Grateful Dead & Jerry Garcia Releases: Winter 2026 into 2027
Record Store Day Black Friday brings a vinyl debut of one of the great early Dead shows and a long-awaited vinyl GarciaLive. After that comes a new Heads & Tails, a six-LP Dave’s Picks reissue, and the start of a new Dave’s Picks year. Here is everything, with the artwork.
Carousel Ballroom, San Francisco, CA 2/14/68
The full Valentine’s Day 1968 show that supplied much of Anthem of the Sun, on vinyl for the first time. It holds early readings of “Dark Star,” “China Cat Sunflower” and “The Eleven,” plus “Morning Dew” and “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl.” New cover art by Zazzcorp (Helen Kennedy), liner notes by Nicholas G. Meriwether, Plangent Processes restoration and mastering by Jeffrey Norman, produced by David Lemieux.
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GarciaLive Volume Eight: November 23rd, 1991 Bradley Center
The Jerry Garcia Band’s complete two-set show from a snowy night in Milwaukee during the band’s fall 1991 tour, pressed to vinyl for the first time. The box adds two previously unreleased bonus tracks from Albany ’91. Read the announcement at JerryGarcia.com.
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Jerry Garcia Band: Heads & Tails, Volume 2
Two orphaned sides from the Garcia vaults. Heads is Keith and Donna Godchaux’s first night with the band, January 26, 1976 at Keystone Berkeley (“Russian Lullaby,” “Who Was John?”). Tails jumps to August 8, 1993 at Portland Meadows (“And It Stoned Me,” “The Maker”). Vinyl is expected to ship around December 1, with the digital release December 4.
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Dave’s Picks Vol. 11: Century II Convention Hall, Wichita, KS 11/17/72
The Dead’s only Wichita show, recorded by Owsley “Bear” Stanley and mastered by Jeffrey Norman, comes to six LPs. The first set runs about 90 minutes and pulls from Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty and Europe ’72. The store page currently shows it as sold out, so check availability.
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Dave’s Picks Vol. 61: Campus Stadium, UC Santa Barbara 5/25/74
A Wall of Sound era concert kicks off the 16th year of the series, with Vol. 62 and its subscriber-exclusive bonus disc due April 30, Vol. 63 July 30 and Vol. 64 October 29. The early bird 2027 subscription covers all four volumes, free U.S. shipping, and a bonus disc not sold anywhere else. Each release is capped at 25,000 copies.
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