Rare WLP Misprint Front Cover GRATEFUL DEAD Workingman's Dead 70 US Promo 1B/1B

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GRATEFUL DEAD - 'Workingman's Dead'

(Very Rare US White Label PROMO press on Warner label  #  WS 1869 from 1970)

Label/Sleeve -> White Label PROMO copy.. The Soft  Arty paper feel to the cover has Inverted printing on the back cover as in first pressing.

Has the original Warner/Reprise Loss Leaders inner sleeve.

Matrix # ->  WS-1869  39719 A-1B      KD / WS-1869 39720 B-1B     KD

Grade (Cover/Vinyl)  -> VG+(+) / VG++

Description  -> The vinyl plays beautifully with superb fidelity with occasional light background sound. The surface looks clean with few sleeve marks clearly visible that do not effect play. The grade is solid VG++. The  labels don’t show any spindle mark on one side and faint couple spindle mark on the oher side. One label has a sticker removal residue (see picture).

The sleeve is in decent shape, just normal handling wear. NO Splits, ALL spines Fully Intact, NO Writing. Inverted Back cover (only in First pressings) and the front picture is out of focus(very rare misprint)

Workingman's Dead, which came out in 1970, marked a radical shift both in the music of the Grateful Dead and in the counterculture that had nurtured the band. Four previous albums, culminating in Live/Dead (also in 1970), had traced a steady progression into psychedelic adventurism, as the group seemed intent on translating the trips-festival feel of its live shows to vinyl.

On Workingman's Dead, however, guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter wrote a suite of eight songs that are far more than occasions for extended instrumental jams. Songs like "Uncle John's Band" and "Cumberland Blues" were focused and concise: in their largely acoustic arrangements and appealing harmonies, they evoked an older folk tradition and a sense of community based on more than stoned pieties.

Events like the Manson murders and the free concert at Altamont, at which a young black man was killed by the Hell's Angels, had punctured the Utopian dreams of the hippie movement. Workingman's Dead is filled with a consequent sense of foreboding. The album's concluding song, "Casey Jones," transforms Ken Kesey's bus of Merry Pranksters into a steam engine careering out of control, while "New Speedway Boogie" (whose title nods to the setting of the Altamont concert, at a racetrack) cautiously wishes that "One way or another/This darkness got to give."

Like Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding and the Band's Music From Big Pink, Workingman's Dead is a moral self-examination, a modest, even penitent look back, not for nostalgic reassurance but for wisdom and perspective. The album maps the crises of the present onto the past and offers solace only in the ability of essential human virtues ("Oh, what I want to know/Is, are you kind?") to survive even the most harrowing chaos.

Musicians :

Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, vocals

Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

Phil Lesh - bass, vocals

Ron "Pig Pen" McKernan - keyboards, vocals

Bill Kreutzmann - drums

Mickey Hart - drums

Tracks :

1.   Uncle John's Band  4:45

2.   High Time  5:15

3.   Dire Wolf  3:15

4.   New Speedway Boogie  4:07

5.   Cumberland Blues  3:18

6.   Black Peter  5:44

7.   Easy Wind  5:00

8.   Casey Jones  4:24 

Grades are VG/VG+/VG++ or EX-/EX/EX+ or NM-/M-/Mint (SEALED)

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