The latest installment in the Grateful Dead’s Road Trips series will cull highlights from the group’s famed 1971 summer tour.  Road Trips Vol. 1 Number 3 featuring a handful of recently unearthed recordings from 1971, including a hefty portion of the group’s July 31 performance at New Haven, CT’s Yale Bowl and the band’s August 23 stop at Chicago’s

Auditorium Theatre. “If you’re up on your Dick’s Picks releases—and we know you are—you’ll recall that Dick’s Picks 35, released in 2005, featured some smokin’ performances from the summer of 1971,” noted Dead-scribe and Relix contributor Blair Jackson writes on dead.net . “The master reels from which it was culled, long believed to have been lost, had turned up miraculously on a houseboat owned by the parents of former GD keyboardist Keith Godchaux, discovered more than 30 years later by Keith’s brother, Brian, and son, Zion. And Keith had these masters because the band wanted him to be able to hear their most recent tour in preparation for his taking the piano seat that fall. It was quite a find, to say the least—the Grateful Dead world equivalent of uncovering a new royal tomb in the Valley of the Kings.”

Fans who order Road Trips Vol. 1 Number 3 now will also receive a limited edition bonus disc featuring highlights from the group’s August 6, 1971 stop at the Hollywood Palladium, as well as additional material from group’s August 4 stop at the Yale Bowl. The bonus disc also includes highlights from an extremely rare show the group played at Southern California’s Terminal Island correctional facility, where Dead sound guru Owsley Stanley was incarcerated at the time.

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