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Composer: Mickey Hart / Bob Weir / Robert Hunter

Grateful Dead

info Shakedown Street, Grateful Dead, 1978
info Shakedown Street / France, Grateful Dead, 1979
info Grateful Dead Sampler, Various Artists, 1978
info Beyond Description, Grateful Dead, 2004

Notes

Robert Hunter comments on the writing of this song in Box Of Rain: Lyrics 1965 - 1993;

France was written to tapes of a joyous afternoon Latin jam at Mickey Hart's ranch, the same jam that spawned Molly Dee and Northeast by West. It was recorded by the Dead with abbreviated lyrics and a very different feel.


Sept 2004