Houston, Texas 11-18-1972 Explained

Houston, Texas 11-18-1972
Type:	live
Artist:	Grateful Dead
Cover:	Houston-Texas-11-18-1972-LP.jpg
Alt:	Two skeleton cowboys mounted on horses look down from a desert bluff at an approaching train
Released:	November 28, 2014
Recorded:	November 18, 1972
Genre:	Rock
Length:	79:54
Label:	Rhino
Producer:	Grateful Dead
Prev Title:	Dave's Picks Volume 12
Prev Year:	2014
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Houston, Texas 11-18-1972 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was recorded on November 18, 1972, at Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas, and includes most of the second set of the concert. It was produced as a CD, and also as a limited edition, two-disc vinyl LP, and was released by Rhino Records on November 28, 2014, in conjunction with Record Store Day Black Friday.

Track listing

CD

The track listing for the CD is:

1. "Bertha" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 5:53
2. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 5:04
3. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:05
4. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:47
5. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:43
6. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 25:49
7. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:45
8. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:45

LP

On the vinyl album the songs are in a slightly different order:

Side A

1. "Bertha" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:53
2. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 5:04
3. "Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:43

Side B

1. "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:05
2. "Jack Straw" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:47

Side C

1. "Playing in the Band" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 25:49

Side D

1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 8:45
2. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:45

Personnel

Grateful Dead

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

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Original recordings produced by Owsley Stanley
• Produced for release by David Lemieux
• Executive producer: Mark Pinkus
• Associate producers: Doran Tyson, Ivette Ramos
• Mastering: Jeffrey Norman
• Cover illustration: Gary Houston
• Art direction, design: Steve Vance

Concert set list

The set list for the November 18, 1972 concert at Hofheinz Pavilion was:

• First set: "Promised Land", "Sugaree", "Mexicali Blues", "Loser", "Black Throated Wind", "Tennessee Jed", "El Paso", "Big Railroad Blues", "Box of Rain", "China Cat Sunflower"> "I Know You Rider", "Beat It On Down the Line", "Brown Eyed Women", "Around and Around", "Casey Jones"
• Second set: "Bertha">^[a] "Greatest Story Ever Told",^[a] "He's Gone",^[a] "Jack Straw",^[a] "Deal",^[a] "Playing in the Band",^[a] "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo",^[a] "Sugar Magnolia",^[a] "One More Saturday Night"
• Encore: "Uncle John's Band"

^[a] Included in Houston, Texas 11-18-1972