Grateful Dead - Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings (9+1 CD, 2008) [FLAC + 320]


Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert. It was recorded on November 9, 10, and 11, 1973, at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California. The album was released on April 1, 2008.

A tenth, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the December 4, 1973 concert at the Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio.







Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings was the second Grateful Dead album to contain an entire "run" of concerts. The first was Fillmore West 1969: The Complete Recordings, which was released in 2005. 

  •     Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
  •     Donna Godchaux – vocals
  •     Keith Godchaux – keyboards
  •     Bill Kreutzmann – drums
  •     Phil Lesh – electric bass
  •     Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals


Disc 1

November 9, 1973 — First set:

    "Promised Land" (Chuck Berry) – 3:21
    "Brown-Eyed Woman" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:08
    "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kris Kristofferson, Fred Foster) – 5:59
    "They Love Each Other" (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:42
    "Black-Throated Wind" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 7:08
    "Don’t Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:37
    "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:44
    "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:03
    "The Race Is On" (Don Rollins) – 3:57
    "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:35
    "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:27

Disc 2

    "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 20:53

November 9, 1973 — Second set:

    "Here Comes Sunshine" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:52
    "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips) – 3:44
    "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:11
    "Big River" (Johnny Cash) – 5:29
    "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:30
    "Greatest Story Ever Told" > (Weir, Hunter) – 5:10
    "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12

Disc 3

    "Weather Report Suite" > (Weir, Eric Andersen, Barlow) – 15:38
    "Eyes of the World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:43
    "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
    "Around and Around" > (Berry) – 5:05
    "Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:01
    "Johnny B. Goode" (Berry) – 4:25

Disc 4

November 10, 1973 — First set:

    "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:11
    "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:15
    "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:40
    "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:50
    "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:40
    "Mexicali Blues" (Weir, Barlow) – 3:42
    "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:39
    "El Paso" (Marty Robbins) – 4:54
    "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:12
    "Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller) – 3:51
    "Row Jimmy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:51

Disc 5

    "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Andersen, Barlow) – 18:26

November 10, 1973 — Second set:

    "Playing In The Band" > (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 11:59
    "Uncle John's Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:39
    "Morning Dew" > (Bonnie Dobson, Tim Rose) – 12:24
    "Uncle John’s Band" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 1:50
    "Playing In The Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 7:38

Disc 6

    "Big River" (Cash) – 5:12
    "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:19
    "Truckin'" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 12:18
    "Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:43
    "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:39

November 10, 1973 — Encore:

    "One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:28
    "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:05

Disc 7

November 11, 1973 — First set:

    "Promised Land" > (Berry) – 3:42
    "Bertha" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:04
    "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:07
    "Sugaree" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:56
    "Black-Throated Wind" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:47
    "To Lay Me Down" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:28
    "El Paso" (Robbins) – 4:45
    "Ramble On Rose" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:04
    "Me and Bobby McGee" (Kristofferson, Foster) – 5:56

Disc 8

    "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:27
    "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:04
    "Me and My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:34
    "Loose Lucy" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:52
    "Weather Report Suite" (Weir, Andersen, Barlow) – 15:07

November 11, 1973 — Second set:

    "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:26
    "Big River" (Cash) – 7:05

Disc 9

    "Dark Star" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux, Hunter) – 35:41
    "Eyes Of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:36
    "China Doll" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:40
    "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 10:19

November 11, 1973 — Encore:

    "Uncle John’s Band" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:32
    "Johnny B. Goode" > (Berry) – 3:56
    "And We Bid You Goodnight" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:11

Bonus Disc

December 4, 1973, Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio:

    "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:58
    "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 5:57
    "Truckin' " > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 8:48
    "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:15
    "Eyes Of The World" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:38
    "Space" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, Godchaux) – 9:36
    "Sugar Magnolia" > (Weir, Hunter) – 6:17
    "Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:45
    "Casey Jones" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:17