Grateful Dead - American Beauty
This is my favourite Dead album. I used to work with an aging hippie (he was a pretty rad dude with a thick white beard, Che Guevara tattoo and an amazing record collection) and he turned me on to this and Workingman's Dead. This is basically a country and folk record with splashes of rock and roll, plus Jerry Garcia just wails on the acoustic and pedal steel guitar, leaving the electric guitar to Bob Weir. Every track on American Beauty is stellar and it is truly an American classic. This is the Rhino re-issue with great bonus live recordings of American Beauty tracks from the months before and after it's November 1970 release date. An added plus was that the album was prominently featured in the series finale of Freaks And Geeks, one of the best TV shows of all time.
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