Grateful Dead - American Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (2020)

Artist: Grateful Dead
Title: American Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Year Of Release: 2020
Label: Grateful Dead/Rhino
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps
Total Time: 03:04:12
Total Size: 450 MB


Tracklist:

CD1
1. Box of Rain (2020 Remaster) (5:17)
2. Friend Of The Devil (2020 Remaster) (3:23)
3. Sugar Magnolia (2020 Remaster) (3:20)
4. Operator (2020 Remaster) (2:24)
5. Candyman (2020 Remaster) (6:14)
6. Ripple (2020 Remaster) (4:08)
7. Brokedown Palace (2020 Remaster) (4:10)
8. Till The Morning Comes (2020 Remaster) (3:08)
9. Attics Of My Life (2020 Remaster) (5:13)
10. Truckin' (2020 Remaster) (5:07)

CD2
1. Bertha (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:21)
2. Truckin' (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (9:14)
3. Hurts Me Too (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (5:57)
4. Loser (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:56)
5. Greatest Story Ever Told (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (3:49)
6. Johnny B. Goode (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (3:09)
7. Mama Tried (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (3:23)
8. Hard To Handle (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (9:15)
9. Dark Star, Pt. 1 (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (7:03)
10. Wharf Rat (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (7:24)
11. Dark Star, Pt. 2 (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (7:22)
12. Me And My Uncle (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (4:13)

CD3
1. Casey Jones (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (7:38)
2. Playing In The Band (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:12)
3. Me And Bobby McGee (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:35)
4. Candyman (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (8:00)
5. Big Boss Man (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (5:43)
6. Sugar Magnolia (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (7:13)
7. St. Stephen (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:26)
8. Not Fade Away, Pt. 1 (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (4:32)
9. Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (5:03)
10. Not Fade Away, Pt. 2 (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (4:01)
11. Uncle John's Band (Live at the Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY, 2/18/71) (6:39)

By any measure, 1970 was a high-water mark for the Grateful Dead. Hot on the heels of the incredible success of Workingman’s Dead that summer, the band returned in the autumn with the equally stunning American Beauty. Those back-to-back classics not only introduced songs that would be a key part of the group’s live repertoire for decades, but they also opened a gateway into the world of the Grateful Dead for generations of Dead Heads. American Beauty will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with two new releases.

The three-CD set includes the original album with newly remastered audio, plus an unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer, David Glasser.

Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart recorded American Beauty in August and September 1970 at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco with producer Stephen Quinn Barncard. When they entered the studio, Workingman’s Dead was still on the charts going strong. Such a quick follow-up on studio albums was unheard of for the band, and a feat they would never repeat. Equally shocking was the high level of craftsmanship exhibited by new songs like, “Friend Of The Devil,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Truckin’,” and “Ripple.” Today, it’s still considered to be one of the greatest albums ever made.

American Beauty (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) includes the band’s previously unreleased live performance from February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre, one of the most requested archival recordings in the Dead’s vault. On stage that night, the Dead debuted a whole new batch of songs, five in all: “Wharf Rat,” “Playing In The Band,” “Bertha,” “Greatest Story Ever Told” and “Loser.” Fans were also treated to a few standbys from the previous decade, including “St. Stephen” and an inspired “Dark Star” jam that led into “Wharf Rat” and back to “Dark Star.” Notably, keyboardist Ned Lagin (who played piano on “Candyman” on American Beauty) sat in with the band for the show.