Grateful DeadBest of the Grateful Dead Live: Volume 1 1969-1977
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The Dead were always a live band first, and this spans their most fertile stretch of road-tested magic. The jams stretch and breathe, 'Truckin'' rolls with that loose-limbed groove, 'Sugar Magnolia' kicks up dust, and the playing wanders gorgeously off-map. A generous primer on why the concerts, not the records, were the true church. Loose, warm, endlessly explorative.