Box of Rain (original studio mix)
~ Recording by Grateful Dead
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track artist | Release title | Release artist | Release group type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WS 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records ("W7" imprint of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records, Inc.) | WBS.1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records ("W7" imprint of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records, Inc.) | ST-93416 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| World Record Club | W.R.C.E.1073 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records ("W7" imprint of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Records, Inc.) | WS 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WS 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | K46074 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 46 074 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 46094 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 46074 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WS 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (Burbank label image without Warner Communications logo, see annotation for additional disambiguation) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WS 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (limited edition) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | MFSL 1-014 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
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| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (club release – Columbia House) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | W2 1893 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 1893-2 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across), BMG Direct Marketing, Inc. (BMG company that owned their direct marketing company/club editions) | 1893-2, D 134539 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WPCR-2648 |
| 8.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | The Golden Road (1965–1973) | Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 74401-A, R2 74401-B, R2 74401-C, R2 74401-D, R2 74401-E, R2 74401-F, R2 74401-G, R2 74401-H, R2 74401-I, R2 74401-J |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label) | 8122-74397-2 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (remastered) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | R2 74397 |
| 1.10 | Box of Rain | 5:20 | Grateful Dead | The Very Best of Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R2 73899 |
| 1.10 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | The Very Best of Grateful Dead | Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | R1 74397 |
| 2.6 | Box of Rain | 5:18 | Grateful Dead | Four Decades of Folk Rock | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Time–Life Music | A 700098, B0007400-02, M19215, OPCD-7917, OPCD-7918 |
| 1.2 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | Eternally Grateful | Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Starbucks Entertainment, Rhino Custom Products (retail, mail order and premium use compilations for WMG catalog) | CDS-080, OPCD-8116 |
| 5.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | The Grateful Dead | The Warner Bros. Studio Albums | The Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 8122-79804-0 |
| 5.1 | Box Of Rain | 5:16 | The Grateful Dead | The Warner Bros. Studio Albums (stereo, remastered on 180g vinyl) | The Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Rhino (reissue label) | R1 523986 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 4.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | Complete Studio Albums Collection | Grateful Dead | Album + Compilation |
| Grateful Dead Records, Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | MFSL 2-429 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | UDSACD 2138 |
| 2.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | UDSACD 2138 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:17 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Records (2019–present; circle imprint with “Warner Records” next to it), Grateful Dead Records, Rhino (reissue label) | 603497846962, R5 624978 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:17 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (50th anniversary deluxe edition) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Grateful Dead Records, Rhino (reissue label) | R2 624978 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:17 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (50th anniversary deluxe edition) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Grateful Dead Records, Rhino (reissue label) | |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 46074 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty (matrix CD 759927190-2.2 V01, with mastering IFPI code and mould SID code) | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 7599-27190-2 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 7599-27190-2 |
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | 7599-27190-2 |
| Promotion | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:16 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | WS 1893 |
| Withdrawn | |||||||||
| 1.1 | Box of Rain | 5:19 | Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Grateful Dead | Album |
| Rhino (reissue label), Warner Bros. Records (1958–2019; “WB” logo, with or without “records” beneath or on banner across) | |
Relationships
| co-producer: | Steve Barncard |
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| producer: | Grateful Dead |
| bass guitar: | Phil Lesh (in 1970-09) |
| drums (drum set): | Bill Kreutzmann (in 1970-09) |
| guest electric bass guitar: | Dave Torbert (in 1970-09) |
| guest electric guitar: | David Nelson (US folk/country rock guitarist & musician) (in 1970-09) |
| guitar: | Jerry Garcia (guitarist / vocalist in Grateful Dead) (in 1970-09) Phil Lesh (in 1970-09) Bob Weir (in 1970-09) |
| harmonica: | Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (in 1970-09) |
| pedal steel guitar: | Jerry Garcia (guitarist / vocalist in Grateful Dead) (in 1970-09) |
| percussion: | Mickey Hart (drummer for The Grateful Dead) (in 1970-09) |
| piano: | Jerry Garcia (guitarist / vocalist in Grateful Dead) (in 1970-09) Phil Lesh (in 1970-09) |
| vocals: | Jerry Garcia (guitarist / vocalist in Grateful Dead) (in 1970-09) Phil Lesh (in 1970-09) Ron “Pigpen” McKernan (in 1970-09) Bob Weir (in 1970-09) |
| recorded at: | Wally Heider Studios (@ 245 Hyde Street, San Francisco) in San Francisco, California, United States (in 1970-09) |
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| has remixes: | Box of Rain (2001 remix) |
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| part of: | Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 364) (order: 365) |
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| stream for free: | https://open.spotify.com/track/3jyWPW2PBQGZ9Ebn97suLx [info] |
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| recording of: | Box of Rain (in 1970-09) |
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Related works
Box of Rain
| lyricist: | Robert Hunter (American lyricist, non‐performing member of the Grateful Dead) |
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| composer: | Phil Lesh |
| publisher: | Ice Nine Publishing Company, Inc. |
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