Truckin' Up to Buffalo
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Truckin' Up to Buffalo is a double CD soundtrack to the DVD video of the same name by 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...

. It was recorded at Rich Stadium in Orchard Park
Orchard Park (town), New York
Orchard Park is a town in Erie County, New York, a suburb southeast of Buffalo, New York. According to the 2010 census, the population is 29,054. This represents an increase of 5.13% from the 2000 census figure. The town contains a village also named Orchard Park. Orchard Park is one of the...

 on July 4, 1989. There are no differences in the track listings of the CD and DVD versions. Two tracks had already been released: "All Along the Watchtower" was included in the compilation of Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 songs, Postcards of the Hanging, and "Man Smart (Woman Smarter)" was released on Weir Here - The Best of Bob Weir
Weir Here - The Best of Bob Weir
Weir Here - The Best Of Bob Weir is a 2004 live/studio compilation album featuring former Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist and co-vocalist Bob Weir. As well as tracks by Bob Weir it features recordings by the bands Kingfish, Ratdog, Bobby and the Midnites and the Grateful Dead...

.

Disc one

First Set:
  1. "Bertha" (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...

    , 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...

    ) - 7:57 >
  2. "Greatest Story Ever Told" (Hunter, 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...

    , 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...

    ) - 4:36
  3. "Cold Rain and Snow" (traditional, arr. Grateful Dead) - 6:45
  4. "Walkin' Blues" (Robert Johnson) - 6:57
  5. "Row Jimmy" (Hunter, Garcia) - 10:50
  6. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" (Bob Dylan) - 6:09
  7. "Stagger Lee" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:01
  8. "Looks Like Rain" (John 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...

    , Weir) - 7:11 >
  9. "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) - 7:53
Second Set:
  1. "Touch of Grey" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:30 >
  2. "Man Smart, Woman Smarter" (Norman Span) - 8:47

Disc two

  1. "Ship of Fools" (Hunter, Garcia) - 8:13 >
  2. "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...

    " (Hunter, Hart, Weir) - 3:30 >
  3. "Terrapin Station" (Hunter, Garcia) - 12:18 >
  4. "Drums" (Hart, Bill Kreutzman) - 9:00 >
  5. "Space" (Garcia, 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) - 7:28 >
  6. "I Will Take You Home" (Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...

    ) - 3:53 >
  7. "All Along the Watchtower
    All Along the Watchtower
    "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song, which has been included on most of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more...

    " (Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

    ) - 5:52 >
  8. "Morning Dew" (Bonnie Dobson
    Bonnie Dobson
    Bonnie Dobson is a Canadian folk music songwriter, singer, and guitarist, most known in the 1960s for composing the songs "I'm Your Woman" and "Morning Dew"...

    , Tim Rose
    Tim Rose
    Timothy Alan Patrick Rose , best known professionally as Tim Rose, was an American singer-songwriter, who spent much of his life in London, England and had more success in Europe than in his native country...

    ) - 11:10 >
  9. "Not Fade Away
    Not Fade Away (song)
    "Not Fade Away" is a song credited to Buddy Holly and Norman Petty and first recorded by Holly's band The Crickets in Clovis, New Mexico, on May 27, 1957...

    " (Buddy Holly
    Buddy Holly
    Charles Hardin Holley , known professionally as Buddy Holly, was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll...

    , Norman Petty
    Norman Petty
    Norman Petty was an American musician, songwriter, and pioneer record producer who helped shape modern popular music, including pop and rock....

    ) - 10:08
Encore:
  1. "U.S. Blues" (Hunter, Garcia) - 6:03

Grateful Dead

  • Jerry Garcia – 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
  • Bob Weir – 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
  • Phil Lesh – electric bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
  • Brent Mydland – 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...

    , Hammond B3, vocals
  • Mickey Hart – 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 ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Bill Kreutzman – drums, percussion

Production

  • Executive producers – Jimmy Edwards, James Austin
  • Recording – John Cutler
  • Mixing – Jeffrey Norman
  • Tape archivist – David Lemieux
  • Archival research – Eileen Law
  • Cover art – Richard Biffle
  • Art coordination – Brian Connors
  • Photos – Robert Minkin, Susana Millman
  • Package design & production – Robert Minkin
  • Liner notes – Blair Jackson
  • Editorial supervision – Sheryl Farber
  • Project coordination – Scott Webber

Charts

Album - Billboard
Year Chart Position
2005 The Billboard 200 137
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