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Before Jerry Garcia's death, "Box of Rain" was the last song ever performed live at a Grateful Dead concert, during the final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995. It was the first song played at the first Fare Thee Well show at Soldier Field on July 3, 2015.
A Box of Rain is a 1990 book by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, compiling his complete songbook, in and out of the Dead, from 1965 until 1990. A more-recent paperback edition has also been published, which includes lyrics up until 1993; the original edition was hardbound.
This period produced some of their most successful songs, including "Cumberland Blues", "Box of Rain", and "Sugar Magnolia". [14] Many of these pieces were written by Hunter and would go on to become enduring folk songs; according to McNally, pieces such as "Ripple" grew to be "part of the American canon."
Phish have long been hailed as their generation's successor to jam band godfathers the Grateful Dead, but the Trey Anastasio-led quartet ...
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Here Comes Sunshine 1973 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead.Packaged as a box set, it contains five complete concerts on 17 CDs. It was recorded in May and June 1973.
In his book A Box of Rain, Hunter stated that the title "Terrapin Station" came about as "the first thing that came into [his] mind" at the beginning of a writing session that would yield the entire set of lyrics written for the track. [5] The song marks a noticeable departure from the band's usual sound due to Keith Olsen's production.