A near-perfect record by the Grateful Dead is "Dead Reckoning", a rather long CD, having been originally a 2 lp set. The Song "Babe, It Ain't no Lie" was left off the CD to make the CD's time limit.

This is a collection of song gleaned from warm-up sets done in 1980. Lesh plays electric bass, but both Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia appear to be playing Martins, I think Jerry has a D-18. This record gives a different take on many of the Grateful Dead's classic songs. It may be a better choice, in some ways, than "Working Man's Dead" or "American Beauty" since those are studio efforts. "Dead Reckoning" is live, which is what they did best.

BTW, the John Hurt version of "Casey Jones" is on the Jerry Garcia Band record "Almost Acoustic". It is, of course, a completely different song than the GD composition discussed here.