Saint of Circumstance

This article is about the album. For the song, see Go to Heaven.

Saint of Circumstance
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	September 27, 2019
Recorded	June 17, 1991
Venue	Giants Stadium East Rutherford, New Jersey
Genre	Rock
Label	Rhino
Producer	Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991 (2019) Saint of Circumstance (2019) Dave's Picks Volume 32 (2019)

Ticket stub from the concert

Saint of Circumstance is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 17, 1991. It was released on September 27, 2019, on three CDs or five LPs. The same recording was also released the same day as part of the 14-CD album Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991.^[1][2][3][4]

A video of this concert was shown in theaters on August 1, 2019 as that year's Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies.^[5]

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
All About Jazz	[6]
AllMusic	[7]

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "A somewhat legendary taper's classic, the band's second night at New Jersey's 80,000 capacity Giants Stadium in the summer of 1991 was a predictably unpredictable behemoth lauded more for its oddities than overall cohesion. Boasting the relatively short-lived two-man keyboard battery of Bruce Hornsby (piano, accordion) and Vince Welnick (synths), the show's lush tonal palette was a hallmark of this era.... ["Dark Star"] seems to exist as more of a spiritual undercurrent, spurring on other improvisations, some of which get quite heady."^[7]

Doug Collette of All About Jazz commented: "Garcia's guitar playing is pointed and precise, while his navigation of the ensemble is careful, purposeful and rife with surprise in both selection of song(s) and the segues between them." He noted: "this setlist is full of material through which the late cultural icon speaks or tenders implicit personal observation that add weight even to otherwise slight songs like 'Loose Lucy'."^[6]

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:

1. "Eyes of the World" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 15:26
2. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson, arranged by Bob Weir) – 7:01
3. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:10
4. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Ron McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 1:32
5. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Bob Dylan) – 5:28
6. "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:16
7. "Cassidy" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 7:11
8. "Might as Well" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41

Disc 2

Second set:

1. "Saint of Circumstance" > (Weir, Barlow) – 10:55
2. "Ship of Fools" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:01
3. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 1:14
4. "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 6:55
5. "New Speedway Boogie" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:12
6. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 0:55
7. "Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:18
8. "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir, Hunter) – 8:05
9. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 12:30

Disc 3

1. "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir) – 8:47
2. "China Doll" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:07
3. "Playing in the Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 4:35
4. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:53

Encore:

5. "The Weight" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:20

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
• Phil Lesh – bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Mickey Hart – drums
• Vince Welnick – keyboards, vocals
• Bruce Hornsby – keyboards, vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Produced for release by David Lemieux
• Recording: John Cutler
• Mixing: Jeffrey Norman
• Mastering: David Glasser
• Engineering: Dave Hewitt, Dave Roberts, Jamie Howarth
• Art direction, design: Lisa Glines, Doran Tyson, Steve Vance
• Photos: David Rae Morris, James R. Anderson, Bob Minkin

Charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[8]	19

References

1. Blistein, Jon (August 1, 2019). "Grateful Dead Tease 'Giants Stadium' Box Set with 'Uncle John's Band'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
2. Bernstein, Scott (August 1, 2019). "Grateful Dead Announces 'Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991' Box Set". JamBase. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
3. Berenson, Sam (August 1, 2019). "Grateful Dead Announce 'Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991' Box Set". Live for Live Music. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
4. "Saint Of Circumstance: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 6/17/91". Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
5. Lello, Michael (July 26, 2019). "Grateful Dead Truckin' into Movie Theaters with 1991 Giants Stadium Show". New York Post. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
6. Collette, Doug (January 11, 2020). "Grateful Dead: Saint Of Circumstance: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 6/17/91 (3CD)". All About Jazz. Retrieved May 16, 2023.
7. Monger, Timothy. "Saint of Circumstance: Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ, 6/17/91". AllMusic. Retrieved December 31, 2019.
8. "Album Top 40 slágerlista – 2019. 39. hét" (in Hungarian). MAHASZ. Retrieved 3 October 2019.