Steal Your Face

by

Grateful Dead

This is only currently available as part of the Grateful Dead Records Collection compilation, but I'm reviewing it here as I wanted to listen to "Steal Your Face". It was an official live album so I don't know if there are vocal overdubs, but it all sounds pretty good to me.

There's a very strange running order to begin with, alternating between Bob's Chuck Berry covers and Jerry's beautiful ballads, but those ballads ("Cold Rain and Snow" and "Stella Blue" are spot on.

There's a big dip in quality at the start of the second disc, but it is redeemed by a inappropriately laid back take on "Casey Jones".

Nowhere near as good as Skull and Roses or Europe '72 but well worth a listen for CR&S, SB and the slow, slow CJ.