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Grateful Dead - Postcards of the Hanging - Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan '2002

Postcards of the Hanging - Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan
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Album name Postcards of the Hanging - Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan
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Date 2002
GenreFolk Rock
Play time 1:25:47
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
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Size 199 / 457 / 524 Mb
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Tracks list

Tracklist: 

CD 1

1. When I Paint My Masterpiece (Live, October 11, 1989) (6:11)
2. She Belongs to Me (Live, September 15, 1985) (7:20)
3. Just like Tom Thumbs Blues (Live, July 12, 1989) (4:29)
4. Maggies Farm (Live, October 3, 1987) (6:14)
5. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Live, July 16, 1988)
(8:07)
6. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (Live, June 10, 1973) (7:36)
7. Ballad of a Thin Man (Live, April 1, 1988) (6:41)
8. Desolation Row (Live, March 24, 1990) (9:55)
9. All Along the Watchtower (Live, July 4, 1989) (5:44)
10. Its All over Now, Baby Blue (Live, December 3, 1981) (7:23)
11. Man of Peace (Live, June 9, 1987) (5:51)

CD 2

12. Queen Jane Approximately (Live, December 29, 1988) (6:12) *
13. Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn) (Live, December 30, 1985) (4:02) *



Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead were kindred souls on parallel trails: born of
folklore and Beat verse, armed with electricity, committed to the reinvention of
American song. The Dead recognized that bond at birth; they were playing
“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” onstage in 1966. And if the
Dead were not the boldest of Dylan-cover bands — no great liberties are
taken in these live tracks, mostly from the 1980s — they were the purest:
swinging through the songbook like real fans, finding workingman’s poetry
in Dylan’s most elusive parables.

In concert, the Dead preferred rapport to tension, which means these readings
run warm and long, at a Mr. Natural gait. A 1973 version of “It Takes a
Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” rolls like “Truckin” in
very low gear. Where guitarists Robbie Robertson and Mike Bloomfield played
behind Dylan with cutting pith, Jerry Garcia solos here with conversational
poise, accenting the stories with incisive subtlety: silver-toned shots of
choler in “Maggie’s Farm”; the honeyed melancholy of his
breaks in the long stroll down “Desolation Row.”

Vocally, the Dead divided the songs wisely. Guitarist Bob Weir delivers
“Ballad of a Thin Man” and the extended nightmare “Stuck
Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again” with appropriate bite,
while Garcia’s wounded tenor suits the haunted longing of “She
Belongs to Me.” Like Dylan (who closes the album at the mike on “Man
of Peace”), Garcia was a singer of limited technique. Unlike Dylan, he
always sang with his heart in his mouth. That’s sympathy you hear in
Garcia’s warble in this ’81 reprise of “Baby Blue,”
not censure.

This set suffers slightly from its concept; a great thing about the
Dead’s Dylan covers was the element of surprise, the way they just popped
up in a show. You can’t help but wish, too, that Garcia, who died in
1995, was here to take on recent Dylan: “Things Have Changed” or the
fire and wit of Love and Theft. This was a beautiful friendship, though —
while it lasted.

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