DESCRIPTION GRATEFUL DEAD ROAD TRIPS VOL. 3 NO. 2— AUSTIN 11-15-1971 Keith Godchaux’s only been with the band a month but already he is fitting in like a glove. This fall 1971 show captures the Dead dancing down their improvisational high wire like only they can. On one side of the precipice are the free form jams of their earlier incarnations. On the other are the country-inflected tunes of American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead, both released the preceding year. And no sequence captures the tension between the two quite like the first set’s “Dark Star”/”El Paso” sequence, during which the band improbably (and seamlessly) veers from their spaciest song to their most cowboy cover and back again. A true marvel of a medley. Then, speaking of cowboy, the second set goes full-on boots ‘n’ spurs (the show is in Austin, after all) for its first half-dozen songs, winding up with a barn burning “Cumberland Blues.” And then another sublime medley of “Not Fade Away” segueing into a “Jam” that toys with the “China Cat Sunflower” theme, followed by a rip-roarin’ “Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad” and back to “Not Fade Away.” Blair Jackson’s liner notes chart the course. HDCD sound mastered by Jeffrey Norman, too…never before available in stores! Volume 3 No. 2 Presents the Band Playing in Austin, TX Shortly After Keith Godchaux Joined. The Concert Also Captures the Dead in a Transitional Phase Balanced Between Their Previous Exploratory Jamming and the More Structured Country-Rock Tunes of American Beauty and Workingman’s Dead. TracksCredits - Disc 1 - 1 Truckin' 2 Bertha 3 Playing in the Band 4 Deal 5 Jack Straw 6 Loser 7 Beat It on Down the Line 8 Dark Star 9 El Paso 10 Dark Star 11 Casey Jones 12 One More Saturday Night - Disc 2 - 1 Me and My Uncle 2 Ramble on Rose 3 Mexicali Blues 4 Brokedown Palace 5 Me and Bobby McGee 6 Cumberland Blues 7 Sugar Magnolia 8 You Win Again 9 Not Fade Away 10 Jam 11 Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad 12 Not Fade Away 13 Johnny B. Goode

• Genre: Pop
• Format: CD
• Released: 03/27/2020