Grateful Dead Family Discography: Stagger Lee

Stagger Lee

Composer: Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter

Stagger Lee was first performed by the Grateful Dead in August 1978. It was then played regularly through 1978 and 1979 but hardly at all in the first half of the 1980's. The song returned to the repertoire in 1985 and thereafter it was played on average just under 10 times a year through to 1995. In total the Grateful Dead played the song just under 150 times.

Stagger Lee is Robert Hunter's take on a story that is told in many other songs. There are many hundreds of recordings of traditional songs that form a family of Stagger Lee songs. A list of some of these recordings is provided on the traditional Stagger Lee page.

Grateful Dead

Shakedown Street, 1978
Single (Good Lovin' / Stagger Lee), 1978, Arista 0383
Dick's Picks, Vol. 9, 1997
Dick's Picks, Vol. 21, 2001
The Closing of Winterland, 2003
The Closing of Winterland (DVD), 2003
Beyond Description, 2004
Truckin' Up To Buffalo, 2005
Truckin' Up To Buffalo (DVD), 2005
Grateful Dead Download Vol. 5: 3/27/88, 2005
Shakedown Street, 2006 (bonus on exp. CD)
Rocking The Cradle: Egypt 1978, 2008
Road Trips: Vol 1, Number 4: Winterland 1978, 2008
Road Trips Download: Philadelphia, Nov 5, 1979, 2008
Formerly The Warlocks, 2010
Complete Studio Albums Collection, 2013
Complete Live Rarities Collection, 2013
Spring 1990 (The Other One), 2014
30 Trips Around The Sun Box Set, 2015
Giants Stadium 1987/1989/1991, 2019
Single Coll., Vol. 15: Good Lovin' / Stagger Lee, 2020

The Dead

Saratoga Springs, NY, June 20, 2003
Camden, NJ, June 27, 2003
Morrison, CO, July 8, 2003
Indianapolis, IN, August 5, 2003
Mountain View, CA, September 19, 2003
Portland, OR, July 2, 2004
Boston, MA, July 31, 2004
Camden, NJ, August 8, 2004
Bristow, VA, August 15, 2004
Dead '09: Wilkes-Barre, PA, April 22, 2009

Furthur

September 18, 2010, Redmond, WA
November 8, 2010, Minneapolis, MN
March 25, 2011, New York, NY
July 30, 2011, St. Augustine, FL
Oct 1, 2011, Morrison, CO
Nov 18, 2011, Rosemont, IL
January 17, 2013, Mill Valley, CA
April 20, 2013, Port Chester, NY

Robert Hunter

Salt Lake City, UT, June 29, 2004

Ratdog

New York NY, March 8, 2007
New York NY, March 9, 2007
New York NY, March 10, 2007
Norfolk VA, March 20, 2007
Athens GA, March 22, 2007
Lowell MA, August 12, 2007
Westbury, NY, October 31, 2007
Raleigh, NC, November 11, 2007
Wilkes Barre, PA, November 11, 2008
Boulder, CO, August 30, 2009

Phil Lesh & Friends

Instant Live: June 23, 2006, Tampa, FL
Instant Live: July 1, 2006, Holmdel, NJ
Instant Live: July 19, 2006, Kansas City, MO
April 3, 2014, Port Chester, NY, 2014
November 1, 2015, Port Chester, NY, 2015
May 27, 2017, Port Chester, NY, 2017

Other recordings

It's a Hand-Me-Down, David Gans, 2015
Songs Of Their Own, Various Artists, 2015
Our Trip Is Short Vol. 1, Your Trip Is Short, 2017