{"product_id":"grateful-dead-go-to-heaven-lp-vinyl","title":"Grateful Dead – Go To Heaven","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"relix-editorial\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBrent Mydland's debut on a Dead studio record proved he was no placeholder. Where his predecessors had shaped the band's sound through the psychedelic and jazz-leaning seventies, Mydland brought a blue-eyed soul edge that pushed the Dead toward something rawer and more direct, a quality that would define their sound well into the eighties and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGo To Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e (1980) is the Grateful Dead's eleventh studio album and their first with keyboardist \u003cstrong\u003eBrent Mydland\u003c\/strong\u003e, who joined in 1979 following \u003cstrong\u003eKeith Godchaux\u003c\/strong\u003e's departure. 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