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  • Artist: Grateful Dead
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2003
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 081227439224
  • Item Number: WAR43922
  • Release date: 02/25/2003
  • 1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
  • 2. Beat It Down the Line
  • 3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Full-Length Version]
  • 4. Cold Rain and Snow
  • 5. Sitting on Top of the World [Full-Length Version]
  • 6. Cream Puff War [Full-Length Version]
  • 7. Morning Dew [Full-Length Version]
  • 8. New, New Minglewood Blues [Full-Length Version]
  • 9. Viola Lee Blues
  • 10. Alice D. Millionaire [Bonus Track]
  • 11. Overseas Stomp (The Lindy) [Bonus Track]
  • 12. Tastebud [Bonus Track]
  • 13. Death Don't Have No Mercy [Bonus Track]
  • 14. Viola Lee Blues [Edited Version][Edit][Bonus Track]
  • 15. Viola Lee Blues [Live][Bonus Track]
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Grateful Dead [Bonus Tracks] by Grateful Dead on CD


The Grateful Dead's eponymously titled debut long-player was issued in March of 1967. This gave rise to one immediate impediment -- the difficulty in attempting to encapsulate/re-create the Dead's often-improvised musical magic onto a single LP. Unfortunately, the sterile environs of the recording studio disregards the subtle and often not-so-subtle ebbs and zeniths that are so evident within a live experience. So, while this studio recording ultimately fails in accurately exhibiting the Grateful Dead's tremendous range, it's a valiant attempt to corral the group's hydra-headed psychedelic jug band music on vinyl. Under the technical direction of David Hassinger -- who had produced the Rolling Stones as well as Jefferson Airplane -- the Dead recorded the album in Los Angeles during a Ritalin-fuelled "long weekend" in early 1967. Rather than prepare all new material for the recording sessions, a vast majority of the disc is comprised of titles that the band had worked into their concurrent performance repertoire. This accounts for the unusually high ratio (seven:two) of folk and blues standards to original compositions. The entire group took credit for the slightly saccharine "Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)," while Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) is credited for the noir garage-flavored raver "Cream Puff War." Interestingly, both tracks were featured as the respective A- and B-sides of the only 45 rpm single derived from this album. The curious aggregate of cover tunes featured on the Dead's initial outing also demonstrates the band's wide-ranging musical roots and influences. These include Ron "Pigpen" McKernan's greasy harp-fuelled take on Sonny Boy Williamson's "Good Morning Little School Girl," and the minstrel one-man-band folk of Jesse Fuller's "Beat It On Down the Line." The apocalyptic Cold War folk anthem "Morning Dew" (aka "[Walk Me out in The] Morning Dew") is likewise given a full-bodied electric workout as is the obscure jug band stomper "Viola Lee Blues." Fittingly, the Dead would continue to play well over half of these tracks in concert for the next 27 years. [Due to the time limitations inherent within the medium, the original release included severely edited performances of "Good Morning Little School Girl," "Sitting on Top of the World," "Cream Puff War," "Morning Dew," and "New, New Minglewood Blues." These tracks were restored in 2001, when the Dead's Warner Brothers catalog was reassessed for the Golden Road (1965-1973) box set.] [This version of the album includes bonus material.] ~ Lindsay Planer, Rovi
  • Artist: Grateful Dead
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2003
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • UPC: 081227439224
  • Item Number: WAR43922
  • Release date: 02/25/2003
  • Label: Rhino
  • Genre: Pop/Rock
  • Style: Country-Rock, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Album Rock, Jam Bands
  • Album Time: 79:10

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