# The Arista Years (Grateful Dead album)

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The Arista Years is a compilation album that chronicles the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums during their time with Arista Records. The album was released on two-CD and two cassette tapes on October 15, 1996. It contains tracks from Terrapin Station, Shakedown Street, Go to Heaven, Reckoning, Dead Set, In the Dark, Built to Last, and Without a Net. The set does not contain any new or expanded recordings. A media outlet sampler, Selections from the Arista Years, was released by Arista in January 1997.

## Track listing
### Disc one

* "Estimated Prophet" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:37
* "Passenger" (Lesh, Monk) – 2:49
* "Samson and Delilah" (traditional) – 3:27
* "Terrapin Station [medley]" (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:20
** Tracks 1–4 originally released on the album Terrapin Station.
* "Good Lovin'" (Resnick, Clark) – 4:48
* "Shakedown Street" (Garcia, Hunter) – 4:59
* "Fire on the Mountain" (Hart, Hunter) – 3:46
* "I Need a Miracle" (Barlow, Weir) – 3:33
** Tracks 5–8 originally released on the album Shakedown Street.
* "Alabama Getaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:35
* "Far from Me" (Mydland) – 3:39
* "Saint of Circumstance" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:40
** Tracks 9-11 originally released on the album Go to Heaven.
* "Dire Wolf" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:21
* "Cassidy" (Barlow, Weir) – 4:33
** Tracks 12–13 originally released on the album Reckoning.
* "Feel Like a Stranger" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:47
* "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Hunter, Kreutzmann) – 5:37
** Tracks 14–15 originally released on the album Dead Set.

### Disc two

* "Touch of Grey" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:48
* "Hell in a Bucket" (Barlow, Weir) – 5:36
* "West L.A. Fadeaway" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:37
* "Throwing Stones" (Barlow, Weir) – 7:19
* "Black Muddy River" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:57
** Tracks 16–20 originally released on the album In the Dark.
* "Foolish Heart" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:10
* "Built to Last" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:03
* "Just a Little Light" (Barlow, Mydland) – 4:41
* "Picasso Moon" (Barlow, Bralove, Weir) – 6:40
* "Standing on the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter) – 5:20
** Tracks 21–25 originally released on the album Built to Last.
* "Eyes of the World" (Garcia, Hunter) – 16:25
** Track 26 originally released on the album Without a Net.

## Personnel
### Grateful Dead

* Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
* Donna Jean Godchaux – vocals
* Keith Godchaux – keyboards, vocals
* Mickey Hart – drums
* Bill Kreutzmann – drums
* Phil Lesh – bass
* Brent Mydland – keyboards, vocals
* Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

### Additional performers

* Jordan Amarantha – percussion
* Branford Marsalis – saxophone (soprano, tenor)
* Matthew Kelly – harmonica, harp
* Tom Scott – saxophone, lyricon

### Production

* Jerry Garcia, Lowell George – producers
* Bob Bralove – programming, associate producer
* Betty Cantor-Jackson, John Cutler, Dan Healy, Gary Lyons, Keith Olsen – producers, engineers
* Guy Charbonneau, David DeVore, Tom Flye, Justin Kreutzmann, Bob Matthews, Peter Miller, Jeffrey Norman, David Roberts, Jeff Sterling, Pete Thea, Chris Wiskes – engineers
* Amy Finkle, Stanley Mouse, Gilbert Shelton, Jim Welch – art directors
* Joe Gastwirt – remastering, digital remastering
* Rick Griffin – illustrations
* John Kahn – associate producer, horn arrangements
* Cameron Sears – coordination
* Bob Seidemann – photography
* Christopher Stern – design
* Robbie Taylor – production manager

## Charts

Album – Billboard
| Year | Chart | Position |
| 1996 | Billboard 200 | 95 |