May 1977 (album)
May 1977 | ||||
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Released | June 11, 2013 | |||
Recorded | May 11–17, 1977 | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Label | Rhino | |||
Producer | Grateful Dead | |||
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May 1977 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains five complete concerts, on 14 CDs. It was recorded at five consecutive shows, from May 11–17, 1977. Packaged as a box set, it includes a booklet with a historical essay and photos from the concerts, along with individual liner notes for each show. Produced as a limited edition of 15,000 numbered copies, it was released on June 11, 2013.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Concerts
The concerts included in May 1977 are:
- May 11, 1977 – St. Paul Civic Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
- May 12, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
- May 13, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
- May 15, 1977 – St. Louis Arena, St. Louis
- May 17, 1977 – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [8] |
Rolling Stone | [9] |
On
In Rolling Stone, Will Hermes said, "The Grateful Dead's May 8th, 1977 gig at Cornell University is widely considered the ne plus ultra of Dead bootlegs. This 14-disc set, packed in a psychedelic sarcophagus, documents five gigs from later that month. It puts the consensus-maker in perspective, occasionally rivals it and, flaws notwithstanding, shows a band on a hell of a hot streak. Compared to the hard-tripping Sixties edition, this is comfort-food Dead, long on unhurried jams and raggedy country harmonies sweetened by their only-ever female band member, Donna Jean Godchaux."[9]
Track listing
May 11, 1977 – St. Paul Civic Center, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Disc one
- First set:
- "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 4:54
- "They Love Each Other" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 7:38
- "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 6:25
- "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:39
- "Looks Like Rain" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 9:18
- "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:48
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:54
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:43
- "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:44
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:49
Disc two
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:32
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) –5:20
- "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) –13:49
- Second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:08
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:28
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:38
Disc three
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:47
- "Fire on the Mountain" > (Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 11:02
- "Arthur Resnick) – 6:29
- "Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:11
- "Space" > (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 5:48
- "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:51
- "Around and Around" (Berry) – 8:48
- Encore:
- "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:34
May 12, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Disc one
- First set:
- "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:16
- "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:04
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:32
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 5:05
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:52
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:45
- "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:47
- "New Minglewood Blues" (Noah Lewis) – 5:20
Disc two
- "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:54[a]
- "William "Mickey" Stevenson) – 14:19[a]
- Second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:07
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:28
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 9:25
- "Sunrise" (Donna Jean Godchaux) – 3:46
Disc three
- "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:13[a]
- "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 8:36[a]
- "Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 4:06[a]
- "Not Fade Away" > (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty) – 14:15[a]
- "Comes a Time" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:20[a]
- "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 7:00[a]
- Encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:18
May 13, 1977 – Auditorium Theatre, Chicago, Illinois
Disc one
- First set:
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:37
- "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:33
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow) – 4:46
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:35
- "New Minglewood Blues" (Lewis) – 5:06
- "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 8:38
- "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:55
- "Jack-a-Roe" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:56
- "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:17
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:05
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 13:19
Disc two
- Second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:24
- "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:52
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 9:51
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 5:47
- "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 16:28
- "Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:51
- "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:05 (NB: due to tape damage, is from June 8, 1977)
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:21 (NB: due to tape damage, is from May 28, 1977)
- Encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
May 15, 1977 – St. Louis Arena, St. Louis, Missouri
Disc one
- First set:
- "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:34
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick) – 6:07
- "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:51
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:33
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:35
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow) – 3:34
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow) – 4:42
- "Jack-a-Roe" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:24
- "Passenger" (Lesh, Peter Monk) – 4:31
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:16
Disc two
- "Dancing in the Street" (Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevenson) – 18:49
- Second set:
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow) – 11:32
- "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:48
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 3:13
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:28
- "Ship Of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:41
Disc three
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 5:28
- "Iko Iko" > (James "Sugar Boy" Crawford, Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa Lee Hawkins, Joan Marie Johnson) – 3:54
- "Not Fade Away" > (Hardin, Petty) – 9:38
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:58
- Encore:
- "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:06
May 17, 1977 – University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Disc one
- First set:
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:46
- "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:28
- "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:48
- "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:42
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:37
- "Jack-a-Roe" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:59 [a]
- "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:10
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:46
- "Passenger" (Lesh, Monk) – 3:36
- "High Time" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:32
- "Big River" (Cash) – 6:39
Disc two
- "Sunrise" (D.J. Godchaux) – 4:35
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:02
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 13:14
- Second set:
- "Samson and Delilah" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:43
- "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:16
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick) – 6:02
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:34
Disc three
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:55
- "Terrapin Station" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:23
- "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 12:20
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 4:49
- "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:53
- "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 6:06
- Encore:
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:15
Notes
- ^ Previously released on Fallout from the Phil Zone
Personnel
- Grateful Dead
- Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards
- Mickey Hart – drums
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Phil Lesh – bass guitar
- Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
- Production
- Produced by Grateful Dead
- Produced for release by David Lemieux
- Executive producer: Mark Pinkus
- Associate producer: Doran Tyson
- Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
- Recording: Betty Cantor-Jackson
- Tape transfer, time-base correction, restoration: John K. Chester, Jamie Howarth
- Archival research: Nicholas Merriwether
- Tape research: Michael Wesley Johnson
- Art direction, design: Masaki Koike
- Photography: James R. Anderson, Alexandra May Hunter
- Liner notes: Steve Silberman, Blair Jackson
References
- ^ Cubarrubia, RJ (May 6, 2013). "The Grateful Dead Jam on 'Uncle John's Band' and 'Sugar Magnolia' Live; Songs Come from 14-Disc May 1977 Set Reliving Seminal Tour", Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Budnick, Dean (May 7, 2013). "Beyond Cornell: David Lemieux on the Grateful Dead Archives and May 1977" Archived 2013-05-11 at the Wayback Machine, Relix. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Bernstein, Scott (May 6, 2013). "Grateful Dead Officially Announce May '77 Box Set", Glide magazine. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ "The Grateful Dead to Release May 1977 Box Set", Jambands.com, May 6, 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ May 1977 at the Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved May 8, 2013.
- ^ "Magical, Mythical May 1977!, dead.net, May 6, 2013. Retrieved May 7, 2013.
- ^ Gatta, John Patrick (June 28, 2013). "Picking Dave's Brain: The Grateful Dead Archivist Discusses May '77 and Sunshine Daydream, Jambands.com. Retrieved July 8, 2013.
- ^ Allmusic. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
- ^ a b Hermes, Will (June 17, 2013) 'The Grateful Dead: May 1977. Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 30, 2017