The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs: The Music Never Stops

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Preface Deadication Table of Contents
Introduction Quick Start Guide The 100 Most Essential Songs Alabama Getaway Althea And We Bid You Goodnight Attics of My Life Beat It On Down the Line Bertha Bird Song Black Muddy River Black Peter Black Throated Wind Box of Rain Brokedown Palace Brown Ey
Bibliography and Sources: For Further Reading
Acknowledgements and Thanks About the Authors

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In the studio and more than 2,300 concerts between 1965 and 1995, the Grateful Dead performed more than 400 different songs. Their music continues to be tremendously popular as surviving band members and countless tribute bands memorialize the legacy the band left us upon the death of lead guitarist and singer, Jerry Garcia. The Grateful Dead’s 100 Essential Songs examines the band’s remarkable musical journey, pairing song analyses and memories with an online list of recommended recordings. Beyond a mere summary of each song, the descriptions here compare individual performances as they relate to the evolution of the band’s style and the waning health but vibrant spirit of Garcia. Welcoming readers into the unbroken chain of the Dead’s legacy, this book is indispensable for Deadheads, students of popular music, rock musicians, and anyone marveling at how the Dead’s appeal continues today. With linked performances and studio recordings to allow readers to listen along with the book, as well as other song analyses and first-hand narratives of the authors’ experience at hundreds of Dead concerts, the book will appeal to Deadheads, students of popular music, rock musicians, and anyone marveling at how the Dead’s appeal continues today. The online song list may be accessed under the features tab at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538110584.

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In The Grateful Dead's 100 Essential Songs, Barry Barnes and Bob Trudeau-both members of the Grateful Dead Scholars Caucus, which is a section of the Southwest Popular Culture Association meetings-provide fact-filled profiles of the one hundred songs they believe are essential listening for, in their words, "a serious appreciation of the music of the Grateful Dead." Of course, Deadheads are bound to quibble about which songs make the cut for this book, and so that conversation, like the music, will go on forever. In many ways, the book serves as a nice guide for first-time listeners who might wonder why people devote their musical lives to the Dead and what about this music keeps them listening to it. After all, the attraction that many find in the Dead's intractable jams and musical explorations simply bore many listeners who can't hear the reasons anyone would want to listen to the music, let alone listen to it obsessively. This book won't convince those listeners-there are simply too many facts about which first-timers won't care-but it will give them a starting point for finding the songs that might take them down that road

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