Grateful Dead / American Beauty: The Angel's Share

Grateful Dead
Title: American Beauty: The Angel's Share
Price: $12.99
Source: DEAD.NET (ALAC)
Runtime: 42mins
★ 6.5

Pre-Oder 発注したら、
先行して 10 曲分が DL 出来ました。
これを聴く限り、そこそこ楽しめる Demo
だったので、本編も楽しみに待っています。
音質も Good だと思います。

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AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE brings together
never-before-heard studio recordings compiled
from dozens of recently discovered 16-track reels.
It includes multiple outtakes for several album tracks
along with demos for every song on the album (except “Box Of Rain”)
plus one for “To Lay Me Down,” which was later included
on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, Garcia.
All 10 demos are available today for streaming and
digital download with the full 56-track AMERICAN BEAUTY:
THE ANGEL’S SHARE to be released as a digital exclusive on October 15,
shortly before the 50th anniversary of
the album’s original release date: November 1, 1970.

Like its predecessor, the latest incarnation of The Angel’s Share
was made possible by the tireless work of engineer Brian Kehew
and archivist Mike Johnson who –
operating under the supervision of Grateful Dead
legacy manager David Lemieux – spent countless hours compiling
and piecing the reels together to create this revelatory experience.

AMERICAN BEAUTY: THE ANGEL’S SHARE opens
with 10 demos that were recorded in August 1970
at Pacific High Recording Studio,
the same place the band recorded Workingman’s Dead
just a few months earlier.
While fans are accustomed to hearing songs
evolve through the band’s live recordings,
this installment of The Angel’s Share offers them
a rare opportunity to hear songs like “Ripple” (then titled “Hand Me Down”)
grow from its first demo into the final version.

The vast remainder of The Angel’s Share features
a mix of partial and complete takes from
these sessions including multiple takes of “Friend Of The Devil,”
“Ripple” and Pigpen’s “Operator,” an alternate mix of “Truckin’”
and a different version of “Candyman.”
These intimate in-studio performances are
interspersed with conversations that make it feel like you’re in the studio
with the band (Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann,
Phil Lesh, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan and Bob Weir)
along with producer Stephen Barncard and engineer Phil Sawyer.

The Angel’s Share is rounded out with
an acoustic mix of “Box Of Rain” and a version of “Attics Of My Life”
that spotlights Garcia alone on electric guitar,
both newly mixed from the band’s recording sessions
for the album later that summer at Wally Heider Recording.