Download Series Volume 2 is a live album by the rock band the
Grateful Dead. It was released as a
digital download on June 7, 2005. The show is a one-disc set of a previously uncirculated concert at Springer's Ballroom in
Gresham, Oregon (though listed as Springer's Inn in
Portland, Oregon), from January 18, 1970.[1][2]
Volume 2 was mastered in
HDCD from the original 2-track master tapes by Jeffrey Norman.
On
AllMusic, Jesse Jarnow said, "Only one tune from [Workingman's Dead or American Beauty] gets played here... though they also charge through a six-minute take of the new (and rare) "Mason's Children".... The highlight is unquestionably a 13-plus minute version of Martha & the Vandellas' "
Dancing in the Street". Garcia, Bob Weir, and Phil Lesh's harmonies are big and enthused, the San Francisco ballroom scene encapsulated in one vocal arrangement. The jam makes its way into deeply spaced jazz, Garcia especially wearing his John Coltrane love... on his sleeve."[3]
Track listing
"Cold Rain and Snow" (trad., arr. Grateful Dead) - 6:10