Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic
Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering) - AudioSoundMusic

Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (2LP, 45RPM, Utra Analog, Half-speed Mastering)

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Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, banjo, vocals

Bob Weir – guitar, vocals

Pigpen (Ron McKernan) – keyboards, harmonica, vocals, lead vocals (D1)

Phil Lesh – bass, vocals

Bill Kreutzmann – drums, percussion

Mickey Hart – drums, percussion

David Nelson – acoustic guitar (C1)

 

2 LPs, gatefold jacket

Limited numbered edition

Original analog Master tape : YES

Half-speed Mastering

GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ LP 

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 45 RPM

Size : 12'’

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : RTI

Label : MOFI

Original Label : Warner Bros Records

Recorded February 1970 at Pacific High Recording, San Francisco

Engineered & mixed by Alembic

Produced by Betty Cantor, Bob Matthews, The Grateful Dead

Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich

Originally released in 1970

Reissued in 2014

 

Tracks:

Side A:

  1. Uncle John’s Band
  2. High Time

Side B:

  1. Dire Wolf
  2. New Speedway Boogie

Side C:

  1. Cumberland Blues
  2. Black Peter

Side D:

  1. Easy Wind
  2. Casey Jones

 

Awards:

TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal

Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 264/500!

Rolling Stone 2015 Readers' Poll: The 10 Best Jam Bands: The Grateful Dead Rated 1st!

 

Reviews:

“As the '60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967’s Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive in the form of the Manson murders, fatalities at the Altamont concert, and the ongoing loss of young lives in Vietnam despite the best efforts of anti-war activists and peace-seeking protesters. Difficult times were also upon the Grateful Dead, unofficial house band of San Francisco’s Summer of Love festivities and outspoken advocates of psychedelic experimentation both musical and chemical. The excessive studio experimentation that resulted in their trippy but disorienting third album, Aoxomoxoa, had left the band in considerable debt to their record label, and their stress wasn't helped at all by a drug bust that had members of the band facing jail time. The rough road the Dead were traveling down seemed congruent with the hard changes faced by the youth counterculture that birthed them. Fourth studio album Workingman's Dead reflects both the looming darkness of its time, and the endless hope and openness to possibility that would become emblematic of the Dead as their legacy grew. For a group already established as exploratory free-form rockers of the highest acclaim, Workingman’s Dead's eight tunes threw off almost all improvisatory tendencies in favor of spare, thoughtful looks at folk, country, and American roots music with more subdued sounds than the band had managed up until then. The songs also focused more than ever before on singing and vocal harmonies, influenced in no small way by a growing friendship with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. The band embraced complex vocal arrangements with campfire-suited folk on "Uncle John's Band" and the psychedelic cowboy blues of “High Time.”

Before they blasted off into hallucinatory rock as the Grateful Dead, several founding members had performed as Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions, a group that played traditional jug band music with earnest, heartfelt appreciation. Those early influences came into sharp focus on the bluegrass rhythms and hillbilly harmonies of "Cumberland Blues" and the glistening pedal steel and shuffling drums of "Dire Wolf." The more rocking songs add to the album's brooding feel with "New Speedway Boogie" directly addressing the violence at Altamont, and "Casey Jones," which appeared at first to be a lighthearted celebration of cocaine, but was really a lament for troubled times that felt like they were spinning off the rails.

The abrupt shift toward sublime acoustic sounds on Workingman's Dead completely changed what the Grateful Dead meant to their listeners at large. The enormous risk they took in changing their sound entirely resulted in a heartbreakingly beautiful, unquestionably pure statement and one of the more important documents of its time. They’d continue this trend on the even more roots-minded American Beauty, recorded later the same year, but the limitlessness, fearlessness, and true power of the band began here.” AllMusic Review by Fred Thomas

 

Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.

 

Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.

 

Ratings :

AllMusic : 5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,45 / 5

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