Grateful Dead - Cumberland Blues (Alpine Valley 7/17/89)

"From one of the Grateful Dead's first home videos, Downhill From Here, this is the Dead at a later-era peak. Cumberland Blues was a song that always seemed to be played well, and when they nailed it perfectly, as they do here, it's a six-man unit running at breakneck speed, acting as one unified force." - David Lemieux
Directed by Len Dell’Amico and co-produced by Len Dell’Amico and GDP.
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[@gratefuldead]

"From one of the Grateful Dead's first home videos, Downhill From Here, this is the Dead at a later-era peak. Cumberland Blues was a song that always seemed to be played well, and when they nailed it perfectly, as they do here, it's a six-man unit running at breakneck speed, acting as one unified force." - David Lemieux

[@michaelparsons2788]

WAS MLM

[@thearmyofgreatness]

Everyone thinks the dead is hippie trips, alot of it is dope ass cowboy tunes

[@AustinPierce7526]

Rooted in technical playing as far as song structure and scales go also

[@nelsonw2096]

Country music for people who like to do acid.

[@Scotty.S588]

@@nelsonw2096 Pretty much, I am one of those bumpkins and I agree.

[@luismedrano3412]

@@nelsonw2096I agree

[@GaragebandandBeyond]

Shout out to the people who are here to learn this song and made that "most played" part of the song have that big old hump in the timeline! You know who you are!

[@mbass718]

So great! The connection between Jerry and Brent was always incredible... almost telepathic I'd say. I got on the bus around '86/87 and never got off. The Dead changed my life in so many ways for the better!

Beyond telepathy, it was just flat out love and understanding. Those understandings went far beyond telepathy i think, same as they did with everyone else in the band too. Jerry and brent knew each other well and each knew when to so what and how and why. Brent caught on ao damn fast man and he was contributing songs his very first year with the band. That was amazing to see, brent joins in 79, go to heaven comes out 1980 and Brent has two of his songs on the album, among Barlow and Hunter doling out their poetry and their hearts, even to step up to the bat in their league was a major move and a powerful move. Brent owned it all albeit i always wiahed he had more confidence to how great he was.

[@GhostfaceKiller_93]

Summer 89' was Absolutely 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥"Can I go, buddy, can I go down, Take your shift at the mine, Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine, Gotta get down to the Cumberland mine, That's where I mainly spend my time" 💀⚡ Happy 50th Anniversary of #workingmansdead , The Music Will Never Stop !!!!!

[@spencerrye3885]

@4:43 Jerry looks around at everyone and just smiles. If that doesn’t make your day idk what will! ❤️

[@youtlubesuxxxxxxxok]

It's really a beautiful smile, isn't it?

[@haikat4]

Just enjoying the groove for a second!

[@erikhatch7075]

Love brent and jerrys connection

[@jennoelle29]

The Brent era ❤️

[@Mr.Nobody603]

Brent Era is the best Dead for me personally.

[@Sbannmarie]

Ditto

[@jennoelle29]

Brent and Jerry appear to have had some sort of cosmic connection and that is what makes it great. I love watching them play together.

[@vancefyock8962]

A-man!

[@opiebluwsit9751]

No question. And for me 1989 is the absolute peak. You can have your '77 etc.

[@Mr.Nobody603]

@@opiebluwsit9751 Yes!

[@hughsnyder891]

I was there and all of the Dead shows from 85-89 at Alpine Valley. Great memories Was back there for the 2018 Saturday Dead and Company . I still miss Jerry 🙏👌😊☮️

[@dan666x]

Gotta get down to them cumberland blues baby!! Tight speedy version 😆

[@davidsthubbins176]

I was there too. Such amazing shows that summer! I remember dancing in the rain on Night 2, and loving it. By the third night, I was waterlogged and kind of over it. 😆 The last summer that camping was allowed at the venues. 😢

[@litedawg]

Gosh , me too. I had to drive back to Athens Ga afterwards and man that was one hell of a long ride back , waterlogged and dirty and wouldn’t have missed it for the world.

[@michaelmcaninch8639]

87 to 90

[@brianmcglade8164]

We stayed on for The Who after those shows at Alpine ! Great times. So Grateful

[@briano.5746]

I was there!!! Downhill From Here y'all! 💀👍🎸🎶🎵💕💖💛🌎🌌

[@SandhillGuitar]

This was SO good in person... I remembered the moment the first I watched Downhill

[@noogie3784]

Love love love Alpine Valley, actually worked there too. Growing up in Wisconsin, it's like a Right of Passage to see a show there. Never saw the Dead there, but did see D&C there.

[@tomlund4951]

Awesome place for a concert and a beautiful area...I miss parts of those days... 😅

[@brianmcglade8164]

These guys helped me go through the door. I never went back again! So happy i caught that bus !

[@mgb1970]

Release the entire Alpine ‘89 run as a CD/digital box set!

[@spencerrye3885]

There is a dvd of it. Titled “Downhill From Here.”

[@gameboy_colorful7078]

@@spencerrye3885 but that’s only one night. All 3 should be on DVD + CD

[@billybaugus1249]

89 into the summer 90 was an absolute peak. Who knows how different things would have been if Brent hadn't passed on

[@opiebluwsit9751]

100%

[@dancinbear]

I was at this show, it was amazing. Both sets they just tore it up!!!

[@ryanmurray9619]

I remember this. I was on the lower lawn dancing like a banshee at 17 years old. This was like my 5th show. What a great weekend this was!

[@steveg6035]

during the 80's there was nothing better than hanging out stage left and watching Jerry grinning at Brent while the band caught fire...

[@staggerleee1053]

Hey me too ❤️🎶

[@billbeliakoff5589]

My first Dead show was, coincidentally, their first at Alpine Valley. What a venue to hop on "The Bus" Happy to say that I caught every show there.

[@RC_Colorado]

perfect timing for this post. mining season is starting in a couple of weeks, as soon as the snow melts.

[@johnnynbk]

dude you're earthy

[@petern.9392]

What a great rendition! So glad I got to see these guys back in the day.

[@TonyOneto]

I love this! So good!

[@fatmunch6318]

All Grateful Dead eras are my favorite era that being said this is a great song

[@laurie7117]

Thanks so much for sharing ! I will always love The Dead ❤

[@prophetestimate]

This is about as good as you’re going to get on film from this great era.

[@nealmccarthy5903]

TYTYTY this is nyyyyyce. What a song. Cheers!

[@troutdogz]

Brent just joined the band right before I saw them for the first time. Holy yowey, listen to that b3 next to all this wonderfullness.....WOO FUCKING HOO!!!

[@mikesveom7135]

Don’t know where to begin ….. in love …. Alpine at sundown , Jerry’s got the reigns and on fire . Locking into Bobs guitar is always a ride ……. Brent , oh boy

[@CrazyHorse74]

Thanks so much for this. Made my day ✌️

[@jayrenzulli6118]

, thanks for all the great music , peace

[@noogie3784]

Hopefully they play one of these shows for Shakedown Stream.

[@brianolson7820]

You can easily spot the "clueless people" in the audience. Fantastic performance by the boys

[@beachmasterX]

They won their tickets on the radio

[@vancefyock8962]

Clueless people??? Everyone took in the Dead ad they wanted at any show....I wouldn't label them as anything...

[@justdiane5]

The Fatman was rockin' that show! I was there 💜😎🎶

[@tomlund4951]

I was there with my ex wife and a 79 Cutlass... Damn! I miss that car...

[@johnnynbk]

we had a '75 cutlass supreme when i was a kid.

[@Estado_Alterado]

Lol 😂

[@SamTurtonsamsamsam999]

I feel privileged to be the 1000th like on this video

[@thegame311]

Release the whole show on YT!!!!

[@AndyBigDaddyWilkinson]

Jerrys bag of tricks is know to him ...and he opens it freely ....and still no one sounds like Jerry......because we are just mortals on guitar....Jerry is from a higher plain of existence

[@ziggiezaggie]

Can't wait for the live Shakedown Street feed tonight!!!

[@craigholliday]

Alpine 89. Top 10 shows. Good times

[@ennisjohnson485]

Please do a Shakedown Stream with this show; I've never seen the whole thing

[@padl7021]

Love this

[@richf.7845]

Brent and Jerry had amazing chemistry.

[@robertcollins5808]

I wish they had video of the next shows at Cal Expo.....Saw both and they were both for the ages

[@SergeantR]

Out of all the GD songs, this is one of my favorites! It’s a hard choice between this one and Weather Report Suite.

[@DrewEllisHerbal]

Flippin love Brent!

[@Wolfgasm0414]

Bravo!!!

[@keithlavallie6968]

Fun fact ,Brent loved the finer things. Had a taste for Swiss mechanical watches. Most famously his 18K $20,000 gold Rolex president!! Love it!

[@scott83074]

What I wouldn't give to be pre-gaming for this exact show...sigh

[@jonheller4431]

I was at this toasty show literally. Jerry always played well when it was 100 F +

[@shakypuddin9857]

Was at this concert it was three days in Wisconsin. Still got my ticket stubs. Remember like it was yesterday. Fabulous!!

[@dhgillis3]

Wasn’t this the show where, as legend has it, the full moon rose during SOTM? Had the DAT>cassette back in the snail mail trading days. Wore it out needless to say.

[@otbjer7871]

Awesome

[@dgs060481]

July 89 Dead will take the Pepsi Challenge with any band/era of all time

[@stonehousedude]

Still have the ticket stub for this show.

[@briano.1503]

I was there all 3 nights! ✌💀👍🎸🎼🎵🎶🧠🌌♾❤🌹⚡

[@MrToddmacdonald2]

I like to see them play these tunes, different vibe.

[@aaronwimberleymbamsf5776]

classic & timeless=]

[@ericantone8709]

"A lot of poor men got the Cumberland blues, he can't win, for losing A lot of poor men got to walk the line just to pay his union dues."

[@brianmcglade8164]

For REAL MAN !!

[@georgestevens1502]

Rollicking Jerry phases and signature tone. Doesn't get better than this.

[@atolman2828]

Bob, you look... comfortable.

[@NikolaiStez]

Like All Of It

[@jhbraucht]

2:10 Jerry and Brent start a telepathic conversation in which Brent tells Jerry a great dirty joke. Tell me I'm wrong 😆❤️⚡💙

[@thearmyofgreatness]

What a good fucking song

[@charlespichler1057]

official song of my job in Cumberland Rhode Island

[@stephenzajchowski7080]

ive lived in Myrtle Beach for over 8 years ...but i grew up in Cumberland spent alot of time in behind the Cumberland Monastery (Library) off in the woods ....being a fun lovin stoner Dead Head back in the 90s through to 2008

[@Wayzor_]

Those spun out hippies can sure play a nice cowboy polka.

[@johnnynbk]

oh dude.. shut up. that's gross. sorry

[@klenmcrock5265]

Jerry Reed's Eastbound and Down brought me here. Lol😁

[@McC815]

Keeps us happy dead

[@Anonymous-vb8nw]

I'm thinkin' that Workingman's Dead album just might be a hit.😎

[@mry5930]

WOW.

[@chadsams7282]

DOPE

[@turdferguson7039]

I dedicate this song to my buddy Jason Crotzer. RIP...

[@deadmetal8692]

Yeah, there's that silly grin again. Thanks boy's

[@charlesmiller5315]

Brent and Keith were so different and so was the band.

[@abriltapiaparedes3263]

Nice

[@scooter2163]

tight!

[@augustwest4233]

33 years today.

[@damannoa]

That look of Jerry and Brent staring at each other in sync was beautiful. And Brent was gone a week later. RIP to both of them.

[@billbeliakoff5589]

Brent died in '90

[@JohnMoore-qv4vn]

@@billbeliakoff5589 No man, don't spoil the little sentimental MTV fantasy. Another poooor soul lost too early to that fickle bitch rock and roll.

[@jameswolak8782]

Brent died in July 1990, not a week after this show. Get yo facts straight son

[@trevorclayton2131]

Godbless

[@Greene1209]

#1

[@geoffreyharold]

R.I.P. JERRY AND BRENT

[@BDB78]

Brent left the ground on this one!

[@nomikosthegreat]

Dank

[@padl7021]

Sheeeiiit!

[@charlesmcwarles5638]

brent looks so cool and innocent

[@nedtheproducer5777]

HOT! HOT! HOT!

[@Blady99]

Making me love Brent

[@geraldgriffin6397]

I enjoyed dirty fingers slumped over Jerry from 84 thrashing this one out.

[@brandonlyons3971]

Summer of Brent!

[@kosmicsoul1803]

🎶🎶🎶😀👍

[@calburge4338]

One of the reasons Jerry loved Brent , they were heroin buddies. BUT they also had major respect for each other’s musical talents RIP JERRY N BRENT

[@vancefyock8962]

No need to go there my friend...

[@opiebluwsit9751]

Exactly wtf do you need to even bring that up. Yeah let's focus on bands' substance activities.

[@padl7021]

This was usually the song that said come back from the bar we’re going in deep

[@playlegit7]

Nice shorts bobby

[@floodgatestudios1825]

"Who wears short shorts ! Bobby wears short shorts..."

[@BDB78]

We have lift off. Fuckin rrrrrrippin!

[@adash66]

Before the deluge

[@danielmcneil1823]

this shows a whole band clicking, wuz just splainin to a sibling last nite that the grateful dead wuz not all bout jerry, good times indeedy!

[@gregorythomas2674]

I wonder if Jerry and Brent ever shot up together. I assume so but who knows. Sad end for both but damn they jammed a nice Cumberland here. Awesome first fret D string slide to the 6th fret jerry does without missing a beat. ✌🎸⚘

[@BrandonGates]

Gregory Thomas Jerry didn’t shoot, he smoked his dope.

[@tomb613]

Jerry didn't use needles he smoked his smack.

[@gregorythomas2674]

@@bradyschardine5209 It is isn't it! I knew some retard like you would take the bait. 😁

[@gregorythomas2674]

@@BrandonGates That is right. I did hear his fingers were covered from smoking it. Forgot about that. Thx.

[@gregorythomas2674]

@@bradyschardine5209 😊⚡🎸✌🏻⚘

[@Eeearthmusic]

Here are the boys firing on all cylinders summer 89