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Not available in stores, this is the ultimate Live Dead. From Jambase:

“Enough can’t be said about this superb show,” Grateful Dead Vault archivist Dick Latvala wrote in his journal regarding the now legendary concert held at Barton Hall on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York 40 years ago today. Latvala based that assessment on the audience recording of the Dead’s May 8, 1977 concert initially sent to him in July of that year by taper Jerry Moore. In 2011, Moore’s Cornell ‘77 tapes were selected by the Library Of Congress for the esteemed honor of inclusion in the National Recording Registry.

Affinity among Deadheads for the Cornell concert grew in the mid-1980s when a cache of recordings made by the band’s engineer Betty Cantor-Jackson were serendipitously discovered within the contents of a commercial storage facility auction. Included with those famed “Betty Boards” were the Cornell ‘77 master reels and soon soundboard tapes of Barton Hall began to circulate as the show grew in popularity among listeners. It wasn’t until the end of last year that the Grateful Dead organization was able to secure ownership of the Cornell ‘77 Betty Board master tapes, allowing for the first-ever official audio release of the storied performance.

“Although plenty of Grateful Dead shows have been called their ‘best ever,’ in the case of Cornell this statement is rarely contested,” current Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux stated. The argument is backed up by standout performances of “Scarlet Begonias” > “Fire On The Mountain,” “Morning Dew,” Dancing In The Streets,” “St. Stephen” > “Not Fade Away” > “St. Stephen” and plenty of other highlights. Included in the just-released Get Shown The Light limited edition box set along with three additional previously unreleased concerts from the same run of shows, the May 8, 1977 legendary Grateful Dead show was also issued as a standalone release.