Reckoning

by Grateful Dead

Reckoning cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1 April 1981
  • Label: Arista
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:17:04
  • Community rating: 3.93/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Betty Cantor-Jackson, Dan Healy, Jerry Garcia

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Recorded during a series of special 15th-anniversary theater shows, this double album features the legendary jam band performing entirely unplugged acoustic sets. The stripped-down arrangements and intimate focus on folk, blues, and country traditionalism provided a gentle, highly praised counterpoint to their massive electric stadium spectacles.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, ballad, live, folk, communal

Tracklist

  1. Dire Wolf - Live (3:20)
  2. The Race Is On - Live (3:00)
  3. Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie - Live (6:27)
  4. It Must Have Been the Roses - Live (6:59)
  5. Dark Hollow - Live (3:51)
  6. China Doll - Live (5:21)
  7. Been All Around This World - Live (4:13)
  8. Monkey and the Engineer - Live (2:55)
  9. Jack-A-Roe - Live (4:13)
  10. Deep Elem Blues - Live (4:53)
  11. Cassidy - Live (4:34)
  12. To Lay Me Down - Live (9:02)
  13. Rosalie McFall (2:53)
  14. On the Road Again - Live (3:13)
  15. Bird Song - Live (7:36)
  16. Ripple - Live (4:27)

Credits

  • Grateful Dead - primary artist, arranged by
  • Jim Welch - artwork [production]
  • Rick Griffin - illustration [cover]
  • Greg Fulginiti - lacquer cut by
  • Bill Kreutzmann - performer
  • Bob Weir - performer, written-by
  • Brent Mydland - performer
  • Mickey Hart - performer

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