Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses): 50th Anniversary LP Editions

Grateful Dead

Rhino / Grateful Dead

A remastered LP version of the seventh Grateful Dead album. This release marks the 50th anniversary of the original album release. Black vinyl, colored vinyl and clear/black propeller design vinyl editions were relesed. A 2 CD deluxe edition of the album was also released to mark the anniversary.

Tracks

LP 1:

• Bertha (Garcia / Hunter)
• Mama Tried (Haggard)
• Big Railroad Blues (Lewis arr. Grateful Dead)
• Playing In The Band (Weir / Hunter)
• The Other One (Kreutzmann / Weir)

• Me and My Uncle (Phillips)
• Big Boss Man (Smith / Dixon)
• Me and Bobby McGee (Kristofferson / Foster)
• Johnny B. Goode (Berry)
• Wharf Rat (Garcia / Hunter)
• Not Fade Away (Petty / Hardin)
• Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (Traditional arr. Grateful Dead)

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - organ, harmonica, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

• Merl Saunders - organ on Bertha, Playing In The Band, Wharf Rat (overdubbed in studio)

Original album:

• Producer - Grateful Dead
• Engineer - Bob and Betty (Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor)
• Live recording for Alembic by Bob and Betty (Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor)
• Artwork - Kelly
• Photography - Bob Seidman

• Selections taken from recordings made live at Winterland, San Francisco; Manhattan Center, New York City; Bill Graham's Fabled Fillmore East, New York City

• Producer - Grateful Dead
• Produced for release - David Lemieux
• Mastering - David Glasser
• Tape restoration and speed correction - Jamie Howarth, John Chester
• Design - Steve Vance
• Liner notes essay - Gary Lambert

The original Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses) double LP was released in 1971:

• Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses), Grateful Dead, 1971

• Grateful Dead (Skull and Roses): 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, Grateful Dead, 2021