Grateful Dead
CD139 - Warner Bros. 1967
Grateful Dead
1 THE GOLDEN ROAD
(TO UNLIMITED DEVOTION)
2 BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
3 GOOD MORNING LITTLE SCHOOL GIRL (Full-Length Version)
4 COLD RAIN AND SNOW
5 SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD (Full-Length Version)
6 CREAM PUFF WAR (Full-Length Version)
7 MORNING DEW (Full-Length Version)
8 NEW, NEW MINGLEWOOD BLUES (Full-Length Version)
9 VIOLA LEE BLUES
Bonus Material
10 ALICE D. MILLIONAIRE
11 OVERSEAS STOMP (THE LINDY HOP)
12 TASTEBUD
13 DEATH DON'T HAVE NO MERCY
14 VIOLA LEE BLUES (Edited Version)
15 VIOLA LEE BLUES (Live)
| Blair Jackson's review: | *** |
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A fun and fast-paced glimpse of what the Dead were like in their ballroom days. The most successful cuts are the extended ones — "Viola Lee Blues," "Morning Dew" and "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl." "The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion)" almost sounds like a mainstream rock track, circa '67, and though Garcia didn't like "Cream Puff War," I do. "Beat It on Down the Line" and "Sitting on Top of the World" are manic but still effective. "Cold Rain and Snow" is also faster than the group played it in later years.