Grateful Dead – Ready Or Not (CD)
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Liner Notes
By the early '90s, the Dead were writing some of the most emotionally searching material of their career, even as Garcia's health was in decline. The songs collected here represent a road not taken, a studio album that never got made, and hearing them in their natural habitat, on stage and in the moment, makes the absence of that record feel both more real and somehow beside the point.
Ready or Not presents nine unreleased live performances from the early '90s, spotlighting the songs that might have formed the Grateful Dead's next studio album — had there been one.
Mastered from the original digital soundboard tapes and recorded between 1992 and 1995, the collection focuses on the finest unreleased versions of these late-period gems, performed by the final Grateful Dead lineup: Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, and keyboardist Vince Welnick. Songs like "So Many Roads," "Days Between," and "Lazy River Road" had become concert staples in Garcia's final years, and these performances capture them at their most powerful.
Tracklist
Disc 1
1. Liberty (6:14)
2. Eternity (10:10)
3. Lazy River Road (6:54)
4. Samba In The Rain (6:44)
5. So Many Roads (7:33)
6. Way To Go Home (6:02)
7. Corrina (15:27)
8. Easy Answers (7:00)
9. Days Between (13:25)
UPC: 603497851287
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Release Date: 11.22.19
Format: CD