Alternatives

Various Artists

Warner Brothers WB 1873

This sampler includes the Workingman's Dead version of New Speedway Boogie.

Tracks / Musicians

The tracks and performers on this compilation are;

• Purple Haze - The Jimi Hendix Experience
• Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young & the Crazy Horse
• Suite for 20G - James Taylor
• New Speedway Boogie - Grateful Dead
• Rainbows All Over Your Blues - John Sebastian
• Directly from My Heart (To You) - Mothers of Invention
• Minstrel of the Dawn - Gordon Lightfoot
• Creole Belle - Arlo Guthrie
• Reasons for Waiting - Jethro Tull
• Woodstock - Joni Mitchell
• Around the Plynth - Small Faces
• Happy Time - Tim Buckley
• Neighbor Neighbor - Graham Bond
• Into the Mystic - Van Morrison

• Jerry Garcia - lead guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals
• Mickey Hart - drums
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - keyboards, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals

This sampler has a gatefold cover with notes about the various groups.

From the liner notes;

This is an album called Alternatives, the moniker our mammoth Title Department came up with after they were told to name an album of well-known, culturally significant and occasionally danceable non-hits of undeniable musical merit.

New Speedway Boogie is taken from;

• Workingman's Dead, Grateful Dead, 1970, Warner Bros. WS 1869