Workingman's Dead (Atmos) (Blu-ray)

I 2023 skabte Grateful Dead-trommeslageren Mickey Hart et nyt Dolby Atmos-mix af WORKINGMAN’S DEAD, der afslører bemærkelsesværdig instrumentadskillelse og nuance i albummets harmonier og arrangementer. Harts fordybende mix udvider den oprindelige optagelses lyddybde, mens det bevarer dens essentielle karakter.

OM WORKINGMAN'S DEAD

Den 14. juni 1970 udgav Grateful Dead WORKINGMAN’S DEAD, et album, der var noget helt andet end noget, de havde lavet før, og som viste verden en ny side af Dead. Det var tydeligvis det samme band som før, men nu med en markant anderledes lyd og tilgang til musikken, der drejede fra psykedelisk improvisation til folk-rock-fortællinger for

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.