Shakedown Street (song)
- Shakedown Street (song)
Song_infobox
Name = Shakedown Street
Artist = theGrateful Dead
Album =Shakedown Street
Released =November 15 ,1978
track_no = 3
Recorded = 1978
Genre =Folk rock Rock and roll
Length = 4:59
Writer = Robert Hunter
Composer =Jerry Garcia
Label = Arista
Producer =Lowell George
[ Chart position = ]
prev = "France"
prev_no = 2
next = "Serengetti"
next_no = 4"Shakedown Street" is a
song by theGrateful Dead . It was written by lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitaristJerry Garcia .Cite web|url=http://arts.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/shak.html|title=The Annotated "Shakedown Street"|accessdate=2007-02-21|author=Dodd, David|work=The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics|format=html] It was released as thetitle track on the album "Shakedown Street " in November of 1978. It was later released as Arista single 0410 in April of1979 , with the song "France" on the b-side; it did not chart.The song was first performed live on
August 31 ,1978 at theRed Rocks Amphitheatre , in Morrison,Colorado . The song "From the Heart of Me" was also played for the first time during the performance.Shakedown street is also a colloquial term for the area outside of a concert where various merchandise is bought and sold.
ee also
* Dark Star
*Musical improvisation Notes
External links
* [http://dead.net/index2.php Dead.net] , the official site of the
Grateful Dead .
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