Grateful Dead – Anthem Of The Sun (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1968/2018) [FLAC 24bit/192kHz]

50 years ago, the psychedelic movement emerged, hairs started growing at will, organic food was topical and fashion trends in the United States were in no way controlled by Chanel or the others. Right in the midst of this movement, there was Grateful Dead. Proper hippies with electric guitars, soaked in hallucinogenic drugs, blossoming in an exuberant counterculture, and whose cornerstone was a psychedelic mix of musical genres. Blues, rock, country and sixties pop, a proper hotchpotch that hasn’t gone any bad in half a century. The Dead are still partying and releasing a remastered version of Anthem Of The Sun (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition), their second album from 1968. The one that introduced their second drummer Mickey Hart. At that time, the band featured Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron McKernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. The album includes two versions of the original Anthem of the Sun, with titles from 1968 as well as better-known mixes from 1961, remastered by David Glasser. It’s a rather rare occurrence for an album to combine several studio and live recordings of each song. It is without a doubt Grateful Dead’s most interesting and exciting work to listen to. With some titles exceeding the ten-minute mark, recording medleys and a previously unreleased recording of their concert at Winterland on October 22nd, 1967, this album truly feels like a landmark. New Potato Caboose, It Hurts Me Too, That’s It For The Other One, the versions are clearly different. Bill Kreutzmann described the album with these words: “It was easily our most experimental record, it was ground-breaking in its time and it remains a psychedelic listening experience to this day.” A whole era is brought back to life and we’d love to be back 50 years to witness the spectacle of Grateful Dead on stage. – Anna Coluthe

Tracklist:
1. That’s It For The Other One (Cryptical Envelopment / Quadlibet For Tender Feet / The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get / We Leave The Castle) (1968 Mix) 07:39
2. New Potato Caboose (1968 Mix) 08:25
3. Born Cross-Eyed (1968 Mix) 02:07
4. Alligator (1968 Mix) 11:20
5. Caution (Do Not Stop On Tracks) (1968 Mix) 09:48
6. That’s It For The Other One (Cryptical Envelopment / Quadlibet For Tender Feet / The Faster We Go, The Rounder We Get / We Leave The Castle) (1971 Remix) 07:40
7. New Potato Caboose (1971 Remix) 08:25
8. Born Cross-Eyed (1971 Remix) 02:21
9. Alligator (1971 Remix) 11:24
10. Caution (Do Not Stop On The Tracks) (1971 Remix) 09:03
11. Morning Dew (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 07:38
12. New Potato Caboose (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 09:49
13. It Hurts Me Too (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 04:16
14. Cold Rain And Snow (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 03:16
15. Turn On Your Love Light (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 12:21
16. Beat It On Down The Line (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 02:58
17. That’s It For The Other One (Cryptical Envelopment I / The Other Side / Cryptical Envelopment II) (Live at Winterland, San Francisco, CA 10/22/67) 14:47