Label: Grateful Dead Productions

Reissued 5/30/2025

Narrowing down the Grateful Dead's touring career and live performances to 60 CDs, 20 venues, and more than 450 songs is hard enough. Narrowing THAT down for 3CD and 6LP sets is a monumental undertaking, but with so much great music to select from, it's one of the most enjoyable compilations we've ever assembled. This nearly four hour collection contains one song (or two, or three...) from every show in the Dead's new road tripping boxed set, ENJOYING THE RIDE, which brings together music from 20 (21...) of the most essential venues in Grateful Dead and Dead Head history. This compilation is crafted with songs spanning the 25 years in the boxed set, 1969-1994. Drawn from such iconic venues as Red Rocks, Frost Amphitheatre, Greek Theatre, Fillmores East and West, Madison Square Garden, Alpine Valley, and many more, THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED features such classics as "Truckin'," "Eyes Of The World," "Scarlet Begonias," the title track, and plenty of under the radar tracks like "Big Boy Pete," "My Brother Esau," and "Doin' That Rag." This is a career-defining live collection filled with some of the greatest tracks performed at their greatest venues. - David Lemieux

Track listing:

1. The Music Never Stopped (Live at Philadelphia Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa, 5/13/1978)
2. Althea (Live at Hartford Civic Center, Hartford, CT, 3/14/1981)
3. Playing in the Band (Live at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY 3/16/1973)
4. Hard to Handle (Live at Fillmore East, New York, NY, 4/25/1971)
5. Wharf Rat (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY, 9/16/1987)
6. Doin' That Rag (Live at Fillmore West, San Francisco, Ca, 6/5/1969)
7. My Brother Esau (Live at Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca, 8/20/1983)
8. Deal (Live at Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, Ca, 5/12/1991)
   
9. Scarlet Begonias (Live at Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Ca, 7/13/1984)
10. Touch of Grey (Live at Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Ca, 7/13/1984)
11. Fire on the Mountain (Live at Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Ca, 7/13/1984)
12. Lazy Lightning > (Live at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wi, 8/23/1980)
13. Supplication (Live at Alpine Valley Music Theatre, East Troy, Wi, 8/23/1980)
14. Attics of My Life (Live at Boston Garden, Boston, Ma, 10/3/1994)
15. Estimated Prophet (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Co, 8/12/1979)
16. Eyes of the World (Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, Co, 8/12/1979)
17. Brown-Eyed Women (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, Ca, 3/20/1977)
    
18. Truckin' (Live at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, in, 7/15/1989)
19. Smokestack Lightnin' (Live at Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, in, 7/15/1989)
20. Big Boy Pete (Live at the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, Ca, 11/21/1985)
21. Bird Song (Live at Boston Music Hall, Boston, Ma, 9/15/1972)
22. Let It Grow (Live at Hampton Coliseum, Hampton, Va, 5/1/1981)
23. Black Muddy River (Live at Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, Ca, 12/27/1989)
24. Days Between (Live at Capital Centre, Landover, MD, 3/17/1993)
25. Not Fade Away > (Live at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/20/1971)
26. Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad > (Live at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/20/1971)
27. Not Fade Away (Reprise) [>] [Live at Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/20/1971]