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Grateful Dead - Shakedown Street Audio CD

A fair review of the Grateful Dead "Shakedown Street" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Grateful Dead reviews here, or go back to the Grateful Dead tabs.

Grateful Dead Band: Grateful Dead
Title: Shakedown Street
Rating:
Release Date: 2006-03-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Good Lovin' 2: France 3: Shakedown Street 4: Serengetti 5: Fire on the Mountain 6: I Need a Miracle 7: From the Heart of Me 8: Stagger Lee 9: All New Minglewood Blues 10: If I Had the World to Give 11: Good Lovin' [Studio Outtake][*] - Lowell George, Grateful Dead 12: Ollin Arageed [Live][*] 13: Fire on the Mountain [Live][*] 14: Stagger Lee [Live][*] 15: All New Minglewood Blues [Live][*]

Classic Dead
Even the jacket artwork is classic. What can be said, classic sounds from a classic band. A must have for any deadhead.


The Dead Get Funky on Shakedown Street.
" Her favorite song then became one of my favorite Dead songs and years later it's still a favorite. I associate Shakedown Street with a love interest I had in college, whose favorite song on this album was "Fire on the Mountain. (Funny how those things happen. ) Shakedown Street (1978) is the the Grateful Dead's tenth studio album, and is Definitive Dead--essential to any serious rock collection. It is a fusion of rock, funk, blues, reggae, country, and improvisational jam. Produced by Lowell George of Little Feat, the album has a funky Little Feat groove. The album features Garcia and Weir on vocals and guitars, Lesh on bass and vocals, Keith Godchaux on vocals and keyboards, Donna Jean Godchaux on vocals, and Kreutzmann and Hart on percussion. I first experienced this album on vinyl. The remastered CD is worth the upgrade from vinyl, featuring the following setlist:

1. Good Lovin'
2. France
3. Shakedown Street
4. Srengetti
5. Fire On The Mountain
6. I Need A Miracle
7. From The Heart Of Me
8. Stagger Lee
9. All New Minglewood Blues
10. If I Had The World To Give

11. Good Lovin' (studio outtake featuring Lowell George on vocals)
12. Ollin Arageed (recorded live in Cairo, Egypt, September 16, 1978)
13. Fire On The Mountain (recorded live in Cairo, September 16, 1978)
14. Stagger Lee (recorded live in Cairo, Egypt on September 15, 1978)
15. All New Minglewood (recorded live in New Jersey on November 24, 1978)

G. Merritt
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Love it
I've always liked their studio-produced stuff, much to the chagrin of some more serious aficionados. This purchase was to replace an old, long-lost copy. Every once in a while it's nice to hear a nice crisp rendition than to have to pore over tons of bootlegs to find just the one.


One of the Dead's uniquest contributions
Their cover of "Good Lovin'" is absolutely irresistible. I've always had great affection for this album. This album is likely to appear to non-Dead fans to, as it is funkier and tighter than most.


Nice collection of songs
Oringally, it had 10 songs and was just under 39 minutes long. Released in 1978, this was the Grateful Dead's tenth studio album and 14th overall. With the bonus tracks, it comes out to 74 minutes.

On the first CD release of this album, the sound quality was mediocre. All of these remastered Grateful Dead CD's have excellent sound. They are recorded in HDCD (24 bit instead of the standard 16) so they sound better than normal CD's. And if you have a CD player that has the HDCD decoder, they sound stunning.

All of the remastered Grateful Dead CD's have bonus material to bring the total playing time up to close to 80 minutes. The bonus material has been very good on some CD's (like Blues for Allah) to disappointing on others (American Beauty).

Except for Ollin Arageed, the bonus material on Shakedown Street is not very good. Ollin Arageed is the best thing on the CD, and one of the best and more unusual tracks by the Grateful Dead. The other tracks are a version Good Lovin' with Lowell George on vocals (which isn't as good as Bob Wier's inspired version), and then a bunch of live songs. The live material is nothing special, just rambling versions of some of the studio songs. Even the 13 minute Fire On the Mountain is nothing special. I have heard much better live versions of this song.

As for the original Shakedown Street was produced by Lowell George of Little Feat (about a year before he died). It kind of goes back to the days of American Beauty and Workingman's Dead (but with more of a seventies flavor). Rumor has it that the Dead were looking for a hit and conformed the music to the sounds of the time. Some say there is a bit of disco flavor in this. But, I don't agree.

Just like most Grateful Dead albums, there are some great songs on this CD (a rollicking version of the Little Rascal's Good Lovin', Shakedown Street, I Need a Miracle, Fire on the Mountain) with a bunch of mediocre songs. Even the great American Beauty album was not consistant throughout.

This is a three to four star CD. I tilt to 3 stars because the bonus material isn't very good.


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