San Francisco on December 20, 1969 and St. Louis on February 2, 1970.
  Added the Sweetwater and Colorado Furthur shows to the Furthur page. These shows will be available for a limited period on CD and as downloads via the Furthur website.
  Updated the Bruce Hornsby discography to include new releases and a series of live shows made available on the Bruce Hornsby Live Noise website.
March 2013Added an initial page for Dave's Picks Volume 5.
Jan 2013Added the New Year Furthur shows to the Furthur page. These shows will be available for a limited period on CD and as downloads via the Furthur website.
2000-2012 What's New entries for the years 2000 to 2011 have been archived to the What's New Archive page.