In addition to the All the Years Live YouTube series, the Grateful Dead have released a steady stream of live tracks from official albums and re-releases. The latest track shared on the Dead channel is a blazing “Bertha” from The Fillmore East on 4/27/1971.

Here is what Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux has to say about the performance, “Kicking off Skull & Roses, Bertha is the first official recording of a Garcia-Hunter song since the remarkably strong batch of 1970’s double bill of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, and it certainly keeps up the A-level songwriting from the previous year’s magnificent output. Bertha remained an important part of the Dead’s live repertoire, played consistently from 1971 to 1995, a testament to both how much the band loved playing it, and how much Dead Heads loved hearing it.”

Thanks to the Grateful Dead for the live cut!