Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway
Live album by Grateful Dead
Released	December 6, 2005
Recorded	February 4, 1970
Length	79:43
Label	Grateful Dead Productions
Grateful Dead chronology
Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8 (2005) Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway (2005) Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 9 (2006)

Grateful Dead Download Series: Family Dog at the Great Highway is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It was released as a digital download on December 6, 2005, along with Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8. It was recorded on February 4, 1970 at Family Dog at the Great Highway, in San Francisco, California. Three of the songs (tracks 1,4, and 5) were broadcast on an NET television special at the time.^[1][2][3]

Three bonus tracks also date from 1970 in San Francisco. "Dancing in the Streets" is from October 5, 1970; "Monkey and the Engineer" and "Good Lovin'" are from December 31, 1970 (see The Closing of Winterland for another track from the latter concert).

The album is not to be confused with the similarly titled Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70, recorded the same year at the same venue.

Track listing

1. "Hard to Handle" (Redding, Jones, Bell) – 6:43
2. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:33
3. "Me and My Uncle" (Phillips) – 3:29
4. "China Cat Sunflower" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:04
5. "I Know You Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:53
6. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:18
7. "Not Fade Away" > (Petty, Holly) – 6:58
8. "St. Stephen" > (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) – 2:22
9. "In the Midnight Hour" (Pickett, Cropper) – 8:16
10. "Dancing in the Street" (Gaye, Stevenson, Hunter) – 12:14
11. "Monkey and the Engineer" (Fuller) – 2:45
12. "Good Lovin' " (Resnick, Clark) – 15:08

Personnel

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart – drums, percussion
• Bill Kreutzmann – drums
• Phil Lesh – bass, backing vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan – organ, percussion, harmonica, vocals
• Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

• Jeffrey Norman – mastering

References