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Cornell '77: The Music, the Myth, and the Magnificence of the Grateful Dead's Concert at Barton Hall by Peter Conners
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
Stuart Ake
2 days ago4 min read
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