The Grateful Dead has announced a new box set release, June ’76. The box set will include five previously unreleased full shows from the Dead’s 1976 return tour.

The included shows will be June 10 and 11, 1976 at the Boston Music Hall, June 14 and 15 from New York City’s Beacon Thatre and June 19, 1976 at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, N.J.

The Grateful Dead’s 1976 summer tour, during which these shows occurred, marked their return to the stage after a two-year hiatus. The hiatus began after their Oct. 20, 1974 performance at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco (footage of which appears in The Grateful Dead Movie).

According to a press release, “the featured recordings were sourced from the master two-track tapes made by Betty Cantor-Jackson, the band’s legendary live recording engineer for many years. They have been mastered in HDCD by Jeffrey Norman for extraordinary sound quality, with restoration and speed correction by Plangent Processes.” Additionally, Relix contributing editor Jesse Jarnow wrote the liner notes for the release.

“At the height of my tape trading days in the late 1980s, arriving in my mailbox one day was a package containing cassettes of four of the five shows in this box (the four shows from Boston and New York). I’d never heard anything like these recordings,” said Grateful Dead archivist (and box set producer) David Lemieux via a press release. “The performances were magnificent, A+ Dead throughout, and the recordings were impeccable, crystal clear with a clarity to each instrument and vocal that was unlike any other tapes in my collection.”

Additionally, via Rolling Stone, the Dead released a sneak preview of the music on these discs: a nine-minute version of “Friend of the Devil,” from the June 15 show at the Beacon Theatre. Listen here.

The box set is available to order from Dead.net. Digital versions of the box set will also be made available for purchase. Check out the setlists from the included shows below! In addition, check out Lemieux himself discussing the June 1976 box set in a video just released by the Dead HQ.

Boston Music Hall
Boston, Mass.
June 10, 1976
Set I: Promised Land, Sugaree, Cassidy, They Love Each Other, The Music Never Stopped, Brown-Eyed Women, Lazy Lightning > Supplication, Row Jimmy, Big River, Mission In The Rain, Looks Like Rain, Might As Well

Set II: Samson and Delilah, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower, Let It Grow, Friend Of The Devil, Playing In The Band > Dancing In The Street > U.S. Blues

Boston Music Hall
Boston, Mass.
June 10, 1976
Set I: Might As Well, Mama Tried, Tennessee Jed, Cassidy, Candyman, Big River, Scarlet Begonias, Looks Like Rain, It Must Have Been The Roses, Lazy Lightning > Supplication, Brown-Eyed Women, Promised Land

Set II: St. Stephen > Dancing In The Street > The Music Never Stopped, Ship Of Fools, Samson and Delilah, Sugaree, Sugar Magnolia > Eyes Of The World > Stella Blue, Sunshine Daydream, Johnny B. Goode

Beacon Theatre
New York, N.Y.
June 14, 1976
Set I: Cold Rain and Snow, Mama Tried, Row Jimmy, Cassidy, Brown-Eyed Women, Big River, Might As Well, Lazy Lightning > Supplication, Tennessee Jed, Playing In The Band

Set II: The Wheel, Samson and Delilah, High Time, The Music Never Stopped, Crazy Fingers, Dancing In The Street > Cosmic Charlie, Help On The Way > Slipknot! > Franklin’s Tower > Around and Around, U.S. Blues

Beacon Theatre
New York, N.Y.
June 15, 1976
Set I: Promised Land, Sugaree, Cassidy, Candyman, The Music Never Stopped, It Must Have Been The Roses, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Let It Grow > Might As Well

Set II: St. Stephen > Not Fade Away > Stella Blue, Samson and Delilah, Friend Of The Devil, Dancing In The Street > The Wheel > Sugar Magnolia, Scarlet Begonias > Sunshine Daydream, Johnny B. Goode

Capitol Theatre
Passaic, N.J.
June 19, 1976
Set I: Help On The Way > Slipknot !> Franklin’s Tower > The Music Never Stopped, Brown-Eyed Women, Cassidy, They Love Each Other, Looks Like Rain, Tennessee Jed, Playing In The Band

Set II: Might As Well, Samson and Delilah, High Time, Let It Grow, Dancing In The Street > Cosmic Charlie, Around and Around > Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad > One More Saturday Night, Not Fade Away