Saint of Circumstance


Saint of Circumstance is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 17, 1991. It was released on September 27, 2019, on three CDs or five LPs. The same recording was also released the same day as part of the 14-CD album Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991.
A video of this concert was shown in theaters on August 1, 2019 as that year's Grateful Dead Meet-Up at the Movies.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Timothy Monger wrote, "A somewhat legendary taper's classic, the band's second night at New Jersey's 80,000 capacity Giants Stadium in the summer of 1991 was a predictably unpredictable behemoth lauded more for its oddities than overall cohesion. Boasting the relatively short-lived two-man keyboard battery of Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick, the show's lush tonal palette was a hallmark of this era.... seems to exist as more of a spiritual undercurrent, spurring on other improvisations, some of which get quite heady."
Doug Collette of All About Jazz commented: "Garcia's guitar playing is pointed and precise, while his navigation of the ensemble is careful, purposeful and rife with surprise in both selection of song and the segues between them." He noted: "this setlist is full of material through which the late cultural icon speaks or tenders implicit personal observation that add weight even to otherwise slight songs like 'Loose Lucy'."

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Eyes of the World" > – 15:26
  2. "Walkin' Blues" – 7:01
  3. "Brown-Eyed Women" – 6:10
  4. "Dark Star" > – 1:32
  5. "When I Paint My Masterpiece" – 5:28
  6. "Loose Lucy" – 9:16
  7. "Cassidy" – 7:11
  8. "Might as Well" – 6:41
Disc 2
  1. "Saint of Circumstance" > – 10:55
  2. "Ship of Fools" > – 8:01
  3. "Dark Star" > – 1:14
  4. "Truckin'" > – 6:55
  5. "New Speedway Boogie" > – 9:12
  6. "Dark Star" > – 0:55
  7. "Uncle John's Band" > – 11:18
  8. "Dark Star" > – 8:05
  9. "Drums" – 12:30
Disc 3
  1. "Space" > – 8:47
  2. "China Doll" > – 5:07
  3. "Playing in the Band" > – 4:35
  4. "Sugar Magnolia" – 10:53
  6. "The Weight" – 6:20

Personnel

Grateful Dead
Production