Merriweather 6/30/85 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland on June 30, 1985. It was released on September 18, 2026, as a 3-disc CD and as a 4-disc LP. The same recording was also released on September 18, 2026, as part of the 20-CD box set Summer Magic 1985.
The album was sourced from the original Sony F1 tapes. These use a Digital Audio Tape format that encodes digital audio as a video signal and records it on a videocassette recorder.
Track listing Disc 1 First set: "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 8:17 > "C.C. Rider" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:05 > "Brown-Eyed Women" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:02 "Mama Tried" (Merle Haggard) – 2:44 > "Mexicali Blues" (Bob Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 5:16 "Keep On Growing" (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock) – 4:37 "Big Railroad Blues" (Noah Lewis, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 4:11 "Looks Like Rain" (Weir, Barlow) – 7:56 > "Don't Ease Me In" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 3:05 Disc 2 Second set: "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 15:13 > "Samson and Delilah" (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead) – 8:21 "Gimme Some Lovin' " (Spencer Davis, Steve Winwood, Muff Winwood) – 5:30 > "He's Gone" (Garcia, Hunter) – 12:18 > "Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia) – 1:53 > "Drums" (Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann) – 13:22 Disc 3 Second set, continued: "Space" (Garcia, Phil Lesh, Weir) – 7:30 > "The Other One" (Weir, Kreutzmann) – 6:57 > "Stella Blue" (Garcia, Hunter) – 9:03 "Around and Around" (Chuck Berry) – 3:47 "Sugar Magnolia" (Weir, Hunter) – 9:11 Encore: "U.S. Blues" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:08
Personnel Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals Bob Weir – guitar, vocals Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals Phil Lesh – bass, vocals Bill Kreutzmann – drums Mickey Hart – drums Production Produced by Grateful Dead Produced for release by David Lemieux Executive producer: Mark Pinkus Associate producer: Ivette Ramos Recording: Dan Healy Mastering: David Glasser Art direction and illustration: Marcos Alvarado Design: Pablo Valdes Liner notes essay: Nicholas G. Meriwether
Charts + Chart performance for Merriweather 6/30/85 Chart (2026) Peakposition French Physical Albums (SNEP) 173
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