| Product Summary | | Label: Wsm/full Frequency Recordings | | UPC: 00081227894627 | | Release Date: 8/31/2004 | | Buy.com Sku: 63504029 | | Item#: MD7Y9U | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24297 | Format:  CD |
|
|
|
|
| Song Listing |  |
Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. When I Paint My Masterpiece ~ Grateful Dead |  | | 2. She Belongs To Me ~ Grateful Dead | | | 3. Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues ~ Grateful Dead | | | 4. Maggie's Farm ~ Grateful Dead | | | 5. Stuck Inside of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again ~ Grateful Dead | | | 6. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry - (with Dickey Betts/Butch Trucks) ~ Grateful Dead | | | 7. Ballad Of A Thin Man ~ Grateful Dead | | | 8. Desolation Row ~ Grateful Dead | | | 9. All Along The Watchtower ~ Grateful Dead | | | 10. It's All Over Now Baby Blue ~ Grateful Dead | | | 11. Man Of Peace - (rehearsal, bonus track, with Bob Dylan) ~ Grateful Dead | |
|
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Grateful Dead: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir (vocals, guitar); Brent Mydland (vocals, keyboards); Phil Lesh (vocals, bass); Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart (drums). | | Additional personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, acoustic guitar); Dickey Betts (guitar); Keith Godchaux (piano); Butch Trucks (drums). | | Includes liner notes by Mikal Gilmore. | | All tracks have been digitally remastered using HDCD technology. | | The Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan, two counter-cultural '60s icons, were always a natural match. This was made clearest when the Dead became Dylan's backing band for a time in the mid-'80s. This decades-spanning collection features the Dead performing Dylan's songs on their own, and while the majority of songs hail from the years after they'd assimilated so much of his catalogue for the aforementioned collaboration, other cuts reach all the way back to the early '70s. The Dead always had a soft spot for Dylan, relating to the way he combining American roots music with mesmerizing cosmic vistas. | | Commonalities are highlighted when we notice that the opening of "Maggie's Farm" is suggestive of the Dead's own "Cumberland Blues," and Jerry's voice brings a slightly pained poignance to the bittersweet lyrics of the ballad "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," which graced many a Dead show back in the day. There has never been a greater musical expression of bemused, slightly psychedelic, existential angst than "Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again," and Bob Weir takes obvious pleasure in spotlighting the most surreal aspects of the tune. Dylan himself pops up on "Man of Peace," but POSTCARDS OF THE HANGING is the Dead's show, even if Dylan remains the man behind the curtain. |
Producer: David Gans (Compilation) |
Musical Guests | | Bob Dylan | | Dickey Betts | | Butch Trucks |
| | Compilation Appearances |
| | Associated Artists and Works | | Artists, Various | | The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful... ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Long Strange Trip: Pickin' On The Dead... ~ Artists, Various | | Artists, Various | | Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead ~ Artists, Various | | Billy & Terry Smith | | Dylan, Bob | | Dylan, Bob | | Dylan, Bob | | Dylan & The Dead [Digipak] ~ Dylan, Bob | | Gallant, Joe | | Gallant, Joe | | Gallant, Joe & Illuminati | | Gallant, Joe & Illuminati | | Blue Light Rain ~ Jazz Is Dead | | Joe Gallant & Illuminati | | Joe Gallant & Illuminati | | Murray, David | | Murray, David (Jazz) | | Murray, David (sax) | | Murray, David (Saxophone) | | Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ~ On, Pickin' | | Oswald, John | | Oswald, John | | Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ~ Pickin' On | | Various Artists | | The Music Never Stopped: Roots Of The Grateful Dea ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Long Strange Trip: Swingin' And Pickin' On The Gra ~ Various Artists | | Various Artists | | Electronic Tribute To The Grateful Dead ~ Various Artists |
| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 08/31/2004 | | Original Release Date : 2002 | | Catalog ID : 78946 | | Label : Grateful Dead Productions | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Live | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00081227894627 |
|
| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (3/28/02, p.68)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...If the Dead were not the boldest of Dylan-cover bands... they were the purest: swinging through the songbook like real fans, finding working-man's poetry in Dylan's most elusive parables..."Entertainment Weekly (3/22/02, pp.110-1)
- "...This collection of Dylan covers is so obviously the work of true fans that it's hard not to enjoy hearing the band enjoying themselves play them..." - Rating: B |
|
| |
|
|
__USERID__
http://www.buy.com/prod/postcards-of-the-hanging/q/loc/109/63504029.html
|
