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TRACKLISTING
LP1:
1. New Minglewood Blues
2. Loser
3. El Paso
4. They Love Each Other
5. Jack Straw
6. Deal
LP2:
1. Lazy Lightning>
2. Supplication
3. Brown-Eyed Women
4. Mama Tried
5. Row Jimmy
LP3:
1. Dancing In The Street
2. Scarlet Begonias>
3. Fire On The Mountain
LP4:
1. Estimated Prophet
2. St. Stephen>
3. Not Fade Away>
4. St. Stephen
LP5:
1. Morning Dew One More Saturday Night
The most celebrated Grateful Dead show in history is finally getting its official release! The forces aligned for the Dead on 8 May 1977 at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, for what many hail the pinnacle performance of their 30-year career. So revered is the performance, that an audience recording of this show joined Prince’s Purple Rain and Dolly Parton’s Coat of Many Colors as 2012’s inductees into the National Recording Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress, an honor bestowed upon music/songs that “are culturally, historically, or aesthetically important.”
Cornell 5/8/77 was recorded live directly from the soundboards by Betty Cantor-Jackson. After several years the master tapes were seemingly lost for good, but that all changed at the end of 2016. The lost tapes, or lost “Betty boards†as they are commonly known, finally made their way back home to the Grateful Dead vault, making it possible to officially bring the world this legendary show just in time for its 40th Anniversary.
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