''Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4'' is a two-CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. The fourth in their "Road Trips" series of albums, it was released on September 30, 2008. It was recorded at the

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, on October 21 and 22, 1978. A third, "bonus" disc was included with early shipments of the album. The bonus disc contains songs recorded live at Winterland on October 17 and 21, 1978. ''Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4'' is subtitled ''From Egypt with Love''. The Winterland concerts of October 17, 18, 20, 21, and 22, 1978, were the first shows played by the Dead after their concerts near the

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a month earlier. Songs from the Egypt performances are contained in the album '' Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978'', which was released on the same day as ''Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4''. ''Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4'' includes a few minutes of music from an audience recording, edited into the mix to complete several songs that were cut on the master soundboard tapes. These songs are "

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 ...

", "Stella Blue", " Sugar Magnolia", and "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad", along with "He's Gone" on the bonus disc.

Track listing

Disc one

:October 21, 1978 #"

" ( Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 13:40 #"Passenger" ( Phil Lesh, Peter Monk) – 3:39 #" Stagger Lee" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:28 #"I Need A Miracle" ( Bob Weir, John Barlow) – 7:37 #"

Got My Mojo Working "Got My Mojo Working" is a blues song written by Preston "Red" Foster and first recorded by R&B singer Ann Cole in 1956. Foster's lyrics describe several amulets or talismans, called ''mojo'', which are associated with hoodoo, an early African ...

" > (Preston Foster) – 12:12 #"The Other One" > (Weir) – 7:32 #"Stella Blue" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:53 #" Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 8:48 #"U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:42

Disc two

:October 22, 1978 #"Ollin Arageed" > (

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) – 3:30 #"Deal" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:28 #"

Peggy-O The Bonnie Lass o' Fyvie (Roud # 545) is a Scottish folk song about a thwarted romance between a soldier and a girl. Like many folk songs, the authorship is unattributed, there is no strict version of the lyrics, and it is often referred to by its ...

" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 9:10 #"

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" (Weir, Hunter) – 6:32 #" Scarlet Begonias" > (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:44 #" Fire on the Mountain" ( Mickey Hart, Hunter) – 12:40 #" Not Fade Away" > (

Norman Petty Norman Petty (May 25, 1927 – August 15, 1984) was an American musician, record producer, publisher, radio station owner, and considered to be one of the founding fathers of early rock & roll. Biography Petty was born in the small town of Clo ...

, Buddy Holly) – 21:43 #"Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 7:56

Bonus Disc

:October 21, 1978 :October 17, 1978

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 ...

Donna Jean Godchaux Donna Jean Thatcher Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer who was a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979. Biography Donna Jean Thatcher was born in Florence, Alabama. Prior to 1970, she had worked as a sessi ...

– vocals *

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 ...

– keyboards * Mickey Hart – 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 ...

– 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 ...

* Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals

Guest musicians

–

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, vocals on "Ollin Arageed" *

John Cipollina John Cipollina (August 24, 1943 – May 29, 1989) was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the ban ...

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

on "Not Fade Away" and "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" *

Lee Oskar Lee Oskar (born 24 March 1948) is a Danish harmonica player, notable for his contributions to the sound of the rock-funk fusion group War, which was formed by Howard E. Scott and Harold Brown, his solo work, and as a harmonica manufacturer. H ...

– harmonica on "Got My Mojo Working", "The Other One", "Stella Blue", and "Sugar Magnolia"

Production

*Produced by Grateful Dead *Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson *Edited and mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering *Cover art by Scott McDougall *Package design by Steve Vance *Liner notes written by Blair Jackson

Concert set lists

The complete set lists for the "From Egypt With Love" concerts held October 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22, 1978 at Winterland Arena in San Francisco were: October 17, 1978: *First Set: "

Promised Land The Promised Land ( he, הארץ המובטחת, translit.: ''ha'aretz hamuvtakhat''; ar, أرض الميعاد, translit.: ''ard al-mi'ad; also known as "The Land of Milk and Honey"'') is the land which, according to the Tanakh (the Hebrew ...

", "Friend of the Devil", "Mama Tried", "Mexicali Blues", "Tennessee Jed", "I Need a Miracle", "Stagger Lee", "Jack Straw" *Second Set: "Scarlet Begonias", "Fire on the Mountain", "Estimated Prophet", "Eyes of the World", "Drums", "If I Had a World to Give"**, "Around and Around"** *Encore: "U.S. Blues" October 18, 1978: *First Set: "Sugaree", "Me and My Uncle", "Big River", "Peggy-O", "Looks Like Rain", "Stagger Lee", "New Minglewood Blues", "Candyman", "The Music Never Stopped" *Second Set: "Bertha", "Good Lovin'", "From the Heart of Me", "Ship of Fools", "Samson and Delilah", "Terrapin Station", "Playing in the Band", "Drums", "Mojo Jam", "Wharf Rat", "

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 ...

" *Encore: "I Need a Miracle" October 20, 1978: *First Set: "New Minglewood Blues", "They Love Each Other", "Cassidy", "

Dire Wolf The dire wolf (''Aenocyon dirus'' ) is an extinct canine. It is one of the most famous prehistoric carnivores in North America, along with its extinct competitor ''Smilodon''. The dire wolf lived in the Americas and eastern Asia during the Late ...

", "El Paso", "Tennessee Jed", "It's All Over Now", "Loser", "Lazy Lightning", "Supplication" *Second Set: "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo", "Franklin's Tower", "Dancin' in the Streets", "Drums", "Not Fade Away", "Black Peter", "Around and Around" *Encore 1: "Johnny B. Goode" *Encore 2: "Shakedown Street" October 21, 1978: *First Set: "Ollin Arageed", "

", "Sugaree"*, "Passenger"*, "Ramble On Rose", "Looks Like Rain", "Stagger Lee"*, "I Need a Miracle"* *Second Set: "Bertha"**, "Good Lovin'"**, "It Must've Been the Roses", "Estimated Prophet"**, "He's Gone"**, "Drums", "Got My Mojo Working"*, "The Other One"*, "Stella Blue"*, "Sugar Magnolia"* *Encore: "U.S. Blues"* October 22, 1978: *First Set: "Ollin Arageed"*, "Deal"*, "Me and My Uncle", "Big River", "Friend of the Devil", "New Minglewood Blues", "Peggy-O"*, "Jack Straw"* *Second Set: "Scarlet Begonias"*, "Fire on the Mountain"*, "Samson and Delilah", "From the Heart of Me", "Drums", "Not Fade Away"*, "Caution Jam"*, "Mojo Jam"*, "Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad"* *Encore: "Johnny B. Goode" * appears on ''Road Trips Volume 1 Number 4''
** appears on bonus disc

References

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