Grateful Dead – American Beauty: 50th Anniversary (Deluxe 3-CD)
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Recorded in the summer of 1970 and released that November, American Beauty arrived just months after Workingman's Dead and completed one of the most remarkable back-to-back creative statements in rock history. Where its predecessor leaned into country grit, American Beauty opened into something more luminous, with the harmonies of Crosby, Stills and Nash filtering through the Dead's own communal voice. The Capitol Theatre run captured here was among the first major tests of these songs on the road, the band still fresh inside material that would anchor their live sets for decades.
Deluxe three CD edition. Includes the original album with newly remastered audio, plus an unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971, at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY.
The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir's Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Glasser. The crown jewel of the Dead's studio output! The album's original 10 tracks include many of the Dead's best-known, most-loved, and most popular songs both on record and in concert for the next 25 years.
An album that includes Box Of Rain, Friend Of The Devil, Sugar Magnolia, Candyman, Ripple, Brokedown Palace, Attics Of My Life, and Truckin' looks more like a greatest-hits compilation than a second album of 1970, and yet American Beauty demonstrates a band unable to slow down in terms of the quality of its writing, recording, and performing.
Tracklist
Disc 1
1-1. Box Of Rain (5:17)
1-2. Friend Of The Devil (3:23)
1-3. Sugar Magnolia (3:17)
1-4. Operator (2:23)
1-5. Candyman (6:13)
1-6. Ripple (4:08)
1-7. Brokedown Palace (4:06)
1-8. Till The Morning Comes (3:08)
1-9. Attics Of My Life (5:09)
1-10. Truckin' (5:06)
Disc 2
2-1. Bertha (6:20)
2-2. Truckin' (9:14)
2-3. Hurts Me Too (5:56)
2-4. Loser (6:55)
2-5. Greatest Story Ever Told > (3:48)
2-6. Johnny B. Goode (3:08)
2-7. Mama Tried (3:22)
2-8. Hard To Handle (9:14)
2-9. Dark Star > (7:02)
2-10. Wharf Rat > (7:24)
2-11. Dark Star > (7:21)
2-12. Me And My Uncle (4:13)
Disc 3
3-1. Casey Jones (7:38)
3-2. Playing In The Band (6:11)
3-3. Me And Bobby McGee (6:35)
3-4. Candyman (7:59)
3-5. Big Boss Man (5:42)
3-6. Sugar Magnolia (7:12)
3-7. St. Stephen > (6:26)
3-8. Not Fade Away > (4:31)
3-9. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad > (5:03)
3-10. Not Fade Away (4:00)
3-11. Uncle John's Band (6:39)
UPC: 603497848515
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Release Date: 10.30.20
Format: CD