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New Minglewood Blues
Oct. 28, 1979
Cape Cod Coliseum

It's actually kind of terrible, but now we can talk about that
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Big Railroad Blues
Sept. 3, 1985
Starlight Theater

Deserves a look
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Cassidy
Sept. 3, 1985
Starlight Theater

This is excellent
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Samson and Delilah
Oct. 24, 1979
Springfield Civic Center Arena

one of the hottest, Garcia playing crazy howly double stop stuff
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Terrapin Station
Oct. 24, 1979
Springfield Civic Center Arena

is magnificent,; Garcia forgets the words and there is extra guitar, consequentl
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Comments

Row Jimmy
May 3, 1977
The Palladium

This one is perfect
Brown Eyed Women
May 21, 1977
Lakeland Civic Center

Excellent version, and sung well--best "I cut hickory just to fire the still" delivery ever
Jack Straw
May 21, 1977
Lakeland Civic Center

Very clean, smooth, and well-played. Others have more fireworks, but this hits a particular spot.
China Doll
May 19, 1977
Fox Theatre

This is an incredible second set, but I'm flabbergasted that this ranks #1. It's very slow, and Garcia screws up the verses AND the vocal outro. The instrumental outro is nice, and it's not a bad version overall, but #1? For a sleeper, check out 1973-02-19....
Jack A Roe
May 21, 1977
Lakeland Civic Center

I have to go against the consensus here. This one is indeed great, but I don't think the song had heated up to where it would be yet in Spring 1977. I do like the May 26th Baltimore version better than this....for even better ones, try 1979-11-06 and 1982-04-06...
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