The Grateful Dead:
American Beauty

CD131 - Warner Bros. 1970

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The Grateful Dead: American Beauty

1 BOX OF RAIN
2 FRIEND OF THE DEVIL
3 SUGAR MAGNOLIA
4 OPERATOR
5 CANDYMAN
6 RIPPLE
7 BROKEDOWN PALACE
8 TILL THE MORNING COMES
9 ATTICS OF MY LIFE
10 TRUCKIN'

Bonus Material
11 TRUCKIN' (Single Version)
12 FRIEND OF THE DEVIL (Live)
13 CANDYMAN (Live)
14 TILL THE MORNING COMES (Live)
15 ATTICS OF MY LIFE (Live)
16 TRUCKIN' (Live)

The most poetic and musically lyrical album to come from the Hunter-Garcia partnership, it includes "Ripple," "Brokedown Palace," "Friend of the Devil" (at its original fast clip) and "Attics of My Life," as well as Phil and Hunter's beautiful "Box of Rain" and the rockers "Sugar Magnolia" (with a great pedal steel guitar line by Garcia) and "Truckin.'" "Till the Morning Comes" is the only less-than-great song on the record, and it ain't bad. Much of it is positively transcendant. Definitely a soul-lifting desert island pick. Essential.