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Workingman's Dead
Studio album by Grateful Dead

Publication
(s)

June 14, 1970

Label (s) Warner Bros. Records

Genre (s)

Folk rock , psychedelic rock

Title (number)

8 on LP, 16 on CD

running time

35:33 (LP), 79:12 (CD)

occupation

production

Grateful Dead

chronology
Live / Dead (1969) Workingman's Dead American Beauty (1970)

Workingman's Dead is the fourth studio album by the band Grateful Dead .

History of origin

The album was recorded within 10 days. As a recording studio was re- Pacific High Recording Studio in San Francisco selected in which the album already Aoxomoxoa was taken. Garcia in particular felt it was important that they didn't spend too much time in the recording studio this time around after months of recording the last few albums. He had set himself a deadline of three weeks.

After the band still owed Warner Records Bros. due to the expensive and hard to sell album Aoxomoxoa , their manager Lenny Hart , the father of their drummer Mickey Hart , embezzled about 155,000 US dollars and then disappeared without a trace. The band processed this event in the song He's Gone on the album Europe '72 . Mickey Hart then left the band in February 1971 and did not return as a full member until 1975.

Most of the songs come from the partnership of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter , who in turn were inspired by the band friendship with Crosby, Stills & Nash .

From the album "Uncle John's Band" and "New Speedway Boogie" (on the B-side) were first released as singles, which, however, were rarely played by the radio stations due to problems with the length. Still, “Uncle John's Band” was voted one of the most important 500 songs in rock and roll by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . "Casey Jones" was later released as a single.

In 2001, a revised version of the eight songs and eight more were released by Rhino Records for the box set The Golden Road (1965–1973) , which were then released in 2003 as a single CD and audio DVD.

successes

In the US album charts , the album reached number 27.

The album reached gold status on July 7, 1974 and platinum status on October 13, 1984 .

Rolling Stone voted the album at # 264 of the 500 best albums of all time .

After the last albums are more likely to be attributed to psychedelic rock , there was general approval that Grateful Dead played more folk rock and blues rock again on this album .

In addition, the album was voted in 1970 by the readers of the Rolling Stones as the best album of the year; before Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Déjà Vu and Van Morrisons Moondance .

Trivia

The name of the album is based on a comment by Jerry Garcia, the band leader, to Robert Hunter, one of the band's songwriters, after the band had covered the song "Workingman's Blues" by Merle Haggard at a concert. Garcia's comment was: ".. this album was turning into the Workingman's Dead version of the band ".

Track list

Unless otherwise noted, the songs were written by Garcia and Hunter. 1970 LP

page 1

  1. "Uncle John's Band" - 4:42
  2. "High Time" - 5:12
  3. "Dire Wolf" - 3:11
  4. "New Speedway Boogie" - 4:01

Page 2

  1. "Cumberland Blues" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh ) - 3:14
  2. "Black Peter" - 5:41
  3. "Easy Wind" (Robert Hunter) - 4:57
  4. "Casey Jones" - 4:24

2003 CD

  1. "Uncle John's Band" - 4:45
  2. "High Time" - 5:14
  3. "Dire Wolf" - 3:14
  4. "New Speedway Boogie" - 4:06
  5. "Cumberland Blues" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh) - 3:16
  6. "Black Peter" - 5:43
  7. "Easy Wind" (Robert Hunter) - 4:58
  8. "Casey Jones" - 4:38
  9. "New Speedway Boogie" - 4:10
  10. "Dire Wolf" (live) - 2:31
  11. "Black Peter" (live) - 9:07
  12. "Easy Wind" (live) - 8:09 am
  13. "Cumberland Blues" (live) - 4:52
  14. "Mason's Children" (live) (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir ) - 6:32
  15. "Uncle John's Band" (live) - 7:57 am
  16. "Radio Promo" - 1:00

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: 500 Songs ( Memento from August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The 500 best albums of all time

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