The latest installment in the Grateful Dead‘s All The Years Live video series is available now on the band’s YouTube page. This entry highlights the Dead’s performance of “Iko Iko” from Denver, CO’s Mile High Stadium on June 28th, 1991.
Armed with keyboardist Vince Welnick and Bruce Hornsby on accordion, the Dead have some serious pep in their step for this taste of New Orleans. The dual keyboardist approach propels Jerry Garcia into some inspired leads as Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart chug along the beat. It’s all hands on deck for the song originally released as “Jock-O-Mo” in 1953 by James “Sugar Boy” Crawford.
Grateful Dead archivist and legacy manager David Lemieux notes in the video’s description,
Wrapping up their Summer Tour of 1991 with a show at Denver’s Mile High Stadium, the Dead played this Iko Iko in an unexpected first set position, toward the end of the set for this song that was traditionally a set opener. Features the always fun accordion stylings of Bruce Hornsby.
Watch the Grateful Dead perform “Iko Iko” at Mile High Stadium on June 28th, 1991.
Grateful Dead – “Iko Iko” (James “Sugar Boy” Crawford) – Denver, CO – 6/28/91
Previous installments of the Grateful Dead’s All The Years Live video series have included: