A2CD-8523 Reckoning
Produced by Dan Healy, Betty Cantor-Jackson and Jerry Garcia
Released on April 1, 1981
US CHART POSITION #43
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K ronomyth Eighteen, Book of the Dead. Before the curtain cloaked the sun for six long years, there came the dappled sunlight of Reckoning and the electric burst of Dead Set. The source of the light, some said, was San Francisco and New York. The songs rolled easy in the last hours before the big sleep: soft drums thump to sticks and bones, piano keys tinkle in a toast to the past, guitar strings strum and dance, and the bass bumps merrily along. As comfortable as old jeans they come: dire wolf, cassidy, china doll, deep elem blues... new old songs and old new songs since nothing is old or new to the dead. They sense everything, see nothing since eyes can lie, and communicate in a language that only a deadhead can hear. This afternoon, sitting down with the dead on the sofa, I knew that I still didn’t get them, but I’m getting there. They left us something to mull over here: old scrolls that roll easy out of the speakers. And these days of reckoning sustained us all, until the darkness ended and the dead rose again.

A2CD-8523 gatefold sleeve A2CD-8523 back sleeve
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TRACK LISTING

  1. DIRE WOLF    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    3:20
  2. THE RACE IS ON    (Don Rollins)    2:58
  3. +OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE
  4. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    6:56
  5. DARK HOLLOW    (Bill Browning)    3:50
  6. CHINA DOLL    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    5:22
  7. BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD    (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead)    4:32
  8. MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER    (Jesse Fuller)    2:38
  9. JACK-A-ROE    (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead)    4:06
  10. DEEP ELEM BLUES    (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead)    6:52
  11. CASSIDY    (Bob Weir/John Barlow)    4:34
  12. TO LAY ME DOWN    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    8:59
  13. ROSE LEE MCFALL    (Charlie Monroe)    2:55
  14. ON THE ROAD AGAIN    (trad., arr. by Grateful Dead)    3:16
  15. BIRD SONG    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    7:35
  16. RIPPLE    (Jerry Garcia/Robert Hunter)    4:28

    Rykodisc double CD reissue track listing
    disc one
  17. DIRE WOLF
  18. THE RACE IS ON
  19. OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE
  20. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES
  21. DARK HOLLOW
  22. CHINA DOLL
  23. BEEN ALL AROUND THIS WORLD
  24. MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER
  25. JACK-A-ROE
  26. DEEP ELEM BLUES
  27. CASSIDY
  28. TO LAY ME DOWN
  29. ROSA LEE McFALL
  30. ON THE ROAD AGAIN
  31. BIRD SONG
  32. RIPPLE

    disc two
  33. TO LAY ME DOWN (STUDIO REHEARSAL)
  34. IKO IKO
  35. HEAVEN HELP THE FOOL
  36. EL PASO
  37. SAGE & SPIRIT
  38. IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  39. DARK HOLLOW (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  40. JACK-A-ROE (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  41. CASSIDY (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  42. CHINA DOLL (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  43. MONKEY AND THE ENGINEER (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  44. OH BABE IT AIN'T NO LIE (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  45. RIPPLE (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)
  46. TOM DOOLEY
  47. DEEP ELEM BLUES (ALTERNATE LIVE VERSION)

CREDITS

JERRY GARCIA --
MICKEY HART --
BILL KREUTZMANN --
PHIL LESH --
BRENT MYDLAND --
BOB WEIR --
Dan Healy -- mixing
Don Pearson -- engineer
John Cutler -- engineer
Dennis Leonard --
Rick Griffin -- cover illustration
John Werner -- back cover photograph
Jim Welch -- artwork production

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REGION RELEASE DATE LABEL MEDIA ID NUMBER FEATURES
US April 1, 1981 Arista 2LP A2L-8604  
UK April 1, 1981 Arista 2LP DARTY9  
GER/SPA 1981 Arista 2LP XD 301621  
NET 1981 Arista 2LP 301619  
  1984 Pair   ARP2-1053 repackaged as FOR THE FAITHFUL
US 1986 Arista CD A2CD-8523 edited wo. one track (+)
JPN 2000 Arista/BMG Int'l 2CD BVCM-37138/9 digital remaster
US April 11, 2006 Rykosidc 2CD 73282 w. bonus tracks

 

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