The Grateful Dead has played thousands and thousands of shows, each show being unique and each song being played in a unique way. Their instrumental talent is top notch, the lyrics are deep and far reaching. I really can't say enough. Bands like R.E.M. and U2 literally manufacturer thei...
21: Grateful Dead: Live/Dead (1969) Grateful Dead were one of the most popular touring bands of the 60s and their live double-album from 1969 shows why. With no shortage of candidates to consider among the best live albums of all time,Live/Dead“was our first live release and it remain...
The lyrics invoke a terrible lot: even though blacks made the cuisine (“sift the meal”) they were given the “husk”—the worse parts—and that's where "my mama's troubles begin." Pigs’ feet are not the prime cut of the pig, to say the least. Yet, when seasoned and pickled th...
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6: Grateful Dead:Aoxomoxoa(1969) Anthem of the Sunis often held up as among their finest work, butAoxomoxoawas as psychedelic as the Dead ever got on one of their studio albums. The eight-minute “What’s Become of The Baby’ was effectively their “Revolution 9,” but note how the...
37. Grateful Dead –“Cumberland Blues” The lyrics for this song about working in a mine are a little more risque, the song sings about toiling underground to make extra money for ‘Melinda’ who for all intents and purposes is probably a lady of the night. ...
If you take a look at the lyrics, this is a song from a woman to her man. It is a song of gratitude that speaks of how thankful she is for having met a man who can make her feel happy and deeply in love. 16. Wind Beneath My Wings, Bette Midler ...
Like most of 2009’sTogether Through Life, “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’“ was co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. It opens the album with a shadowy image of last-ditch romance as guard and guide in a barren world. With Mike Campbell’s guitar lashing against rumbling drums...
Johnny Cash wrote and performed several of the best train songs. His lyrics to “Folsom Prison Blues” contain the words train and track. Another song that specifically references trains is “Casey Jones” by the Grateful Dead, although the train conductor in this song doesn't sound like the...
The Grateful Dead, ‘Box of Rain’ 1970 Writer(s):Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter Powered byPlay the Full Song Perhaps the Dead’s finest moment in a recording studio, with its raggedly gorgeous harmony singing and concise down-home guitar beauty. Robert Hunter wrote “Box of Rain” to music Ph...