Road Trips, Vol. 4, No. 1: Big Rock Pow Wow '69

The popular Road Trips series begins its fourth big year with just the second release from the 1960s, and Vol. 4, No. 1 is a certifiably great one: Two complete performances from the Big Rock Pow Wow festival on the Seminole Indian reservation in Hollywood, Florida, May 23 and 24, 1969. If you dig '69 Dead--and let's face it, who doesn't?--then these two sets, spread across three discs, will be right in your wheelhouse. Beautifully recorded by the inimitable Owsley Stanley, aka "Bear," just three months after the amazing Fillmore West shows that gave us Live Dead (and the fantabulous Fillmore West 1969 box and compilation), and a month after the Midwest shows immortalized on Dick's Picks 26, the Big Rock Pow Wow set gives us the ragin' beast that was '69 Dead at its most feral and wild.

Track listing:

Disc 1:

1. Hard To Handle

2. Dark Star

3. St. Stephen

4. The Eleven

5. Turn On Your Lovelight

Disc 2:

1. Introduction

2. Turn On Your Lovelight

3. Doin' That Rag

4. He Was A Friend Of Mine

5. China Cat Sunflower

6. The Eleven

7. Death Don't Have No Mercy

Disc 3:

1. Morning Dew

2. Me and My Uncle

3. Yellow Dog Story

4. Alligator

5. Drums

6. St. Stephen

7. Feedback

8. We Bid You Goodnight