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Grateful Dead - Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan Audio CD

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Grateful Dead Band: Grateful Dead
Title: Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan
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Release Date: 2004-08-31
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: When I Paint My Masterpiece 2: She Belongs to Me 3: Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues 4: Maggie's Farm 5: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again 6: It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry 7: Ballad of a Thin Man 8: Desolation Row 9: All Along the Watchtower 10: It's All Over Now Baby Blue 11: Man of Peace

Couple of Gems from late 1980's
Dylan covers--especially the ballads, tended to be slow and lacked exciting jams when the Dead played them. This is almost exclusively recordings from the later 1980's. There are some gems like She Belongs to Me. But Jerry's voice could be painful in a bad way in his final years--and Bobby could get too energetic and reach past his ability vocally on these songs. Dylan vehicles were VERY basic songs instrumentally and dont provide much interest for the mature lover of instrumental music (eg jazz) and the Dead's legend jams. Personally I could have settled for the versions on my many other Dead releases. . . hence this will get little playing time. I have not yet heard it, but I wish I had bought the Jerry does Dylan CD instead!.


Not over the edge
This is not the best from either of the participants but certainly a must have för a deadhead!.


ABSOLUTELY KILLER
In the past few years I've given away dozens of copies of this disc to deadhead and non-deadhead friends alike. It will earn a permanent place in your disc player. You won't be sorry.


A Perfect Match!
The one track I wasn't crazy about was "It Takes A Lot To Laugh" from the Garcia/Saunders Keystone era, but that has more to do with the fact that it's one of Dylan's songs that I really don't care for. I really enjoyed this album, for the most part. The other songs are excellent choices. I loved Bobby's voice and the arrangement on Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again), and Phil seemed like he was having fun with "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues".

All I can say is, if you are a fan of Dylan and/or The Dead, you either already have this disc in your collection, or you really should have!

Happy Listening!

Howard.


Greatest Album Ever Released
What more could anyone possibly want? Get this disc today, tomorrow you might be hit by a bus. Top-notch versions of Rock n Roll's greatest band playing some of the finest tunes ever crafted by Rock n Roll's greatest songwriter.


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