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Thread #28023   Message #2422103
Posted By: PoppaGator
25-Aug-08 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: Help: Grateful Dead as folk music
Subject: RE: Help: Grateful Dead as folk music
Workingman's Dead and then American Beauty both came out after the live album Europe '72, so it's safe to say they date back no further back than '73/74/75.

Deep Elem is, or at least was, in Dallas.

Besides the Bear's Choice album, Libba Cotten's "All Around This World," "Deep Hollow," and a few other such folksongs also appear on the regularly-released double-album called (I think) Dead Set, which included one all-acoustic LP and one all-electric, both recorded live during a tour when they opened every date with an acoustic set.

Well, the two guitars, at least, were truly acoustic, the electric bass was turned down fairly quiet and distortion-free, and the drums were played with brushes. I'm not sure if they trucked an acoustic piano around with them ~ the keyboard might have been moderately electric, too, like the bass.