A Night at the Family Dog is the first non-sequential release in a series of live digital downloads of the 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...

 released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on December 6, 2005 alongside Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8

Grateful Dead Download Series Volume 8

Volume 8 is the eighth in a series of live digital downloads of the band the Grateful Dead released by The Grateful Dead Productions. It was released on December 6, 2005 and is a two-disc release of a nearly complete show the band performed on December 10, 1973 at the Charlotte Coliseum in...

. The show was recorded from a February 4, 1970 show at the Family Dog at the Great Highway in San Francisco, CA. Three of the songs were actually aired on a PBS special during that time.

Additional material was added to complete the disc. Dancing in the Streets from October 5, 1970 and Good Lovin from December 31, 1970 made it onto the release.

A Night... was mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman.

Track listing

1. Hard to Handle (Redding
   Otis Redding
   Otis Ray Redding, Jr. was an American soul singer-songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout. He is considered one of the major figures in soul and R&B...
   
   , Jones, Isbell) - 6:43
2. Black Peter (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...
   
   , 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...
   
   ) - 9:33
3. Me and My Uncle
   Me and My Uncle
   "Me and My Uncle", often also written "Me & My Uncle," is a song composed by John Phillips of The Mamas & the Papas, and popularized by the Grateful Dead and Judy Collins...
   
    (Phillips
   John Phillips (musician)
   John Edmund Andrew Phillips , was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter and promoter . Known as Papa John, Phillips was a member and leader of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas...
   
   ) - 3:29
4. China Cat Sunflower (Garcia, Hunter) - 5:04 >
5. I Know You Rider (Trad. Arr. By Grateful Dead) - 4:53
6. St. Stephen (Garcia, 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....
   
   , Hunter) - 2:18 >
7. Not Fade Away (Petty
   Norman Petty
   Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....
   
   , Holly
   Buddy Holly
   Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...
   
    - 6:58 >
8. St. Stephen (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter) - 2:22 >
9. In the Midnight Hour
   In the Midnight Hour
   "In the Midnight Hour" is a song originally performed by Wilson Pickett in 1965 and released on the 1966 album The Exciting Wilson Pickett. It was composed by Pickett and Steve Cropper at the historic Lorraine Motel in Memphis where Martin Luther King, Jr. would later be murdered in April 1968...
   
    (Pickett
   Wilson Pickett
   Wilson Pickett was an American R&B/Soul singer and songwriter.A major figure in the development of American soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&B charts, and frequently crossed over to the US Billboard Hot 100...
   
   , Cropper
   Steve Cropper
   Steve Cropper , also known as Steve "The Colonel" Cropper, is an American guitarist, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist of the Stax Records house band, Booker T...
   
   ) - 8:16
10. Dancing in the Street
    Dancing in the Street
    "Dancing in the Street" is a 1964 song first recorded by Martha and the Vandellas. It is one of Motown's signature songs and is the group's premier signature song.-Martha and the Vandellas original:...
    
     (Gaye
    Marvin Gaye
    Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. , better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, was an American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range....
    
    , Stevenson, Hunter
    Ivy Jo Hunter
    Ivy Jo Hunter, born George Ivy Hunter and sometimes credited as Ivy Hunter, is a former R&B songwriter, record producer and singer, most associated with his work for the Motown label in the 1960s....
    
    ) - 12:14
11. Monkey and the Engineer (Fuller) - 2:45
12. Good Lovin' (Resnick, Clark) - 15:08

Personnel

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...

:

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, vocals

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, vocals

Ron "Pigpen" McKernan: organ, harmonica, vocals

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

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, percussion

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....

: bass, backing vocals

Mastering by Jeffrey Norman