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I Know It's A Sin

Composer: Jimmy Reed / M. Reed

Grateful Dead

info Dick's Picks, Vol. 26, Grateful Dead, 2002
info Grateful Dead Download Series Vol 12: 4/17/69, Grateful Dead, 2006

Jerry Garcia

info All Good Things: Jerry Garcia Studio Sessions, Jerry Garcia / Jerry Garcia Band, 2004
info Garcia (Compliments of Garcia), 2005 (bonus on exp. CD)

Others

no info Rockin' With Reed, Jimmy Reed, 1959
no info Single, Down In Virginia / I Know Its A Sin, Jimmy Reed, 1959?
no info Bad To The Bone, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, 1982
no info EP Collection...Plus, Jimmy Reed, 2000

Notes

The title used on Grateful Dead set lists and tapes is usually It's A Sin. However the full title on the Jimmy Reed recording is I Know It's A Sin. Dick's Picks 26 and the George Thorogood recording gives writers as J. Reed / M. Reed. However a recent re-release of Rockin' With Reed credits Jimmy Reed as sole composer.

The version of this song in the All Good Things box set is a previously unreleased take from the recording sessions for the 1974 Jerry Garcia solo album, Garcia (Compliments). This version is given the full title of the song I Know It's A Sin