Grateful Dead Cover - Ripple

I hope you enjoy my rendition of this Grateful dead song from their American Beauty album.

American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. The album continued the folk rock and country music explored on Workingman's Dead and features the lyrics of Robert Hunter prominently.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

The band began recording American Beauty only a few months after the release of Workingman's Dead. An odd occurrence was that the band recorded the album without their sound crew, which was out on the road as part of the Medicine Ball Caravan tour (which the Dead were originally scheduled to join), and this led to staff engineer Stephen Barncard replacing Bob Matthews as producer -- "a move that irks Matthews to this day." Barncard mused that "I had heard bad stories about engineers' interactions with the Dead ... but what I found were a bunch of hardworking guys."

Both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty were innovative at the time for their fusion of bluegrass, rock and roll, folk music and, especially, country. Compared to Workingman's Dead, American Beauty had even less lead guitar work from Jerry Garcia, who instead filled the void with shimmering pedal steel guitar passages on both albums. It was during the recording of this album that Garcia would first collaborate with mandolinist David Grisman. "I just bumped into Jerry at a baseball game in Fairfax, and he said, 'Hey, you wanna play on this record we're doing?'" commented Grisman. Phil Lesh, in his autobiography, commented "the magnetism of the scene at Wally Heider's recording studio made it a lot easier for me to deal with Dad's loss and my new responsibilities. Some of the best musicians around were hanging there during that period; with Paul Kantner and Grace Slick from Jefferson Airplane, the Dead, Santana, Crosby, Nash, and Neil Young working there, the studio became jammer heaven ... Thank the Lord for music; it's a healing force beyond words to describe."

"Truckin'" and "Ripple" were released as a single, and the songs "Box of Rain", "Sugar Magnolia", and "Friend of the Devil" also received radio play. In his book on Garcia, Blair Jackson noted that "if you liked rock'n'roll in 1970, but didn't like the Dead, you were out of luck, because they were inescapable that summer and fall." American Beauty peaked at #30 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart (North America), while the single, "Truckin'", peaked at #64 on the Pop Singles chart and achieved considerable FM rock radio airplay. It is the final album with Mickey Hart until his return to the band four years later in 1975.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• rock
• vocal
• Greatful
• Dead
• Robert
• Hunter
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[rabid4rabbits]

I'm glad too see that some singers still appreciate and respect classical rock. I loved your rendition.

[CookiesDen2]

Thank you for taking the time to watch and to comment. I'm happy you enjoyed my rendition and greatly appreciate it.

[CountryWesternGal]

Hello Rey.......

Greta Cover My Friend........

You Sung It So Nicely :)

Love Patricia.......Hugs

[CookiesDen2]

Hi Patricia -

I'm happy you enjoyed my rendition. Thank you for your lovely comment and for all the support you give my efforts.

Hugs,

Rey

[karenmuenchen]

You did great Rey !!! Also your guitar sounds wonderful !!! all thumbs up !!! Karen -Gypsy- Girl (at the moment) LOL :-))

[CookiesDen2]

Thank you so much Karen. I greatly appreciate your lovely comment and the thumbs up. watch out for the tramps and thieves, lol!

Rey

[CookiesDen2]

Thank you for taking the time to watch and for commenting. I may have a few more Dead in me.

[CookiesDen2]

Hi Mick -

I'm happy you enjoyed my rendition. Thanks for the thumbs up. Much appreciated.

Rey

[OnlyFifties]

You have me here with this one Rey,not familiar with it at all,but I enjoyed your rendition very much and I love the guitar,nice sound to it ! The thumbs are pointing skywards !

[CookiesDen2]

Hi Regina -

Thank you for your comment. Glad you enjoyed this.

Rey