Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (Skull And Roses) [Live]

Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Grateful Dead's second live album Skull and Roses.Coming off of the quantum-leap success of their albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, Skull and Roses concentrates on newer Grateful Dead material and covers recorded live at The Fillmore East in New York. It also offers up a pair of new Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter compositions: "Bertha" and "Wharf Rat", both of which garnered a permanent place within the band's live catalog.

Also captured here are several traditional folk, blues, and R&B cover tunes, such as Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried", Kris Kristofferson's "Me & Bobby McGee", as well as a few that had been in their songbook for several years, including John Phillips' "Me & My Uncle" and "Big Boss Man" - a blues standard popularized by Jimmy Reed.

Heavyweight double vinyl produced by David Lemieux for Rhino Entertainment. Pressed at Optimal.