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American Beauty promotional LP

Grateful Dead

Initial release : Nov 1970

Warner Bros. WS 1893

A white label promotional version of the Dead's sixth albumd.

Tracks

  • Box Of Rain (Hunter / Lesh)
  • Friend Of The Devil (Garcia / Hunter / Dawson)
  • Sugar Magnolia (Hunter / Weir)
  • Operator (McKernan)
  • Candyman (Garcia / Hunter)
  • Ripple (Garcia / Hunter)
  • Brokedown Palace (Garcia / Hunter)
  • Till The Morning Comes (Garcia / Hunter)
  • Attics Of My Life (Garcia / Hunter)
  • Truckin' (Garcia / Hunter / Lesh / Weir)
Musicians

Grateful Dead;

  • Jerry Garcia - guitar, pedal steel, piano, vocals
  • Phil Lesh - bass, guitar, piano, vocals
  • Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
  • Pigpen (Ron McKernan) - harmonica, vocals
  • Mickey Hart - percussion
  • Bill Kreutzmann - drums
Thanks to;
  • Dave Torbert - bass on Box Of Rain
  • Dave Nelson - electric guitar on Box Of Rain
  • David Grisman - mandolin on Friend Of The Devil and Ripple
  • Howard Wales - piano on Brokedown Palace and organ on Candyman and Truckin'
  • Ned Lagin - piano on Candyman
  • New Riders of the Purple Sage
Credits

  • Producers - The Grateful Dead
  • Co-producer - Audio-Steve Barncard
  • Artwork - Kelly-Mouse Studios
  • Photography - George Conger

  • Recorded at Wally Heider Studios, San Francisco in August and September 1970
Related releases

This promotional LP was released in conjunction with the regular commercial version of the LP

A number of the songs on American Beauty have been included on various artist compilation albums.

album cover

album cover

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