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"Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead . Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter , "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.
Songs such as "Uncle John's Band", "High Time", and "Cumberland Blues" were brought to life with soaring harmonies and layered vocal textures that had not previously been a part of the band's sound. According to the 1992 Dead oral history, Aces Back to Back, in the summer of 1968, Stephen Stills vacationed at Mickey Hart's ranch in Novato.
Jerry Garcia wrote the music to accompany Hunter's lyrics, [3] and the song debuted August 18, 1970 at Fillmore West in San Francisco. "Ripple" has a similar melody to the gospel hymn "Because He Lives," which was published a year later. [ 4 ]
Road Trips Volume 3 Number 3 is a live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Recorded on May 15, 1970, and released on June 14, 2010, it was the 11th of the "Road Trips" series of albums, and the first to contain three discs instead of two.
Several of the songs on this album are covers of other recording artists. The first of these is Grateful Dead's "Uncle John's Band". "Sunny Afternoon" is a song by The Kinks. "She's Got You" is a famous Country/Pop song written by Hank Cochran and first recorded and released as a single by Patsy Cline.
Dave's Picks Volume 10 is a three-CD live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert recorded on December 12, 1969, at the Thelma music venue in Los Angeles, California. It was produced as a limited edition of 14,000 numbered copies, and was released on May 1, 2014. [1] [2] [3] [4]
"St. Stephen" is a song by the Grateful Dead, written by Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and originally released on the 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The same year, a live version of the song was released on Live/Dead , their first concert album.
Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings is a 9 CD live album by the American rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert. It contains three complete concerts, missing only the encore of the first concert.