Grateful Dead American Beauty Vinyl Mouse Studio
American beauty is the fifth album by the grateful dead.
Grateful dead american beauty vinyl mouse studio. Jerry garcia bob weir ron pigpen mckernan phil lesh bill kreutzmann and mickey hart recorded american beauty in august and september 1970 at wally heider studios in san francisco with producer stephen quinn barncard. San francisco art studio founded by stanley mouse back in 1959 that then opened it s doors in frisco in 1965. The grateful dead will give their 1970 studio album american beauty the deluxe reissue treatment. American beauty can also be read as american reality thanks to mouse studios.
Read jim james american beauty tribute from new grateful dead vinyl boxset grateful dead roll out surprise workingman s dead studio outtakes this limited edition grateful dead phone case. The grateful dead american beauty album. Limited edition of 4 000. Records the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album workingman s dead issued earlier in the year though the americana approach is still evident in the songwriting comparatively the sound focused more on folk harmonies and major key.
Such a quick follow up on studio albums was unheard of for the band and a feat. Explore releases from mouse studios at discogs. Look at the cover. Shop for vinyl cds and more from mouse studios at the discogs marketplace.
The album first. In 1970 with the grateful dead riding the wave of success following the acclaimed surrounding their album workingman s dead the headed back into the studio to create the quite brilliant follow up american beauty many of the songs created across the recording of those two albums solidified their presence within the grateful dead s live shows and cemented their place in the annals of rock. When they entered the studio workingman s dead was still on the charts going strong. If more of the american reality were this album we d all have a lot more to be thankful for andy zwerling rolling stone december 24 1970.
We are thankful to be here today celebrating the grateful dead s most lauded studio masterpiece. It was recorded between august and september 1970 and originally released in november 1970 by warner bros. The grateful dead and rhino will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band s seminal american beauty studio album next month with a deluxe reissue due out on october 30th. The album continued the folk rock and country music explored on workingman s dead and features the lyrics of robert hunter prominently.