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For their 15th anniversary in 1981, Grateful Dead released 'Reckoning,' a live album capturing the band at their acoustic peak. It’s only fitting that, in his selections for Vol. 1 of A Beginner’s Guide to the Grateful Dead Live, David Lemieux included the album’s “Bird Song.”

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