Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead. It is the band'… Read Full Bio ↴Reckoning is a 1981 live double album by the Grateful Dead. It is the band's sixth live album and seventeenth album overall. It consists of acoustic material recorded live in September and October 1980. Some of the tracks are shortened versions of the live performances.
The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set, but the format of the music subsequently steered the Grateful Dead towards the release of two double albums, Reckoning and Dead Set. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia commented that the band "ended with so much good material that it was a struggle. The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly."
Initial CD releases omitted one track, "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", for space reasons. One CD, tape, and LP release, by Pair/Arista Records in 1984, was given the title For the Faithful.... In 1988 the album was re-issued with the original title.
The material recorded in 1980 was originally intended for release on one double LP set, but the format of the music subsequently steered the Grateful Dead towards the release of two double albums, Reckoning and Dead Set. Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia commented that the band "ended with so much good material that it was a struggle. The idea of just one acoustic and one electric record was sort of pathetic, since our electric tunes are seldom less than eight minutes long. And that meant our fat electric album would have two songs on a side. It was kind of silly."
Initial CD releases omitted one track, "Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie", for space reasons. One CD, tape, and LP release, by Pair/Arista Records in 1984, was given the title For the Faithful.... In 1988 the album was re-issued with the original title.
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Grateful Dead Lyrics
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Monkey and the Engineer Once upon a time there was an engineer. Drove a locomotive…
Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie Been all around this whole round world, Lord, I just got…
On the Road Again Why I married me a bad girl Tell you the reason…
Ripple If my words did glow With the gold of sunshine And my…
Rosalie McFall Out on the lonely hillside in a cabin low and…
The Race Is On I feel tears welling up cold and deep inside Like my…
To Lay Me Down To lay me down, once more to lay me down with…