Name: Here Comes Sunshine 1973 (Dead.net Exclusive) [ALAC Digital Download]
Brand: Grateful Dead
SKU: 081227847043
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We are aware of the ‘dead air’ that was previously delivered with your purchase of this album. The issue has been resolved and all customers who purchased before 7/11 will receive a new download on 7/12.

ALAC 44/16

Five complete, previously unreleased performances:
Des Moines, IA 5/13/73
Santa Barbara, CA 5/20/73
San Francisco, CA 5/26/73
Washington, D.C. 6/9/73
Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
Recorded by Kidd Candelario, Betty Cantor-Jackson, and Owsley Stanley
Newly restored and speed-corrected audio by Plangent Processes
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman

8 years in and the Grateful Dead are a little bit of everything to everyone. They are putting up textures and tones of rock, of jazz, of country, with set-morphing vibes and long stretches of improvisations that are completely keyed into the sum of their parts. Keith Godchaux is here with his cascading notes. Donna Jean too. Both finding their footing and keeping things steady in the wake of Pigpen's unfillable gap. The spring of 1973 feels transformative for the Dead - no more so than the May and early June shows, complementary yet remarkably different, soon-to-be cornerstones of everyone's tape collections, and now, 50 years later, set to be part of the band's official canon.

HERE COMES SUNSHINE 1973 features five previously unreleased, highly sought-after Dead shows, including: Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73), Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73), Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73), and Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium, Washington, D.C. (6/9/73) and (6/10/73).

During the spring, the band road-tested most of the songs they would record that summer for WAKE OF THE FLOOD – their first studio album in three years – including early live versions of “Mississippi Half-Step Toodeloo,” “Row Jimmy,” “Stella Blue,” “Eyes Of The World,” and, the set’s namesake, “Here Comes Sunshine.” Also tucked into the collection are songs destined for the Dead’s 1974 studio album, FROM THE MARS HOTEL – “China Doll,” “Loose Lucy,” and “Wave That Flag,” a precursor to “U.S. Blues.”

The new repertoire slipped neatly into the fluid setlists alongside songs honed on the 1972 European tour (“Jack Straw,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Brown-Eyed Women”), Chuck Berry perennials (“Promised Land,” “Around And Around”), classic country (“Big River,” “The Race Is On”), and incredible jam sequences: “He’s Gone”> “Truckin’”> “The Other One”> “Eyes Of The World."

Listening Parties & Seaside Chats

LISTENING PARTY: 5/26/73
“Tennessee Jed”
“China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider”
“Bertha”

LISTENING PARTY: DES MOINES, IA, 5/13/73
"Don't Ease Me In"
"Around and Around”
"Here Comes Sunshine”

LISTENING PARTY: SANTA BARBARA, CA, 5/20/73
"Box Of Rain"
"They Love Each Other”
"Playing In The Band”

LISTENING PARTY: WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/9/73
"Loose Lucy"
"Eyes of The World>China Doll”

LISTENING PARTY: WASHINGTON, D.C., 6/10/73
"Morning Dew"
"Wharf Rat>Truckin"

OFFICE HOURS WITH DAVID LEMIEUX

Track Listing

Iowa State Fairgrounds, Des Moines, IA (5/13/73)

   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   MEXICALI BLUES
   4.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   5.   BOX OF RAIN
   6.   LOSER
   7.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   8.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   9.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   10.   EL PASO
   11.   ROW JIMMY
   12.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   13.   DON'T EASE ME IN>
   14.   AROUND AND AROUND
   15. TENNESSEE JED
   16.   BIG RIVER
   17.   BERTHA
   18.   JACK STRAW
   19.   SUGAREE
   20.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   21.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   22.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   23.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   24.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   25.   BROWN-EYED WOMEN
   26.   CASEY JONES
   27.   HE'S GONE>
   28.   TRUCKIN'>
   29.   THE OTHER ONE>
   30.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   31.   CHINA DOLL
   32.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Campus Stadium, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA (5/20/73)

   1.   BERTHA
   2.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   3.   BOX OF RAIN
   4.   DEAL
   5.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   6.   TENNESSEE JED
   7.   THE RACE IS ON
   8.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   9.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   10.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   11.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   12.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   13.   PROMISED LAND
   14.   BROWN-EYED WOMEN
   15.   MEXICALI BLUES
   16.   ROW JIMMY
   17.   JACK STRAW
   18.   BIG RAILROAD BLUES
   19.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   20.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   21.   BIG RIVER
   22.   LOSER
   23.   EL PASO
   24.   CASEY JONES
   25.   TRUCKIN'>
   26.   JAM>
   27.   THE OTHER ONE>
   28.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   29.   STELLA BLUE
   30.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA
   31.   JOHNNY B. GOODE

Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (5/26/73)

   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   JACK STRAW
   4.   TENNESSEE JED
   5.   THE RACE IS ON
   6.   SUGAREE
   7.   MEXICALI BLUES
   8.   ROW JIMMY
   9.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   10.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   11.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   12.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   13.   EL PASO
   14.   LOSER
   15.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   16.   YOU AIN'T WOMAN ENOUGH
   17.   BOX OF RAIN
   18.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   19.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   20.   BIG RIVER
   21.   BERTHA
   22.   AROUND AND AROUND
   23.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   24.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   25.   HE'S GONE>
   26.   TRUCKIN'>
   27.   THE OTHER ONE
   28.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   29.   CHINA DOLL
   30.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA
   31.   CASEY JONES

RFK Stadium, Washington, DC (6/9/73)
Disc 11
   1.   PROMISED LAND
   2.   DEAL
   3.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   4.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   5.   JACK STRAW
   6.   LOOSE LUCY
   7.   MEXICALI BLUES
   8.   ROW JIMMY
   9.   EL PASO
   10.   BOX OF RAIN
   11.   SUGAREE
   12.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   13.   TENNESSEE JED
   14.   GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
   15.   CHINA CAT SUNFLOWER>
   16.   I KNOW YOU RIDER
   17.   HE'S GONE>
   18.   TRUCKIN'>
   19.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   20.   LOSER
   21.   ME AND MY UNCLE
   22.   MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
   23.   BIG RIVER
   24.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   25.   CHINA DOLL
   26.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

RFK Stadium, Washington, DC (6/10/73)

   1.   MORNING DEW
   2.   BEAT IT ON DOWN THE LINE
   3.   RAMBLE ON ROSE
   4.   JACK STRAW
   5.   WAVE THAT FLAG
   6.   LOOKS LIKE RAIN
   7.   BOX OF RAIN
   8.   THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
   9.   THE RACE IS ON
   10.   ROW JIMMY
   11.   EL PASO
   12.   BIRD SONG
   13.   PLAYING IN THE BAND
   14.   EYES OF THE WORLD>
   15.   STELLA BLUE
   16.   BIG RIVER
   17.   HERE COMES SUNSHINE
   18.   AROUND AND AROUND
   19.   DARK STAR>
   20.   HE'S GONE>
   21.   WHARF RAT>
   22.   TRUCKIN'
   23.   SUGAR MAGNOLIA

Final set with Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks
   24.   IT TAKES A LOT TO LAUGH, IT TAKES A TRAIN TO CRY
   25.   THAT'S ALL RIGHT
   26.   PROMISED LAND
   27.   NOT FADE AWAY>
   28.   GOIN' DOWN THE ROAD FEELING BAD>
   29.   DRUMS>
   30.   NOT FADE AWAY
   31.   JOHNNY B. GOODE

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