The Grateful Dead has shared an unexpected treat from their fans and its called The Angel’s Share. Compiled from dozens of 16-track reels that were recently discovered in unlabeled boxes, THE ANGEL’S SHARE includes outtakes for every song on the Workingman’s Dead album, which have been unheard since they left the studio over 50 years ago. Under the supervision of David Lemieux, engineer Brian Kehew and archivist Mike Johnson spent countless hours compiling and piecing these reels together to create the final opus.
The Angel’s Share transports listeners back to 1970 to the Pacific High Recordings Studio in San Francisco. You’ll hear over two-and-a-half hours of unreleased partial and complete studio outtakes and be fly-on-the wall privy to insider conversations from Workingman’s Dead recording sessions. Included are discussions of pacing and arrangements, “talkback” from the studio to the control room with the album’s producers, Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor-Jackson, and even the shuffling of feet on the studio floor. Listeners are treated to Stripped-back instrumental takes lending new beauty to “High Time,” and heightened joy to “Uncle John’s Band,” catch “New Speedway Boogie” settling into a steady groove, Pigpen prowling and howling his way through “Easy Wind,” and top it all off with a blazing “Casey Jones.”
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