Grateful Dead – Complete Studio Albums Collection: 1967-1989 (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 08:40:22 minutes | 18,48 GB | Genre: Rock
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This new hi-res collection of the Grateful Dead’s studio work has been painstakingly produced from the original master tapes of each album, using their original mixes to produce a work that is truer to the original sound than any previous release. Included in this collection are the band’s 13 studio albums, spanning three decades and containing over 8 hours of music, lovingly rendered in hi-resolution…

The Complete Studio Albums Collection contains all 13 of Grateful Dead’s studio albums. Drawing from the 1960s, the bundle features the group’s gold-certified self-titled debut; Anthem of the Sun, which is the first with drummer Mickey Hart; and Aoxomoxoa, which boasts the live staple “St. Stephen.” Music from the 1970s includes: the back-to-back platinum releases Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty; Wake Of The Flood, the first with keyboardist Keith Godchaux who replaced founding member Ron “Pigpen” McKernan; From the Mars Hotel, which features the debut of “Scarlet Begonias”; Blues For Allah with the standout track “Franklin’s Tower”; and two gold albums in a row, Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street. The 1980s are represented by: Go To Heaven, the first with keyboardist Brent Mydland; the double-platinum In The Dark; and the group’s final studio album, Built To Last, which debuted on Halloween 1989.

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 03:07:25 minutes | 4,42 GB | Genre: Rock
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Due July 10th, Workingman’s Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be available as a three-CD set and digital equivalents featuring the original album with newly remastered sound, plus an unreleased complete concert recorded on February 21, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. The show was mixed from the 16-track analog master tapes by Jeffrey Norman at Bob Weir’s Marin County TRI Studios and mastered by Grammy® Award-winning engineer, David Glasser, along with restoration and speed correction by Plangent Processes. 2/21/71 delivers a plethora of songs from both Workingman’s Dead and the band’s follow-up album, American Beauty. Some highlights include Weir’s moving vocal take on “Me and Bobby McGee,” Pigpen’s whiskey-seasoned growl on “Easy Wind” and a stellar run through “Uncle John’s Band” to close out the show.

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share (1970/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:02 minutes | 2,96 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Grateful Dead have released Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share, a collection of candid studio outtakes from the recording of their seminal 1970 Americana album.

While the Dead are known for leaving few stones unturned in terms of live audio, studio remastering, and all of the other content that diehard fans obsess over, little has been released in the way of the Dead’s interpersonal communication within the studio. Sure, fans can find live mixes of classic concerts that feature the band members speaking to each other with in-ear monitors. But The Angel’s Share shows the band isolated together, during a time when they were still far greater friends than business partners.

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Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (1970/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:07 minutes | 817 MB | Genre: Rock
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“Workingman’s Dead” is the seminal masterpiece from psychedelic folk-rock band, the Grateful Dead. The group embodied the term jam band and developed one of the most loyal followings in rock history. “Workingman’s Dead” found the group returning to their traditional roots, blending together elements of country, folk, rock and blues. The album includes the band’s first radio hit and one of their definitive classics, “Uncle John’s Band”. “Workingman’s Dead” is included on Rolling Stone’s “500 Greatest Albums of All Time” and was voted by its readers as one of the best albums of the 1970s.

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Grateful Dead – The Very Best of the Grateful Dead (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:32 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Rock
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It only seems like there has been an endless stream of Grateful Dead compilations. In reality, there has only been a handful, and the most notable of those were released while the band was still an active recording and touring unit in the ’70s – and before they had belated chart success in the late ’80s, 20 years after their debut album. So, Warner/Rhino’s 2003 collection The Very Best of Grateful Dead marks the first attempt to do a thorough single-disc overview of the group’s career, encompassing not just their classic Warner albums but also the records they cut for their own Grateful Dead/UA and Arista. As always with the Dead, it’s hard to condense the band’s free-ranging, freewheeling output onto one disc, and there are some big songs and concert staples missing here, including the perennial “Dark Star,” “Jack Straw,” “Black Peter,” “Stella Blue,” “Brokedown Palace,” “Playing in the Band,” “Wharf Rat,” and “Terrapin Station.” They are missed, some more than others, but the 17 tracks here do present nearly all sides of the Dead while hitting their biggest songs: “Truckin’,” “Touch of Grey,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Casey Jones,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Uncle John’s Band,” “Box of Rain,” and “Ripple.” As that list proves, this is a set that leans heavily on the twin peaks of Workingman’s Dead and American Beauty, but there’s a reason why those two are beloved of Deadheads and casual fans alike: the classic songs are there. Also present here are staples like “The Golden Road,” “One More Saturday Night,” “Estimated Prophet,” “Eyes of the World,” and “U.S. Blues,” which may not be as well-known to the general populace but help fill in the picture and provide a good portrait of the band. The collection would have been better if sequenced a little more chronologically, but nevertheless it provides a first-class introduction to a band whose catalog can often seem a little unwieldy.

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Grateful Dead – The Grateful Dead (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:54:25 minutes | 4,24 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Grateful Dead – Rhino

Has it really already been 50 years since The Grateful Dead released their debut album? My, my, those half-centuries certainly do fly by…

In commemoration of this momentous anniversary, we’re kicking off an equally-momentous, utterly epic album reissue series of the Dead’s back catalog, one which involves two-disc deluxe editions and limited-edition picture disc versions of all the group’s studio and live albums. The original albums will have newly remastered sound, the second disc of each will contain unreleased recordings, and the 12” picture discs will contain that same newly-remastered audio. Mind you, it’ll be a limited-edition situation with the vinyl reissues, so if you don’t rush to get one of the 10,000 copies we’re producing, you’ll be out of luck.

In the case of THE GRATEFUL DEAD: 50th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION, the bonus disc features the band’s complete unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 and select cuts from July 30, 1966 at the P.N.E. Garden Auditorium in British Columbia. The band’s performances at the Vancouver Trips Festival are among only a handful of recordings that exist from the Dead’s first two years, so just know what a big deal this is.

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Grateful Dead – The Best Of The Grateful Dead (Live) [Remastered] (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:33:24 minutes | 5,25 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Best of the Grateful Dead Live is a compilation album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains songs that were recorded live in concert and previously released on other Grateful Dead albums. It was released on March 23, 2018.

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Grateful Dead – The Best Of The Grateful Dead (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:38:45 minutes | 3,31 GB | Genre: Rock
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The Best of the Grateful Dead kicks off 2015 and the 50th anniversary of the Dead.This is the first time that there has been a 2 CD best of collection. The existing “The Very Best of the Grateful Dead” is a single disc of tracks selected based on the popularity/sales of the tracks. This new collection has been compiled to highlight classic favorites from a fan point of view.

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Grateful Dead – Sugaree (Live at the Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12/10/71) (Single) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 08:49 minutes | 298 MB | Genre: Rock
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One of the shortest-lived iterations of the Grateful Dead was the band that existed December 1971 through March 1972. Jerry, Bob, Phil, Bill, Pigpen, and Keith formed a formidable version of the Dead that only played a few shows together before Donna Jean joined as vocalist, and before Pigpen would depart the stage for good in June 1972. What this sextet lacked in quantity of shows it made up for with creativeness, power, and inspiration.

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Grateful Dead – Spring 1990: The Other One (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:22:52 minutes | 25,31 GB | Genre: Rock
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A limited edition 23 CD box set release of eight Grateful Dead shows from March and April 1990.

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Grateful Dead – Smiling On A Cloudy Day (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 41:07 minutes | 1,53 GB | Genre: Rock
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The summer of 1967 was a cultural milestone, drawing as many as 100,000 young people to the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood of San Francisco. The social phenomena was a convergence of free thinking, hippie fashion, political upheaval, sexual freedom, drug use and creative expression. This movement spread to other cities around the US and around the world. The Grateful Dead were at the cultural epicenter of the scene at Haight-Ashbury and the Summer of Love. This is a new compilation of core Grateful Dead tracks from this period.

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