Grateful Dead | American Beauty | Album
Grateful Dead "American Beauty"
LP (NEW) - Vinyl, Rhino, US, 2011, RR1-1983, 603497847778, 180g Vinyl, Reissue
LP (MoFi) - Vinyl, MFSL, US, 2014, MFSL 2-429, 821797242912, 2xLP, 45 RPM, 180g High Definition Vinyl, Remastered, Numbered Limited Edition, Original Master Recording, Gatefold Sleeve w/ static-free Liner
CD (NEW) - Warners, Germany, 1989, 246 074, Jewel Case, Reissue
CD (NM) Near Mint - Warners, US, 1990, 1893-2, 075992719025, Reissue, Jewel Case, Booklet Insert
Released in November 1970, the Grateful Dead's fifth studio album, American Beauty, is widely considered the band's studio masterpiece. Arriving just five months after Workingman's Dead, it solidified the band's shift from experimental psychedelia toward a more structured, harmony-driven Americana and folk-rock sound. The album focuses on acoustic instruments, pedal steel, and tight vocal harmonies, a style heavily influenced by the band's friendship with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Moving away from the long, improvisational jams of their live shows, no song on the original album exceeds the seven-minute mark.
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