The Grateful Dead will be celebrating its most lauded studio masterpiece with a 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition. Available on October 30th, the three-CD set will feature the original album (“Truckin’,” “Candyman,” “Sugar Magnolia”) with newly remastered audio, plus one of the most requested archival recordings in the Dead’s vault – the unreleased concert recorded on February 18, 1971 at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. On stage that night, the Dead debuted a whole new batch of songs, five in all: “Wharf Rat,” “Playing In The Band,” “Bertha,” “Greatest Story Ever Told” and “Loser.” Fans were also treated to a few standbys from the previous decade, including “St. Stephen” and an inspired “Dark Star>Wharf Rat>Dark Star” jam. Notably, keyboardist Ned Lagin (who played piano on “Candyman” on American Beauty) sat in with the band for the show. It’s all been 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.
There will also be an AMERICAN BEAUTY: 50th ANNIVERSARY VINYL PICTURE DISC, limited to 15,000, and Dead.net exclusive colored vinyl with just 4,000 copies available. Both feature the newly remastered version of the original album. Go over here to preorder!
