Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

, the second in their "Road Trips" series of archival releases. It was recorded in October 1977, and released on February 4, 2008.

Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 contains material from four different concerts, recorded over a two week period at venues in New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana.

Portions of the 10/11/77 show from Norman, Oklahoma can also be found as bonus tracks on Dick's Picks Volume 29

Dick's Picks Volume 29

Dick's Picks Volume 29 is the twenty-ninth installment of the Grateful Dead's archival live album series. It was recorded on May 19, 1977, at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia, and on May 21, 1977, at the Lakeland Civic Center Arena in Lakeland, Florida. The album contains all of both concerts,...

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Disc One

1. "Let It Grow" (Bob Weir
   Bob Weir
   Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
   
   , John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow
   John Perry Barlow is an American poet and essayist, a retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and a cyberlibertarian political activist who has been associated with both the Democratic and Republican parties. He is also a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic...
   
   ) – 10:17
   Lloyd Noble Center
   Lloyd Noble Center
   The Lloyd Noble Center is an 11,528-seat multi-purpose arena, in Norman, Oklahoma, United States, some south of downtown Oklahoma City...
   
   , Norman, Oklahoma
   Norman, Oklahoma
   Norman is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is located south of downtown Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, Norman was to have 110,925 full-time residents, making it the third-largest city in Oklahoma and the...
   
   , 10/11/77
2. "Sugaree
   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...
   
   " (Jerry Garcia
   Jerry Garcia
   Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
   
   , Robert Hunter
   Robert Hunter (lyricist)
   Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...
   
   ) – 17:41
   Assembly Center
   Pete Maravich Assembly Center
   Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,472-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in memory of Pete...
   
   , Baton Rouge, Louisiana
   Baton Rouge, Louisiana
   Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...
   
   , 10/16/77
3. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, Barlow) – 8:59
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
4. "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:53
   Hofheinz Pavilion
   Hofheinz Pavilion
   Guy V. Lewis Court at Hofheinz Pavilion, often known as simply Hofheinz Pavilion, is an 8,500-seat multi-purpose arena on the University of Houston campus in Houston, Texas. Located at 3875 Holman Street, it is home to the University of Houston Cougars men's and women's basketball teams as well as...
   
   , Houston, Texas
   Houston, Texas
   Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
   
   , 10/14/77
5. "El Paso
   El Paso (song)
   "El Paso" is a country and western ballad written and originally recorded by Marty Robbins, and first released on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs in September 1959. It was released as a single the following month, and became a major hit on both the country and pop music charts, reaching number...
   
   " (Marty Robbins
   Marty Robbins
   Martin David Robinson , known professionally as Marty Robbins, was an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist...
   
   ) – (4:52)
   Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas, 10/14/77
6. "Help On the Way" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:48
   Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 10/11/77
7. "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux
   Keith Godchaux
   Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
   
   , Phil Lesh
   Phil Lesh
   Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
   
   , Weir) – 4:02
   Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 10/11/77
8. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann
   Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
   
   , Hunter) – 14:59
   Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 10/11/77

Disc Two

1. "Playing in the Band
   Playing in the Band
   "Playing in the Band" is a Grateful Dead song. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir composed it. The song first emerged in embryonic form on the self-titled 1971 live album Grateful Dead...
   
   " (Weir, Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart
   Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
   
   , Hunter) – 17:12
   Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas, 10/14/77
2. "Drums" (Hart, Kreutzmann) – 3:09
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
3. "The Other One" (Weir) – 8:24
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
4. "Good Lovin'" (Arthur Resnick, Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark
   Rudy Clark is an American songwriter about whom little biographical information seems to be known. Supposedly a former mail carrier hailing from New York City, he was most active from the early 1960s through the early 1970s...
   
   ) – 5:53
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
5. "Terrapin Station" (Garcia, Hunter) – 11:29
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
6. "Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:17
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
7. "Around and Around
   Around and Around
   "Around and Around" is a 1958 rock song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. It originally appeared under the name "Around & Around" as the B-side to the single "Johnny B. Goode".- The Rolling Stones :...
   
   " (Chuck Berry
   Chuck Berry
   Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...
   
   ) – 9:08
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
8. "Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:51
   Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas, 10/14/77
9. "Playing In the Band reprise" (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 5:23
   Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas, 10/14/77

Bonus Disc

1. "Scarlet Begonias
   Scarlet Begonias
   "Scarlet Begonias" is a song by the Grateful Dead in 4/4 time. The lyrics were written by Robert Hunter and the music by Jerry Garcia. The song first appears on the 1974 release Grateful Dead from the Mars Hotel....
   
   " (Garcia, Hunter) – 10:02
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
2. "Fire On the Mountain
   Fire on the Mountain (Grateful Dead song)
   "Fire on the Mountain" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by drummer Mickey Hart. It was commercially released on the album Shakedown Street in November 1978. An earlier instrumental version of this song titled "Happiness is Drumming" appeared in...
   
   " (Hart, Hunter) – 9:31
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
3. "Estimated Prophet" (Weir, Barlow) – 12:04
   Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 10/16/77
4. "Loser" (Garcia, Hunter) – 7:55
   Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston, Texas, 10/14/77
5. "Sunrise" (Donna Godchaux
   Donna Godchaux
   Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay is an American singer best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead rock group.-Biography:...
   
   ) – 3:56
   Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, Oklahoma, 10/11/77
6. "Iko Iko
   Iko Iko
   "Iko Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two "tribes" of Mardi Gras Indians. The song, under the original title "Jock-A-Mo", was written in 1953 by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford in New Orleans. The story tells of a "spy boy" or "spy dog" "Iko Iko" is a...
   
   " (James Crawford) – 7:05
   University of New Mexico
   University of New Mexico
   The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
   
   , Albuquerque, New Mexico
   Albuquerque, New Mexico
   Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
   
   , 10/7/77
7. "The Wheel" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 5:30
   University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 10/7/77
8. "Wharf Rat" (Garcia, Hunter) – 13:31
   University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 10/7/77
9. "Sugar Magnolia
   Sugar Magnolia
   "Sugar Magnolia" is a song by the Grateful Dead. Written by Robert Hunter and Bob Weir, it is one of the most well-known songs by the band, alongside such hits as "Truckin'," "Casey Jones," "Uncle John's Band," and "Touch of Grey."...
   
   " (Weir, Hunter) – 9:48
   University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 10/7/77

Grateful Dead

• Jerry Garcia
  Jerry Garcia
  Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
  
   – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  , vocals
• Donna Godchaux
  Donna Godchaux
  Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay is an American singer best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead rock group.-Biography:...
  
   – vocals
• Keith Godchaux
  Keith Godchaux
  Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...
  
   – keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart
  Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...
  
   – drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
  
  
• Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann
  Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...
  
   – drums
• Phil Lesh
  Phil Lesh
  Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....
  
   – electric bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Bob Weir
  Bob Weir
  Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...
  
   – rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...
  
  , vocals

Production

• Produced by Grateful Dead
• Compilation produced by David Lemieux and Blair Jackson
• Recorded by Betty Cantor-Jackson
• Edited and mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Garage Audio Mastering
• Cover art by Scott McDougall
• Photos by Bob Minkin and Ed Perlstein
• Package design by Steve Vance
• Liner notes written by Steve Silberman

Sound quality

A label on the CD case for Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2 states, "The compact discs herein have been digitally remastered directly from original analog reel-to-reel tapes. They are historical snapshots, not modern professional recordings, and may therefore exhibit occasional technical anomalies and unavoidable ravages of time."

The album was released in HDCD format. This provides enhanced sound quality when played on CD players with HDCD capability, and is fully compatible with regular CD players.

Concert set lists

The complete set lists for the October 7, 11, 14 and 16, 1977 Southwest Tour concerts from which this recording was taken were:

University of New Mexico

University of New Mexico

The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...

, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...

 – 10/7/77

• First Set: "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo", "Jack Straw", "Peggy-O", "El Paso", "They Love Each Other", "Big River", "Dupree's Diamond Blues", "Let It Grow", "Deal"
• Second Set: "Samson & Delilah", "Sunrise", "Ramble On Rose", "Passenger", "Terrapin Station", "Playing in the Band", "Drums", "Iko Iko"**, "The Wheel"**, "Wharf Rat"**, "Sugar Magnolia"**
• Encore: "One More Saturday Night"

Lloyd Noble Center

Lloyd Noble Center

The Lloyd Noble Center is an 11,528-seat multi-purpose arena, in Norman, Oklahoma, United States, some south of downtown Oklahoma City...

, Norman, Oklahoma

Norman, Oklahoma

Norman is a city in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, United States, and is located south of downtown Oklahoma City. It is part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, Norman was to have 110,925 full-time residents, making it the third-largest city in Oklahoma and the...

 – 10/11/77

• First Set: "Help on the Way"*, "Slipknot!"*, "Franklin's Tower"*, "Jack Straw", "Peggy-O", "El Paso", "Sunrise"**, "Deal", "Let It Grow"*
• Second Set: "Dancin' in the Streets"***, "Dire Wolf"***, "Estimated Prophet", "Eyes of the World", "Not Fade Away"***, "Wharf Rat"***, "Around and Around"***

Hofheinz Pavilion

Hofheinz Pavilion

Guy V. Lewis Court at Hofheinz Pavilion, often known as simply Hofheinz Pavilion, is an 8,500-seat multi-purpose arena on the University of Houston campus in Houston, Texas. Located at 3875 Holman Street, it is home to the University of Houston Cougars men's and women's basketball teams as well as...

, Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

 – 10/14/77

• First Set: "Jack Straw", "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo"*, "El Paso"*, "Brown-Eyed Women", "New Minglewood Blues", "Loser"**, "Passenger", "Friend of the Devil", "Me & My Uncle", "Tennessee Jed", "The Music Never Stopped"
• Second Set: "Bertha", "Good Lovin'", "Candyman", "Playing in the Band"*, "Drums", "The Wheel", "Wharf Rat", "Around and Around"
• Encore: "Brokedown Palace"*, "Playing in the Band"*

Assembly Center

Pete Maravich Assembly Center

Pete Maravich Assembly Center is a 13,472-seat multi-purpose arena in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The arena opened in 1972. It is home to the Louisiana State University Tigers and Lady Tigers basketball teams. It was originally known as the LSU Assembly Center, but was renamed in memory of Pete...

, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Baton Rouge is the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. It is located in East Baton Rouge Parish and is the second-largest city in the state.Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, and research center of the American South...

 – 10/16/77

• First Set: "Promised Land
  Promised Land (song)
  "Promised Land" is a song lyric written by Chuck Berry to the melody of "Wabash Cannonball", an American folk song. The song was first recorded in this version by Chuck Berry in 1964 for his album St. Louis to Liverpool. Released in 1965, it was Berry's first single issued following his prison term...
  
  ", "Sugaree"*, "Cassidy", "Loser", "New Minglewood Blues", "Friend of the Devil", "Sunrise", "Dire Wolf", "The Music Never Stopped"*
• Second Set: "Scarlet Begonias"**, "Fire on the Mountain"**, "Estimated Prophet"**, "Drums"*, "The Other One"*, "Good Lovin'"*, "Terrapin Station"*, "Black Peter"*, "Around and Around"*
• Encore: "U.S. Blues"

* appears on Road Trips Volume 1 Number 2

** appears on bonus disc

*** appears on Dick's Picks 29