| Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 2 | |
| Type: | Live Album |
| Artist: | Grateful Dead |
| Cover: | Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 2.jpg |
| Released: | June 7, 2005 |
| Recorded: | January 18, 1970 |
| Length: | 79:47 |
| Label: | Grateful Dead Productions |
| Prev Title: | Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 1 |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Dick's Picks Volume 35 |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
Download Series Volume 2 is a live album by the rock band Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on June 7, 2005. The album features a previously uncirculated concert from January 18, 1970, at Springer's Ballroom in Gresham, Oregon (listed incorrectly as Springer's Inn in Portland, Oregon), presented as a one-disc set.[1] [2]
Volume 2 was mastered in HDCD from the original 2-track master tapes by Jeffrey Norman.
On AllMusic, Jesse Jarnow said, "Only one tune from [''Workingman's Dead'' or ''American Beauty''] gets played here... though they also charge through a six-minute take of the new (and rare) "Mason's Children".... The highlight is unquestionably a 13-plus minute version of Martha & the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street". Garcia, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh's harmonies are big and enthused, the San Francisco ballroom scene encapsulated in one vocal arrangement. The jam makes its way into deeply spaced jazz, Garcia especially wearing his John Coltrane love... on his sleeve."[3]