May 1977 is a special month for sure. And this night is as sweet as any other. The first set is near perfection from start to finish, beginning with Jerry doing his thing and Keith adding such fantastic fills on a rocking Bertha. The Cassidy that rolls out next is, characteristically for May ’77, short but so gorgeous. After a first-rate Deal and Jack Straw, Jerry turns to Peggy-O. And while this one is overshadowed by the versions two days before, on May 5th, and two days after in Buffalo, this Peggy-O is still perfection personified, Phil’s bass lead-in combining with Jerry’s solos and Keith’s keys. The Minglewood up next is as fiery as any before the highlight of the entire show, an arguably best-ever Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo; the peaks that Jerry reaches, each one higher than the last, are epic, and everyone is locked in, anticipating and building on one another in a virtuoso display that is exceptional, even for the Dead. Cash’s Big River flows out of that grandeur, and then a Tennessee Jed takes it to the set-ending Music Never Stopped, itself finished off with a ferocious jamming romp.