''Road Trips Volume 3 Number 2'' is two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The tenth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was released on February 24, 2010. It contains the complete concert recorded on November 15, 1971, at Austin Memorial Auditorium in

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. This concert was the 16th concert after

Keith Godchaux Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Biography Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Concord, California ...

joined the Grateful Dead on piano. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan did not perform at this or any of the October and November, 1971 concerts due to poor health. A third, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains material from the concert held the previous evening, November 14, 1971, at

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. Other live Grateful Dead albums recorded during this same concert tour are '' Dick's Picks Volume 2'', '' Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 3'', and '' Dave's Picks Volume 26''.

Track listing

Disc One

''First set:'' #"

Truckin' "Truckin" is a song by the Grateful Dead, which first appeared on their 1970 album '' American Beauty''. It was recognized by the United States Library of Congress in 1997 as a national treasure.''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip'' . Jake Wo ...

" ( Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Robert Hunter) – 9:21 #"

Bertha Bertha is a female Germanic name, from Old High German ''berhta'' meaning "bright one". It was usually a short form of Anglo Saxon names ''Beorhtgifu'' meaning "bright gift" or ''Beorhtwynn'' meaning "bright joy". The name occurs as a theonym, s ...

" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:03 #"

Playing in the Band "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed the music, with some assistance from percussionist Mickey Hart. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the s ...

" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:34 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:13 #"

Jack Straw John Whitaker Straw (born 3 August 1946) is a British politician who served in the Cabinet from 1997 to 2010 under the Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He held two of the traditional Great Offices of State, as Home Secretary ...

" (Weir, Hunter) – 5:32 #"Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41 #"Beat It on Down the Line" (

Jesse Fuller Jesse Fuller (March 12, 1896 – January 29, 1976) was an American one-man band musician, best known for his song "San Francisco Bay Blues". Early life Fuller was born in Jonesboro, Georgia, near Atlanta. He was sent by his mother to live with ...

) – 3:41 #" Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:49 #"

El Paso El Paso (; "the pass") is a city in and the seat of El Paso County in the western corner of the U.S. state of Texas. The 2020 population of the city from the U.S. Census Bureau was 678,815, making it the 23rd-largest city in the U.S., the s ...

" > (

Marty Robbins Martin David Robinson (September 26, 1925 – December 8, 1982), known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, and NASCAR racing driver. Robbins was one of the most popular and succ ...

) – 4:55 #"Dark Star" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:45 #"

Casey Jones John Luther "Casey" Jones (March 14, 1863 – April 30, 1900) was an American railroader who was killed when his passenger train collided with a stalled freight train at Vaughan, Mississippi. Jones was a locomotive engineer for the Illinois C ...

" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:52 #" One More Saturday Night" (Weir) – 5:01

Disc Two

''Second set:'' ''Encore:''

Bonus Disc

''Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, November 14, 1971:'' #"

China Cat Sunflower "China Cat Sunflower" is a song performed by the Grateful Dead which was first recorded for their third studio album ''Aoxomoxoa''. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music composed by Jerry Garcia. The song was typically sung by J ...

" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:07 #"

I Know You Rider "I Know You Rider" (also "Woman Blues" and "I Know My Rider") is a traditional blues song that has been adapted by numerous artists. Modern versions can be traced back to Blind Lemon Jefferson's "Deceitful Brownskin Blues", which was released as ...

" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 6:34 #"

Sugaree "Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album '' Garcia'', which was released in January 1972. As with the songs on the re ...

" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:10 #"Truckin'" > (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 10:35 #"Drums" > (

Bill Kreutzmann William Kreutzmann Jr. ( ; born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer and founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead. He played with the band for its entire thirty-year career, usually alongside fellow drummer Mickey Hart, and has continued to ...

) – 4:24 #"The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 8:50 #"Me and My Uncle" > (Phillips) – 3:17 #"The Other One" > (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 12:15 #"Wharf Rat" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:44 #"Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:47

Personnel

Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featu ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

–

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keybo ...

– drums * Phil Lesh –

electric bass The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and s ...

, vocals * Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Production

*Produced by Grateful Dead *Produced for release by David Lemieux & Blair Jackson *Recording by Rex Jackson *CD Mastering by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering, Petaluma, CA *Cover Art by Scott McDougall *Back Cover Photo by Bob Seidemann *Interior Photos by Mary Ann Mayer *Package Design by Steve Vance

Sound quality

The album was released in

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format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

November 14, 1971 set list

The set list for the November 14, 1971 concert at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas was: *First set: "Bertha", "Beat It On Down The Line", "China Cat Sunflower"*, "I Know You Rider"*, "El Paso", "Sugaree"*, "Jack Straw", "Big Railroad Blues", "Me & Bobby McGee", "Loser", "Playing in the Band", "Tennessee Jed", "You Win Again", "Mexicali Blues", "Casey Jones", "One More Saturday Night" *Second set:' "Truckin'"*, "Drums"*, "The Other One"*, "Me & My Uncle"*, "The Other One"*, "Wharf Rat"*, "Sugar Magnolia"* *Encore: "Johnny B. Goode" *Included in the Road Trips Volume 3 Number 2 bonus disc

References

{{GratefulDead Road Trips albums 2010 live albums