Grateful Dead – Blues For Allah: Expanded & Remastered (Digipak CD)
Product Details
Recorded entirely at Bob Weir's Grateful Dead studio in Marin County during a period when the band had no touring obligations for the first time in years, *Blues For Allah* finds the Dead writing music purely for music's sake. The title suite, stretching across the album's second side, reflects the group's deep mid-70s dive into jazz, Middle Eastern tonalities, and collective improvisation, a side of the Dead that casual fans often miss entirely.
1975's inspired BLUES FOR ALLAH raised the Dead midway through the band's 18 month hiatus from touring after a trio of celebrated Winterland shows. Features six rare instrumental studio outtakes and revealing liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke.
Tracklist
Disc 1
1a. Help On The Way
1b. Slipknot!
2. Franklin's Tower (Roll Away The Dew)
3a. King Solomon's Marbles
3b. Part I: Stronger Than Dirt
3c. Part II: Milkin' The Turkey
4. The Music Never Stopped
5. Crazy Fingers
6. Sage & Spirit
7a. Blues For Allah
7b. Sand Castles & Glass Camels
7c. Unusual Occurances In The Desert
8. Groove #1 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
9. Groove #2 (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
10. Distorto (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
11. A to E Flat Jam (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
12. Proto 18 Proper (Instrumental Studio Outtake)
13. Hollywood Cantata (Studio Outtake)
UPC: 081227335427
Label: Warner Bros Uk
Release Date: 3.7.06
Format: CD