The Grateful Dead : Skeletons From The Closet : The Best of Grateful Dead

DRIVIN' THAT TRAIN,

HIGH ON COCAINE...

Skeletons from the Closet: 

The Best of Grateful Dead 

is the first 

compilation album 

from rock band

 The Grateful Dead

 It was originally released

 in February 1974.

 As with other

 such packages, 

the album was

 a way for 

Warner Bros. Records 

to capitalize on 

the Dead's 

back catalog

 after the band

 had left the label.

 It was followed

 three years later 

by a 

second compilation, 

What a Long Strange Trip It's Been.

Content

Upon fulfilling their 

contract with

 Warner Bros. Records, 

the Grateful Dead 

left the label 

and started their 

own production 

and publishing arm

 for the release 

of their albums 

and other projects. 

After 

Wake of the Flood 

was successfully 

released on 

the independent 

Grateful Dead Records, 

Warner Bros. 

compiled 

Skeletons from the Closet

 as a

 "best-of" package,

 with tracks

 representing six 

of the band's

 nine albums 

on their label 

along with a

 track from

 Bob Weir's 

solo album, 

Ace

Eight of the tracks

 are from Dead

 studio recordings, 

and two

 are from

 live albums.

 However

 "Turn On Your Love Light"

 is an edited version 

that first appeared on

 the Warner/Reprise

 Loss Leaders album 

The Big Ball, 

rather than the 

complete version 

from

 Live/Dead. 

"One More Saturday Night"

 is a live version

 from

 Europe '72.

 Though

 "Mexicali Blues"

 is from

 Weir's solo album, 

he is backed by

 the Grateful Dead. 

Nothing is presented

 from

 Anthem of the Sun, 

Grateful Dead

 or

 Bear's Choice, 

nor

 versions

 from singles.

TRACK LIST

The Golden Road

 (To Unlimited Devotion)

Truckin'

Rosemary

Sugar Magnolia

St. Stephen

Uncle John's Band

Casey Jones

Mexicali Blues

Turn On Your Love Light

One More Saturday Night

Friend Of The Devil

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