After announcing a box of 60 discs, Grateful Dead presents a more general public project, ” GRATEST HITS ».
Grateful Dead will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year with a huge collection of 60 concert records, but also with a Best of compilation which has just been announced.
Titled ” GRATEST HITS “, The album includes nine classics of the group studio catalog, including” Casey Jones ” And ” Friend of the Devil “, The flagship song of Phil Lesh” Box of Rain “And the biggest success in the group” Touch of Gray “, as well as ” Scarlet Begonias ” And ” Fire on the Mountain ».
If there are already dozens of best of Grateful Dead, most of the time published by record companies without the contribution of the group itself, a press release announces GRATEST HITS as “ The first real collection of great successes »From the group. GRATEST HITS will be released on June 13 and can be pre -ordered now.
In addition, the Grateful Dead unveiled an unprecedented version of ” Althea »Played at the Hartford Civic Center on March 3, 1981, one of the countless records that will appear in the huge collection of 60 records Enjoying the Ridewhich will be released on May 30.
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“” This version of “Althea”, Which dates from the third representation of Grateful Dead to the Hartford Civic Center (after those of 1977 and 1980), is largely considered one of the best that the group has ever playedsaid David Lemieux, archivist of Grateful Dead, in a press release. Joining the repertoire in August 1979 and recorded in the studio for the album Go to Heaven from 1980, “Althea”Begamped to reach instrumental peaks that you will hear in this version. Associated with the powerful and emotion of Jerry's emotion, it is a“Althea“To which all the others”Althea ” can be compared. »»
GRATEST HITS Track list
Casey Jones
Friend of the Devil
Box of Rain
Sugar Magnolia
Truckin '
Scarlet Begonias
Fire on the Mountain
Estimated Prophet
Touch of Gray
