{"product_id":"grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-high-fidelity-lp-vinyl","title":"Grateful Dead – Workingman's Dead (High Fidelity LP Vinyl)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eWorkingman's Dead arrived in June 1970, just months after Aoxomoxoa, and the contrast between the two records was striking enough that people are still talking about it. Where Aoxomoxoa went deep into psychedelic studio experimentation, Workingman's Dead pulled back, stripped down, and let the songs do the work. Country, folk, blues, the harmonies that Garcia, Weir, and Lesh were developing together, all of it came together into something that felt less like a rock record than a campfire that happened to be perfectly recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe eight songs on this album have held up for fifty-plus years because they were built to last. Uncle John's Band opens the record with one of the most recognizable guitar figures the band ever wrote. Casey Jones closes it on a hard-driving note that still sounds urgent. In between, you get the weary poetry of High Time, the dark folk mythology of Dire Wolf, the labor politics of Cumberland Blues, the meditative sprawl of Black Peter and Easy Wind. New Speedway Boogie is Robert Hunter writing directly about Altamont, and it's one of the more unflinching pieces of writing in the whole catalog.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThis High Fidelity pressing is out July 31, 2026 on Rhino, and it's the version of Workingman's Dead that audiophiles and serious collectors have been waiting for. If you're going to have this record on the shelf, this is the one to own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 081227804923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Rhino\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7.31.26\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e LP Vinyl\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_START --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eTracklist\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide A\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Uncle John’s Band (4:42)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. High Time (5:12)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Dire Wolf (3:11)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. New Speedway Boogie (4:04)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide B\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Cumberland Blues (3:14)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Black Peter (5:41)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Easy Wind (4:57)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Casey Jones (4:24)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!-- TRACKLIST_END --\u003e\n\u003c!-- discogs-import --\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"discogs-import\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Warner Bros. 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