![]() Pigpen’s two originals added a distinctive flourish, but the new tunes also made it clear that Weir had emerged in his own right as a singer and songwriter, as well as showing that the wellsprings that fed Garcia and Hunter’s music were drawing on ever deeper aquifers." - Nicholas Meriwether Those songs showed a band that was consolidating and deepening its distinctive approach to American vernacular music while still expanding the range of what that could include. English fans were especially delighted to hear the new songs - for fans accustomed to bands using concerts to promote their records, that kind of generosity was striking. At the Lyceum, showgoers heard a tapestry of music that knit together the disparate strands of the ’60s psychedelic baroque of AOXOMOXOA and LIVE/DEAD with the Americana turn epitomized by WORKINGMAN’S DEAD and AMERICAN BEAUTY, which in many ways both continued and culminated in Skull and Roses. ![]() ![]() And while that honored their roots and surveyed their history and evolution, the overwhelming focus was on the present. The repertoire made a statement: this is who we are. "What fans heard in these four shows was both a history of the Dead and a survey of their unique vision of American music, from folk to rock, with blues and R&B and country-and-western and Bakersfield all included, all melded together by the improvisational spirit of American jazz in a small-group format that owed much to European classical music. Restoration and Speed Correction by Plangent Processes.Mastered by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser.Sourced from recordings by Betty Cantor, Janet Furman, Bob Matthews, Rosie & Wizard.Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/26/72).Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/25/72).Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/24/72).Lyceum Theatre, London, England (5/23/72).
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