Grateful Dead ORIG OZ 2LP Reckoning NM ’81 Arista L70177 Jam band Country Rock
Original OZ 2LP released in 1981 on Arista Records. cat: L70177. Comes in a gatefold sleeve. 
This record  came from a collection in absolutely stunning condition, many not played at all and most only played a few times at best. 
  In the fall of 1980, the Grateful Dead played a series of shows at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York City (venues considerably smaller than they had grown accustomed to) for the purpose of filming and recording. The group opened these special concerts with a special acoustic set at which Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir played acoustic guitars, Brent Mydland played piano, and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart played reduced kits. (Phil Lesh stuck to his electric bass, but at a modest volume.) Also special was the set list, as demonstrated by the track list on this album drawn from the shows. A batch of old folk and country tunes never before included on a Grateful Dead album make up half of the 16 songs, mixed in with originals. (And actually, three of those originals, "Cassidy," "To Lay Me Down," and "Bird Song," only appeared previously on Garcia or Weir solo albums.) The music deliberately harks back to a period most Deadheads weren't around for, the band's origins in the folk, bluegrass, and country groups Garcia led in Palo Alto, CA, in the early '60s, culminating in Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, the band that went electric and became the Warlocks, renamed the Grateful Dead. Garcia in particular seems comfortable with this material, and he takes two-thirds of the lead vocals, with Weir spelling him every couple of tracks, usually with a song at least slightly more uptempo (although, for example, his version of "The Race Is On" has none of the breakneck pace of George Jones' original).

Tracks : Dire wolf/ The race is on/ Oh babe it ain’t no lie/ It must have been the roses/ Dark hollow/ China doll/ Been all around the world/ Monkey and the engineer/ jack-a-roe/ Deep elem blues/ Cassidy/ To lay me down/ Rosalie McFall/ On the road again/ Bird song/ Ripple.
  There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Records are in Near Mint condition. Gatefold cover has a small sticker stain on top right corner and some light marks and is in VG+ condition.

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