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Grateful Dead’s series of 50th anniversary reissues rolls on with today’s announcement of a remastered vinyl edition of the 1976 live album Steal Your Face.  Featuring Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Keith Godchaux, and Donna Jean Godchaux, the double album was culled from the same October 1974 Winterland shows which yielded The Grateful Dead Movie – the expanded soundtrack of which was recently reissued on vinyl by Mondo as a 10LP box set.  For this vinyl edition, Steal Your Face has been newly remastered by David Glasser and sourced from the master tapes which were restored and speed-corrected using Plangent Processes.  Lacquers were cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering.  It’s due on June 26 – 50 years to the date of its original release.  The remaster will also be released in digital formats.  No remastered CD has been announced.

Steal Your Face was the Dead’s only album released in 1976.  Jerry Garcia was busy editing The Grateful Dead Movie, leaving Phil Lesh and engineer Owsley “Bear” Stanley to revisit the 16-track tapes for a live album.  They balanced what any fan might expect from such an effort, including concert favorites (“Casey Jones,” “U.S. Blues”), cuts from the bandmates’ solo albums (Weir’s “Black-Throated Wind,” Garcia’s “Sugaree”), and intriguing covers (Marty Robbins’ “El Paso,” Johnny Cash’s “Big River,” Chuck Berry’s “Promised Land” and “Around and Around,” Jesse Fuller’s “Beat It on Down the Line”).  The album hit stores in June just as the band returned to the road following their 20-month sabbatical from touring.  As well as chronicling the final shows featuring the band’s Wall of Sound system, Steal Your Face proved to be the final release on the original Grateful Dead Records.  The band signed with Clive Davis’ Arista label shortly thereafter.

The remastered 2LP set features the Dead’s official Pantone colors, “Grateful Red” and “Stealie Blue.”  An exclusive Dead.net variant adds black splatter to both discs.  The center labels include the “Steal Your Face” logo’s facial features gradually fading away across the four sides of vinyl.  An 11 x 11” sticker sheet is also included.

Rhino is previewing the remastered album with Weir and John Barlow’s “Black-Throated Wind,” streaming now.  Archivist David Lemieux notes in the press release, “A staple of the live repertoire 1972-1974, thankfully returning in 1990, ‘Black-Throated Wind’ is widely considered one of Bob Weir’s finest compositions. Never recorded on a Grateful Dead studio album (it appeared on Bobby’s Ace album in 1972), this is the definitive Grateful Dead recording of this gem.”

You’ll find the track listing and pre-order links below.  Look for Steal Your Face from Rhino/Grateful Dead on June 26.  (As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.)

Grateful Dead, Steal Your Face (Grateful Dead GD-LA620-J2, 1976 – reissued Grateful Dead/Rhino, 2026) (Dead.net / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD)

Side One

  1. “Promised Land”
  2. “Cold Rain And Snow”
  3. “Around And Around”
  4. “Stella Blue”

Side Two

  1. “Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo”
  2. “Ship Of Fools”
  3. “Beat It On Down The Line”

Side Three

  1. “Big River”
  2. “Black-Throated Wind”
  3. “U.S. Blues”
  4. “El Paso”

Side Four

  1. “Sugaree”
  2. “It Must Have Been The Roses”
  3. “Casey Jones”