Grateful Dead
Dead To The Core Project
Noteworthy Morning Dews (A Collection)

This is a collection of noteworthy versions of Morning Dew performed
by the Grateful Dead. Morning Dew is a \"post-apocalyptic folk-song\"
written by the Canadian singer Bonnie Dobson in 1962. Bonnie says the
song was inspired by the film \"On The Beach\", a movie that has a love
story and a bit of an adventure, but where everyone is about to die
because of Nuclear Holocaust. Kind of like these days, if you think
the economy is going down permanently, but if you are still trying to
make do in the meantime. A guy named Fred Neil re-arranged the song.
A guy named Tim Rose heard that version and recorded a cover of Neil\'s
cover. Because the law sucks, Tim Rose is able to claim copyright to
the song, too, and so he got a bit of the royalties every time the
Grateful Dead played it. If you meet Tim, don\'t buy him a beer.

The collection is closely based on a list put together by Eric Wybenga
and published in his book _Dead To The Core: An Almanac of the
Grateful Dead_. Back before he knew better, Eric picked a number of
versions that were since released commercialy. And then because Eric
loved late-era versions of Morning Dew, some of the versions he picked
are not available in SBD. I covered for this by finding nearby and (to
my mind) nearly equally interesting versions, or by sharing AUD
versions. My only regret is, there is no non-commercial Dark Star >
Dew from late \'74. Sigh. Other than that, I believe the collection
reflects and honors Eric\'s taste.

The track names are self-explanatory: they list the date of the
performance, the SHNID of the source, and shortened names of the songs
included in the track. Some Dew\'s are standalone, but when a Dew was
part of a jam, in this case I often chose to share it in its
context. Just because. I decoded the wav\'s with flac or shntool as
appropriate to the source, joined the wav\'s with shntool, edited them
(in the edges and fades way) with Wavelab, fixed the bad headers with
shntool, and then compressed things with flac. I used flac v1.2.1,
shorten v3.6.0, shntool v3.0.2, ane Wavelab V6.

First shared via bitTorrent at bt.eTree.org, January 2009, by SteveSw.

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    11:15.42      119168828 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.2634  gd70-05-06.00094.MorningDew.flac
    59:26.73      629214140 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4721  gd72-05-26.89641.Truckin-OtherOne-Drums-OtherOne-Jam-MorningDew-OtherOne.flac
    47:59.22      507908132 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5533  gd73-11-17.23472.Playin-UncleJohn-MorningDew-UncleJohn-Playin.flac
    12:57.14      137095772 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5105  gd74-06-18.89690.MorningDew.flac
    16:33.74      175338428 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.5133  gd74-09-21.30654.MorningDew.flac
    36:40.02      388084244 B   -b-   --   ---xx   flac  0.6080  gd77-05-08.04982.StStephen-NFA-StStephen-MorningDew.flac
    21:53.23      231667340 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5109  gd84-07-22.30650.Space-MorningDew.flac
    11:53.43      125874380 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6581  gd84-10-12.30192.MorningDew.flac
    11:27.09      121208012 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6407  gd85-06-14.85831.MorningDew.flac
    16:36.40      175788524 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5737  gd85-06-28.77931.Miracle-MorningDew.flac
    17:36.22      186330188 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6079  gd86-03-24.22783.Space-MorningDew.flac
    22:06.08      233925260 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5502  gd87-09-18.21241.GDTRFB-Watchtower-MorningDew.flac
    24:04.40      254815724 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5775  gd89-03-31.32349.Watchtower-MorningDew-GoodLovin.flac
    26:05.03      276073100 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.6147  gd90-03-26.87350.Miracle-MrFantasy-GimmeSomeLovin-MorningDew.flac
    32:31.37      344243468 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5851  gd90-09-16.88947.StandingOnTheMoon-Miracle-MorningDew.flac
    23:19.38      246873020 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.4441  gd91-08-17.20696.Jam-MorningDew.flac
    17:01.63      180252620 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5904  gd92-05-24.92272.LastTime-MorningDew.flac
    23:18.27      246670748 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5660  gd94-06-26.14943.Wheel-Watchtower-MorningDew.flac
    31:49.25      336806444 B   ---   --   ---xx   flac  0.5398  gd95-06-21.76663.Space-EasyAnswers-MorningDew.flac
   464:36.05     4917338372 B                            0.5456  (19 files)
