Three from the Vault
Live album by
Grateful Dead
ReleasedJune 26, 2007
RecordedFebruary 19, 1971
GenreRock, country rock, psychedelic rock, jam
Length142:42
LabelRhino
ProducerGrateful Dead
Grateful Dead chronology
Live at the Cow Palace
(2007) 		Three from the Vault
(2007) 		Road Trips Volume 1 Number 1
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
All About Jazz(not rated)[1]
Allmusic[2]
JamBands.com(not rated)[3]
The Music Box[4]
Rolling Stone[5]
Starpulse(not rated)[6]

Three from the Vault is a live album by the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete show recorded on February 19, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. It was released on June 26, 2007.[7][8][9]

The album was mastered from the 16-track concert soundboard tapes. Although the album was released in 2007, longtime Grateful Dead engineer Dan Healy actually mixed the album in 1993, and its release was delayed 14 years for unknown reasons.[10]

The Capitol Theatre show

The February 19, 1971 Port Chester concert marked the beginning of Mickey Hart's temporary departure from the band. The previous night's show would be his last with the Grateful Dead until his return on October 20, 1974. The February 19 concert included the first live performances of the songs "Bird Song" and "Deal", and the second performances of "Loser", "Bertha", "Playing in the Band", "Greatest Story Ever Told", and "Wharf Rat". The concert, which was on a Friday night, was the second of a series of six shows in seven days at the Capitol Theatre.[11] All shows in the run were recorded on multitrack tapes, but this was the only one released until 2020, when the February 21 show was included on the Workingman's Dead 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition in July 2020, and the February 18 show was included on the American Beauty 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition in October 2020.

The opening act for this series of concerts, and for many other shows of that era, was the New Riders of the Purple Sage. At that time the lineup of the New Riders featured Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead playing pedal steel guitar. The band also included John Dawson, David Nelson, Dave Torbert, and Spencer Dryden. Songs that they recorded at the February 21 and February 23, 1971 shows at the Capitol Theatre were released as an album called Vintage NRPS.

Other live Grateful Dead albums recorded in early to mid 1971 with the same band membership as on Three from the Vault are Skull and Roses, Ladies and Gentlemen... the Grateful Dead, Dick's Picks Volume 35, and Road Trips Volume 1 Number 3.

Track listing

Disc one

First set:
  1. "Two Ditties" – 1:19
  2. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 8:09
  3. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:23
  4. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 4:58
  5. "It Hurts Me Too" (Elmore James, Tampa Red) – 6:10
  6. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:21
  7. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 5:14
  8. "Dark Hollow" (Bill Browning) – 3:15
  9. "Smokestack Lightning" (Howlin' Wolf) – 14:42
  10. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:24 →
  11. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:02

Disc two

Second set:
  1. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:22 →
  2. "Johnny B. Goode" (Chuck Berry) – 3:26
  3. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:04
  4. "Easy Wind" (Hunter) – 8:17
  5. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:22
  6. "That's it for the Other One" – 16:09 →
    • "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
    • "Drums" (Kreutzmann)
    • "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann)
  7. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:08
  8. "Good Lovin'" (Artie Resnick, Rudy Clark) – 18:43
  9. "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:00

Credits

Grateful Dead

Production

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[12] 112

References

  1. ^ Collette, Doug (August 3, 2007). Three from the Vault, All About Jazz
  2. ^ Tamarkin, Jeff. "Three from the Vault". AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Ray, Randy (June 25, 2007). Three from the Vault, JamBands.com
  4. ^ Metzger, John (August 2007). Three from the Vault, The Music Box
  5. ^ Fricke, David (August 23, 2007). Three from the Vault, Rolling Stone
  6. ^ Three from the Vault, Starpulse, July 4, 2007
  7. ^ Three from the Vault at the Grateful Dead Family Discography
  8. ^ Greenhaus, Mike (May 16, 2007). Three from the Vault, Relix
  9. ^ Three from the Vault at dead.net
  10. ^ "Finally…Three From the Vault! – 2/19/71, Capitol Theater, Port Chester NY". dead.net. Retrieved 2020-04-28.
  11. ^ Scott, John W; Dolgushkin, Mike; Nixon, Stu. (1999). DeadBase XI: The Complete Guide to Grateful Dead Song Lists, DeadBase, ISBN 1-877657-22-0, pp. 19, 565.
  12. ^ Three from the Vault, Billboard
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