Watch the performance of "Let It Grow" (Orchard Park, NY 7/16/90), part of our All The Years Live series: https://Rhino.lnk.to/LetItGrow71690FA "For a little over a year, from September 1973 to October 1974, "Let It Grow" was in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire as part of Weather Report Suite, but when the Dead returned to the road in June 1976, it was without its Prelude and Part 1. After 1976, "Let It Grow" was primarily a first set closer, or the penultimate song of the first set, as it was her

“‘Let It Grow’ was one of the longer, more jamming songs the Dead played in their first sets after 1976. Unlike the freeform improvisation of ‘Bird Song,’ though, ‘Let It Grow' was very structured and required precision focus by all seven players, and this one most certainly has that." - David Lemieux Buckeye Lake, June 9, 1991 | Grateful Dead