Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead Album

The Workingman's Dead album proved that the Grateful Dead could put aside their jams for awhile and produce a great album with tightly constructed and concisely played tunes. Erase the Haight-Ashbury hippie Grateful Dead image and you realize that you are listening to quintessential American music, with roots ranging from Appalachian folk to Cajun Bayou to the Oakie dirt farm and the field hand's campfire. This is phenomenal American music played by a great American band. The album's feet are planted firmly where its title indicates, in the life and music of the workingman. It is ageless music that remains as fresh today as it was when it was first recorded.