The Infamous Stringdusters – Jack Straw (Grateful Dead cover) Their take on “Saturday Night” includes enough guitar firepower to keep you going until Sunday. The Chuck Berry-inspired rocker first appeared on Bob Weir’s 1972 album Ace (also marking its 50th anniversary) The jam band Goose has earned a rabid fan-base in recent years thanks to their spirited live shows. “One More Saturday Night” became a staple of the Dead’s live shows over the years, routinely played near the end of set two on Saturday nights, naturally. Goose – One More Saturday Night (Bob Weir cover) In this live cut, they introduce a new instrument for the solo: the melodica, a keyboard with a blow tube. Roots of Creation included a cover on their 2018 album Grateful Dub: A Reggae Infused Tribute to the Grateful Dead. It is a mid-tempo scoundrel song about a nefarious man who skips town. “He’s Gone” is the first of the new Dead tracks to appear on the album. Roots of Creation – He’s Gone (Grateful Dead cover) One recent cover comes from the Travelin’ McCourys, who have made it a staple of their live shows with feisty bits of fingerpicking. With its upbeat country-groove and plight-of-the-workingman lyrics, the song lends itself well to bluegrass interpretations and many acoustic outfits have followed suit. As the opening track to Europe ‘72, the band played it as a fiery piece of country-rock, paying direct homage to the Bakersfield-country sound of Buck Owens. Robert Hunter’s lyrics to “Cumberland Blues” attempt to capture the spirit of a coal miner’s folk song. The Travelin’ McCourys – Cumberland Blues (Grateful Dead cover) Here’s a breakdown of live covers of every single track on the album. Given the album and tour’s popularity among Deadheads, in 2011 the band released a more exhaustive collection, Europe ‘72: The Complete Recordings, a 73-CD box set.Īs Deadhead nation marks the album and tour’s 50th anniversary, we decided to put together our own form of celebration. There are six new songs that were never even included on any studio records, three previously unreleased covers and two instrumental jams. The 17-track, three record set contained practically a full album’s worth of new material mixed in with older tracks. While many bands use live albums as an easy way of fulfilling their contract or rehashing their greatest hits, Europe ‘72 is very much a complete work in its own right. Given both this blend of musicians and the high quality of the recording equipment, the shows have a unique sound that differs from other eras of the band’s music. Mickey Hart was on hiatus after his father had stolen money from the band, leaving Bill Kreutzmann as the band’s lone drummer. The husband and wife duo, pianist Keith Godchaux and vocalist Donna, were firmly entrenched in the band. It was their last tour to include founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who would pass away in 1973. That spring, the band’s lineup was in a state of evolution. There was also lighting gear and their first traveling lighting designer.” In A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, Dennis McNally cataloged everything that came along for the journey, which included: “seven musicians, ten crew, five staff, seventeen assorted friends, wives, girlfriends and children … They brought themselves and fifteen tons of instruments, a sound system, and a sixteen-track recording system which they would install in a truck as a mobile studio. For the band at the time, the tour felt like a monumental undertaking that included both scores of people and mountains of gear. The tour has been chronicled heavily in band members’ memoirs, remembered for both its great musical output as well as its levels of unbridled debauchery, excessive even by the standards of the Dead. The 22-date outing would eventually be immortalized in the three-LP live album it spawned: Europe ‘72. On April 7, 1972, the Grateful Dead hit the stage at Wembley Empire Pool in London, kicking off a multi-city European tour.
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