Golden Road

The primary impetus behind this ambitious 12-disc box set is to gather all nine of the Grateful Dead's Warner Brothers titles. However, the staggeringly high quotient of previously unissued bonus material rivals – and at times exceeds – the content of those original albums. The Golden Road (1965-1973) truly has something – and usually a lot of it – for every degree of Deadhead…

"Golden Road", which was released in October of 2002, was produced by Urban, along with Dann Huff. Three of the singles from Golden Road became No. 1 hits, including “Somebody Like You,” which became Urban’s first gold-selling single, for sales of 500,000 units. That particular song stayed at the top of the charts for six weeks. To date, Golden Road has sold more than three million copies, becoming the second best-selling album of Urban’s career, behind his follow-up disc, Be Here, which was released in 2004 and has sold four million copies.

The primary impetus behind this ambitious 12-disc box set is to gather all nine of the Grateful Dead's Warner Brothers titles. However, the staggeringly high quotient of previously unissued bonus material rivals - and at times exceeds - the content of those original albums. The Golden Road (1965-1973) truly has something - and usually a lot of it - for every degree of Deadhead. Working chronologically, the bonus material begins before the beginning so to speak, with the two-disc sub-compilation aptly titled "Birth of the Dead," a project actually green-lighted by Jerry Garcia in the mid-'80s. Disc one features studio recordings by a primordial incarnation of the band known as the Warlocks and later the Emergency Crew. Disc two contrasts their studio efforts with some of the earliest surviving live Grateful Dead recordings from July of 1966…