Merriweather 6/30/85

Merriweather 6/30/85
Live album by
ReleasedSeptember 18, 2026
RecordedJune 30, 1985
VenueMerriweather Post Pavilion
GenreRock
LabelRhino
Grateful Dead chronology
Summer Magic 1985
(2026)
Merriweather 6/30/85
(2026)

Merriweather 6/30/85 is an upcoming live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on June 30, 1985. It is scheduled to be released on September 18, 2026, as a 3-disc CD and as a 4-disc LP. The same recording will also be released on September 18, 2026, as part of the 20-CD box set Summer Magic 1985.[1][2][3][4][5]

The album was sourced from the original Sony F1 tapes.[6] These use a Digital Audio Tape format that encodes digital audio as a video signal and records it on a videocassette recorder.

Track listing

Disc 1

First set:
  1. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" > (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter)
  2. "C.C. Rider" > (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
  3. "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Mama Tried" > (Merle Haggard)
  5. "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow)
  6. "Keep On Growing" (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock)
  7. "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis)
  8. "Looks Like Rain" > (Weir, Barlow)
  9. "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)

Disc 2

Second set:
  1. "Shakedown Street" > (Garcia, Hunter)
  2. "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
  3. "Gimme Some Lovin'" > (Spencer Davis, Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood)
  4. "He's Gone" > (Garcia, Hunter)
  5. "Cryptical Envelopment" > (Garcia)
  6. "Drums" (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann)

Disc 3

Second set, continued:
  1. "Space" > (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir)
  2. "The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann)
  3. "Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter)
  4. "Around and Around" > (Chuck Berry)
  5. "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter)
Encore:
  1. "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)

Personnel

Grateful Dead

Production

References

  1. ↑ Snider, Mike (July 15, 2026). "New Grateful Dead 20-CD Set Collects Band's 20th Anniversary Shows". USA Today. Retrieved July 19, 2026.
  2. ↑ Bernstein, Scott (July 15, 2026). "Grateful Dead Loads 'Summer Magic 1985' Box Set with 7 Previously Unreleased Shows". JamBase. Retrieved July 19, 2026.
  3. ↑ "Grateful Dead's Summer Magic 1985: 20 CD Boxed Set Celebrates 20th Anniversary Tour with Seven Unreleased Concerts Arriving 9/18". Glide Magazine. July 15, 2026. Retrieved July 19, 2026.
  4. ↑ "New Grateful Dead Box Set Will Revisit 'Summer Magic 1985'". Relix. July 15, 2026. Retrieved July 19, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Grateful Dead Celebrates 20th Anniversary Tour with 20-CD Box Set". ABC Audio. July 15, 2026. Retrieved July 19, 2026.
  6. ↑ "Grateful Dead Announces Summer Magic 1985 Box Set". Grateful Web. July 15, 2026. Retrieved July 19, 2026.