Artist	Song
Bob Weir	Greatest Story Ever Told
from Ace (2009)
Mickey Hart	The Hunt
from Planet Drum (2007)
Bob Weir	Big Iron
from Kingfish (2009)
David Grisman & Jerry Garcia	Jenny Jenkins
from Not For Kids Only (1993)
Bob Weir & Ratdog	Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower (Live)
from Live from Bonnaroo 2007: Bob Weir & Ratdog (2007)
Phil Lesh	Night of a Thousand Stars
from There and Back Again (2002)
Old & In the Way	Wild Horses
from Acoustic Archive Series: Old & In the Way - Breakdown, Vol. 2 (Live) (1997)
Mickey Hart	Happiness Is Drumming
from Diga Rhythm Band (2007)
David Grisman & Jerry Garcia	Been All Around This World
from Been All Around This World (2004)
Bill Vitt, Jerry Garcia, John Kahn & Merl Saunders	The Harder They Come
from Well-Matched - The Best of Merl Saunders & Jerry Garcia (2006)
Bobby & The Midnights	I Want To (Fly Away)
from Weir Here (2004)
Phil Lesh & Friends	I Know You Rider
from Phil Lesh & Friends: Live At the Warfield (2006)
Heart of Gold Band	Let It Ride
from At the Table (2004)
Tom Constanten	Dark Star / Ritual Fire Dance / Lovelite
from Grateful Dreams (2007)

Comment:

Even a band as expansive as the Grateful Dead couldn't contain all the music its members needed to make, so side projects sprang up like magic mushrooms in a rainforest. As an early-'70s re-signing bonus, Warner Bros. released Dead solo albums; Bob Weir's [i]Ace[/i], a Grateful Dead album in all but name, was the first. His "Greatest Story Ever Told" launches out of the blocks like the devil with a blue dress on, right into the Dead's go-to setlist for decades afterward. Jerry Garcia settles in with his mandolinist pal David Grisman for a little old-timey folk in "Jenny Jenkins," and the two of them round up an all-star bluegrass cast they christen Old & In the Way for a version of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" that sounds like it was actually recorded in the vicinity of real horses. And Mickey Hart, scholar of all things that go boom, puts the beat in worldbeat with [i]Planet Drum[/i]'s "The Hunt." But that's not all; Ratdog, Phil Lesh & Friends, and the Dead's core corps are keeping it all alive, and we're bringing 'em straight to your earbuds.

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