Grateful Dead Discography
It’s 1967 and hippies are growing like mushrooms in the shadows of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district, beneath the careless eyes of two burning…
Category: Grateful Dead
[Review] Grateful Dead: Anthem of the Sun (1968)
The band’s second album better reflects their psychedelic stageshow, including those infamous extended jams.
[Review] Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa (1969)
Featuring the lyrics of Robert Hunter, Aoxomoxoa is the band’s most accessible and succinct album to date.
Grateful Dead: Workingman’s Dead (1970)
[Kronomyth 5.0] Owsley, Steel & Nashville Skyline.
[Review] Paul Kantner/Jefferson Starship: Blows Against The Empire (1970)
[Kronomyth 1.0] The mothership of all sci-fi concept albums.
[Review] New Riders of the Purple Sage (1971)
Originally cast as an offshoot of the Dead, this debut features Jerry Garcia, Mickey Hart and some of the Riders’ most enduring tracks.
[Review] Jerry Garcia (1972)
Jerry’s first true solo album is the real deal, not to mention all the other great songs that have since been rolled into…
[Review] New Riders of the Purple Sage: Powerglide (1972)
Sort of what you’d expect the second time around: the material isn’t as strong, the Dead connection is weaker, but Buddy Cage and…
Mickey Hart: Rolling Thunder (1972)
If you ever wondered why the Dead needed two drummers, hear is your answer. Billy Kreutzmann played the straight man, jazz schooled, capable…
Grateful Dead: “Sugar Magnolia (live)” (1973)
Believe it or not, this song wasn’t released as a single until a live version was excised from the Europe ’72 set.