The Grateful Dead have announced that they will release a special 50th Anniversary edition of their 1970 album Workingman’s Dead. The deluxe edition will be available on July 10.
The three-CD set will include the original album, which has been newly remastered. It will also including a previously unreleased concert: Feb. 21, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, N.Y. The Dead have already shared an unreleased live version of the Workingman’s Dead classic “Casey Jones”; listen to that here.
“Since we embarked on the series of Grateful Dead 50th anniversary releases, we’ve had a blast re-mastering the original albums and finding previously unreleased live material from the era for each. In 2020, we’re blessed to have two albums celebrating their 50th anniversaries, and we’re thrilled with how Workingman’s Dead has turned out,” said David Lemieux, Grateful Dead archivist and the set’s producer, via press release. “For an album as important and great as Workingman’s Dead, it seemed appropriate to double the amount of bonus material. The show we’ve selected gives a definitive overview of what the band were up to six months after the release of the album and shows the Dead sound that would largely define the next couple of years. From Workingman’s Dead through Europe ’72, the Dead’s sound was Americana, and the live show included here is a workingman’s band playing authentically honest music.”
“The complete Port Chester evening in this 50th-anniversary edition of Workingman’s Dead…was a great night in what has long been deemed a legendary run, another turning point as the band entered a live era combining the focus of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty with the exploratory verve of Live/Dead,” wrote music journalist David Fricke in the set’s liner notes. “Many of the classic songs spread across Dead LPs in 1971 and ’72…were introduced that week at the Capitol, and many of them are in this concert, still fresh off the griddle.”
Check out the tracklist for 50th Anniversary deluxe edition of Workingman’s Dead below!
WORKINGMAN’S DEAD: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION CD Track Listing
Disc One: Original Album Remastered
- “Uncle John’s Band”
- “High Time”
- “Dire Wolf”
- “New Speedway Boogie”
- “Cumberland Blues”
- “Black Peter”
- “Easy Wind”
- “Casey Jones”
Disc Two: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/21/71)
- “Cold Rain And Snow”
- “Me And Bobby McGee”
- “Loser”
- “Easy Wind”
- “Playing In The Band”
- “Bertha”
- “Me And My Uncle”
- “Ripple” (False Start)
- “Ripple”
- “Next Time You See Me”
- “Sugar Magnolia”
- “Greatest Story Ever Told”
- “Johnny B. Goode”
Disc Three: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/21/71)
- “China Cat Sunflower”>
- “I Know You Rider”>
- “Bird Song”
- “Cumberland Blues”
- “I’m A King Bee”
- “Beat It On Down The Line”
- “Wharf Rat”
- “Truckin’”
- “Casey Jones”
- “Good Lovin’”
- “Uncle John’s Band”
WORKINGMAN’S DEAD: 50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC
- “Uncle John’s Band”
- “High Time”
- “Dire Wolf”
- “New Speedway Boogie”
- “Cumberland Blues”
- “Black Peter”
- “Easy Wind”
- “Casey Jones”
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