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Grateful Dead Details ‘American Beauty 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition’ Reissue

September 9, 2020

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The Grateful Dead will give their 1970 studio album American Beauty the deluxe reissue treatment. American Beauty: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition will be available on CD via Rhino on October 30 with American Beauty: 50th Anniversary Picture Disc set for release on vinyl the same date.

American Beauty: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes a remastered version of the 10-track LP as well as a previously unreleased official recording of the band’s February 18, 1971 concert at The Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. The Grateful Dead – which consisted of Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart at the time — recorded American Beauty in August and September 1970 with producer Stephen Quinn Barncard at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco just months after the release of their previous LP, Workingman’s Dead.

Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux shared the following about the forthcoming set:

It still boggles my mind to think of the Grateful Dead’s creative output in 1970. For any other band, catching lightning with an album as perfect and excellent as Workingman’s Dead is a once-in-a-lifetime achievement. The Dead, however, followed up just a few months later with an album that virtually every Dead Head considers its equal. Ten songs, nearly all of which became cornerstones of the band’s live repertoire for the next 25 years. Today, 50 years on, these songs are still essential parts of the band members’ continuing live activities. The 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition includes one of the first, and best, live performances of 1971, just a couple of months after the release of American Beauty, and the five live debuts in the show demonstrate that the spectacular creativity of 1970 was no fluke. This was the new Dead, and we’re still tapping our feet and humming along to these songs 50 years later.

Stream “Truckin’” from February 18, 1971 as a preview of the upcoming release:

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