Audio CD review:
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

Band: Grateful Dead Title: Workingman's Dead Rating: Release Date: 1990-10-25 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Uncle John's Band 2: High Time - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry 3: Dire Wolf 4: New Speedway Boogie 5: Cumberland Blues - Grateful Dead, Garcia, Jerry 6: Black Peter 7: Easy Wind 8: Casey Jones

One Of The Grateful Dead's Four Greatest Albums Ever Mostly acoustic, yet featuring the hard-rocking, cautionary train-driver song "Casey Jones", this album shows the band recording concise, straight-ahead songs for the first time. WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, along with AMERICAN BEAUTY, GRATEFUL DEAD (aka SKULL AND ROSES), and IN THE DARK, is one of the Grateful Dead's four best albums ever. This album is a must-own for any serious rock fan. One of two really great Dead albums . . the other album being, of course, "American Beauty". This album works so well because for once these loveable long-haired, dope-smoking, acid-dropping, heroin-injecting, coke-snorting, whiskey-swilling, barbituate-injesting hippies decided to forsake their nauseatingly self-indulgent free-form jam tendencies (see "Live Dead") and craft a straightforward, unpretentious, no-nonsense album of mellow acoustic rock. If you are wanting to introduce a friend to the Grateful Dead for the first time, this is the record you throw on the turntable. "Casey Jones" and "Uncle John's Band" were the most popular cuts, but there is not a single bad track here. Great disc Hard to say must have, but I wouldn't want to be without it. a classic dead album - a great one to start with This along with American Beauty are essential and great places to start with this band. One of their 2 amazing mostly acoustic albums from the early 70s. Just beautiful. Some very sublime GD You have the soft, yet sweet High time' which christened quite a dead set as centerpiece or respectable song that gave way to dead sets to remember for ever (i. This album is full of classics. e. 7 20 94 Deer creek, 6 27 85 Saratoga nY). Uncle John s became a great 2nd set tune that gave way to some of the most beautiful impriovisation I ve heard from this band (Uncle J s > Playin, or UJB > Jam, or the case of new year s 87 Bucket > UJB, what a blowout !! : ) ) Dire wolf, a strong 1st set number that gave sets identity, depending where the show is played. Gorgeous song. New Speedway, a great 2nd set big player. Coming in at my favorite the 2 19 95 show in SLC which i attended. More of this song, the 6 28 92 Noblesville IN show where we got lay me down > El Paso > New speedway. Those are the NSB s I remember. strong, full of good playing, and leaving the crowds happy at your show. The rest of the songs here on Workingman s Dead, Black Peter, Cumberland B s, Easy Wind, and Casey Jones are songs to leave you content with good lyrics, and what I call a good attempt at North American Folklore in songs. You can see a complete list of all Grateful Dead discography, or go back to the Grateful Dead tabs