Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead LP Record Vinyl Warner WS1869 1970 White label
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GRATEFUL DEAD - 'Workingman's Dead'
( US White Label Warner label # WS 1869 from 1970)
Has an unusual plastice inner sleeve.
Matrix # -> WS-1869 39719 -1WB #4 / WS-2-1869 WW2
Description -> The vinyl plays beautifully. The surface looks clean. The sleeve is in decent shape, just normal handling wear. NO Splits, ALL spines Fully Intact, NO Writing.
Workingman's Dead, which came out in 1970, marked a radical shift both in the music of the Grateful Dead
On Workingman's Dead, however, guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter wrote a suite of eight songs that are far more than occasions for extended instrumental jams. Songs like "Uncle John's Band" and " Cumberland Blues" were focused and concise: in their largely acoustic arrangements and appealing harmonies, they evoked an older folk tradition and a sense of community based on more than stoned pieties.
Events like the Manson murders and the free concert at Altamont, at which a young black man was killed by the Hell's Angels, had punctured the Utopian dreams of the hippie movement. Workingman's Dead is filled with a consequent sense of foreboding. The album's concluding song, "Casey Jones," transforms Ken Kesey's bus of Merry Pranksters into a steam engine careering out of control, while "New Speedway Boogie" (whose title nods to the setting of the Altamont concert, at a racetrack) cautiously wishes that "One way or another/This darkness got to give."
Like Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding and the Band's Music From Big Pink, Workingman's Dead is a moral self-examination, a modest, even penitent look back, not for nostalgic reassurance but for wisdom and perspective. The album maps the crises of the present onto the past and offers solace only in the ability of essential human virtues ("Oh, what I want to know/Is, are you kind?") to survive even the most harrowing chaos.
Musicians :
Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals
Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals
Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Mickey Hart - drums
Tracks :
1. Uncle John's Band 4:45
2. High Time 5:15
3. Dire Wolf 3:15
4. New Speedway Boogie 4:07
5. Cumberland Blues 3:18
6. Black Peter 5:44
7. Easy Wind 5:00
8. Casey Jones 4:24
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