With Cornell ’77, Peter Conners takes on the most widely distributed, discussed, debated and dissected Grateful Dead show ever performed. The subject comes with baggage. Shortly after being disseminated through the wider tape-trading network, 5/8/77 began to be treated by some as sacred text. After the show was later repackaged by the entertainment industry into CDs, vinyl and lavish box sets, I fretted Conners might fall into the trap of typing into an echo chamber. He does

David Cain’s Infinite Dead October: A Daily Guide to Grateful Dead Concert Performances is a listening companion designed to lend order to the band’s sprawling live archive. The premise is simple: a day-by-day, show-by-show review of every known Grateful Dead performance that took place in the month of October.

DeadBase contains the most complete and accurate listing of Grateful Dead concerts and song lists known.