Saturday, May 22, 2010

Grateful Dead - I Know You Rider

The website Wolfgang's Vault is selling recordings of live performances by a wide variety of rock, blues, jazz, and folk (as in Doc Watson et al., not John Denver et al.) musicians, recordings that were made over the last fifty years or so. Among them are (unsurprisingly since Wolfgang refers to Wolfgang Grajonca, better known to the world as Bill Graham) many recordings made at Fillmore West and Fillmore East in their glory days. Even less surprisingly, this means the Grateful Dead are well represented. This version of "I Know You Rider" dates from 1970 and is mostly acoustic. In some ways I prefer it to the well-known version on the Europe 72 album.

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