Grateful Dead - Wake of the Flood (Dig)
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Artist: Grateful DeadEdition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2006-03-07
Music Label: Grateful Dead / Rhino
Soundtracks:
- Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
- Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
- Row Jimmy
- Stella Blue
- Here Comes Sunshine
- Eyes Of The World
- Weather Report Suite: Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
- Eyes Of The World (Live)
- Weather Report Suite (Studio Acoustic Demo): Prelude/Part I/Part II (Let It Grow)
- China Doll (Studio Outtake)
Music reviews of Wake of the Flood (Dig)
Music Review: Here Comes Sunshine
Rating: 5 Stars
This album is somewhat of an oddity within the Grateful Dead's canon. It sort of combines the folk-oriented song structures of "Workingman's Dead" and "American Beauty", along with the more jazz-oriented sound that they would approach more on "Mars Hotel" and "Blues For Allah".
"Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo" is an interesting opener. The lyrics are very folky, but interplay between Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir's guitars, Keith Godchaux's piano, and guest violinist Vassar Clements really makes it different from anything else that they've ever done in that style.
"Let Me Sing Your Blues Away" is a rarity for The Dead. This song is both composed and sung by Keith Godchaux. His voice is probably the least impressive of anybody in the Dead. He sounds like a struggling Pete Townshend. The song however blazes from the saxophone courtesy of Martin Fierro and Donna Jean's vocal melismatics.
"Row Jimmy" is another slow folky song. Godchaux break's his tradition of grand piano with his use of Hohner Clavinet, Fender Rhodes Piano, and Hammond Organ on this song. Garcia utilizes a very "Cosmic Charlie"-esque slide guitar sound during the verse interludes. It's also a rare feature for 4-part harmony between Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Donna Jean that was hardly ever utilized.
"Stella Blue" yet another slow folky song. It's one of pain and desperation in the vein of "Black Peter" and "China Doll". It even features very Pigpen-like organ playing by Godchaux (something of a tribute to a member who at the time was dying), and a rare post-1972 appearance of Garcia's pedal steel guitar.
"Here Comes Sunshine" feature the Dead's first use of synthesizer, which would be expanded on, on "Mars Hotel".
"Eyes Of The World" is another mold-breaker for this album. It would become the classic concert staple, but the album version stands on it's own. However the usual concert segues between this and "China Doll" were always solid and always a staple.
The albums true shining moment, "Weather Report Suite" the only artistic rendering of Bob Weir and lyricists Eric Anderson and John Perry Barlow.
It's a song in 3 parts;
"Prelude" - is perhaps the quietest thing that they ever recorded. You can hear a snippet of this played by Weir on the Steppin' Out set as a tune up between "Ramble On Rose" and "Black Throated Wind".
"Part 1" - is a mellow song about the change of seasons. It features Keith Godchaux on a mellow Fender Rhodes, and Garcia on pedal steel through a Leslie Speaker, giving it a tone of desperation. Interestingly, the transition to "Let It Grow" at the end of this always give me goosebumps.
"Part 2: Let It Grow" is something of an oddity in the Dead's canon. It once again features that mysteriously rare 4-part harmony that The Dead were never keen on reproducing live, but also breaks some rules with the inclusion of 12-string acoustic guitar courtesy of Dougie Sahm of the Sir Douglas Quintet, and a blazing horn section and Sax Solo from guest musician Frank Morin.
It's a good album by itself, coming after the live 1-2 punch of "Skull and Roses" and "Europe '72", it was time for a studio album, and "Wake Of The Flood" perfectly filled the void, and really showed how versatile musicians Keith & Donna were in the studio, in a way that they were unable to show on "Europe '72".
Description of Wake of the Flood (Dig)
Grateful Dead, Wake of the Flood:Following the Dead's early Warner Bros. LP's and their evolution from a San Francisco hippie phenomenon to one of the biggest bands on the planet, these five album masterpieces chronicle the creatively expansive portion of their long, strange, and amazing trip beginning in 1873 when they launchd their own label. Rhino's remastered & expanded editions celebrate the Dead's immortal music with state-of-the-art sonics and a wealth of fresh-from-the-archives bonus rarities.
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