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American Beauty [CD]
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American Beauty is the Grateful Dead at their most graceful, a 1970 album of harmony-rich, acoustic-leaning songs presented here as a single CD edition.
Released only months after Workingman's Dead, it continued the band's turn away from long psychedelic jams toward tight, beautifully written songs rooted in folk, country and bluegrass. Inspired partly by Crosby, Stills and Nash, the band worked hard on their vocal blend, and the results are some of the warmest harmonies in their catalogue. Lyricist Robert Hunter was at the top of his game, writing words that feel both ancient and immediate.
Box of Rain opens the album with Phil Lesh singing a tender song written for his dying father. Friend of the Devil rolls along on fleet-fingered acoustic picking that has made it a campfire favourite for generations. Ripple is close to a hymn, gentle and wise, and Truckin' closes things with a loose, rambling tale of life on the road that handed the band one of their most quoted lines.
Every song feels lived in, played by musicians who had found a new and honest way to tell stories.
For many listeners, this is the gateway into the Dead's world, and it still sounds like a warm afternoon spent with old friends.
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