Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead (album) explained

Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of the Grateful Dead is a live album consisting of audio and video recordings from the concerts. These shows were performed by former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart, along with Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, and Jeff Chimenti. The album was recorded on July 3, 4, and 5, 2015, at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The other two Fare Thee Well concerts, played on June 27 and 28 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California are not included. The album was released on November 20, 2015.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Versions

The album was released in three versions:

Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set

Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set
Type:Live
Cover:Fare-Thee-Well-Complete-box-set.jpg
Alt:A skeleton with roses and an Uncle Sam hat, in front of the Chicago skyline
Caption:Fare Thee Well: Complete Box Set
Released:November 20, 2015
Recorded:July 3–5, 2015
Venue:Soldier Field, Chicago
Genre:Rock
Label:Rhino
Producer:David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus

July 3, 2015

Disc one
  1. "Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter)
  2. "Jack Straw" (Bob Weir, Hunter)
  3. "Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Passenger" (Lesh, Peter Monk)
  5. "The Wheel" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Hunter)
  6. "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter)
  7. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, John Perry Barlow)
Disc two
  1. "Mason's Children" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
  2. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter)
  3. "Fire on the Mountain" (Mickey Hart, Hunter)
  4. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
  5. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby, Jeff Chimenti)
Disc three
  1. "New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Bobby Petersen)
  2. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hunter)
  3. "Jam" (Lesh, Weir, Kerutzmann, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
  4. "Let It Grow" (Weir, Barlow)
  5. "Help on the Way" (Garcia, Hunter)
  6. "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux)
  7. "Franklin’s Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter)
  8. "Ripple" (Garcia, Hunter)
Disc four
  • Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
    1. "Space Wheel"
    2. "Mountains of the Moon"
    3. "Praying for the Band"
    4. "Tripple"
    5. "Deal Breaker"
    6. "Deadometer"
    7. "Borrow from a Friend"
    8. "Grimes Surf Story"

    July 4, 2015

    Disc five
    1. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter)
    2. "Liberty" (Garcia, Hunter)
    3. "Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
    4. "Me and My Uncle" (John Phillips)
    5. "Tennessee Jed" (Garcia, Hunter)
    6. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
    7. "Little Red Rooster" (Willie Dixon)
    8. "Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter)
    9. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter)
    Disc six
    1. "Bird Song" (Garcia, Hunter)
    2. "The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Kreutzmann, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan)
    3. "Lost Sailor" (Weir, Barlow)
    4. "Saint of Circumstance" (Weir, Barlow)
    5. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter)
    Disc seven
    1. "Foolish Heart" (Garcia, Hunter)
    2. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
    3. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
    4. "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter)
    5. "One More Saturday Night" (Weir)
    6. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
    Disc eight
  • Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
    1. "Hallucinate a Solution"
    2. "Ginger Says"
    3. "Saturday's Children"
    4. "Eartha"
    5. "Split Pea Shell"

    July 5, 2015

    Disc nine
    1. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
    2. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
    3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
    4. "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
    5. "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
    6. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
    7. "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
    Disc Ten
    1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
    2. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
    3. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
    4. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
    5. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
    Disc eleven
    1. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
    2. "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
    3. "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
    4. "Not Fade Away" (Charles Hardin, Norman Petty)
    5. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
    6. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)
    Disc twelve
  • Intermission music by Circles Around the Sun
    1. "Gilbert’s Groove"
    2. "Farewell Franklins"
    3. "Hat and Cane"
    4. "Never Too Late"
    5. "Scarlotta's Magnolias"

    Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015

    Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015
    Type:Live
    Cover:Album_cover_for_Fare_Thee_Well_July_5th.jpg
    Alt:A skeleton with roses and an Uncle Sam hat, in front of the Chicago skyline
    Caption:Fare Thee Well: July 5th 2015
    Released:November 20, 2015
    Recorded:July 5, 2015
    Venue:Soldier Field, Chicago
    Genre:Rock
    Label:Rhino
    Producer:David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus
    Disc one
    1. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter)
    2. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
    3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow)
    4. "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter)
    5. "Samson and Delilah" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead)
    6. "Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
    7. "Throwing Stones" (Weir, Barlow)
    Disc two
    1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
    2. "Cassidy" (Weir, Barlow)
    3. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter)
    4. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hart, Hunter)
    5. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart)
    Disc three
    1. "Space" (Lesh, Weir, Hart, Anastasio, Hornsby, Chimenti)
    2. "Unbroken Chain" (Lesh, Peterson)
    3. "Days Between" (Garcia, Hunter)
    4. "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty)
    5. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter)
    6. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)

    The Best of Fare Thee Well

    The Best of Fare Thee Well
    Type:Live
    Cover:Album_cover_for_the_Best_of_Fare_Thee_Well_album.jpg
    Alt:A skeleton with roses and an Uncle Sam hat, in front of the Chicago skyline
    Caption:The Best of Fare Thee Well
    Released:November 20, 2015
    Recorded:July 3–5, 2015
    Venue:Soldier Field, Chicago
    Genre:Rock
    Label:Rhino
    Producer:David Lemieux, Mark Pinkus
    Disc one
    1. "Box of Rain" (Lesh, Hunter) – July 3 – 5:27
    2. "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4 – 15:23
    3. "China Cat Sunflower" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 7:18
    4. "I Know You Rider" (trad. arr. Grateful Dead) – July 5 – 7:25
    5. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3 – 7:49
    6. "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 4 – 10:16
    7. "Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – July 4 – 7:05
    8. "Althea" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 7:56
    9. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – July 3 – 10:12
    Disc two
    1. "Truckin'" (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – July 5 – 14:00
    2. "Scarlet Begonias" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 3 – 11:36
    3. "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – July 3 – 6:37
    4. "Drums" (Kreutzmann, Hart) – July 5 – 15:35
    5. "Not Fade Away" (Hardin, Petty) – July 5 – 13:50
    6. "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 8:36
    7. "Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter) – July 5 – 6:41

    Personnel

    Musicians

    Circles Around the Sun – Interludes for the Dead (box set discs 4, 8 and 12)

    Production

    Notes and References

    1. Grow, Kory (June 25, 2015). "Grateful Dead Announce Box Set Releases of Final Concerts", Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
    2. Payne, Chris (October 15, 2015). "Grateful Dead Shares Tracklist For Fare Thee Well Box Sets", Billboard. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
    3. Maxwell, Jackson (June 26, 2015). "Grateful Dead Announce Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead Live Box Set", Guitar World. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
    4. Monger, Timothy. Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead – July 5, 2015 at AllMusic. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
    5. Contreras, Felix (November 23, 2015). "Review: The Grateful Dead, Fare Thee Well, NPR. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
    6. http://www.dead.net/store/2000s/fare-thee-well-complete-box-july-3-4-5-2015 "Fare Thee Well Complete Box Set"
    7. Cornell, Jeff (October 20, 2015). "Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well Intermission Music to Get Official Release", Billboard. Retrieved November 25, 2015.
    8. http://www.dead.net/store/2000s/fare-thee-well-july-5th-2015 "Fare Thee Well: July 5th, 2015"
    9. http://www.dead.net/store/2000s/best-fare-thee-well-july-3-4-5-2015 "The Best of Fare Thee Well"

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