Workingman's Dead

GRATEFUL DEAD / WORKINGMAN'S DEAD

N 2023, Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart created a new Dolby Atmos mix of WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, revealing remarkable instrument separation and nuance in the album's harmonies and arrangements. Hart's immersive mix expands the sonic depth of the original recording while preserving it's essential character. ABOUT WORKINGMAN'S DEADOn June 14, 1970, the Grateful Dead released WORKINGMAN'S DEAD, an album that was unlike anything they'd ever done, one that showed the world a new side of the Dead. It was clearly the same band as before, but now with a distinctly different sound and approach to the music, pivoting from psychedelic improvisation to folk-rock storytelling for the ""everyman, "" as the album's title suggests. While the Dead's first three studio albums appealed to many, the group didn't yet have the mass breakthrough that would make the entire world take notice of this band of misfits from the Bay Area. WORKINGMAN'S DEAD changed all that. With eight perfect songs - like ""Casey Jones"" and ""High Time"" - the album solidified the Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter songwriting tandem as one of the best and most important songwriting collaborations in music history. The album reached the Top Thirty and included the single ""Uncle John's Band, "" which climbed to #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron ""Pigpen"" McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart recorded the album in about 10 days at Pacific High Recording Studio in San Francisco with Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor - the band's live-sound engineers - as producers.

TRACKS:

Uncle John's Band (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

High Time (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Dire Wolf (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

New Speedway Boogie (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Cumberland Blues (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Black Peter (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Easy Wind (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Casey Jones (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Uncle John's Band (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

High Time (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Dire Wolf (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

New Speedway Boogie (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Black Peter (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Easy Wind (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Casey Jones (2023 Mickey Hart Mix)

Uncle John's Band

High Time

Dire Wolf

New Speedway Boogie

Cumberland Blues

Black Peter

Easy Wind

Casey Jones

Grateful Dead ~ Workingman's Dead BLU-RAY