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With 1970's Workingman's Dead, the Grateful Dead went through an overnight metamorphosis, turning abruptly from tripped-out free-form rock toward sublime acoustic folk and Americana. Taking notes on vocal harmonies from friends Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, the Dead used the softer statements of their fourth studio album as a subtle but moving reflection on the turmoil, heaviness, and hope America's youth was facing as the idealistic '60s ended. American Beauty was recorded just a few months after its predecessor, both expanding and improving on the bluegrass, folk, and psychedelic country explorations of Workingman's Dead with some of the band's most brilliant compositions
Tracklist
1 Box Of Rain
2 Friend Of The Devil
3 Sugar Magnolia
4 Operator
5 Candyman
6 Ripple
7 Brokedown Palace
8 Till The Morning Comes
9 Attics Of My Life
10 Truckin'