Pre-Dead Songs
This lists songs played by members of the Grateful Dead before the Dead was formed.
Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions
The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA, July 1964
Ain't It Crazy
Beat It On Down The Line
Beedle Um Bum
Big Fat Woman
Boodle Am Shake
Borneo
Cocaine Habit Blues
Crazy Words, Crazy Tune (aka "Washington At Valley Forge")
In The Jailhouse Now
Memphis Tennessee
The Monkey And The Engineer
My Gal
On The Road Again
Overseas Stomp
Shake That Thing
Yes She Do, No She Don't (aka "I'm Satisfied")
Black Mountain Boys
Unknown venue, 6 & 7 March 1964
Barefoot Nellie
Black Mountain Rag
Darling Alalee
Devil's Dream
Homestead On The Farm
If I Lose
In The Pines
John Harty
Katie Kline
Love Please Come Home
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
New River Train
Nine Pound Hammer
Ocean Of Diamonds
Once More
Pig In A Pen
Rosa Lee McFall
Salt Creek
Salty Dog Blues
She's More To Be Pitied
Somebody Touched Me
Sourwood Mountain
Stoney Creek
Teardrops In My Eyes
These Men Of God
True Life Blues
Two Little Boys
When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again
Who Will Sing For Me
Pigpen & Peter Albin
Unknown venue, 1964
Hoochie Coochie Man
The Second Story Men
The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA, 1963
McKernan's Blues
Jerry And Sarah Garcia
The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA, 4 May 1963
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
Deep Elem Blues
Foggy Mountain Top
I Truly Understand
Keno The Rent Man
Long Black Veil
The Man Who Wrote 'Home Sweet Home' Never Was A Married Man
Will The Weaver
Wildwood Boys
The Tangent, Palo Alto, CA, 23 February 1963
Come All Ye Fair And Tender Maidens
Jerry's Breakdown
Mule Skinner Blues
Nine Pound Hammer
Pike County Breakdown
Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms
Standing In The Need Of Prayer
We Shall Not Be Moved
Hart Valley Drifters
College of San Mateo, CA, 10 November 1962
Banks Of The Ohio
Handsome Molly
Nine Pound Hammer
Pig In A Pen
Roving Gambler
Salty Dog Blues
Garcia & David Nelson
College of San Mateo, CA, 10 November 1962
Cannonball Blues
The Cuckoo
Deep Elem Blues
I Truly Understand
Man Of Constant Sorrow
The Miller's Will
The Raging Sea
Will The Circle Be Unbroken
Garcia solo
College of San Mateo, CA, 10 November 1962
Little Birdie
Walkin' Boss
Pigpen, Garcia and others
Unknown venue, June 1962(?)
Blue Goose
Careless Love
Goin' To Chicago
In The Pines
Ninety Nine Years
Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers
Jewish Community Center, San Carlos, CA, 11 June 1962
All Go Hungry Hash House
Billy Grimes The Rover
Buckdancer's Choice
Cannonball Blues
Crow Black Chicken
Devilish Mary
Hold The Woodpile Down
Hop High Ladies
Johnson Boys
Little Birdie
Man Of Constant Sorrow
Rabbit Chase
Run Mountain
Sally Goodin
Shady Grove
The Sweet Sunny South
Three Men Went A-Hunting
Garcia with unknown bluegrass band
Burlingame, CA, January 1962
East Virginia Blues
The Good Old Rebel
Katie Cruel
Look Up, Look Down That Lonesome Road
Pay Me My Money Down
Railroad Bill
The Very Unfortunate Man
The Wagoner's Lad
The Willow Garden
Garcia and others
The Chateau, Menlo Park, 18 November 1961
Greenback Dollar
Long Black Veil
Garcia, Leicester & Hunter
Carlos Bookstall, San Carlos CA, July 1961
All The Good Times Are Past And Gone
The Ballad Of Harry Pollitt (aka "Bolshevik In Hell")
Brown's Ferry Blues
Cannonball Blues
Darling Corey
Jesse James
Late Last Night (aka "No One To Stand By Me")
Poor Ellen Smith
Wildwood Flower