Label: Future Days Recordings

Reissued 10/21/2022, Originally released 2007

Recorded live at the Capitol Theatre (Port Chester, NY) in 1971, this is the worldwide vinyl debut release of this seminal show featuring the 5 piece line-up of Pigpen, Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Kruetzmann (Mickey Hart had temporarily left the band at that point), freshly remastered in 2014 by Joe Gastwirt for your pleasure.  20 classic songs on 8 sides of wax, this show has previously only been available on CD; this is the first ever vinyl LP release! The band played six shows over the course of seven nights at the Capitol Theatre in February of 1971, and this was the second of that run, recorded on the 19th. Their previous two studio albums had been their landmark recordings of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, and while songs from those albums were certainly featured, the Dead debuted seven brand new songs on this night–all of which went on to become Dead “standards” including “Playing in the Band,” “Greatest Story Ever Told,” and two absolute classics: “Bird Song” and “Deal.” Essential Dead.

Track listing:

1. Two Ditties: The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down, Spring Song" - 1:19
2. Truckin' - 8:09
3. Loser - 6:23
4. Cumberland Blues - 4:58
5. It Hurts Me Too - 6:10
6. Bertha - 5:21
7. Playing in the Band - 5:14
8. Deal - 4:22
9. Dark Hollow - 3:15
10. Smokestack Lightning - 14:42
11. China Cat Sunflower - 3:24
12. I Know You Rider - 7:02
13. Greatest Story Ever Told - 4:22
14. Johnny B. Goode - 3:26
15. Bird Song - 7:04
16. Easy Wind - 8:17
17. That's It for the Other One:
18. I Cryptical Envelopment"
19. II Drums
20. III the Other One - 16:09
21. Wharf Rat - 9:08
22. Good Lovin'- 18:43
23. Casey Jones - 5:00