Complete List Of The Grateful Dead Songs From A to Z

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The Grateful Dead began their journey in Palo Alto, California, in 1965, initially performing as the Warlocks before adopting their iconic name later that year. Founding members Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, and Bill Kreutzmann fused folk, blues, jazz, country, and rock into a uniquely improvisational style that quickly distinguished the band within the San Francisco counterculture. Their performances at Ken Kesey’s Acid Tests placed them at the center of gatherings where music, experimentation, and a new sense of community became inseparable.

Throughout their three-decade career, the Grateful Dead released 13 studio albums, along with landmark live records, compilations, and an expanding archive of concert releases. Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty revealed the strength of the band’s songwriting through songs such as “Uncle John’s Band,” “Casey Jones,” “Truckin’,” “Ripple,” and “Sugar Magnolia.” Other major releases, including Live/Dead, Europe ’72, Blues for Allah, and Terrapin Station, documented their movement between psychedelic exploration, folk-rock, country, jazz, and large-scale improvisation.

Although the Grateful Dead rarely dominated the singles charts, “Touch of Grey,” from In the Dark, became their highest-charting single, reaching No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100. The breakthrough arrived after more than two decades of touring and introduced the band to a new generation without changing the communal culture that had grown around its concerts. Deadheads continued following the group from city to city, knowing that no two performances would unfold in exactly the same way.

The Grateful Dead’s legacy rests most powerfully in those live performances. The band’s improvisation, extensive concert recording, and acceptance of noncommercial tape trading helped create one of the most thoroughly documented performance histories in American music. The concert played at Cornell University’s Barton Hall on May 8, 1977, circulated among collectors for decades, entered the National Recording Registry, and finally received an official commercial release in 2017.

The band’s cultural impact eventually received formal recognition. The Grateful Dead entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and received the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Those honors acknowledged an influence that reached far beyond rock, touching Americana, bluegrass, jazz, experimental music, and the modern jam-band movement.

Beyond music, the Grateful Dead family created the Rex Foundation in 1983 to support grassroots work in the arts, education, social services, environmental causes, and community development. Jerry Garcia also pursued a respected career as a visual artist, creating paintings, drawings, and illustrations that extended his improvisational imagination into another medium.

The Grateful Dead formally ended following Garcia’s death in 1995, but the music continued through reunion projects, archival releases, tribute performances, and Dead & Company. Phil Lesh died in 2024, and Bob Weir died in 2026, closing further chapters in the band’s history while leaving behind a songbook and a community that continue to carry the music forward.

One more thought: my old friend Dean used to say that one can never get the Grateful Dead until they have seen them live in concert. It was only when you went to a Grateful Dead concert, or at least when you could have gone to one, that you understood the real spirit of the music, because it was not always right there in the music where you discovered it. It was in the people around you, the sense of peace, the sense of community, and the sense of love that touched people and helped people touch others. That was what the Grateful Dead was all about. It could never be experienced alone, and for those who got to experience it with others, this music will live forever in their hearts, souls, and spirits.

This A-to-Z list combines the band’s studio catalog with selected officially released live recordings, bonus tracks, studio outtakes, expanded-edition material, and collaborative performances.

Complete List Of The Grateful Dead Songs From A to Z

A

“A to E Flat Jam” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)
“Alabama Getaway” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Alice D. Millionaire” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“All Along the Watchtower” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)
“All New Minglewood Blues” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Alligator” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Althea” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Althea” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“American Beauty radio promo” – American Beauty (1970; bonus track)
“And We Bid You Goodnight” – Aoxomoxoa (1969; 50th anniversary edition)
“Antwerp’s Placebo (The Plumber)” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Around and Around” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“The Ascent” – Terrapin Station (1977; instrumental studio outtake)
“At a Siding” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Attics of My Life” – American Beauty (1970)

B

“Beat It on Down the Line” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Been All Around This World” – Reckoning (1981)
“Bertha” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Big Boss Man” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Big Railroad Blues” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Big River” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“Bird Song” – Reckoning (1981)
“Bird Song” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Black Muddy River” – In the Dark (1987)
“Black Muddy River” (Studio Outtake) – In the Dark (1987; bonus track)
“Black Peter” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“Black-Throated Wind” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“Blow Away” – Built to Last (1989)
“Blues for Allah” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Born Cross-Eyed” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Box of Rain” – American Beauty (1970)
“Brokedown Palace” – American Beauty (1970)
“Brokedown Palace” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Built to Last” – Built to Last (1989)

C

“C.C. Rider” – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Candyman” – American Beauty (1970)
“Candyman” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Casey Jones” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“Cassidy” – Reckoning (1981)
“Cassidy” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Cassidy” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Catfish John” – Terrapin Station (1977; studio outtake)
“Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“China Cat Sunflower” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider” (Live Medley) – Without a Net (1990)
“China Doll” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“China Doll” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Clementine Jam” – Aoxomoxoa (1969; bonus track)
“Cold Rain and Snow” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Cosmic Charlie” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“Crazy Fingers” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Cream Puff War” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Cryptical Envelopment” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Cumberland Blues” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)

D

“Dancin’ in the Streets” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Dark Hollow” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“Dark Hollow” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Dark Star” – Live/Dead (1969)
“Dark Star” (Single Version) – Live/Dead (1969; bonus track)
“Deal” – Dead Set (1981)
“Dear Mr. Fantasy” – Without a Net (1990)
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy” (Instrumental Version) – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Death Don’t Have No Mercy” (Live) – Live/Dead (1969)
“Deep Elem Blues” – Reckoning (1981)
“Deep Elem Blues” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Dire Wolf” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“Distorto” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)
“Doin’ That Rag” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“Don’t Ease Me In” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Dupree’s Diamond Blues” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)

E

“Easy to Love You” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Easy Wind” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“El Paso” – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“El Paso” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“The Eleven” – Live/Dead (1969)
“The Eleven Jam” – Aoxomoxoa (1969; bonus track)
“Equinox” – Terrapin Station (1977; studio outtake)
“Estimated Prophet” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Eyes of the World” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“Eyes of the World” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)

F

“Far from Me” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Feedback” – Anthem of the Sun (1968; bonus track)
“Feedback” (Live) – Live/Dead (1969)
“Feel Like a Stranger” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Feel Like a Stranger” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Feel Like a Stranger” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Fire on the Mountain” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Fire on the Mountain” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Foolish Heart” – Built to Last (1989)
“France” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Franklin’s Tower” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Franklin’s Tower” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Franklin’s Tower” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Friend of the Devil” – American Beauty (1970)
“Friend of the Devil” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“From the Heart of Me” – Shakedown Street (1978)

G

“Goin’ Down the Road Feeling Bad” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Good Lovin'” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Good Morning, Little School Girl” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Gotta Serve Somebody” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)
“Greatest Story Ever Told” – Dead Set (1981)
“Groove #1” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)
“Groove #2” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)

H

“Hard to Handle” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“Heaven Help the Fool” – Reckoning (1981; instrumental version; bonus track)
“Hell in a Bucket” – In the Dark (1987)
“Help on the Way” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Help on the Way” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Here Comes Sunshine” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“High Time” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“High Time” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Hollywood Cantata” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)

I

“I Know You Rider” – Without a Net (1990)
“I Need a Miracle” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“I’ve Been All Around This World” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“I Want You” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)
“I Will Take You Home” – Built to Last (1989)
“If I Had the World to Give” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Iko Iko” – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“It Must Have Been the Roses” – Reckoning (1981)
“It Must Have Been the Roses” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“It Must Have Been the Roses” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)

J

“Jack-A-Roe” – Go to Heaven (1980; bonus track)
“Jack-A-Roe” – Reckoning (1981)
“Jack-A-Roe” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Jack Straw” – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Joey” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)
“Johnny B. Goode” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Just a Little Light” – Built to Last (1989)

K

“Katie Mae” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“King Solomon’s Marbles” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)

L

“Lady with a Fan” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Lazy Lightnin'” – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Let It Grow” – Wake of the Flood (1973; part of Weather Report Suite)
“Let It Grow” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Let It Grow” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Let It Rock” – From the Mars Hotel (1974; bonus track)
“Let Me Sing Your Blues Away” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“Little Red Rooster” – Dead Set (1981)
“Little Sadie” – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Live/Dead radio promo” – Live/Dead (1969; bonus track)
“Looks Like Rain” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Loose Lucy” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Loser” – Dead Set (1981)
“Lost Sailor” – Go to Heaven (1980)

M

“Mama Tried” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Mason’s Children” – Workingman’s Dead (1970; live bonus track)
“Me and Bobby McGee” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Me and My Uncle” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Money Money” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Monkey and the Engineer” – Reckoning (1981)
“Monkey and the Engineer” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Morning Dew” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Mountains of the Moon” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“The Music Never Stopped” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“My Brother Esau” – In the Dark (1987)

N

“New Minglewood Blues” – Dead Set (1981)
“New, New Minglewood Blues” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“New Potato Caboose” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“New Speedway Boogie” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“Nobody’s Spoonful Jam” – Aoxomoxoa (1969; bonus track)
“Not Fade Away” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Not Fade Away” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)

O

“Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie” – Reckoning (1981)
“Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Ollin Arageed” – Shakedown Street (1978; bonus track)
“On the Road Again” – Reckoning (1981)
“One More Saturday Night” – Without a Net (1990)
“Operator” – American Beauty (1970)
“The Other One” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Overseas Stomp (the Lindy)” – The Grateful Dead (1967)

P

“Passenger” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Passenger” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Peggy-O” – Go to Heaven (1980; vocal-version bonus track)
“Peggy-O” – Terrapin Station (1977; instrumental studio outtake)
“Picasso Moon” – Built to Last (1989)
“Playing in the Band” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“Pride of Cucamonga” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Promised Land” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“Proto 18 Proper” – Blues for Allah (1975; bonus track)

Q

“Quadlibet for Tenderfeet” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Queen Jane Approximately” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)

R

“The Race Is On” – Reckoning (1981)
“Radio promo” – Workingman’s Dead (1970; bonus track)
“Refrain” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Rhythm Devils” – Dead Set (1981)
“Ripple” – American Beauty (1970)
“Ripple” – Reckoning (1981)
“Ripple” (Alternate Live Version) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Rosalie McFall” – Reckoning (1981)
“Rosemary” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“Row Jimmy” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“Row Jimmy” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)

S

“Sage & Spirit” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Sage & Spirit” – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Saint of Circumstance” – Go to Heaven (1980)
“Samson and Delilah” (Live) – Dead Set (1981)
“Samson & Delilah” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Sand Castles & Glass Camels” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Scarlet Begonias” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Serengetti” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Shakedown Street” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Shakedown Street” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Ship of Fools” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Sitting on Top of the World” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Slipknot!” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Slipknot!” (Live) – Without a Net (1990)
“Slow Train” – Dylan & the Dead (1989; Bob Dylan song)
“Smokestack Lightning” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“Space” – Dead Set (1981)
“St. Stephen” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“St. Stephen” (Live) – Live/Dead (1969)
“Stagger Lee” – Shakedown Street (1978)
“Standing on the Moon” – Built to Last (1989)
“Stella Blue” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“Stronger than Dirt or Milkin’ the Turkey” – Blues for Allah (1975)
“Sugar Magnolia” – American Beauty (1970)
“Sugaree” – Steal Your Face (1976)
“Sugaree” (Live) – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)
“Sunrise” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Supplication” – Dead Set (1981; bonus track)

T

“Tastebud” – The Grateful Dead (1967)
“Terrapin” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Terrapin Flyer” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Terrapin Station” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Terrapin Transit” – Terrapin Station (1977)
“Throwing Stones” – In the Dark (1987)
“Throwing Stones” (Live) – In the Dark (1987; bonus track)
“Till the Morning Comes” – American Beauty (1970)
“To Lay Me Down” – Reckoning (1981)
“To Lay Me Down” (Studio Rehearsal) – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Tom Dooley” – Reckoning (1981; bonus track)
“Tons of Steel” – In the Dark (1987)
“Touch of Grey” – In the Dark (1987)
“Touch of Grey” (Studio Outtake) – In the Dark (1987; bonus track)
“Truckin'” – American Beauty (1970)
“Turn On Your Love Light” – Live/Dead (1969)

U

“U.S. Blues” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Unbroken Chain” – From the Mars Hotel (1974)
“Uncle John’s Band” – Workingman’s Dead (1970)
“Unusual Occurrences in the Desert” – Blues for Allah (1975)

V

“Victim or the Crime” – Built to Last (1989)
“Victim or the Crime” – Without a Net (1990)
“Viola Lee Blues” – The Grateful Dead (1967)

W

“Wake Up Little Susie” – History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) (1973)
“Walkin’ Blues” – Without a Net (1990)
“Wave That Flag” – From the Mars Hotel (1974; bonus track)
“We Can Run” – Built to Last (1989)
“We Leave the Castle” – Anthem of the Sun (1968)
“Weather Report Suite” – Wake of the Flood (1973)
“West L.A. Fadeaway” – In the Dark (1987)
“West L.A. Fadeaway” (Alternate Version) – In the Dark (1987; bonus track)
“Wharf Rat” – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (1971)
“What’ll You Raise” – Go to Heaven (1980; bonus track)
“What’s Become of the Baby” – Aoxomoxoa (1969)
“When Push Comes to Shove” – In the Dark (1987)
“When Push Comes to Shove” (Studio Outtake) – In the Dark (1987; bonus track)