THE GRATEFUL DEAD The Workingman's Dead 1970 UK WB 1st PRESS - MINT
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May 29, 2017 Sold Date
May 19, 2017 Start Date
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THE GRATEFUL DEAD The Workingman's Dead 1970 UK WB 1st PRESS - MINT

THE GRATEFUL DEAD
The Workingman's Dead

1970 UK WARNER BROTHERS (WS.1869) FIRST PRESSING
SUPERB ORIGINAL COPY - BARELY PLAYED - SOUNDS LIKE-NEW

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE ORANGE WB LABELS
MATRIX: WS 1869 A-1 ✳ T / WS 1869 B-1 ✳ T
MOTHERS/STAMPERS: L/1 and E/1
HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL MATT COVER WITH BACK IMAGE PRINTED UPSIDE DOWN “Printed in England by West Brothers . Printers . Limited"
COMPLETE WITH THE ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVE WITH UK PATENT NUMBER AND "FOREIGN PATENTS PENDING" PRINTED IN BLUE

As the '60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967’s Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive in the form of the Manson murders, fatalities at the Altamont concert, and the ongoing loss of young lives in Vietnam despite the best efforts of anti-war activists and peace-seeking protesters. Difficult times were also upon the Grateful Dead, unofficial house band of San Francisco’s Summer of Love festivities and outspoken advocates of psychedelic experimentation both musical and chemical. The excessive studio experimentation that resulted in their trippy but disorienting third album, Aoxomoxoa, had left the band in considerable debt to their record label, and their stress wasn't helped at all by a drug bust that had members of the band facing jail time. The rough road the Dead were traveling down seemed congruent with the hard changes faced by the youth counterculture that birthed them. Fourth studio album Workingman's Dead reflects both the looming darkness of its time, and the endless hope and openness to possibility that would become emblematic of the Dead as their legacy grew. For a group already established as exploratory free-form rockers of the highest acclaim, Workingman’s Dead's eight tunes threw off almost all improvisatory tendencies in favour of spare, thoughtful looks at folk, country, and American roots music with more subdued sounds than the band had managed up until then. The songs also focused more than ever before on singing and vocal harmonies, influenced in no small way by a growing friendship with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The band embraced complex vocal arrangements with campfire-suited folk on "Uncle John's Band" and the psychedelic cowboy blues of “High Time.”
The abrupt shift toward sublime acoustic sounds on Workingman's Dead completely changed what the Grateful Dead meant to their listeners at large. The enormous risk they took in changing their sound entirely resulted in a heartbreakingly beautiful, unquestionably pure statement and one of the more important documents of its time. They’d continue this trend on the even more roots-minded American Beauty, recorded later the same year, but the limitlessness, fearlessness, and true power of the band began here.

Side 1:
Uncle John's Band (4:42)
High Time (5:13)
Dire Wolf (3:13)
New Speedway Boogie (4:05)
Side 2:
Cumberland Blues (3:15)
Black Peter (5:42)
Easy Wind (4:59)
Casey Jones (4:24)

LABELS: MINT/NEAR MINT
An immaculate set of labels - clean and unmarked with no spindle traces on Side A and only one on Side B
VINYL Visual: MINT
Both surfaces shine like-new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Possibly only part-played one time this original copy sounds like-new throughout - the (very) occasional inbetween-track low-level surface noted - nothing really but I did not clean the record as it looks so immaculate so this will no doubt disappear after a clean/few spins - beautiful copy - finest I have seen - highly recommended
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Apart from some very soft creasing the cover is clean and unmarked with sharp edges and spine where all text is clear and bold

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