We are thankful to be here today celebrating the grateful dead s most lauded studio masterpiece.
Grateful dead american beauty vinyl mouse studio.
The album first.
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The grateful dead and rhino will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band s seminal american beauty studio album next month with a deluxe reissue due out on october 30th.
50th anniversary deluxe edition will be available on cd via rhino on october 30.
When they entered the studio workingman s dead was still on the charts going strong.
The grateful dead american beauty album.
San francisco art studio founded by stanley mouse back in 1959 that then opened it s doors in frisco in 1965.
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The grateful dead will give their 1970 studio album american beauty the deluxe reissue treatment.
American beauty is the fifth studio album by rock band the grateful dead released november 1 1970 by warner bros.
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The album continued the folk rock and country music explored on workingman s dead and features the lyrics of robert hunter prominently.
Such a quick follow up on studio albums was unheard of for the band and a feat.
It was recorded between august and september 1970 and originally released in november 1970 by warner bros.
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The crown jewel of the dead s studio output on american reality custom 180 gram vinyl with tip on jacket.
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In 1970 with the grateful dead riding the wave of success following the acclaimed surrounding their album workingman s dead the headed back into the studio to create the quite brilliant follow up american beauty many of the songs created across the recording of those two albums solidified their presence within the grateful dead s live shows and cemented their place in the annals of rock.
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.
If more of the american reality were this album we d all have a lot more to be thankful for andy zwerling rolling stone december 24 1970.