The Very Best of Grateful Dead | ||||
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Released | September 16, 2003 | |||
Recorded | Various | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 77:05 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Warner Bros./Rhino Records | |||
Producer | James Austin David Lemieux | |||
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The Very Best of Grateful Dead is a single-CD compilation album chronicling all the years of the San Francisco psychedelic band the Grateful Dead. It is the first release to document every label the band recorded on: Warner Bros. Records, Grateful Dead Records/United Artists Records and Arista Records. It was released on September 16, 2003.
A songbook under the same name was released alongside this album which provides lyrics and musical tablature.
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Allmusic | [1] |
On AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine said, "The Very Best of Grateful Dead marks the first attempt to do a thorough single-disc overview of the group's career, encompassing not just their classic Warner albums but also the records they cut for their own Grateful Dead/UA and Arista. As always with the Dead, it's hard to condense the band's free-ranging, freewheeling output onto one disc [..] but the 17 tracks here do present nearly all sides of the Dead while hitting their biggest songs. [..] The collection would have been better if sequenced a little more chronologically, but nevertheless it provides a first-class introduction to a band whose catalog can often seem a little unwieldy."[1]
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Mark Pinkus – project assistant
Album - Billboard
Year | Chart | Position |
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2003 | The Billboard 200 | 69[2] |