Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:02 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Grateful Dead have released Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share, a collection of candid studio outtakes from the recording of their seminal 1970 Americana album.
While the Dead are known for leaving few stones unturned in terms of live audio, studio remastering, and all of the other content that diehard fans obsess over, little has been released in the way of the Dead’s interpersonal communication within the studio. Sure, fans can find live mixes of classic concerts that feature the band members speaking to each other with in-ear monitors. But The Angel’s Share shows the band isolated together, during a time when they were still far greater friends than business partners.
The 64-track record features numerous takes on the classics “Uncle John’s Band”, “High Time”, “Dire Wolf”, “New Speedway Boogie”, “Black Peter”, “Easy Wind”, “Casey Jones”, and oddly only one outtake for “Cumberland Blues”.
“The complete takes show the development,” Dead archivist David Lemieux said of The Angel’s Share. “The Dead had been playing these songs for so long, in some cases nine months, so they had them down. But this is where the nuances developed.”
With plenty of isolated instrumental takes on the album’s classic songs, The Angel’s Share could prove to be an invaluable tool for any musician looking to master the studio arrangements. But the real trove of The Angel’s Share is the bandmates talking to one another, in particular the stern taskmaster that still was Jerry Garcia. While Capitol Records President Joe Smith may recall the Dead has having a very lax attitude toward amassing hundreds of hours of studio time and racking up bills on the company’s dime, this collection of outtakes shows the band as still being diligent and driven in their work, if anything to a fault. “We have nothing to lose but our lives,” Garcia says before another doomed take on “Uncle John’s Band”.
Tracklist:
1. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (False Start 1) (Not Slated)
2. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (Breakdown) (Not Slated)
3. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (False Start 2) (Not Slated)
4. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (Complete Track) (Not Slated)
5. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (Take 6 Breakdown) (Slated)
6. Grateful Dead – Uncle John’s Band (Take 7 Breakdown) (Slated)
7. Grateful Dead – High Time (Breakdown 1) (Not Slated)
8. Grateful Dead – High Time (Breakdown 2) (Not Slated)
9. Grateful Dead – High Time (Take 3 Breakdown) (Slated)
10. Grateful Dead – High Time (Complete Track 1) (Not Slated)
11. Grateful Dead – High Time (Studio Chatter)
12. Grateful Dead – High Time (Complete Track 2) (Not Slated)
13. Grateful Dead – High Time (Take 6 Breakdown) (Slated)
14. Grateful Dead – High Time (Take 7 Breakdown) (Slated)
15. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Breakdown 1) (Not Slated)
16. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Complete Track 1) (Not Slated)
17. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Complete Track 2) (Not Slated)
18. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Take 2 Breakdown) (Slated)
19. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Take 3 False Start & Breakdown) (Slated)
20. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Breakdown 2) (Not Slated)
21. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Take 6 Breakdown) (Slated)
22. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Breakdown 3) (Not Slated)
23. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (False Starts 1) (Not Slated)
24. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Breakdown 4) (Not Slated)
25. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (False Starts 2) (Not Slated)
26. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Complete Track 3) (Not Slated)
27. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (Complete Track With Vocals) (Not Slated)
28. Grateful Dead – Dire Wolf (False Start 3) (Not Slated)
29. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Demo With Acoustic Guitar, Drums & Vocals) (Not Slated)
30. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Complete Track With Vocals 1) (Not Slated)
31. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Take 2 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
32. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Take 3 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
33. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Mis-Named As Take 3 False Start With Vocals) (Slated)
34. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Take 4 Complete With Vocals & Lead Guitar) (Slated)
35. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Arranging Take With Vocals) (Not Slated)
36. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Breakdown With Vocals 1) (Not Slated)
37. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Breakdown With Vocals 2) (Not Slated)
38. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Complete Track With Vocals 2) (Not Slated)
39. Grateful Dead – New Speedway Boogie (Take 8 Complete With Vocals) (Slated)
40. Grateful Dead – Cumberland Blues (Various Breakdowns & Take 9) (Slated)
41. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Breakdown 1) (Not Slated)
42. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Breakdown 2) (Not Slated)
43. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Studio Chatter)
44. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Breakdown 3) (Not Slated)
45. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Breakdown 4) (Not Slated)
46. Grateful Dead – Black Peter (Complete Track With Vocals) (Not Slated)
47. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Complete Track With Vocals 1) (Not Slated)
48. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 1) (Not Slated)
49. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 2) (Not Slated)
50. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 3) (Not Slated)
51. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 4) (Not Slated)
52. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Complete Track With Vocals 2) (Not Slated)
53. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (False Starts & Breakdowns With Vocals) (Not Slated)
54. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Incomplete Track With Vocals) (Not Slated)
55. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 17 With Vocals) (Slated)
56. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 18 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
57. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 19 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
58. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 20 With Vocals) (Slated)
59. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 21 False Start With Vocals) (Slated)
60. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 22 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
61. Grateful Dead – Easy Wind (Take 23 Breakdown With Vocals) (Slated)
62. Grateful Dead – Casey Jones (Breakdown 1) (Not Slated)
63. Grateful Dead – Casey Jones (Breakdown 2) (Not Slated)
64. Grateful Dead – Casey Jones (Complete Track With Vocals) (Not Slated)