May 1977: Get Shown the Light is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains four consecutive complete concerts, recorded on May 5, 7, 8, and 9, 1977, on eleven CDs. It was released on May 5, 2017.
The album was produced as a box set, in a numbered limited edition of 15,000 copies, and includes the previously unpublished book Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall, by Peter Conners. It was also produced as an "all music edition" without the book.
- Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
- Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
- Keith Godchaux – keyboards
- Mickey Hart – drums
- Bill Kreutzmann – drums
- Phil Lesh – bass
- Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
The album includes these concerts:
- May 5, 1977 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut
- May 7, 1977 – Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
- May 8, 1977 – Barton Hall, Ithaca, New York
- May 9, 1977 – Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York
May 5, 1977 – Veterans Memorial Coliseum, New Haven, Connecticut
Disc 1
First set:
- "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry)
- "Sugaree" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
- "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard)
- "El Paso" (Marty Robbins)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Looks Like Rain" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 2
Second set:
- "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" > (Mickey Hart, Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Rudy Clark, Arthur Resnick)
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Hunter)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
Encore:
- "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry)
May 7, 1977 – Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts
Disc 1
First set:
- "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Big River" (Johnny Cash)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 2
Second set:
- "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter)
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 3
- "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Drums" > (Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)
- "The Wheel" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Around and Around" (Berry)
Encore:
- "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
May 8, 1977 – Barton Hall, Ithaca, New York
Disc 1
First set:
- "New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "El Paso" (Marty Robbins)
- "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter)
- "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Lazy Lightning" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "Supplication" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Mama Tried" (Haggard)
- "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 2
- "Dancing in the Street" (Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter, William Stevenson)
Second set:
- "Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter)
- "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 3
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
- "Not Fade Away" > (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty)
- "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
- "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose)
Encore:
- "One More Saturday Night" (Weir)
May 9, 1977 – Buffalo Memorial Auditorium, Buffalo, New York
Disc 1
First set:
- "Help On The Way" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Slipknot" > (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir)
- "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
- "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow)
- "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Big River" (Cash)
- "Peggy-O" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
- "Sunrise" (Donna Jean Godchaux)
- "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow)
Disc 2
Second set:
- "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Good Lovin'" (Clark, Resnick)
- "Ship of Fools" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc 3
- "Estimated Prophet" > (Weir, Barlow)
- "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann)
- "Drums" > (Hart, Kreutzmann)
- "Not Fade Away" > (Hardin, Petty)
- "Comes a Time" > (Garcia, Hunter)
- "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
Encore:
- "Uncle John's Band" (Garcia, Hunter)