The Very Best of the Grateful Dead (Compilation)

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The Very Best of the Grateful Dead
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Released: 2003, 16 September
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Tracks

  Truckin' (Garica, Hunter, Lesh Weir) - 5:08 Lyrics
  Touch of Grey (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:50 Lyrics
  Sugar Magnolia (Hunter Weir) - 3:19 Lyrics
  Casey Jones (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:28 Lyrics
  Uncle John's Band (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:46 Lyrics
  Friend of the Devil (Dawson, Garcia, Hunter) - 3:24 Lyrics
  Franklin's Tower (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) - 4:33 Lyrics
  Estimated Prophet (Barlow Weir) - 5:38 Lyrics
  Eyes of the World (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:20 Lyrics
  10  Box of Rain (Hunter, Lesh) - 5:20 Lyrics
  11  U.S. Blues (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:40 Lyrics
  12  The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) (Garcia) - 2:12 Lyrics
  13  One More Saturday Night [Live] (Weir) - 4:50 Lyrics
  14  Fire on the Mountain (Hart, Hunter) - 3:48 Lyrics
  15  The Music Never Stopped (Barlow Weir) - 4:35 Lyrics
  16  Hell in a Bucket (Barlow Weir) - 5:38 Lyrics
  17  Ripple (Garcia, Hunter) - 4:10 Lyrics
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Credits


Tom Constanten – keyboards
Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel, vocals
Donna Godchaux – vocals
Keith Godchaux – keyboards
Mickey Hart – drums
Bill Kreutzmann – drums and percussion
Phil Lesh – bass guitar
Ron McKernan – organs, vocals
Brent Mydland – keyboards
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Jordan Amarantha – percussion on "Fire on the Mountain"
The English Choral – on "Estimated Prophet"
David Grisman – mandolin on "Friend of the Devil" and "Ripple"
John Kahn – horn arrangements on "Fire on the Mountain"
Matthew Kelly – harp on "Fire on the Mountain"
Dave Nelson – electric guitar on "Box of Rain"
The Martyn Ford Orchestra – on "Estimated Prophet"
Merl Saunders – organ on "One More Saturday Night" (later studio overdubs)
Steven Schuster – saxophone on "The Music Never Stopped"
Tom Scott – lyricon and saxophones on "Estimated Prophet"
Dave Torbert – bass guitar on "Box of Rain"
Howard Wales – organ on "Truckin'"

Technical personnel

James Austin, David Lemieux – compilation producers
Cameron Sears – album coordination
Robin Hurley – associate producer
Jimmy Edwards – product manager
Joe Gastwirt – remastering
Gary Peterson – discographical annotation
Vanessa Atkins – editorial supervision
Stanley Mouse – cover art, lettering
Hugh Brown – art direction
Linda Cobb – design
Michael Ochs Archive, Bob Seidemann, Herb Greene, Bruce Polonsky, Fred Ordower – photography
Hale Milgrim, Kevin Gore, Scott Pascucci, Mark Pinkus, Tim Scanlin, Steven Chean, Dennis McNally, Jeffrey Norman – project assistants

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