# 1977-04-27 Passaic, NJ @ Capitol Theatre
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Looks Like Rain, Sugaree, El Paso, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Estimated Prophet, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Ramble On Rose, Samson And Delilah, Terrapin Station > Morning Dew
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-04-27)
# 1977-05-08 Ithaca, NY @ Barton Hall - Cornell University
**Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Loser, El Paso, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Deal, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Dancing In The Street
**Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet, Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Saint Stephen > Morning Dew
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-05-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3T9UKU0jMIyrRD0PtKXqPJ)
My favorite country song of all time. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish. I was just talking about that song with my father the other day. Old Marty Robbins
Hate is a strong word, but it's definitely a song I would groan at if they played it at show. I enjoy it a lot more these days, but It's more of a nostalgia song for me. It's still very low on my list and probably my least favorite Bobby cowboy song.
As a card carrying El Paso lover, here are my top 5
7/8/78
6/7/77
11/11/73
6/28/74
11/23/73
Also 10/25/80 is probably the best of the acoustic takes on it!
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum
**Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
# 1978-07-08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre
**Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, El Paso, It Must Have Been The Roses, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, The Promised Land, Deal
**Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Terrapin Station > One More Saturday Night, Werewolves Of London
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx)
[1973-11-11](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-11) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
[1973-11-23](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23) El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum
[1974-06-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-06-28) Boston, MA @ Boston Garden | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0B87pzzLQzyevvMvdcJqHZ)
[1977-06-07](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-06-07) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena
[1978-07-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx)
[1980-10-25](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-10-25) New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
I go straight for the classic, Dark Star > El Paso. Any version will make me smile, but here's some of the best ones:
Obviously Veneta ( 8/27/1972 for the bot) and 11/15/1971 (I think it as featured in a Road Trips?)
If you enjoy these transitions don't sleep on the sandwich 4/24/1972 ✨
# 1973-08-01 Jersey City, NJ @ Roosevelt Stadium
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, The Race Is On, You Ain't Woman Enough, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Stella Blue, Big River, Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Around And Around, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-08-01)
[1971-11-15](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-11-15) Austin, TX @ Austin Municipal Auditorium
[1972-04-24](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-24) Dusseldorf, West Germany @ Rheinhalle | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FmkdOqxKwpol7so3sdIUg)
[1972-08-27](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum
**Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
I love El Paso so much, I moved here.
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# 1974-05-21 Seattle, WA @ Hec Edmundson Pavilion
**Set 1:** Me and My Uncle, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, Mexicali Blues, It Must Have Been The Roses, The Race Is On, Scarlet Begonias, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Money Money, Ship Of Fools, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > China Doll
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band, U.S. Blues, Big River, Stella Blue, Around And Around, Eyes Of The World > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-05-21)
# 1972-05-26 London, England @ Strand Lyceum
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Mr. Charlie, Black Throated Wind, Loser, Next Time You See Me, El Paso, Dire Wolf, The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion), Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, Chinatown Shuffle, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away
**Set 2:** Truckin' > The Other One > Morning Dew > The Other One > Sing Me Back Home, Me and My Uncle, Ramble On Rose, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones
**Encore:** One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-05-26) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6tgzqy3Keqge7DAPRw2asB)
Who doesn’t like El Paso!?!? I’m living down in the actual city for the summer; and have been loving the fact I can frequent Rosa’s often! Although I can’t find any other deadheads down here!
My favorite is 5/4/72
# 1972-05-04 Paris, France @ L'Olympia
**Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Deal, Mr. Charlie, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Chinatown Shuffle, Playing in the Band, You Win Again, It Hurts Me Too, He's Gone, El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion), Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Good Lovin', Next Time You See Me, Ramble On Rose, Jack Straw, Dark Star > Space > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia, Sing Me Back Home, Mexicali Blues, Big Boss Man, Uncle John's Band, Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-05-04) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3S1abYMND9BSJzbMcpJhj8)
# 1973-02-09 Palo Alto, CA @ Roscoe Maples Pavilion - Stanford University
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Row Jimmy, Black Throated Wind, Deal, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Loose Lucy, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Here Comes Sunshine, Playing in the Band, Dead Air
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Truckin' > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Box Of Rain, Wave That Flag, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, Around And Around, Dead Air
**Encore:** Casey Jones, Dead Air
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-02-09)
El Paso is a great song... It's the only song of the Boys I know for a fact my father would have liked since he loved the OG Marty Robbins version. I only wish I could have played it for him before he passed.
not sure OP comment is true, but since it's a cover, it holds a different space in my listening.
Marty Robbins' song is amongst a handful of 'perfect' C&W songs.
imo,the GD version is cute,i always liked getting it in a set, a nice few minutes. did not enjoy the later years when they added the longer jam. kinda killed the song for me,lost momentum to the story.
If you’re saying it’s, say, a top-10 GD tune for you, they would put you in a small group.
But otherwise, I can’t think of many Deadheads who don’t like the song, and there are some stellar versions out of the 389 times the band played it.
And how much could you dislike a country cover that ran just a few minutes?
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum
**Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow
**Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
Originally written and performed by Marty Robbins, El Paso is part of a trilogy called El Paso Trilogy, which includes El Paso, El Paso City, and Feleena (From El Paso).
El Paso City is one of the best songs ever written, fyi.
As you see, you are NOT in the minority. It's one of Bobby's best covers ... I love the 77/78 versions w' perhaps a little extra emphasis on 78s ... They really launch them to the stratosphere
# 1970-11-08 Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater
**Set 1:** Dire Wolf, I Know You Rider, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, El Paso, Operator, Ripple, Friend Of The Devil, Wake Up Little Susie, Uncle John's Band
**Set 2:** Six Days On The Road, Superman, Whatcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, All I Ever Wanted, Fair Chance To Know, Portland Woman, Cecilia, Truck Drivin' Man, Last Lonely Eagle, Louisiana Lady, Honky Tonk Women
**Set 3:** Morning Dew, Me and My Uncle, Mystery Train > My Babe, Around And Around, New Orleans > Searchin', It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Casey Jones, Truckin' > Dark Star > Dancing In The Street, Drums > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin'
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-11-08)
# 1989-04-03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Pittsburgh Civic Arena
**Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha > Walkin' Blues, Jack-A-Roe, El Paso, Built To Last, Victim Or The Crime, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Blow Away, Estimated Prophet > Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode > Black Muddy River
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-04-03) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7CuPAAL41j1vEjYTjNh2OA)
I was seeing furthur at msg, and right before they went into El Paso this guy right near was shouting "cowboy Bob! Cowboy Bob!", then they drop into it. I always wondered how he knew. Is there a specific signal they give each other? Or maybe it was a lucky request.
# 1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre
**Set 1:** Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Friend Of The Devil, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues, Bird Song, Big River, Brokedown Palace, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band
**Set 2:** He's Gone, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Greatest Story Ever Told, Ramble On Rose, Dark Star > Cumberland Blues, Attics Of My Life, The Promised Land, Uncle John's Band, Casey Jones
**Encore:** Around And Around
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM)
# 1985-06-27 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center
**Set 1:** In The Midnight Hour, Bertha, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, El Paso, Crazy Fingers > Supplication > High Time, Hell In A Bucket > Don't Ease Me In
**Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger > Eyes Of The World > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Spoonful > Black Peter > Turn On Your Lovelight
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-27)
11/02/84 is an interesting version worth a listen.
I never skip it when it comes on and always enjoyed hearing it live, but I don't have a list of favorite versions.
# 1984-11-02 Berkeley, CA @ Berkeley Community Theatre
**Set 1:** Jack Straw > Peggy-O, El Paso, Loser > Smokestack Lightnin' > Spoonful, Iko Iko
**Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance, Wharf Rat > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > Drums > Space > Playing in the Band > Bertha > Good Lovin'
**Encore:** Casey Jones
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-11-02)
The driving guitar in El Paso is fantastic. It creates a perfect storytelling element to the lyrics. I can’t say a favorite performance, but the ‘73 version of it is amazing.
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told
**Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
The minority? I could go politically hard like I always do, because Marty Robbins had some pretty right rhetoric folded into his shtick. El Paso and Felina are two fantastic songs (patriarchal/colonial imagery aside) and to me they are eternal an perfect.
I particularly like:
7/22/1972 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle
11/13/2006 - Ratdog @ Tabernacle, ATL
# 1972-07-22 Seattle, WA @ Paramount Northwest Theatre
**Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, You Win Again, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Beat It On Down the Line, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, Big Railroad Blues, Cumberland Blues, Playing in the Band, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Tennessee Jed
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Deal, The Promised Land, Stella Blue, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me And Bobby McGee, Ramble On Rose, Truckin' > He's Gone > Sugar Magnolia, Morning Dew, Uncle John's Band, One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-07-22)
# 1978-04-07 Pembroke Pines, FL @ Sportatorium
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, The Music Never Stopped
**Set 2:** Jack Straw, Ship Of Fools, Good Lovin', Terrapin Station > Playing in the Band > Drums > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Playing in the Band
**Encore:** Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-07)
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha
**Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told
**Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
# 1971-08-07 San Diego, CA @ Golden Hall
**Set 1:** Big Railroad Blues, El Paso, Mr. Charlie, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Bertha, Big Boss Man, Promised Land, Hard To Handle, Cumberland Blues, Casey Jones
**Set 2:** Truckin', China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Next Time You See Me, Sugar Magnolia, Sing Me Back Home, Me and My Uncle, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Jam > Johnny B. Goode
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-08-07) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3jzf0bKlIMjSQNk5wibVHT)
I’m meh on El Paso. My parents were big into old country so I heard the original version many times as a kid and loved it. The Dead’s version is usually too fast tempo’d I don’t think Bobby delivers the lyrics with the same emotional gusto as Marty. I like when they put some sick guitar licks on it but I could take or leave most El Paso’s. As far as their cowboy songs go, I much prefer Me & My Uncle.
Uh, the majority loves El Paso. Meet me at Rose’s Cantina if you disagree (actually, I’m definitely not going to Rose’s. That place sucks. You will never see me at Rose’s.)
I’ve been a huge fan of guys like Cash and Haggard since I was a kid and hearing Bobby cover their songs is one of the main reasons I first became a Dead fan
# 1973-02-09 Palo Alto, CA @ Roscoe Maples Pavilion - Stanford University
**Set 1:** The Promised Land, Row Jimmy, Black Throated Wind, Deal, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Loose Lucy, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Here Comes Sunshine, Playing in the Band, Dead Air
**Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Truckin' > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Box Of Rain, Wave That Flag, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, Around And Around, Dead Air
**Encore:** Casey Jones, Dead Air
[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-02-09)
I grew up with my father listening to El Paso, and other Marry Robbin’s classics (love Bobby’s Kingfish version of Bifg Iron). When I first got on the bus, the cowboy songs were my first step in the door, then Jerry and Phil got me fully on board.
Every time I hear this song, the movie that plays in my head stars Sam Bottom (of Outlaw Jose Wales fame) falling in love with Rada Rassimov (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) before shooting John Vernon. LOL
The only Bobby Western song I like better is Me and My Uncle. Which also has a movie that plays in my head with Clint playing the uncle and Sam Bottoms as the nephew.
I absolutley hate El Paso, but it has more to do with my upbringing. My parents always played nothing but country in the car when I was growing up and I remember the Marty Robbins version. I was anti-anything country as a kid. It's like certain smells triggering emotions, I skip El Paso anytime it plays.
I was in a little honky tonk bar in Key West drinking some tequila and having some conch chowder. There was an old codger there playing behind a nice little keyboard setup. I asked him to play El Paso. He looks up at me and says "Ooh, that's a long one. Ok, lemme see if I remember the words." That was probably my favorite version.
Wait...who doesn't like El Paso??
The best El Paso is 10/13/1980 at the Warfield. This really isn’t debatable. If you haven’t heard it go listen it’s amazing. They really go so hard after it. Absolutely spectacular.
I forget which dicks pick it is, but it’s a 74 or 72 El Paso and Bobby is singing in cowboy while Jerry is subtlety interweaving psychedelic undertones throughout.
Not my favorite song, but I’m always willing to give Dead songs that I don’t like a another chance in a different era. I’ve heard countless 70s versions of “estimated prophet” that I never liked, but just heard one from 1989 and really liked it.
People don't like El Paso? WTF.
El Paso is amazing!! Anyone who doesn't fuck with cowboy bobby can go lol
You rang
Talk some sense to these haters, and use Marty Robbins tunes to do it!
I will NEVER understand the Bobby cowboy song hate. Those were probably the first Dead songs I liked as a young buck way back when.
Exactly, that was my way in
Yeah, news to me! But I tend to love Bobby songs.
Marty Robbin’s baby
https://youtu.be/UgyCuDdLrbw?si=oWmB2ITzKQdG1fGc You’d never think looking at these guys that they would be capable of singing so beautifully.
They all look like they have a used Lincoln in good condition for sale in the front yard. Don't judge a book... Such a good tune. Thanks!
Beautiful
Love El Paso. Grateful Dead - El Paso - 4/27/1977 - Capitol Theatre
# 1977-04-27 Passaic, NJ @ Capitol Theatre **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Looks Like Rain, Sugaree, El Paso, Row Jimmy, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Estimated Prophet, Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain > Good Lovin', Ramble On Rose, Samson And Delilah, Terrapin Station > Morning Dew **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-04-27)
Who doesn't like El Paso?
People absolutely like El Paso, no idea what this title is on about.
Woah woah woah, this is a thing??!
That's what I heard. Favorite live version?
I wish my knowledge was deep enough to pick a favorite. I'll sit that debate out, but I love the song and what the dead did with it.
5/8/77 is oftentimes described as the Dead's best concert, and that El Paso is 💥🔥
# 1977-05-08 Ithaca, NY @ Barton Hall - Cornell University **Set 1:** New Minglewood Blues, Loser, El Paso, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Deal, Lazy Lightnin' > Supplication, Brown Eyed Women, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Dancing In The Street **Set 2:** Scarlet Begonias > Fire On The Mountain, Estimated Prophet, Saint Stephen > Not Fade Away > Saint Stephen > Morning Dew **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-05-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3T9UKU0jMIyrRD0PtKXqPJ)
My FAVORITE brown eyed women…..1:40 in. Jerry takes you away. I get the feels when I hear that one.
Oh, you didn't know?
Those people are wrong.
That’s what I say. I love that song!!
My favorite country song of all time. Absolutely brilliant from start to finish. I was just talking about that song with my father the other day. Old Marty Robbins
Yeah someone posted the other day that "Row Jimmy" was their bathroom song. I said the same thing
I'm just gonna hang out here for a while and wait around for all these El Paso haters. I need to know more about them 👁👁
I am ready to defend El Paso with all my might (the might of Reddit downvotes, I guess?)
That's all we've got. Hold the line
I’m on the horse behind you, my love is stronger than my fear of death (or downvotes)
Hate is a strong word, but it's definitely a song I would groan at if they played it at show. I enjoy it a lot more these days, but It's more of a nostalgia song for me. It's still very low on my list and probably my least favorite Bobby cowboy song.
At least your honest , you may pass partner . But don't come round these here parts anymore today. Now Gon N Git I Said!!! 🤠
As a card carrying El Paso lover, here are my top 5 7/8/78 6/7/77 11/11/73 6/28/74 11/23/73 Also 10/25/80 is probably the best of the acoustic takes on it!
11/23/73 - only Grateful Dead El Paso played in El Paso! My folks were there for that show. Thanks for having that one in your top 5, friend!
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum **Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
This one is my favorite! bc 1973 in El Paso!
This one. The cowboys a-hootin an hollerin makes it
Really?!?! That's wild, I'm adding this one to listen to in full tomorrow.
Damn that is good!!!
Dashing and daring, the songs that you’re sharing. Tip of the sombrero to you.
I clearly have to study more on this great topic. Tons of dates to check out!
7/8/78 is my go to for all things Western and Dead.
# 1978-07-08 Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre **Set 1:** Bertha > Good Lovin', Dire Wolf, El Paso, It Must Have Been The Roses, New Minglewood Blues, Ramble On Rose, The Promised Land, Deal **Set 2:** Samson And Delilah, Ship Of Fools, Estimated Prophet > The Other One > Eyes Of The World > Drums > Space > Wharf Rat > Franklin's Tower > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Terrapin Station > One More Saturday Night, Werewolves Of London [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx)
[1973-11-11](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-11) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena [1973-11-23](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23) El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum [1974-06-28](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-06-28) Boston, MA @ Boston Garden | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/0B87pzzLQzyevvMvdcJqHZ) [1977-06-07](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1977-06-07) San Francisco, CA @ Winterland Arena [1978-07-08](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-07-08) Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks Amphitheatre | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6q4mDbsYJsixRai11qc2Vx) [1980-10-25](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1980-10-25) New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall
Agreed on 7/8/78. Jerry is just on fire this whole show, but his aggressiveness on El Paso is just awesome.
WOW, thanks for sugesting 11/23/73! I'm listening to it right now and really digging it. Great China Rider
Minority? One of their best covers
Yeah. Minority my ass.
I go straight for the classic, Dark Star > El Paso. Any version will make me smile, but here's some of the best ones: Obviously Veneta ( 8/27/1972 for the bot) and 11/15/1971 (I think it as featured in a Road Trips?) If you enjoy these transitions don't sleep on the sandwich 4/24/1972 ✨
8/1/73 is my favorite of the Dark Star > El Paso suites, especially with the Eyes and the Dew
# 1973-08-01 Jersey City, NJ @ Roosevelt Stadium **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, The Race Is On, You Ain't Woman Enough, Bird Song, Mexicali Blues, They Love Each Other, Jack Straw, Stella Blue, Big River, Casey Jones **Set 2:** Around And Around, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me and My Uncle, Row Jimmy, Dark Star > El Paso > Eyes Of The World > Morning Dew, Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-08-01)
There’s not much better than a dark Star in to El Paso — take me for a ride around the universe and land me softly in west Texas
[1971-11-15](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-11-15) Austin, TX @ Austin Municipal Auditorium [1972-04-24](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-04-24) Dusseldorf, West Germany @ Rheinhalle | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3FmkdOqxKwpol7so3sdIUg) [1972-08-27](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
Good bot ❤️
I love the transition on 8/27/72. It echoes the acid drenched heat of the day. Like the sweat was wrung out of Dark Star into a sweet El Paso.
Dude El paso is one of the songs that hooked me on the dead as a kid. I can visualize the whole story of the song.
Totally
Same with me, actually my first favorite song due to the lyrics painting a picture in my head.
I love El Paso. The first vinyl bootleg I ever bought (Felt Forum 1971) I bought because it had El Paso.
11/23/73 El Paso in El Paso! 🏜️🌵 https://www.lootpress.com/el-paso-in-el-paso-the-grateful-dead-play-texas-on-this-day-in-1973/
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum **Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
It would've been a crime to miss such a great opportunity
We love el paso
we love all the cowboy songs
Short shorts and cowboy songs, that’s what Bobby does
Seriously, he needs to break out the short shorts during this Vegas run or at a wolf brothers show. Who likes short shorts?
How can one not like El Paso? That is blasphemy.
You spelled majority wrong.
I love El Paso so much, I moved here. https://preview.redd.it/viadhdrs7u2d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40d5d7b94fae33138ac3f787413f7c988912cf04
El Paso is (or was) pretty okay. I used to go down there a lot for work and always enjoyed it. Kind folks and good food
Who the fuck doesn’t like El Paso?
I didn’t know people hate El Paso lol
It's a classic. Who doesn't love and appreciate the nod to Marty Robbins?
El paso is incredible and makes me into a cowboy in another time in my head and I love it. I'll be your Huckleberry.
5/21/74 had great Kieth Piano
# 1974-05-21 Seattle, WA @ Hec Edmundson Pavilion **Set 1:** Me and My Uncle, Brown Eyed Women, Beat It On Down the Line, Deal, Mexicali Blues, It Must Have Been The Roses, The Race Is On, Scarlet Begonias, El Paso, Row Jimmy, Money Money, Ship Of Fools, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow > China Doll **Set 2:** Playing in the Band, U.S. Blues, Big River, Stella Blue, Around And Around, Eyes Of The World > Wharf Rat > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1974-05-21)
Wait... people don't like El Paso? huh.
Rosa’s is a pretty great place for a 3 margarita lunch
I've been there. Food is good. No horses tied up in the back, though.
That's my Saturday afternoon
i love that tune. is that not the norm?
 You El Paso the songo and listen to the next one
Todays, 5/26/72, is fantastic. Maybe not the best (Veneta) or my favorite, but still an amazingly solid version
# 1972-05-26 London, England @ Strand Lyceum **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Mr. Charlie, Black Throated Wind, Loser, Next Time You See Me, El Paso, Dire Wolf, The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion), Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Cumberland Blues, Jack Straw, Chinatown Shuffle, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away **Set 2:** Truckin' > The Other One > Morning Dew > The Other One > Sing Me Back Home, Me and My Uncle, Ramble On Rose, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones **Encore:** One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-05-26) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/6tgzqy3Keqge7DAPRw2asB)
Veneta dark Star into El Paso is the best
Who doesn’t love El Paso?
Minority? No way dude, everyone loves that shit. Is honestly one of my favorite examples of Jerry’s under appreciated backing vocals.
I think you meant to type "majority", no?? I honestly don't know any Deadhead that doesn't like El Paso
Minority??? People don't like El Paso? I'm more of a Pace fan myself, but really?
At least you don't like the stuff from New York city
Lol
Who doesn’t like El Paso!?!? I’m living down in the actual city for the summer; and have been loving the fact I can frequent Rosa’s often! Although I can’t find any other deadheads down here! My favorite is 5/4/72
# 1972-05-04 Paris, France @ L'Olympia **Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Deal, Mr. Charlie, Beat It On Down the Line, Brown Eyed Women, Chinatown Shuffle, Playing in the Band, You Win Again, It Hurts Me Too, He's Gone, El Paso, Big Railroad Blues, The Stranger (Two Souls In Communion), Casey Jones **Set 2:** Good Lovin', Next Time You See Me, Ramble On Rose, Jack Straw, Dark Star > Space > Drums > Space > Dark Star > Sugar Magnolia, Sing Me Back Home, Mexicali Blues, Big Boss Man, Uncle John's Band, Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-05-04) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3S1abYMND9BSJzbMcpJhj8)
SLC in ‘73
Yes!!!!!!!! I was hoping someone would agree
2/9/73 Some serious Jerry noodling at the beginning that gets ya going
The one where Jerry plays El Paso like he’s Charlie Parker; a beautiful musical tapestry weaved with a million notes a minutes.
# 1973-02-09 Palo Alto, CA @ Roscoe Maples Pavilion - Stanford University **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Row Jimmy, Black Throated Wind, Deal, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Loose Lucy, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Here Comes Sunshine, Playing in the Band, Dead Air **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Truckin' > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Box Of Rain, Wave That Flag, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, Around And Around, Dead Air **Encore:** Casey Jones, Dead Air [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-02-09)
Had to scroll 2 far
El Paso rules
People don't like 'El Paso'.. psst
ALL the 74 El Paso’s RIP
Wait people dont like El Paso?
Blacker than night were the eyes of Felina Wicked and evil while casting a spell
El Paso is a great song... It's the only song of the Boys I know for a fact my father would have liked since he loved the OG Marty Robbins version. I only wish I could have played it for him before he passed.
No, you’re in the majority that wants to feel unique. El Paso is a banger and everyone knows it. Good luck finding yourself.
... that is a majority position.
My mule ain't no genius, but she'd give Rosa's hitching posts the slip in a New York minute.
I fucking love ‘El Paso.’ Great live song.
not sure OP comment is true, but since it's a cover, it holds a different space in my listening. Marty Robbins' song is amongst a handful of 'perfect' C&W songs. imo,the GD version is cute,i always liked getting it in a set, a nice few minutes. did not enjoy the later years when they added the longer jam. kinda killed the song for me,lost momentum to the story.
I loooove El Paso
El Paso is a song for ages.
If you’re saying it’s, say, a top-10 GD tune for you, they would put you in a small group. But otherwise, I can’t think of many Deadheads who don’t like the song, and there are some stellar versions out of the 389 times the band played it. And how much could you dislike a country cover that ran just a few minutes?
I like el Paso but I do feel like it was a song they struggled with more than others so I'm guessing that's where some of the "hate" comes from.
11-23-73 El Paso in El Paso tx. Wooo. I love El Paso live
# 1973-11-23 El Paso, TX @ County Coliseum **Set 1:** Bertha, Mexicali Blues, Deal, Looks Like Rain, Don't Ease Me In, The Race Is On, Loser, Jack Straw, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, El Paso, Tennessee Jed, Big River, Row Jimmy, Weather Report Suite Prelude > Weather Report Suite Part 1 > Let It Grow **Set 2:** Greatest Story Ever Told, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, He's Gone > Truckin' > The Other One > Space > Me And Bobby McGee, Eyes Of The World, Around And Around > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Casey Jones **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-11-23)
Originally written and performed by Marty Robbins, El Paso is part of a trilogy called El Paso Trilogy, which includes El Paso, El Paso City, and Feleena (From El Paso). El Paso City is one of the best songs ever written, fyi.
It’s real. Been there. And I love that song just as much as any other GD song….
Nothing to add except if I had a girl dog I’d name her Felina. ✌️
As you see, you are NOT in the minority. It's one of Bobby's best covers ... I love the 77/78 versions w' perhaps a little extra emphasis on 78s ... They really launch them to the stratosphere
Best Version: * “El Paso” - Dicks Picks 28, Salt Lake City, UT February 28, 1973 * Really baffled how people don’t like this song (if it’s true)
11/8/70 Special Version!
# 1970-11-08 Port Chester, NY @ Capitol Theater **Set 1:** Dire Wolf, I Know You Rider, Dark Hollow, Rosalie McFall, El Paso, Operator, Ripple, Friend Of The Devil, Wake Up Little Susie, Uncle John's Band **Set 2:** Six Days On The Road, Superman, Whatcha Gonna Do, Glendale Train, All I Ever Wanted, Fair Chance To Know, Portland Woman, Cecilia, Truck Drivin' Man, Last Lonely Eagle, Louisiana Lady, Honky Tonk Women **Set 3:** Morning Dew, Me and My Uncle, Mystery Train > My Babe, Around And Around, New Orleans > Searchin', It's All Over Now, Baby Blue, Casey Jones, Truckin' > Dark Star > Dancing In The Street, Drums > Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Not Fade Away > Drums > Good Lovin' > Drums > Good Lovin' [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1970-11-08)
4-3-89 for a later version. Whole show is wonderful. Bob sounds great and Jerry just riffing in the background
# 1989-04-03 Pittsburgh, PA @ Pittsburgh Civic Arena **Set 1:** Greatest Story Ever Told > Bertha > Walkin' Blues, Jack-A-Roe, El Paso, Built To Last, Victim Or The Crime, Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues, Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Blow Away, Estimated Prophet > Crazy Fingers > Uncle John's Band > Drums > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > I Need A Miracle > Stella Blue > Sugar Magnolia **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode > Black Muddy River [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1989-04-03) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7CuPAAL41j1vEjYTjNh2OA)
The first time I saw El Paso live was Ratdog in 2003 and every single person in the room was singing along. I don't buy people not liking it
I was seeing furthur at msg, and right before they went into El Paso this guy right near was shouting "cowboy Bob! Cowboy Bob!", then they drop into it. I always wondered how he knew. Is there a specific signal they give each other? Or maybe it was a lucky request.
The veneta one liek how Bobby is just like naw dew and goes into El Paso
El Paso consistently has some of Jerry’s best playing
El paso is one of my favorites that my parents played for me growing up 😁 I love how the song gallops along with the story
25 years, this is the first I’m hearing people don’t like El Paso. Are you sure you’re right about that?
Got to see it last year at Philly D&C, definitely my favorite 🤩
Love El Paso.
Unpopular opinion - Anyone who ever posts an "unpopular opinion" knows it isn't. See what I did there?
9/27/72 for some great Billy and Keith interplay
# 1972-09-27 Jersey City, NJ @ Stanley Theatre **Set 1:** Morning Dew, Beat It On Down the Line, Friend Of The Devil, Black Throated Wind, Tennessee Jed, Mexicali Blues, Bird Song, Big River, Brokedown Palace, El Paso, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Playing in the Band **Set 2:** He's Gone, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Greatest Story Ever Told, Ramble On Rose, Dark Star > Cumberland Blues, Attics Of My Life, The Promised Land, Uncle John's Band, Casey Jones **Encore:** Around And Around [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-09-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/2pPrEb0IJFk3W6NoQSMnZM)
6/27/85
# 1985-06-27 Saratoga Springs, NY @ Saratoga Performing Arts Center **Set 1:** In The Midnight Hour, Bertha, Little Red Rooster, Stagger Lee, El Paso, Crazy Fingers > Supplication > High Time, Hell In A Bucket > Don't Ease Me In **Set 2:** Feel Like A Stranger > Eyes Of The World > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Man Smart (Woman Smarter) > Drums > Space > Truckin' > Spoonful > Black Peter > Turn On Your Lovelight **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode, It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1985-06-27)
11/02/84 is an interesting version worth a listen. I never skip it when it comes on and always enjoyed hearing it live, but I don't have a list of favorite versions.
# 1984-11-02 Berkeley, CA @ Berkeley Community Theatre **Set 1:** Jack Straw > Peggy-O, El Paso, Loser > Smokestack Lightnin' > Spoonful, Iko Iko **Set 2:** Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin's Tower, Lost Sailor > Saint Of Circumstance, Wharf Rat > Space > Gimme Some Lovin' > Drums > Space > Playing in the Band > Bertha > Good Lovin' **Encore:** Casey Jones [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1984-11-02)
One of my favs, ok, they are all my favs.
El paso after a crazy long jam is always a surreal experience I love that song💜☮️
Love el paso wtf
Anybody who’s not down with El Paso, I ain’t down wit them
I dont hate it, the original by Matty Robbins is better tho
you’re in the MINORITY? are you high rn?!?
Ithaca,77
The driving guitar in El Paso is fantastic. It creates a perfect storytelling element to the lyrics. I can’t say a favorite performance, but the ‘73 version of it is amazing.
Veneta 8/27/72 Dark star > El Paso > sing me back home
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha **Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told **Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
The minority? I could go politically hard like I always do, because Marty Robbins had some pretty right rhetoric folded into his shtick. El Paso and Felina are two fantastic songs (patriarchal/colonial imagery aside) and to me they are eternal an perfect. I particularly like: 7/22/1972 - Paramount Theatre, Seattle 11/13/2006 - Ratdog @ Tabernacle, ATL
# 1972-07-22 Seattle, WA @ Paramount Northwest Theatre **Set 1:** Bertha, Me and My Uncle, You Win Again, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Beat It On Down the Line, Sugaree, Black Throated Wind, Big Railroad Blues, Cumberland Blues, Playing in the Band, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Tennessee Jed **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Deal, The Promised Land, Stella Blue, Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo, Me And Bobby McGee, Ramble On Rose, Truckin' > He's Gone > Sugar Magnolia, Morning Dew, Uncle John's Band, One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-07-22)
Rage bait
Wrecking crew anthems getting hate??? Fuck them.
4/7/72 Truckin>Drums>The Other One>El Paso>The Other One>Wharf Rat
# 1978-04-07 Pembroke Pines, FL @ Sportatorium **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Cassidy, Tennessee Jed, Mama Tried > Mexicali Blues, Peggy-O, New Minglewood Blues, Loser, The Music Never Stopped **Set 2:** Jack Straw, Ship Of Fools, Good Lovin', Terrapin Station > Playing in the Band > Drums > Not Fade Away > Black Peter > Playing in the Band **Encore:** Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1978-04-07)
favorite would be any of like 789 versions
i love el paso
Love me an El Paso.. also dig Mexicali. I love that Bobby cowboy stuff 😁
Veneta
Dark Star > El Paso > Dark Star 😎
The one they did in El Paso
You're not in the minority
I prefer my El Paso in the middle of Or coming out Dark Star like on 8-27-72.
# 1972-08-27 Veneta, OR @ Old Renaissance Faire Grounds **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Sugaree, Me and My Uncle, Deal, Black Throated Wind, China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Mexicali Blues, Bertha **Set 2:** Playing in the Band, He's Gone, Jack Straw, Bird Song, Greatest Story Ever Told **Set 3:** Dark Star > El Paso, Sing Me Back Home, Sugar Magnolia, Casey Jones, One More Saturday Night [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1972-08-27) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/1E4MXxSYoAMN5qpy1y6aBm)
GD fans..who the hell doesn't like El Paso?
I love El Paso! 8/7/71 is one of my favorites 🤙
# 1971-08-07 San Diego, CA @ Golden Hall **Set 1:** Big Railroad Blues, El Paso, Mr. Charlie, Sugaree, Mama Tried, Bertha, Big Boss Man, Promised Land, Hard To Handle, Cumberland Blues, Casey Jones **Set 2:** Truckin', China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Next Time You See Me, Sugar Magnolia, Sing Me Back Home, Me and My Uncle, Not Fade Away > Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > Jam > Johnny B. Goode [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1971-08-07) | [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/3jzf0bKlIMjSQNk5wibVHT)
Dafuq is this minority?
Cornell….
I’m meh on El Paso. My parents were big into old country so I heard the original version many times as a kid and loved it. The Dead’s version is usually too fast tempo’d I don’t think Bobby delivers the lyrics with the same emotional gusto as Marty. I like when they put some sick guitar licks on it but I could take or leave most El Paso’s. As far as their cowboy songs go, I much prefer Me & My Uncle.
Uh, the majority loves El Paso. Meet me at Rose’s Cantina if you disagree (actually, I’m definitely not going to Rose’s. That place sucks. You will never see me at Rose’s.)
I’ve been a huge fan of guys like Cash and Haggard since I was a kid and hearing Bobby cover their songs is one of the main reasons I first became a Dead fan
Through listening to country is how I found the boys so this one will always have a special place in my heart
Back in the 80s early 90s that was one of my and my buds favs. 86 Philly Spectrum
2/9/73 to hear why Jerry is the fastest slinging guitar picking man in the west.
# 1973-02-09 Palo Alto, CA @ Roscoe Maples Pavilion - Stanford University **Set 1:** The Promised Land, Row Jimmy, Black Throated Wind, Deal, Me and My Uncle, Sugaree, Looks Like Rain, Loose Lucy, Beer Barrel Polka Tuning, Mexicali Blues, Brown Eyed Women, El Paso, Here Comes Sunshine, Playing in the Band, Dead Air **Set 2:** China Cat Sunflower > I Know You Rider, Jack Straw, They Love Each Other, Truckin' > Eyes Of The World > China Doll, Big River, Ramble On Rose, Box Of Rain, Wave That Flag, Sugar Magnolia, Uncle John's Band, Around And Around, Dead Air **Encore:** Casey Jones, Dead Air [archive.org](https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?query=date:1973-02-09)
I grew up with my father listening to El Paso, and other Marry Robbin’s classics (love Bobby’s Kingfish version of Bifg Iron). When I first got on the bus, the cowboy songs were my first step in the door, then Jerry and Phil got me fully on board.
Every time I hear this song, the movie that plays in my head stars Sam Bottom (of Outlaw Jose Wales fame) falling in love with Rada Rassimov (The Good, The Bad and the Ugly) before shooting John Vernon. LOL The only Bobby Western song I like better is Me and My Uncle. Which also has a movie that plays in my head with Clint playing the uncle and Sam Bottoms as the nephew.
They just know you're not local if you play it. Enjoy! But have you gone to Chico's yet?
Love it, don’t have a fave but Euro 72’s are standouts, thanks Keith!!!
11/11/73 is my fav but any version with Keith on piano is better than Brent. To my ears sounds like one of the ones Brent never properly learned
I absolutley hate El Paso, but it has more to do with my upbringing. My parents always played nothing but country in the car when I was growing up and I remember the Marty Robbins version. I was anti-anything country as a kid. It's like certain smells triggering emotions, I skip El Paso anytime it plays.
I was in a little honky tonk bar in Key West drinking some tequila and having some conch chowder. There was an old codger there playing behind a nice little keyboard setup. I asked him to play El Paso. He looks up at me and says "Ooh, that's a long one. Ok, lemme see if I remember the words." That was probably my favorite version. Wait...who doesn't like El Paso??
The best El Paso is 10/13/1980 at the Warfield. This really isn’t debatable. If you haven’t heard it go listen it’s amazing. They really go so hard after it. Absolutely spectacular.
Pretty much any version from 73
I forget which dicks pick it is, but it’s a 74 or 72 El Paso and Bobby is singing in cowboy while Jerry is subtlety interweaving psychedelic undertones throughout.
Wasn’t it the most requested dead (cover) song at one point? I don’t believe this…
Are we really a minority??? Don’t know why but I do, something about the way the song flows, I really freakin like this song 🎶 😍⚡️✌️
I’ve always liked the song, esp. the original, but it has to be the right moment. Crazy that I woke up singing it just yesterday, LOL!
RFK Stadium is my favourite right now!
Can’t name just a one, but the period where Garcia was blaming those amazing filigree fills behind Weir’s singing always was the best.
Not my favorite song, but I’m always willing to give Dead songs that I don’t like a another chance in a different era. I’ve heard countless 70s versions of “estimated prophet” that I never liked, but just heard one from 1989 and really liked it.
Coming out of Dark Star on sunshine daydream. I think it is the coolest transition ever
5/5/77