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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 40 reviews)
Sales Rank: 1581
Category: Music
Artist: Grateful Dead
Publisher: Rhino / Wea
Studio: Rhino / Wea
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
Label: Rhino / Wea
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 74396
UPC: 081227439620
EAN: 0081227439620
ASIN: B00007LTIK
Release Date: February 25, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | Uncle John's Band | | • | High Time | | • | Dire Wolf | | • | New Speedway Boogie | | • | Cumberland Blues | | • | Black Peter | | • | Easy Wind | | • | Casey Jones | | • | New Speedway Boogie (Alternate Mix) | | • | Dire Wolf (Live) | | • | Black Peter (Live) | | • | Easy Wind (Live) | | • | Cumberland Blues (Live) | | • | Mason's Children (Live) | | • | Uncle John's Band (Live) | | • | Bonus Track 1 |
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Album Description
Expanded & remastered (HDCD) version of the band's 1970 seminal masterpiece includes 7 bonus cuts 'New Speedway Boogie' (alt. mix), 'Dire Wolf' (live), 'Black Peter' (live), 'Easy Wind' (live), 'Cumberland Blues' (live), 'Mason's Children' (live) & 'Uncle John's Band' (live). Digipak. Warner/Rhino. 2003.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 35 more reviews...
A Lyrical and Musical Classic June 13, 2009
I can't tell you how many times I've had this playing and someone has said "Who's this?" I tell them it's the Grateful Dead and they're amazed! What most people think is the Grateful Dead is not this album or it's counterpart "American Beauty". However these albums are to me not only their best work but they stand alone as two of the greatest albums of the rock era by any artists. I'm writing a review of "Workingman's Dead" because it's my favorite of the two. First of all the lyrics by Robert Hunter are just wonderful, "I don't know but I've been told if the horse don't pull you got to carry the load." I mean the words just flow so wonderfully. The harmonies are incredible. They must have been inspired by Crosby, Stills and Nash or the Beach Boys. The music just chugs along like your on a cross-country trip going along the highway. These are great road songs. Jerry Garcia's voice and slide guitar blend just perfectly. What else to say but this is just a perfect record. I recommend anyone who loves good music buy this album whether they think they're a fan of the Dead or not. This will surely make them a fan.
 Workingman's Dead November 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Grateful Dead-Workingman's Dead ****
Not quite the classic it is made out to be, American Beauty is still the Deads crowning achievement, but Workingmans Dead is still a pretty killer album. Released in 1970, the album was a departure from the crazy psychedelic blues that they had previously released on albums such as Aoxomoxoa. This was more acoustic and had more of an emphasis on the song rather than the jam. Lyrically it is also one of the the bands strongest efforts.
As a guitar player Workingman's Dead offers some of Jerry Garcia's all time best work. A large variety of jazz, acoustic, rock, jam, blues, at times heavy metal are covered in his range on this legendary album. He really shines here more than any other studio album in my opinion.
'Casey Jones' is among the best on early 1970's rock and is still a radio staple today. 'New Boogie Speedway' is a nice mini jam, something that the Allman Brothers would have been proud to write. 'Uncle John's Band' is unique in the groups canon because of it's jump from what was to what they became. But it is 'Dire Wolf' that really makes the album. With the acoustic feel and the great lyrics it truly makes the album.
Workingman's Dead isn't the best Grateful Dead album, but it is up there. It did the one thing that no other Dead album did, show restraint.
Workingman or Beauty August 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Workingman's dead a true classic from the Dead,could be classified a companion to American Beauty,both released in 1970,Workingman's Dead first,could've easily been released as a double album,Workingman contains a mixture of different genres,blues,country,funk,and rock,yet in a subdued way,listen to,Uncle John's Band,a definite classical touch and the Dead's best weapon of course are the tight harmonies flowing consistently within each song,as so do the strong lyrics. Jerry Garcia's steel guitar also stands out on,Dire Wolf,Garcia,a fine steel player,shows off his stuff,playing steel on C.S.N.& Y.'s,Teach Your Children Well,and could've stood to be more defined on American Beauty. Easy Wind,is a catchy tune that would fit well on a Hendrix album,and other notable songs such as,The Cumberland Blues,and High Time,adding to this album a great classic repertoire,it's hard to say which two albums are better in comparison,Beauty or Workingman's,if I had to choose I'd pick Workingman's Dead,though a tough choice. These Rhino releases are excellent and loaded with Grateful Dead music with bonus tracks,mostly live,and single released tracks,a little more for your money.
Working Class Heroes July 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Workingman's Dead" is music for truckin' down a dusty gravel road. It paints a sonic landscape of Southern mines, railroads, vast desert mesas, tumbleweeds, and purple sage. This is a Grateful Dead album that's a little bit country, a little bit rock n'roll, with some psychedelia thrown in for good measure. In a sense,it's a predecessor to the "freak folk" of Devendra Barnhardt and Kimya Dawson&the Moldy Peaches. This is down home country music, as earthy as a bowl of grits, from the San Francisco Bay Area.
"Workingman's Dead" opens with the hopeful country hymn "Uncle John's Band." Uncle John "comes to take his children home"--a hopeful hymn about the hereafter. There's a sense of homecoming. "Dire Wolf" is a dark ballad with the refrain "please don't murder me." I've had the "Cumberland Blues" earworm. It's a catchy song about the workaday world. "I've got to get down to the Cumberland mine/that's where I spend my time." "Black Peter" has Hammond organ;it's a mournful song. "Casey Jones" is an anti-drug. It's a warning song,with a moral. A train conductor,high on cocaine,heads to disaster.
"Workingman's Dead" in the remastered version,has extra treats. The live version of "Dire Wolf" was performed in Santa Rosa,at the Veterans' Hall. The live versions of "Cumberland Blues" and "Mason's Children" were performed in Portland and Corvallis, Oregon, respectively. The Dead seemed to live in the Wine Country and the Pacific Northwest.
"Workingman's Dead" is psychedelic country! Join Uncle John's Band.
Jerry's alive, man! June 26, 2008
Getting to hold this disc, place it in my stereo, and hear the bliss brought forth by such, great fails to capture the sensation; 'though, it does, you know?
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