Grateful Dead – Blues For Allah (50th Anniversary)

Description

To celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Grateful Dead’s ambitious 1975 album Blues For Allah, we have produced what we feel is the most eclectic 50th anniversary reissue since this series began in 2017. The 3-disc special release features the original album on Disc 1, remastered by David Glasser at Airshow Mastering, with tape restoration and speed correction by Plangent Processes. On Disc 2, we have nearly 45 minutes of nearly-live material from August 12, 1975 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, the soundcheck the day before the Dead’s famous show at the venue on August 13, 1975, all mixed from the 16-track analog masters. Additionally, we have included the full Blues For Allah suite from the March 23, 1975 SNACK Benefit at Kezar Stadium, where the Dead played their first of four 1975 shows by debuting one of their most wild pieces of music they’d ever composed. Disc 3 features 75 minutes of live material recorded in June 1976 at the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA, on the Dead’s first tour after the release of Blues For Allah, and features all five of the Blues For Allah songs the Dead were performing live at the time: “The Music Never Stopped,” “Help On The Way>Slipknot!>Franklin’s Tower,” and “Crazy Fingers,” along with a half hour of additional material from the shows. This 50th anniversary reissue is packed with three hours of studio, soundcheck, and live material. It’s a reissue unlike any other, just as Blues For Allah is an album unlike any other.

Tracklist

Side 1

On The Way

!

’s Tower

Solomon’s Marbles

Than Dirt Or Milkin’ The Turkey

Music Never Stopped

Side 2

Fingers

& Spirit

For Allah

Castles & Glass Camels

Occurrences In The Desert

Disc 1

2025 Remaster

On The Way / Slipknot!

’s Tower

Solomon’s Marbles

Part I: Stronger Than Dirt

Part II: Milkin’ The Turkey

Music Never Stopped

Fingers

& Spirit

For Allah

Blues For Allah

Sand Castles & Glass Camels

Unusual Occurrences In The Desert

Disc 2

Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA (soundcheck/rehearsal 8/12/75)

On The Way>

!

‘s Tower

On The Way>

!

‘s Tower

Solomon’s Marbles

Fingers

And Spirit

Kezar Stadium, San Francisco, CA (3/23/75)

For Allah

Than Dirt (Or Milkin’ The Turkey)

Than Dirt (Or Milkin’ The Turkey)

For Allah

Disc 3

Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA (6/21/76)

Music Never Stopped

On The Way>

!

‘s Tower

Tower Theater, Philadelphia, PA (6/22/76)

Fingers

A Time

Of The World

In The Street