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LABEL: Real Gone Music
CD RELEASE DATE: 3/27/2020
ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 2/24/2010
VARIANT: CD
Keith Godchauxs only been with the band a month but already he is tting in like a glove. This fall 1971 show captures the Dead dancing down their improvisational high wire like only they can. On one side of the precipice are the free form jams of their earlier incarnations. On the other are the country-inected tunes of American Beauty and Workingmans Dead, both released the preceding year. And no sequence captures the tension between the two quite like the rst sets Dark Star/El Paso sequence, during which the band improbably (and seamlessly) veers from their spaciest song to their most cowboy cover and back again. A true marvel of a medley. Then, speaking of cowboy, the second set goes full-on boots n spurs (the show is in Austin, after all) for its rst half-dozen songs, winding up with a barn burning Cumberland Blues. And then another sublime medley of Not Fade Away segueing into a Jam that toys with the China Cat Sunower theme, followed by a rip-roarin Goin Down the Road Feeling Bad and back to Not Fade Away. Blair Jacksons liner notes chart the course. HDCD sound mastered by Jeffrey Norman, toonever before available in stores!
Volume 3 No. 2 Presents the Band Playing in Austin, TX Shortly After Keith Godchaux Joined. The Concert Also Captures the Dead in a Transitional Phase Balanced Between Their Previous Exploratory Jamming and the More Structured Country-Rock Tunes of American Beauty and Workingmans Dead.
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