Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway

Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on December 6, 2005, along with Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8. It was recorded on February 4, 1970 at Family Dog at the Great Highway, in San Francisco, California. Three of the songs (tracks 1,4, and 5) were broadcast on an NET television special at the time.[1][2][3]

Grateful Dead Download Series:
Family Dog at the Great Highway
Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedDecember 6, 2005
RecordedFebruary 4, 1970
GenreRock
Length79:43
LabelGrateful Dead Productions
Grateful Dead chronology
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8
(2005)		 Grateful Dead Download Series:
Family Dog at the Great Highway
(2005)		 Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 9
(2006)

Three bonus tracks also date from 1970 in San Francisco. "Dancing in the Streets" is from October 5, 1970; "Monkey and the Engineer" and "Good Lovin'" are from December 31, 1970 (see The Closing of Winterland for another track from the latter concert).

The album is not to be confused with the similarly titled Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70, recorded the same year at the same venue.

Track listing
  1. "Hard to Handle" (Redding, Jones, Isbell) – 6:43
  2. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:33
  3. "Me and My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:29
  4. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04
  5. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:53
  6. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:18
  7. "Not Fade Away" > (Petty, Holly) – 6:58
  8. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:22
  9. "In the Midnight Hour" (Pickett, Cropper) – 8:16
  10. "Dancing in the Street" (Gaye, Stevenson, Hunter) – 12:14
  11. "Monkey and the Engineer" (Fuller) – 2:45
  12. "Good Lovin' " (Resnick, Clark) – 15:08

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

  • Jeffrey Norman – mastering

References
  1. "Grateful Dead Download - A Night At The Family Dog 2/4/70". Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  2. "Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog". AllMusic. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  3. Barry Small; Ramble On Joe. "Download Series A Night At the Family Dog". Retrieved October 19, 2018.
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