Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station (LP Vinyl)
Product Details
Terrapin Station arrived in 1977 at a genuine crossroads, the Dead signing to Arista after years on their own Round Records imprint, trading full creative autonomy for major-label resources and a polished studio hand. The centerpiece suite that closes Side 2 would become one of Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter's most beloved long-form compositions, a piece the band carried through their live sets for decades, always searching for new ways into its layered mythology.
Newly mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser and produced for release by David Lemieux.
The first Grateful Dead album on Arista Records and the first studio album featuring an outside producer since their debut a decade earlier, Terrapin Station is one of the deepest, densest, and most ambitious records in the entire Dead catalog. Arista president Clive Davis paired the band with Fleetwood Mac producer Keith Olson, and together they created something unlike anything the Dead had made before — filled with strings, horns, a choir, and countless new sonic textures.
Side 1 is a remarkable collection of songs in its own right: the hypnotic "Estimated Prophet," the hard-driving "Samson and Delilah," Lesh's funky "Passenger," a rollicking "Dancin' in the Streets," and Donna Jean Godchaux's first lead vocal on a Dead album, the tender "Sunrise." Side 2 is given over entirely to the sprawling Terrapin Station suite — Lady With a Fan, Terrapin Station, Terrapin, Terrapin Transit, At a Siding, Terrapin Flyer, and Refrain — one of the most ambitious and exciting sequences of music the Grateful Dead ever committed to record.
Tracklist
Side 1
- Estimated Prophet
- Dancin' in the Streets
- Passenger
- Samson & Delilah
- Sunrise
Side 2 — Terrapin Station
- Lady With a Fan
- Terrapin Station
- Terrapin
- Terrapin Transit
- At a Siding
- Terrapin Flyer
- Refrain
UPC: 081227819514
Label: Grateful Dead / Wea
Release Date: 1.12.24
Format: LP Vinyl