12x HDCD

The Golden Road (1965–1973)

Compilation by Grateful Dead

Released 16 October 2001

blues rock country rock experimental

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Tracklist

HDCD 1: Birth of the Dead: The Studio Sides
1
Early Morning Rain
3:22
5.0 ★
2
I Know You Rider
2:41
5.0 ★
3
Mindbender (Confusion’s Prince)
2:41
5.0 ★
4
The Only Time Is Now
2:24
5.0 ★
5
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
3:17
5.0 ★
6
Can’t Come Down
3:04
5.0 ★
7
Stealin’ (instrumental)
2:40
5.0 ★
8
Stealin’ (with vocals)
2:36
5.0 ★
9
Don’t Ease Me In (instrumental)
2:01
5.0 ★
10
Don’t Ease Me In (with vocals)
2:02
5.0 ★
11
You Don’t Have to Ask
3:35
5.0 ★
12
Tastebud (instrumental)
7:04
5.0 ★
13
Tastebud (with vocals)
4:35
5.0 ★
14
I Know You Rider
2:36
5.0 ★
15
Cold Rain and Snow (instrumental)
3:15
5.0 ★
16
Cold Rain and Snow (with vocals)
3:17
5.0 ★
17
Fire in the City
3:18
5.0 ★
HDCD 2: Birth of the Dead: The Live Sides
1
Viola Lee Blues
9:39
2
Don’t Ease Me In
2:43
3
Pain in My Heart
4:24
4
Sitting on Top of the World
3:51
5
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
5:12
6
I’m a King Bee
8:52
7
Big Boss Man
5:11
8
Standing on the Corner
3:46
9
In the Pines
4:55
10
Nobody’s Fault but Mine
4:15
11
Next Time You See Me
2:47
12
One Kind Favor
3:44
13
He Was a Friend of Mine
4:45
14
Keep Rolling By
7:56
HDCD 3: The Grateful Dead
1
The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)
2:11
4.0 ★
2
Beat It On Down the Line
2:30
4.0 ★
3
Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
6:35
4
Cold Rain and Snow
2:29
4.0 ★
5
Sitting on Top of the World
2:46
6
Cream Puff War
3:20
7
Morning Dew
5:19
8
New, New Minglewood Blues
2:44
9
Viola Lee Blues
10:23
10
Alice D. Millionaire
2:24
11
Overseas Stomp (The Lindy)
2:27
12
Tastebud
4:21
13
Death Don’t Have No Mercy
5:23
14
Viola Lee Blues (edited version)
3:05
15
Viola Lee Blues (live)
23:13
HDCD 4: Anthem of the Sun
1
That’s It for the Other One: I. Cryptical Envelopment / II. Quadlibet for Tender Feet / III. The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get / IV. We Leave the Castle
7:40
2
New Potato Caboose
8:26
3
Born Cross‐Eyed
2:07
4
Alligator
11:20
5
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
9:50
6
Alligator (live)
18:43
7
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) (live)
11:38
8
Feedback (live)
6:58
2.0 ★
9
Born Cross‐Eyed
2:54
HDCD 5: Aoxomoxoa
1
St. Stephen
4:27
4.0 ★
2
Dupree’s Diamond Blues
3:34
4.0 ★
3
Rosemary
2:00
3.0 ★
4
Doin’ That Rag
4:44
4.0 ★
5
Mountains of the Moon
4:04
3.0 ★
6
China Cat Sunflower
3:42
4.0 ★
7
What’s Become of the Baby
8:13
2.0 ★
8
Cosmic Charlie
5:44
9
Clementine Jam
10:51
10
Nobody’s Spoonful Jam
10:09
11
The Eleven Jam
15:05
12
Cosmic Charlie (live)
6:47
HDCD 6: Live/Dead
1
Dark Star
23:18
5.0 ★
2
St. Stephen
6:31
5.0 ★
3
The Eleven
9:18
5.0 ★
4
Turn On Your Love Light
15:05
5.0 ★
5
Death Don’t Have No Mercy
10:28
5.0 ★
6
Feedback
7:49
5.0 ★
7
And We Bid You Goodnight
3:13
5.0 ★
8
Dark Star (studio)
2:44
5.0 ★
9
Radio Ad
1:00
5.0 ★
HDCD 7: Workingman’s Dead
1
Uncle John’s Band
4:45
4.5 ★
2
High Time
5:14
4.5 ★
3
Dire Wolf
3:14
4.6 ★
4
New Speedway Boogie
4:06
4.5 ★
5
Cumberland Blues
3:16
4.0 ★
6
Black Peter
5:43
4.5 ★
7
Easy Wind
4:58
4.5 ★
8
Casey Jones
4:38
5.0 ★
9
New Speedway Boogie (alternate mix)
4:10
5.0 ★
10
Dire Wolf (live)
2:31
5.0 ★
11
Black Peter (live)
9:07
5.0 ★
12
Easy Wind (live)
8:09
5.0 ★
13
Cumberland Blues (live)
4:52
5.0 ★
14
Mason’s Children (live)
6:32
5.0 ★
15
Uncle John’s Band (live)
7:57
5.0 ★
16
Radio Ad
0:31
5.0 ★
HDCD 8: American Beauty
1
Box of Rain
5:18
3.4 ★
2
Friend of the Devil
3:24
3.5 ★
3
Sugar Magnolia
3:19
3.5 ★
4
Operator
2:25
4.0 ★
5
Candyman
6:13
2.8 ★
6
Ripple
4:09
4.0 ★
7
Brokedown Palace
4:09
4.0 ★
8
Till the Morning Comes
3:09
4.0 ★
9
Attics of My Life
5:14
4.0 ★
10
Truckin’
5:17
3.8 ★
11
Truckin’ (single version)
3:17
12
Friend of the Devil (live)
4:21
13
Candyman (live)
5:18
2.0 ★
14
Till the Morning Comes (live)
3:20
15
Attics of My Life (live)
6:31
16
Truckin’ (live)
10:10
17
Ripple (alternate take)
3:01
18
American Beauty Radio Spot
1:10
HDCD 9: Grateful Dead
1
Bertha
5:43
5.0 ★
2
Mama Tried
2:43
5.0 ★
3
Big Railroad Blues
3:35
5.0 ★
4
Playing in the Band
4:40
5.0 ★
5
The Other One
18:07
5.0 ★
6
Me & My Uncle
3:04
5.0 ★
7
Big Boss Man
5:14
5.0 ★
8
Me & Bobby McGee
5:42
5.0 ★
9
Johnny B. Goode
3:44
5.0 ★
10
Wharf Rat
8:32
5.0 ★
11
Not Fade Away / Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad
9:26
5.0 ★
12
Oh, Boy!
2:50
5.0 ★
13
I’m a Hog for You
5:20
5.0 ★
14
Radio Ad
1:00
5.0 ★
HDCD 10: Europe ’72
1
Cumberland Blues
5:43
5.0 ★
2
He’s Gone
6:57
5.0 ★
3
One More Saturday Night
4:49
5.0 ★
4
Jack Straw
4:49
5.0 ★
5
You Win Again
4:00
5.0 ★
6
China Cat Sunflower
5:32
5.0 ★
7
I Know You Rider
5:03
5.0 ★
8
Brown‐Eyed Woman
4:38
5.0 ★
9
Hurts Me Too
7:20
5.0 ★
10
Ramble On Rose
6:04
5.0 ★
11
Sugar Magnolia
7:10
5.0 ★
12
Mr. Charlie
3:39
5.0 ★
13
Tennessee Jed
7:18
5.0 ★
14
The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion)
6:50
5.0 ★
HDCD 11: Europe ’72
1
Truckin’
13:06
5.0 ★
2
Epilogue
5:10
5.0 ★
3
Prelude
7:37
5.0 ★
4
Morning Dew
11:41
5.0 ★
5
Looks Like Rain
7:42
5.0 ★
6
Good Lovin’
18:30
5.0 ★
7
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
4:39
5.0 ★
8
Who Do You Love?
0:22
5.0 ★
9
Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)
1:43
5.0 ★
10
Good Lovin’
5:59
5.0 ★
11
Yellow Dog Story
3:09
5.0 ★
HDCD 12: History of the Grateful Dead, Vol. 1: Bear’s Choice
1
Katie Mae
4:44
5.0 ★
2
Dark Hollow
3:52
5.0 ★
3
I’ve Been All Around This World
4:18
5.0 ★
4
Wake Up Little Susie
2:31
5.0 ★
5
Black Peter
7:27
5.0 ★
6
Smokestack Lightnin’
17:59
5.0 ★
7
Hard to Handle
6:29
5.0 ★
8
Good Lovin’
8:56
5.0 ★
9
Big Boss Man
4:53
5.0 ★
10
Smokestack Lightnin’ (version two)
15:11
5.0 ★
11
Sitting on Top of the World
3:20
5.0 ★

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Release credits

Alembic
engineer [7.1-9, 10.3, 5.1, 5.3], producer [7.1, 5.1, 5.3, 10.3], recording [6.1-7, 10.3]
Betty Cantor‐Jackson
mix, associate [1-7], engineer [7.1, 6.1-7, 9.1-11, 5.1-7, 10.3], producer [6.1-7, 10.3, 5.1, 5.3, 7.1-9], recording [11.1-11, 10.1-14]
Bill Kreutzmann
bell, chimes, crotales, drums (drum set), finger cymbals, gong, percussion, prepared piano, arranger [11.2-3, 5.9-11], drums (drum set) [6.8, 8.1-4, 8.6-10, 3.1, 7.1-7, 1.1-6], percussion [1-7]
Bill Walker
illustration
Bob Matthews
mix, assistant [1-5], engineer [5.1, 7.1, 10.3, 9.1-11], executive [5.1-8, 6.1-7, 7.1-7], producer [10.3, 7.1-9, 5.1, 5.3, 6.1-7], recording [11.1-11, 10.1-14]
Bob Mitchell
producer [1-6]
Bob Seidemann
photography
Bob Weir
12 string guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar, kazoo, vocal, arranger [5.9-11, 11.2-3, 11.11], background vocals [1.6, 6.8, 3.1], guitar [6.8, 1.1-6, 3.1, 7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10], lead vocals [7.5, 3.2, 3.8-9, 3.14-15], vocal [8.1-4, 8.6-10, 7.1-7]
Dan Healy
additional [1-8], executive [1-5]
David Grisman
guest [6], mandolin [2, 6]
David Hassinger
producer [4.1-5, 3.1-9]
David Lemieux
producer
David Nelson
additional, acoustic guitar [5], electric guitar [1], guest [7.5, 8.1]
David Torbert
electric bass guitar [1], guest [1]
Dick Bogert
engineer [1-9]
Ed Thrasher
art direction
Gene Anthony
photography
Gene Estribou
engineer [7-16], producer [7-16]
George Conger
photography
Grateful Dead
mix, arranger [3.1-9, 4.1-5, 5.1-8, 6.8], associate [1-7], engineer [7.1, 5.1, 5.3, 10.3], producer [5.1-8, 11.1-11, 6.1-8, 10.1-14, 4.1-5, 9.1-11, 8.1-10, 7.1-9], recording [3]
Greg Allen
art direction, design
Herb Greene
photography
Howard Wales
guest [5, 7], organ [5, 10], piano [7]
Hugh Brown
art direction
James Austin
producer
Jeffrey Norman
additional
Jerry Garcia
acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar, kazoo, pedal steel guitar, piano, vibraslap, vocal, arranger [5.9-11, 11.2-3], banjo [1-7], guitar [6.8, 7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10, 3.1, 1.1-6], lead vocals [1.6, 3.1, 3.4-6, 3.9, 3.13-15, 6.8, 7.1-6], pedal steel guitar [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10], piano [1-4, 6-10], vocal [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10]
Jim Furman
recording [11.1-11, 10.1-14]
Jim Marshall
photography
Joe Gastwirt
mastering
John Dawson
additional
Jon Hendricks
arranger [17], lead vocals [17], producer [17]
Keith Godchaux
arranger [2-3]
Leo De GarKulka
engineer [1-6]
Merl Saunders
guest [1, 4, 10], organ [1, 4, 10]
Michael Wesley Johnson
associate
Mickey Hart
bell, chimes, crotales, drums (drum set), finger cymbals, gong, prepared piano, arranger [9-11], drums (drum set) [1-7], percussion [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10, 6.8]
Ned Lagin
guest [5], piano [5]
Owsley Stanley
additional [5.1-8, 6.1-7], engineer [1-14], producer [1-7], recording [1-11], sound [1-7]
Pete Grant
additional
Peter McQuaid
executive
Phil Lesh
electric bass guitar, guitar, güiro, harpsichord, kazoo, piano, timpani, trumpet, vocal, arranger [11.2-3, 5.9-11], background vocals [1.6, 6.8, 3.1], bass [8.4, 8.7-9, 6.8, 7.2-7, 3.1], bass guitar [7.1, 8.1-3, 8.6, 8.10, 1.1-6], guitar [1-4, 6-10], piano [1-4, 6-10], vocal [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10]
R.D. Thomas
illustration
Rachel Gutek
art direction, design
Robert Hunter
background vocals [8]
Rock Scully
engineer [1-14]
Ron Wickersham
additional [6.1-7, 5.1-8]
Ron “Pigpen” McKernan
acoustic guitar, celesta, claves, harmonica, keyboard, organ, percussion, vocal, arranger [11.2-3, 5.9-11], harmonica [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10, 1.6], keyboard [1-7], lead vocals [7.7, 3.3], organ [3.1, 1.1-6, 6.8], vocal [7.1-7, 8.1-4, 8.6-10]
Rosie
recording [10.1-14, 11.1-11]
Rosie McGee
photography
Stephen Barncard
co [1-10]
Sylvester Stewart
producer [6]
Tom Constanten
keyboard, piano, prepared piano, keyboard [6.8, 7.10-14]
Tom Donahue
producer [1-6]
Tom Weir
photography
Wizard
recording [10.1-14, 11.1-11]

Issues

T
(Combined release view)
T
The Golden Road (1965–1973)
12x HDCD
16 October 2001
B
Birth of the Dead
Unknown format
21 October 2002