Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8

Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	December 6, 2005
Recorded	December 10, 1973
Length	149:15
Label	Grateful Dead Productions
Grateful Dead chronology
Fillmore West 1969 (2005) Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8 (2005) Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway (2005)

Download Series Volume 8 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on December 6, 2005, and features most of the concert performed by the band on December 10, 1973, at the Charlotte Coliseum in Charlotte, North Carolina.^[1][2][3]

The songs omitted from the album are "Jack Straw", "Tennessee Jed", "El Paso", and "Brown-Eyed Women" from the first set, and "Me and My Uncle" from the second set.

Volume 8 was mastered in HDCD format by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

Disc one

First set:

1. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) - 7:01
2. "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) - 4:12
3. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:50
4. "Big River" (Cash) - 4:54
5. "Don't Ease Me In" (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 4:03
6. "Playing In The Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) - 20:52

Second set:

7. "Promised Land" (Berry) - 3:40
8. "Peggy-O" (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 6:03
9. "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) - 9:49
10. "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) - 5:59
11. "Big Railroad Blues" (Lewis, Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 4:26

Disc two

1. "Truckin' " > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) - 9:00
2. "Nobody's Fault But Mine" > (Johnson) - 5:07
3. "Eyes Of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) -13:20
4. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) - 6:23
5. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:16
6. "I Know You Rider" (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 8:41
7. "Sugar Magnolia" > (Weir, Hunter) - 6:16
8. "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" > (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 8:46
9. "Sunshine Daydream" (Weir, Hunter) - 3:11

Encore:

10. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) - 7:26

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Keith Godchaux – piano
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – electric bass
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

• Kidd Candelario – recording
• Jeffrey Norman – mastering

References

1. "Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8 – 12/10/73". Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
2. "Grateful Dead Download Series, Vol. 8: Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, VA". AllMusic. Retrieved October 18, 2018.
3. Small, Barry. "Download Series 8". The Best of Website. Retrieved October 18, 2018.