 In 1979 "Shakedown Street", along with the rest of the album, hit a peak of 41 on the Billboard top 200 chart; as a standalone single, the song failed to chart.In 2013, the song was featured in "The Simpsons" episode "Homerland".After the song's success, many Grateful Dead followers, or Deadheads, used the name for the vending areas outside of Grateful Dead concerts during the ‘80s and ‘90s.