Grateful Dead Detail 50th Anniversary Album Reissue Series

Starting in January, the Grateful Dead will begin a series of reissues of their studio and live albums, structured around the respective 50th anniversaries of each release. The rollout will kick off with the rerelease of the band’s self-titled debut on January 20.

The new releases will feature two-disc deluxe editions and limited edition vinyl picture disc versions of the records, with remastered sound and additional unreleased recordings. A limited edition remastered 12-inch picture disc will also be available.

The first release, The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, will come with a bonus disc of the unreleased July 29, 1966, concert at P.N.E. Garden Auditorium in British Columbia in its entirety, along with cuts from the following July 30 show. The shows were part of the Vancouver Trips Festival of that year and include the final known recorded versions of the band playing “Standing On The Corner,” “You Don’t Have To Ask Me” and “Cardboard Cowboy.” See the complete tracklist for the deluxe release below.

“The Grateful Dead is the Grateful Dead as they existed, a slice of their fast-changing live repertoire circa 1967,” author Jesse Jarnow writes in the line notes for the deluxe edition. “Nothing would ever be the same, but nothing had ever been the same with the Dead from the time of their second show onward.”

The Dead will also treat fans to a similar reissue series with their singles, which will be rolled out in limited edition 7-inch vinyl throughout the next few years. A subscription to the singles series can be purchased at dead.net. The first single in the series will be “Stealin’”/“Don’t Ease Me In,” set for release on March 1. Dead.net has also released this year’s edition of the Grateful Dead Almanac.

The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition Tracklist

Disc One: Original Album, Newly Remastered

1. “The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)”

2. “Beat It On Down The Line”

3. “Good Morning Little School Girl”

4. “Cold Rain & Snow”

5. “Sitting On Top Of The World”

6. “Cream Puff War”

7. “Morning Dew”

8. “New, New Minglewood Blues”

9. “Viola Lee Blues”

Disc Two: P.N.E. Garden Auditorium, Vancouver, BC, Canada

7/29/66

1. “Standing On The Corner”

2. “I Know You Rider”

3. “Next Time You See Me”

4. “Sitting On Top of The World”

5. “You Don’t Have To Ask”

6. “Big Boss Man”

7. “Stealin’”

8. “Cardboard Cowboy”

9. “Baby Blue”

10. “Cream Puff Wars”

11. “Viola Lee Blues”

12. “Beat It On Down The Line”

13. “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl”

7/30/66

14. “Cold, Rain and Snow”

15. “One Kind Favor”

16. “Hey Little One”

17. “New Minglewood Blues”