TOP 1973 PROMO GRATEFUL DEAD FLOOD + STICKER psych
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RARE PROMO 1973 ORIGINAL + SONG TITLES STICKER
DEAD HEAD CLASSIC
The GRATEFUL DEAD
Wake Of The Flood
\ USA - Grateful Dead Records - GD 01 (PROMO)
TOP COPY! MINTY CLEAN...
Very rare 1973 advance release PROMOTIONAL with special embossed (raised) lettering at top cover reading "Compliments Of" (The Grateful Dead") ...we've never come across another copy like this... contains the (very rare) song titles sticker on back cover (see picture #2) ...the song titles sticker was only on first pressings and quite rare as most folks tore off the outer cellophane wrapper and there went the song titles sticker too....
After completing their nine-title/dozen-disc deal with Warner Brothers, the Dead began their own record labels: Grateful Dead Records (for group releases) and Round Records (for solo projects). Wake of the Flood was the first Dead disc issued entirely under the band's supervision -- which also included manufacturing and marketing.
Marin County in Northern California is where the Grateful Dead made its home for most of its career, and WAKE OF THE FLOOD evokes the laid-back hippy vibe of the place better than any other album. Some of the Dead's best songs are within "Wake Of The Flood": The plaintive "Row Jimmy" and "Stella Blue," "Here Comes Sunshine," and the incomparable "Eyes of the World," surely one of Hunter's wisest lyrics, set to a joyful groove that makes you feel like a summer morning. Jerry's voice is very relaxed; his friendly, wavering pitch and whimsical guitar work gluides through the material so smoothly...The Grateful Dead now like some psychedelic hillbillies in overalls with a straw hanging from their teeth. Ah, but these hayseeds have a twinkle in their dilated pupil eyes. The album is laid back yet full of subtle power. Some of the laid back nature of the music can definitely be heard as energy being barely contained. Backing vocal harmonies play heavily through out this album. The album has a nostalgic groove and we can almost see Garcia winking his way all the way through it. The lyrics are truly amazing within the songs weaving together a story through the entire album.
The album begins in a low key fashion with the beginning of "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleoo". The chorus refer to "southern skys" and in the lyrics the story teller "prays for better weather". The pace of the music in this song is deliberately slowed down and one gets the feeling the listener is being teased if not being put on.
"Let me sing your blues away" is the most up beat of the songs. Here again we have the theme of weather ("not a cloud in the sky, such a sunny day"). The third song "Row Jimmy" contains this gem of a haiku "Here's a half a dollar if you dare double twist if you hit the air"
The musical aesthetic set up in Row Jimmy is continued but in a slower bluesy fashion in "Stella Blue" The lyrics in Stella Blue does an interesting thing- they seem to refer back to the music. Stella Blue itself is played in a blues style. The line in the song "dust off those rust strings just one more time " comes when Garcia indeed does. The album ends with "Weather Report Suite" and although it is a little bit different, it is quite beautiful. It is very fitting end as all the songs on the album has a panoramic feeling of the weather.
A neglected masterpiece.
SIDE 1
1. MISSISSIPPI HALF-STEP UPTOWN TOODELOO
2. LET ME SING YOUR BLUES AWAY
3. ROW JIMMY
4. STELLA BLUE
SIDE 2
1. HERE COMES SUNSHINE
2. EYES OF THE WORLD
3. WEATHER REPORT SUITE
CONDITION: The Cover: Real THICK...Stiff and solid clean, M- with raised promotional lettering at top cover stating "Compliments Of" (Grateful Dead) ... the rare song titles sticker is on back cover that was originally on the outside wrapper [only] on first pressings...bright original colors, with no split seams, no bends, no writing... TOP PROMO COPY
The Vinyl: All shiny clean, M- over both sides ... playing beautifully throughout. The white and black (promo?) labels are clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
SEE: SELLERS OTher items for similar cool sounds for "head" people...
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