Grateful Dead Book Reviews

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

Barton Hall 5/8/77 gathers Reichman’s photographs from the night of the most widely circulated, adored, debated and second-guessed Grateful Dead concert of all time—most of these images published for the first time.