So Many Roads (1965-1995)

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So Many Roads (1965-1995)
Live album by Grateful Dead

Publication
(s)

November 1999

Label (s)

Genre (s)

Folk rock , country rock , psychedelic rock , rock

Title (number)

42

running time

386: 22

occupation

production

chronology
Dick's Picks Volume 15 (1999) So Many Roads (1965-1995) Dick's Picks Volume 16 (2000)

So Many Roads (1965–1995) is a five-CD box set by the band Grateful Dead .

history

So Many Roads (1965–1995) is officially a collection of live pieces, but also contains some studio recordings that have not been released before.

Like the Dick's Picks series, So Many Roads (1965-1995) belongs to the so-called Vaults series, in which earlier archive material is reissued or released for the first time. The recordings used were made between November 3, 1965 and July 1995. The name So Many Roads comes from the song of the same name by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter .

The album is particularly intended to appeal to fans who belong to the second generation, who are fans of the band from the 1970s and 1980s. Rare songs were selected for this, which were created during recordings for the Autumn Records label in 1965, but were never released, or outtakes from studio albums such as Workingman's Dead or American Beauty .

The recorded songs are arranged in chronological order, with each CD containing songs from a specific period. The first CD contains songs from 1965 to 1970, the second from 1969 to 1974, the third from 1974 to 1984, the fourth from 1985 to 1990 and the fifth CD from 1991 to 1995, so that songs from 30 years of band history were used.

criticism

In general, So Many Roads (1965-1995) received good ratings. The album received four and a half stars from All Music Guide and four out of five stars from both The Music Box and Rolling Stone .

successes

Album - Billboard Charts

year Chart position
1999 The Billboard 200 170

Track list

CD 1 (1965-1970)

  1. Can't Come Down ( Jerry Garcia , Bill Kreutzmann , Phil Lesh , Ron McKernan , Bob Weir ) - 2:57
  2. Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) - 3:12
  3. You Don't Have to Ask (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir) - 3:55
  4. On the Road Again ( Traditional ) - 2:42
  5. Cream Puff War (Garcia) - 5:37
  6. I Know You Rider (Traditional) - 4:20
  7. The Same Thing ( Willie Dixon ) - 11:38
  8. Dark Star> China Cat Sunflower> The Eleven (Grateful Dead, Robert Hunter ) - 25:25
  9. Clementine (Hunter, Lesh) - 7:49
  10. Mason's Children (Garcia, Hunter, Lesh, Weir) - 3:34
  11. To Lay Me Down (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:39

CD 2 (1969–1974)

  1. That's It for the Other One (Grateful Dead) - 20:53
  2. Beautiful Jam (Grateful Dead) - 4:41
  3. Chinatown Shuffle (McKernan) - 2:54
  4. Sing Me Back Home ( Merle Haggard ) - 10:26
  5. Watkins Glen Soundcheck Jam (Grateful Dead) - 18:31
  6. Dark Star Jam> Spanish Jam> US Blues (Grateful Dead, Hunter) - 18:59

CD 3 (1974-1984)

  1. Eyes of the World (Garcia, Hunter) - 6:30 pm
  2. The Wheel (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) - 11:14
  3. Stella Blue (Garcia, Hunter) - 11:37
  4. Estimated Prophet ( John Perry Barlow , Weir) - 10:52
  5. The Music Never Stopped (Barlow, Weir) - 7:24
  6. Shakedown Street (Garcia, Hunter) - 17:25

CD 4 (1985-1990)

  1. Cassidy (Barlow, Weir) - 5:47
  2. Hey Pocky Way ( Ziggy Fashioniste , Art Neville , Leo Nocentelli , George Porter, Jr.) - 6:02
  3. Believe It or Not (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:04
  4. Playing in the Band (Hart, Hunter, Weir) - 12:24
  5. Gentlemen, Start Your Engines (Barlow, Mydland) - 4:09
  6. Death Don't Have No Mercy ( Gary Davis ) - 6:41
  7. Scarlet Begonias> Fire on the Mountain (Garcia, Hunter) - 19:34
  8. Bird Song (Garcia, Hunter) - 13:09
  9. Jam Out of Terrapin (Grateful Dead) - 5:08

CD 5 (1991-1995)

  1. Terrapin Station (Garcia, Hunter) - 12:34
  2. Jam Out of Foolish Heart (Grateful Dead) - 5:24
  3. Way to Go Home ( Bob Bralove , Hunter, Vince Welnick ) - 6:27
  4. Liberty (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:59
  5. Lazy River Road (Garcia, Hunter) - 6:57
  6. Eternity (Dixon, Wasserman , Weir) - 7:35
  7. Jam into Days Between (Grateful Dead) - 7:04
  8. Days Between (Garcia, Hunter) - 10:59
  9. Whiskey in the Jar (Traditional) - 5:14
  10. So Many Roads (Garcia, Hunter) - 9:57

So Many Roads (1965–1995) sampler

In addition to the box set, the band decided to launch an associated sampler called So Many Roads (1965–1995) , which contains a selection of songs, on their own record label Grateful Dead Records . The song " Passenger " was also used, which was no longer used for the box set, but for Dick's Picks Volume 29 .

Track list

  1. "Can't Come Down" (Grateful Dead)
  2. "You Don't Have To Ask" (Grateful Dead)
  3. "Mason's Children" (Hunter, Garcia, Lesh, Weir)
  4. "Passenger" (Peter Monk, Lesh)
  5. "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir)
  6. "The Music Never Stopped" (Barlow, Weir)
  7. "Shakedown Street" (Hunter, Garcia)
  8. "Jam Out Of Terrapin" (Grateful Dead)
  9. "Liberty" (Hunter, Garcia)
  10. "Eternity" (Dixon, Rob Wasserman, Weir)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ allmusic.com
  2. ↑ Album placement according to billboard.com

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