The 50th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's lauded studio offering American Beauty will take place this fall.
To celebrate, Grateful Dead HQ will share a newly remastered three-CD set, revisiting the beloved album as well as a "previously unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY."
The celebration will also see the release of a vinyl picture disc limited to 15,000 copies.
Explains GD archivist David Lemieux, “It still boggles my mind to think of the Grateful Dead's creative output in 1970. For any other band, catching lightning with an album as perfect and excellent as Workingman's Dead is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement. The Dead, however, followed up just a few months later with an album that virtually every Dead Head considers its equal. Ten songs, nearly all of which became cornerstones of the band's live repertoire for the next 25 years. Today, 50 years on, these songs are still essential parts of the band members' continuing live activities. The 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes one of the first, and best, live performances of 1971, just a couple of months after the release of American Beauty, and the five live debuts in the show demonstrate that the spectacular creativity of 1970 was no fluke. This was the new Dead, and we're still tapping our feet and humming along to these songs 50 years later.”
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Check out the tracklisting of each offering and listen to the previously unreleased, 2/18/71 "Truckin'" below:
AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION
CD Track Listing
Disc One: Original Album Remastered
- “Box Of Rain”
- “Friend Of The Devil”
- “Sugar Magnolia”
- “Operator”
- “Candyman”
- “Ripple”
- “Brokedown Palace”
- “Till The Morning Comes”
- “Attics Of My Life”
- “Truckin’”
Disc Two: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/18/71)
- “Bertha”
- “Truckin’”
- “Hurts Me Too”
- “Loser”
- “Greatest Story Ever Told”>
- “Johnny B. Goode”
- “Mama Tried”
- “Hard To Handle”
- “Dark Star”>
- “Warf Rat”>
- “Dark Star”>
- “Me And My Uncle”
Disc Three: Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY (2/18/71)
- “Casey Jones”
- “Playing In The Band”
- “Me And Bobby McGee”
- “Candyman”
- “Big Boss Man”
- “Sugar Magnolia”
- “St. Stephen”>
- “Not Fade Away”>
- “Goin’ Down The Road Feeling Bad”>
- “Not Fade Away”>
- “Uncle John’s Band”
AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY PICTURE DISC
- “Box Of Rain”
- “Friend Of The Devil”
- “Sugar Magnolia”
- “Operator”
- “Candyman”
- “Ripple”
- “Brokedown Palace”
- “Till The Morning Comes”
- “Attics Of My Life”
- “Truckin’”
