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The Grateful Dead - American Beauty

12" Very Good

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Record Details

Artist: The Grateful Dead
Title: American Beauty
Format: 12"Reissue
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Cat No: WS 1893
Released: 1978
Country:
Genres: Folk RockCountry Rock
Condition Very Good
Added To List 1st October 2016
Disc 1 | 12"
Very Good
Warner Bros. Records (cream white) 
A Matrix:
WS1-1893-WW2 #4 SP 1-1 . —◁  
B Matrix:
WS-2-1893-WW9 . SP 1-2 . --—◁  

Additional Information

Comments 5th studio album. Paper sleeve.

GRATEFUL DEAD:
Jerry Garcia – guitar, pedal steel, piano, vocals
Phil Lesh – bass, guitar, piano, vocals
Bob Weir – guitar, vocals
Pigpen McKernan – harmonica, vocals
Mickey Hart – percussion
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Robert Hunter – songwriter
ADDITIONAL
Dave Torbert – bass on "Box of Rain"
David Nelson – electric guitar on "Box of Rain"
David Grisman – mandolin
Howard Wales – organ on "Candyman", "Truckin'"; piano on "Brokedown Palace"
Ned Lagin – piano on "Candyman"

Capitol, Winchester pressing denoted by "WW" in runout and —◁.

Recorded at Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco.

1970–Warner Bros. Records Inc.
1978 Reissue.

Cream/white Warner Bros. shield label with grey shields in background.

The album title on the front cover is an ambigram; it can also be read as "American Reality".

Ranked #258 on RS list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

Ranked #57 on RS best album cover of all time.
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