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All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
The Grateful Dead's self-titled first album contains the main ingredients of the unique musical stew the band would brew over the coming years. Upon its release in March 1967, it brought the musical and philosophical ideals of the freak counter-culture out of the Bay Area and into the ears of mainstream America.
"The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" is a Summer Of Love anthem nonpareil. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" shows off the Dead's ability to reinterpret the blues, and Pigpen's natural front-man qualities. The hyperactive rockabilly of Jesse Fuller's "Beat It On Down The Line" and the rearranged traditionals "Sitting On Top Of The World" and "Cold Rain And Snow" are proof that, despite the group's anti-establishment fashions, their lyrical symbols and musical forms were as time-honored as the English folk-tale that provided their name. While the cover of Bonnie Dobson's eerie anti-war epic "Morning Dew" and the women-and-wine rocker "New, New Minglewood Blues" are energetic portrayals of hippie values, the closing number, Noah Lewis's "Viola Lee Blues," is the album's grand, mind-blowing concoction and a highlight. The remastered version's live bonus tracks include some never-recorded garage-rock and blues cuts and a 23-minute "Viola Lee Blues" bearing the first hints of the modal riff at the foundation of Dead milestone "Dark Star."
One of the things that made the Dead such a unique live act was the sheer variety of their influences. The vastness of the musical terrain they covered is well demonstrated on 1971's GRATEFUL DEAD, nicknamed "Skull & Roses" because of its cover art. It captures the band's live sound at a time when their marathon, acid-inspired concerts were swiftly becoming the stuff of legend and earning them legions of new fans.
This set conveys the typical arc of a Dead show. The band could be economical and straightforward, with brisk, stripped-down numbers like the lilting "Bertha," the straight-forward country of "Me and My Uncle" and Merle Haggard's "Mama Tried," and the country-folk of "Me and Bobby McGee." They could just as easily go into lugubrious album-side-filling improvisations like "The Other One," and pump out loose-limbed, groovy versions of '50s rockers like Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." The set concludes with the laid-back, joyous jam of the traditional "Goin' Down the Road Feelin Bad." Conspicuous in his absence is singer/keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, whose alcoholism was beginning to take its toll.
Recorded at RCA Victor Studio A, Hollywood, California and Coast Recorders, San Francisco, California. Includes liner notes by Blair Jackson.
Personnel: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Pigpen (vocals, organ, congas); Phil Lesh (vocals); Tom Constanten (keyboards); Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (percussion).
The Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Bill Kreutzmann (drums, percussion).
Rolling Stone (11/11/71, pp.55-56) - "...a mixture of pleasant good-time music and solid solos, brought up and made even more attractive by the Dead's uniquely rich and magestic sound..." -Lenny Kaye
Q (7/93, p.107) - 3 Stars - Good - "...It's on originals like Garcia's haunting, melancholic 'Wharf Rat' and Bob Weir's tricky 'Playing In The Band' that they're at their best and Bill Kreutzmann's bomping drums are things of joy as ever..."
Down Beat (1/02, p.74) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Clarified the band's instrumental strengths and a propensity for collective improv..."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.152) - "This is the Dead as garage band....It's improved with age and re-mastering, restoring faded guitars solos and adding prime outtakes..." Grateful Dead Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)  The Dead set foot on the Golden Road
This album serves as a great example of what the Dead sounded like in the early years, with tight, crisp, versions of every song, the Dead's first album is well worth buying. From "The Golden Road" to "Viola Lee Blues" this album shows what the Dead where like as a blues band, in the mid '60s. Highlights of the album are "Viola Lee Blues", an old prison song reworked into a Jam in a way that only the Dead could have done, and "Good Morning Little School Girl", a classic blues tune as sung by Pigpen. "Beat It On Down The Line", and "New, New Minglewood Blues" show Bob Weir's quickly emerging singing talent as well as "Morning Dew" that would be played rugularly by the Dead for the rest of they're 30 year run.
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Even though it wasn't one of the best tracks on Portrait of an American Family, "Get Your Gunn" was a solid track that was a fairly good choice for a single. As a single, "Get Your Gunn" doesn't offer collectors too much -- "Misery Machine" was pulled from Portrait, and then the title track is presented in two different mixes, both punningly titled after White Album cuts: "Mother Inferior Got Her Gunn" and "Revelation #9." Neither of these mixes are remarkable, but they aren't bad either, and they may be enough for hardcore fans to consider purchasing the single. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
| | Grateful Dead Anthem Of The Sun CD (1968)
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Contains the hidden track "Born Cross Eyed" which follows "Feedback."
Originally released on July 18, 1968, the Grateful Dead's second release ANTHEM OF THE SUN combined a number of 8-track studio recordings with several live 4-track recordings to create a nearly continuous concert presentation on each side of the original LP. (Side 1 [cuts 1-3] is 18:06; Side 2 [cuts 4-5] is 20:45.) In a process that took the better part of six months to complete, Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and engineer Dan Healy transferred many segments of tape onto one 8-track recorder. The resulting pastiche was remixed in 1971 at Alembic Studios by Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor. The track indexing and running time do not correspond at all to what's listed on the cover (although the song title listing is correct.)
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On 1968's ANTHEM OF THE SUN, the Grateful Dead stopped being just another band on the San Francisco scene and began initiating their own myth. Outgrowing the white-boy blues jamming of their debut and of their many SF contemporaries, the Dead graduated to an advanced, more lysergically influenced style--not just singing about Alice's adventures in that other world down the hole, but participating in them. Adventurous and grand, ANTHEM OF THE SUN was the first result of the muse that author Ken Kesey's infamous Acid Tests brought out in Grateful Dead music.
The abstract chaos and freeform beauty that the Dead provided as the house band at the Acid Tests grew into a modernist polyrhythmic roar. The material now took on extended forms, and ANTHEM OF THE SUN was split between essentially two sections: the post-Hendrix electric clamor of "That's It For The Other One," and Pigpen's "Alligator," a hard-rocking, bluesy boogie powered by Garcia's liquid-grunge tone and the drummers' undeniable thrust--which segues into "Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks)"--a rollng bit of double-time chaos, over which Pigpen speed-raps Neal Cas
| | Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa CD (1969)
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The Dead's first attempt at sixteen-track recording, AOXOMOXOA was remixed at Alembic Studios in San Francisco in 1971 by original engineers Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor. This is the mix used for the CD issue.
All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
Named after one of famed San Francisco poster artist Rick Griffin's lysergic palindromes, the Grateful Dead's third album saw the band inject their acid-fueled sting into folk music of various ages. Hunter added a lyrical landscape perfect for the band's blend of exploration and tradition. Portraits of a rebellious mystic ("St. Stephen") and a dandy day-tripper ("Cosmic Charlie"), proper Olde English tales ("Dupree's Diamond Blues"), and hallucinatory excursions to the borders of Hunter's muse ("China Cat Sunflower," "Mountains Of The Moon") are remarkable in that their expansive overview is interwoven with precise detail.
The elongated strides of ANTHEM OF THE SUN were replaced with short bursts that hinted at the music's timeless sources. "St. Stephen" is a raw clarion call from Temple Mount. "Dupree's Diamond Blues" sounds like it fell out of the bluegrass tradition into a field of poppies. "Cosmic Charlie" is built on a "Revolution"-like riff, but with a far more subtle thrust and sweetly contrary harmonies. And "What's Become Of The Baby" is a nearly nine-minute excursion into weirdness that clearly mapped out one of the interstellar musical spaces the Grateful Dead had begun visiting.
Recorded at Pacific Recorders, San Mateo, California in 1969. Includes liner notes by Gary Lambert.
The Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Tom Constanten (keyboards); Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann (percussion); Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan.
Additional personnel: John "Marma-Duke" Dawson, David Nelson, Peter Grant, Wendy, Debbie, Mouse.
| | Grateful Dead American Beauty CD (1970)
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AMERICAN BEAUTY was an instant classic when it was first released November of 1970. It is among the most satisfying and enduring of the Grateful Dead's studio recordings, expanding as it does on the engaging mix of country, blues, and folk materials they first coined earlier in the year with WORKINGMAN'S DEAD.
The musical vision of the Dead is more sharply focused on AMERICAN BEAUTY--from the serene reflection and compassion of the opening "Box Of Rain" and the earthy mysticism of "Ripple," to the sensual rock of "Sugar Magnolia" and the anthemic proto-boogie of the closing "Truckin'." But then, every tune on AMERICAN BEAUTY has attained a classic resonance, both from decades of steady airplay, and the way the Dead seemed to continually revive these popular standards for their concert repertoire.
Also available with WORKINGMAN'S DEAD on one cassette.
Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia (vocals, guitar, pedal steel guitar, piano); Phil Lesh (vocals, guitar, piano, bass instrument); Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (vocals, harmonica); Bill Kreutzmann (drums); Mickey Hart (percussion).
Additional personnel: Dave Nelson (electric guitar); David Grisman (mandolin); Howard Wales (piano, organ); Ned Lagin (piano); Dave Torbert (bass instrument); New Riders of the Purple Sage.
| | Grateful Dead CD (1971)
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All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology.
The Grateful Dead's self-titled first album contains the main ingredients of the unique musical stew the band would brew over the coming years. Upon its release in March 1967, it brought the musical and philosophical ideals of the freak counter-culture out of the Bay Area and into the ears of mainstream America.
"The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" is a Summer Of Love anthem nonpareil. "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" shows off the Dead's ability to reinterpret the blues, and Pigpen's natural front-man qualities. The hyperactive rockabilly of Jesse Fuller's "Beat It On Down The Line" and the rearranged traditionals "Sitting On Top Of The World" and "Cold Rain And Snow" are proof that, despite the group's anti-establishment fashions, their lyrical symbols and musical forms were as time-honored as the English folk-tale that provided their name. While the cover of Bonnie Dobson's eerie anti-war epic "Morning Dew" and the women-and-wine rocker "New, New Minglewood Blues" are energetic portrayals of hippie values, the closing number, Noah Lewis's "Viola Lee Blues," is the album's grand, mind-blowing concoction and a highlight. The remastered version's live bonus tracks include some never-recorded garage-rock and blues cuts and a 23-minute "Viola Lee Blues" bearing the first hints of the modal riff at the foundation of Dead milestone "Dark Star."
One of the things that made the Dead such a unique live act was the sheer variety of their influences. The vastness of the musical terrain they covered is well demonstrated on 1971's GRATEFUL DEAD, nicknamed "Skull & Roses" because of its cover art. It captures the band's live sound at a time when their marathon, acid-inspired concerts were swiftly becoming the stuff of legend and earning them legions of new fans.
This set conveys the typical arc of a Dead show. The band could be economical and straightforward, with brisk, stripped-down numbers like the lil
| | Pink Floyd Ummagumma CDs (1969)
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UMMAGUMMA features a set of live performances on Disc 1 and a collection of solo studio projects by various band members on Disc 2.
Disc 1 was recorded live at Mothers, Birmingham, England and live at The
Party-liners may favor DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, but diehard space cadets recognize UMMAGUMMA as the pinnacle of post-Barrett Floyd's achievement. Originally released as a double LP, the first record is a live recording from 1969, while the second features four extended cuts written by (and featuring) each of the four band members in turn. Eschewing the catchy, Kinks-influenced pop kaleidoscope of the band's first album, the live portion focuses on extended, spacy near-instrumentals, heavy on acid-fueled jamming and atmospheric electronic textures.
From the Eastern-tinged "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" to the over-the-top psychosis of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene," UMMAGUMMA's first half is ground zero for the genre that would come to be known as space rock. The solo efforts on the second half are undoubtedly the band's most experimental, unconventional efforts ever. They make good use of the avant-garde techniques that were a key early influence, like musique concrete-style tape collage and sound effects. Along the way, there's some lovely folk-tinged balladry, courtesy of Roger Waters ("Grantchester Meadows"), and some proto-prog keyboard wizardry (Richard Wright's multi-part "Sysyphus").
Manchester College Of Commerce, England in June 1969.
Pink Floyd: David Gilmour (vocals, guitar); Richard Wright (vocals, keyboards); Roger Waters (vocals, bass); Nick Mason (drums).
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| | Pierre-Yves Bessaund Odyssee CD Import
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First album by this talented young composer and keyboardist. The rich and subtle blend of the classical, rock and electronic orchestrations shows a new approach of instrumental music. Since the first notes, this 13-track album pleasantly immerges us into the very evocative atmosphere of soundtracks through a story told in music that each of us has to interpret.
| | Best Of The South: Musical Stories By Sugar Hill CD (2005)
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Working in conjunction with Algonquin Books, Sugar Hill has released Best of the South, a musical companion to the anthology Best of the South, Vol. 2. The CD collection, like the new volume, emphasizes Southern songwriters' predilection for spinning stories. Grey DeLisle paints a portrait of loneliness and freedom in "Joanna," the story of a drunkard's daughter who leaves home and never looks back. Allison Moorer's "One on the House" tells the tale of a prodigal daughter who's blown her fortune and now, swallowing her pride, asks a bartender for one free drink. Terry Allen's "The Great Joe Bob (A Regional Tragedy)" recalls how one football player, the brightest halfback in his high school, went bad, first getting thrown out of college and finally being thrown into jail for armed robbery. And Tim O'Brien's "Family History" tells of the dangers of looking into the past, while nonetheless admitting the need to do so. There are also solid selections from Guy Clark, Scott Miller, Sonny Landreth, Dolly Parton, and the Duhks. The compilation offers a nice cross section of contemporary roots artists, from traditional to neo-traditional to folk-rock. For those who enjoy good Southern stories and/or good music, Best of the South is a well-conceived and generous collection. ~ Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.
| | Shine Cherries CD (2006)
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Shine Cherries attempt to mellow your mind---in the hectic world we find ourselves in, it's nice to sit back and listen to some beautiful eccentric melodic indie folk!! Michelle Collins has a voice which must be experiencec to be believed! The band is Michelle Collins(guitar, ukelele, theremin, banjo, and vocals. Jeffrey Richards plays guitar, banjo, bass, and drums. Chris Kitchen plays the bass, and, increasingly, the theremin. Ryan Martino is on drums, and Johnny Cassidy does what ever is needed at any given time!! Take a load off, take a little while and enter our world--the world of Shine Cherries!
| | Tetes Raides Le Bout Du Toit CD (1996)
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Track Listing of songs: St. Vincent; Bouquets; Bout; Theatre des Pois Sons; Chanson du Trepasse; Vines!; Bout Du; Vendu; Religieuse; L'Hermaphrodite; Des Accords; L'Amour Tombe des Nues; Bout du Toit; Manuela; Mille Facons; Un P'Tit Air; Marrons;
| | Cenobites Blue Fandango CD (2008) (Import) Import
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Track Listing of songs: Blue Fandango; Life Is Hell; Never Be Clever; Like Gasoline Tank; Put To The Test; The Cage; What Happened To Me; Psychobilly Popstar; The Snap Fastener; Funny Feelings; Yicurab; Boogie Curse; Demon Queen; Butterfly; All Alone; Ice Cream Dream; Combodelica; Foosteps; Strike Back; Hellschool; Soft Like Velvet; Tyquilla In The Bluegrass;
| | Indian Jewelry Free Gold! CD (2008)
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The opening "Swans" sounds, likely not coincidentally, very much like the druggy, sludgy noise rock of the iconic 1980s rockers of the same name; the rest of FREE GOLD is not quite so baldly indicative of its influences, but the disorienting noise-psychedelia of the album's 14 tracks also brings to mind Pink Floyd, Joy Division, Cabaret Voltaire, and the early pre-disco industrial bands.
Photographer: Aaron Farley.
Personnel: Erika Thrasher (vocals, guitar, steel guitar, synthesizer); Tex Kerschen (vocals, guitar, piano, synthesizer, drums); Brandon Davis (guitar, synthesizer, drums, percussion); Michael Belfer (acoustic guitar); Jimi Hey (electric guitar).
Recording information: Houston, TX (??/2006-11/2007); Los Angeles, CA (??/2006-11/2007); Reversible Eye Compound, Chicago, IL (??/2006-11/2007).
| | Macedonian Ethno Music CD (2008) (Import)
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Artist on this CD's are:1.JORDAM MITEV2.ANETA EFTIMOVA3.ILIJA AMPEVSKI4.NORA5.PECE I JASNA6.FOKUS7.VIKTOR & SUPER NOVA8.CANE NIKOLOVSKI9.JAKOV DRENKOSKI
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