Reckoning | 
| Artist: The Grateful Dead
Label: Grateful Dead / Rhino
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 29557
Format: Live, Original Recording Remastered, Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 73282
UPC: 812273282218
EAN: 0081227328221
ASIN: B000EOTFEE
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Dire Wolf | | • | Race Is On | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses | | • | Dark Hollow | | • | China Doll | | • | Been All Around This World | | • | Monkey and The Engineer | | • | Jack-A-Roe | | • | Deep Elem Blues | | • | Cassidy | | • | To Lay Me Down | | • | Rosalie McFall | | • | On the Road Again | | • | Bird Song |
Disc 2
| • | To Lay Me Down (Studio Rehearsal) (Bonus) | | • | Iko Iko (Bonus) | | • | Heaven Help the Fool (Bonus) | | • | El Paso (Bonus) | | • | Sage & Spirit (Bonus) | | • | Little Sadie (Bonus) | | • | It Must Have Been the Roses (Alternate Live Version) 8. 9. (Bonus) | | • | Dark Hollow (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Jack-A-Roe (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Cassidy (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | China Doll (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Monkey and The Engineer (Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Oh Babe It Ain't No Lie (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Ripple (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) | | • | Tom Dooley (Bonus) | | • | Deep Elem Blues (Alternate Live Version) (Bonus) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 great album greatly improved April 17, 2006
A music fan (KC MO)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This was the album that hooked me on the dead. Sadly, I lost the tape years ago and always put off replacing it. I am glad now, because the sound quality is much improved, and the second disc has some really nice additions. The alternate versions don't add greatly to the package, in my opinion, but the new songs are definately worth having. Nice to finally have oh babe it aint no lie included that was absent from the original CD. Far superior to the electric Dead Set recorded during the same shows. If you like any of their acoustic stuff, this is definately recommended.
If you have the old arista set & are wondering... January 29, 2007
B. J Lam (littleton, colorado United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
... if it will be worth it to shell out the extra bucks for the new double cd version of Reckoning, allow me. I think that the second cd of bonus material is actually the BETTER of the two discs now! The first cd is and has always been a treasure -- songs from sets recorded in the fall of 1980 in NYC and SF. It's all played acoustically and easily one half of the songs are from the Dead's earliest influences (can you say "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Band?"). The second set has just fantastic alternative live versions of nine of the 16 original songs and contains one studio rehearsal with a little bit of talking going on among the players -- working out their parts. The alt live versions have a little more audience interplay with the band and may be why they were ultimately rejected. On disc two, I think that Brett gets into the singing a little more and he sounds great. His piano playing really added a nice dimension to the Dead too. The new live songs that are on disc two but never were on disc one are iko, heaven help the fool, el paso, sage & spirit, little sadie, & tom dooley. If you liked the original "reckoning, the proceed and buy without hesitation.
A live album for Dead fans who don't like the long jams.... June 18, 2007
Grigory's Girl (NYC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was my first Dead album (live or studio), and I still enjoy it. I love American folk/old country music, and the Dead were great practioners of this music (check out their studio work on American Beauty and Workingman's Dead). Their live stuff usually concentrated on long jams (some of which were wonderful, others not so good), but here (and on Dead Set, a companion piece to this album), they concentrated on great arrangements and singing with soul and depth. There are a lot of wonderful songs here, such as Dire Wolf (better than the studio version), George Jones's The Race Is On, Dark Hollow, the hilarious, wonderful Monkey and the Engineer, and a fine version of Ripple that concluded the original album. For those who don't really dig the Dead's long jamming (there are a lot of people who fall into this category), I suggest buying this album. I don't have the CD reissue, just the original LP, but the original LP is wonderful.
Very live Dead December 1, 2006
jblyn (Maryland, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The old bromide said it all...on a good night, there really was "nothing like a Grateful Dead concert," and that held true for both their acoustic and electric sets. RECKONING captures some of the best moments of their 1980 Radio City Music Hall and San Francisco acoustic sets, and they've put several winners on here. "China Doll," "To Lay Me Down," "Bird Song," "Cassidy" and "Ripple" are particularly outstanding, but except for a somewhat dirge-like "It Must Have Been The Roses" (c'mon, Jerry, pick up the tempo!), everything here shows these ol' reliables at their unplugged best.
What else is there to say? The Grateful Dead may be gone, but the music is as present---and as timeless---as ever. Some of the best of it can be found here.
supernatural performances April 18, 2008
Patrick S. Curry
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
the guys really tapped into something special during these sets. The music comes alive and the sound quality is phenomenal.This is One album I return to again and again, and i always come away with a deeper appreciation of the talent and genius of all the guys in the band. Cassidy is one of the best, but then all the songs on here have a little something extra that makes it so listenable and truly enjoyable on many levels. One album I would have in my stranded on an island survival pack.
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