The Warner Bros. Studio Albums
2010 box set by Grateful Dead
The Warner Bros. Studio Albums is a box set of five vinyl LPs by the rock group the Grateful Dead . It is a reissue of their first five studio albums: The Grateful Dead (1967), Anthem of the Sun (1968), Aoxomoxoa (1969), Workingman's Dead (1970), and American Beauty (1970).[ 1] [ 2] These albums were originally released by Warner Bros. Records . The box set was released by Rhino Records on September 21, 2010.
The Warner Bros. Studio Albums features the original mixes for Anthem of the Sun and Aoxomoxoa . Anthem of the Sun was remixed and reissued in 1972. The original mix had been unavailable on vinyl since that time, although it was reissued on CD in 2001 for the Golden Road box set, and in 2003 as a stand-alone album.[ 3] Aoxomoxoa was remixed and reissued in 1971, and the original mix had been unavailable on either vinyl or CD since then.[ 4]
The box set contains new pressings of the five albums, which were intended to have audiophile -level sound quality.[ 5] The records were produced on 180-gram vinyl using the original master recordings.
The Warner Bros. Studio Albums also contains a reissue of the "Dark Star "/"Born Cross-Eyed " seven-inch single . Additionally it includes an illustrated booklet, and a reproduction of a promotional poster for the first album.[ 6]
Track listing
The Grateful Dead
Side one
"The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)" (Jerry Garcia , Bill Kreutzmann , Phil Lesh , Ron McKernan , Bob Weir )
"Beat It On Down the Line" (Jesse Fuller )
"Good Morning Little School Girl " (Sonny Boy Williamson )
"Cold Rain and Snow" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)
"Sittin' on Top of the World " (Walter Jacobs , Lonnie Carter)
"Cream Puff War" (Garcia)
Side two
"Morning Dew " (Bonnie Dobson , Tim Rose )
"New, New Minglewood Blues" (traditional, arranged by Garcia)
"Viola Lee Blues" (Noah Lewis )
Anthem of the Sun
Side one
"That's It for the Other One"
"Cryptical Envelopment" (Garcia)
"Quadlibet for Tenderfeet" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)
"The Faster We Go, the Rounder We Get" (Kreutzmann, Weir)
"We Leave the Castle" (Tom Constanten )
"New Potato Caboose" (Lesh, Robert Petersen)
"Born Cross-Eyed " (Weir)
Side two
"Alligator" (Lesh, McKernan, Robert Hunter )
"Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Lesh, McKernan, Weir)
Aoxomoxoa
Side one
"St. Stephen " (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
"Dupree's Diamond Blues" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Rosemary" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Doin' That Rag" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Mountains of the Moon" (Garcia, Hunter)
Side two
"China Cat Sunflower " (Garcia, Hunter)
"What's Become of the Baby" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Cosmic Charlie" (Garcia, Hunter)
Workingman's Dead
Side one
"Uncle John's Band " (Garcia, Hunter)
"High Time" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Dire Wolf " (Garcia, Hunter)
"New Speedway Boogie" (Garcia, Hunter)
Side two
"Cumberland Blues" (Garcia, Lesh, Hunter)
"Black Peter" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Easy Wind" (Hunter)
"Casey Jones " (Garcia, Hunter)
American Beauty
Side one
"Box of Rain " (Lesh, Hunter)
"Friend of the Devil " (Garcia, John Dawson , Hunter)
"Sugar Magnolia " (Weir, Hunter)
"Operator" (McKernan)
"Candyman" (Garcia, Hunter)
Side two
"Ripple " (Garcia, Hunter)
"Brokedown Palace" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Till the Morning Comes" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Attics of My Life" (Garcia, Hunter)
"Truckin' " (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter)
Personnel
Grateful Dead
Additional musicians
Production
Blair Jackson – liner notes
David Glasser, Chris Bellman – mastering
Jamie Howarth, Plangent Processes – restoration
References
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Contemporary Retrospective
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Crimson White & Indigo
Formerly the Warlocks
Europe '72: The Complete Recordings
Europe '72 Volume 2
Dark Star
Spring 1990
Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It
Winterland: May 30th 1971
May 1977
Sunshine Daydream
Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco, CA 4/18/70
Live at Hampton Coliseum
Spring 1990 (The Other One)
Wake Up to Find Out
Houston, Texas 11-18-1972
30 Trips Around the Sun: The Definitive Live Story 1965–1995
30 Trips Around the Sun
Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, CA 11/10/1967
Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 4/25/77
July 1978: The Complete Recordings
Red Rocks: 7/8/78
July 29 1966, P.N.E. Garden Aud., Vancouver Canada
May 1977: Get Shown the Light
Cornell 5/8/77
Robert F. Kennedy Stadium, Washington, D.C., July 12 & 13, 1989
Fillmore West 1969: February 27th
Pacific Northwest '73–'74: The Complete Recordings
Pacific Northwest '73–'74: Believe It If You Need It
Portland Memorial Coliseum, Portland, OR, 5/19/74
Playing in the Band, Seattle, Washington, 5/21/74
The Warfield, San Francisco, California, October 9 & 10, 1980
Fillmore West 1969: February 28th
Giants Stadium 1987, 1989, 1991
Saint of Circumstance
Ready or Not
2020s
June 1976
Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12-10-71
Listen to the River: St. Louis '71 '72 '73
Lyceum '72: The Complete Recordings
Lyceum Theatre, London, England 5/26/72
In and Out of the Garden: Madison Square Garden '81, '82, '83
Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 3/9/81
Here Comes Sunshine 1973
RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
Friend of the Devils: April 1978
Duke '78
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