Part of the Music Library — the Grateful Dead. Reply
-American Beauty
-, by the Grateful Dead. Reply
(Warner 1971) Reply
Tracks: Box Of Rain Friend Of The Devil Sugar Magnolia Operator Candyman Ripple Brokedown Palace Till The Morning Comes Attics Of My Life Truckin' Reply
Frequently considered the Dead's best album, this record offers a mellow folk-rock style that really doesn't fit with the name "Grateful Dead". Reply
The playing is supurb, the singing is exellent, with harmonys who's beauty the Dead have never exeeded. The record opens with Box Of Rain, a song Phill Lesh wrote for his father who was on his death bed, Robert Hunter wrote the lyrics after listening to Lesh scat the melody a few times. Reply
This album has a wonderful feel to it, each song is perfict to precede the next song, and to follow the previous one. Reply
American Beauty also features a perfict blend of acoustic and electric instruments, each song is arranged in such a way as to bring out the fullest potential possible, The only problem with this album is that most of it did not translate well to the Dead's live shows. The execptions where Truckin' and Sugar Magnolia, both of which remaind frequently preformed through the end of the Dead's 30 year run. Reply
I reccomend this album to anyone and everyone, if you don't have a copy Please, do yourself a large favor and buy yourself a copy. You won't regret it. Reply
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