SHIP OF FOOLS/IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE ROSES
[Garcia-Hunter/Garcia] [6:01]

(live; San Jose, CA, Civic Auditorium, 1987-04-16)

Elvis Costello: Vocals, guitar

Artist: Various
Album: Stolen Roses
Release date Media Catalogue number (comments)
2000-08-08 CD Grateful Dead Records GDCD 4073

Notes:

  1. This is an album of Grateful Dead covers.
  2. This was Elvis' first public performance of Grateful Dead music.

Liner Notes:

Elvis Costello: These are two of my favorite songs from that really golden songwriting period from Workingman's Dead to From the Mars Hotel. And while I might have chosen any of the never-cut-in-the-studio gems from Europe '72, like "Brown-Eyed Woman" or "Ramble on Rose" -- glorious! -- "Stella Blue" and "China Doll" have too many "Norwegians" in them for my fallible fingers. I heard these two songs at the London Alexandra Palace concerts in '74 and really fell for them. When I found myself in San Jose some years ago, I thought, "Why not? I bet this is Grateful Dead country."