| The Story of the Grateful Dead | |
| Type: | box |
| Artist: | Grateful Dead |
| Cover: | The-Story-of-the-Grateful-Dead-box-set.jpg |
| Alt: | The skull and roses design, with blue roses and a blue background |
| Released: | November 2020 |
| Recorded: | 1969 – 1990 |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Label: | Vinyl Me, Please |
| Prev Title: | Dave's Picks Volume 36 |
| Prev Year: | 2020 |
| Next Title: | Grateful Dead Origins |
| Next Year: | 2021 |
The Story of the Grateful Dead is a box set of albums by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains eight previously released albums – four recorded in the studio and four recorded live – in vinyl LP format. It comprises 14 discs, on 180-gram colored vinyl. The albums were remastered directly from the original master recordings. The box set includes a booklet of essays by various musicians, each discussing the influence of one of the albums on their own music. The booklet also contains photos of the Grateful Dead. The box set was released by the Vinyl Me, Please record company in November 2020, in a limited edition of 7,500 copies.
The albums contained in the box set were originally released from 1969 to 1990. They are Workingman's Dead, American Beauty, Live/Dead, Europe '72, Wake of the Flood, Terrapin Station, Reckoning, and Without a Net.
The LPs were cut directly from the master recordings using analog-to-analog technology, except Without a Net which has a digital master.
The albums included in The Story of the Grateful Dead are listed below. For narrative purposes the box set organizes them into four "episodes".
| Episode | Title | Year | Recording | Discs | Liner notes by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Workingman's Dead | 1970 | studio | 1 (purple) | David Longstreth |
| American Beauty | 1970 | studio | 1 (red) | Jim James | |
| 2 | Live/Dead | 1969 | live | 2 (yellow, pink) | Avey Tare |
| Europe '72 | 1972 | live | 3 (orange, blue, green) | Hunter Brown | |
| 3 | Wake of the Flood | 1973 | studio | 1 (clear) | Margo Price |
| Terrapin Station | 1977 | studio | 1 (green) | Scott Devendorf | |
| 4 | Reckoning | 1981 | live | 2 (red, blue) | John Darnielle |
| Without a Net | 1990 | live | 3 (yellow, blue, red) |
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