| Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 2 | ||||
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| Live album by Grateful Dead | ||||
| Released | June 7, 2005 | |||
| Recorded | January 18, 1970 | |||
| Length | 79:47 | |||
| Label | Grateful Dead Productions | |||
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Download Series Volume 2 is a live album by the rock bandGrateful Dead. It was released as adigital download on June 7, 2005. The album features a previously uncirculated concert from January 18, 1970, at Springer's Ballroom inGresham, Oregon (listed incorrectly as Springer's Inn inPortland, Oregon), presented as a one-disc set.[1][2]
Volume 2 was mastered inHDCD from the original 2-track master tapes by Jeffrey Norman.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [3] |
OnAllMusic, Jesse Jarnow said, "Only one tune from [Workingman's Dead orAmerican Beauty] gets played here... though they also charge through a six-minute take of the new (and rare) "Mason's Children".... The highlight is unquestionably a 13-plus minute version of Martha & the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street". Garcia, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh's harmonies are big and enthused, the San Francisco ballroom scene encapsulated in one vocal arrangement. The jam makes its way into deeply spaced jazz, Garcia especially wearing his John Coltrane love... on his sleeve."[3]
