The Grateful Dead
Album by Grateful Dead
Released	March 17, 1967
Recorded	January 1967 (original LP)
Genre	Classic rock
Length	34:53 (original LP); 79:10 (CD reissue)
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer(s)	Dave Hassinger
Professional reviews
AMG (4.5/5) link The Music Box (4/5) link
Grateful Dead chronology
	The Grateful Dead (1967)	Anthem of the Sun (1968)

The Grateful Dead's first studio album, recorded on Warner Bros. Records and released in 1967. The album was recorded primarily at RCA Victor studios in Los Angeles in only four days. The band had wanted to record the album in their hometown of San Francisco, but no good recording studios existed in the area at the time. The group picked David Hassinger to produce because he had worked as an engineer on the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and the Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow album (the latter of which Jerry Garcia had guested on as a session musician as well as donated the album title to). Image File history File links GratefulDead1967LP.jpg Front cover of the self-titled debut LP by The Grateful Dead. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. ... March 17 is the 76th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (77th in Leap years). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up January in Wiktionary, the free dictionary January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Genres of Cuban music and other popular music A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Classic rock was originally conceived as a radio station programming format which evolved from the album oriented rock (AOR) format in the mid-1980s. ... A record label is a brand created by companies that specialize in manufacturing, distributing and promoting audio and video recordings, on various formats including compact discs, LPs, DVD-Audio, SACDs, and cassettes. ... Warner Bros. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Anthem of the Sun is the second studio album by the Grateful Dead. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band. ... Art studio Adriaen van Ostade. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Warner Bros. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sony BMG Music Entertainment is the result of a 50/50 joint venture between Sony Music Entertainment (part of Sony) and BMG Entertainment (part of Bertelsmann AG) completed in August 2004. ... This article is about the largest city in California. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... The Rolling Stones are a British rock group who rose to prominence during the 1960s. ... Listen to this article (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-04-20, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Jefferson Airplane was an American rock band from San Francisco, a pioneer of the LSD-influenced psychedelic rock movement. ... Surrealistic Pillow is an album by American psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane, released in February of 1967 (see 1967 in music). ... Jerome John Jerry Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was famous as lead guitarist and vocalist of the psychedelic rock band the Grateful Dead, though his extensive career involved many other projects. ...

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The disc was made of a thick vinyl similar to old 78 rpm records, which was uncommon at the time.

Track Listing

Original Album

Side One

1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) (2:07) (Grateful Dead)
2. Beat It Down the Line (2:27) (Jesse Fuller)
3. Good Morning Little School Girl (5:56) (Sonny Boy Williamson)
4. Cold Rain and Snow (2:25) (Grateful Dead)
5. Sitting on Top of the World (2:01) (Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter)
6. Cream Puff War (3:18) (Jerry Garcia)

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Side Two

1. (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew (5:00) (Bonnie Dobson/Tim Rose)
2. New, New Minglewood Blues (2:31) (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
3. Viola Lee Blues (10:01) (Noah Lewis)

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2003 Reissue

1. The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion) (2:07) (Grateful Dead)
2. Beat It Down the Line (2:27) (Jesse Fuller)
3. Good Morning Little School Girl (6:32) (Sonny Boy Williamson)
4. Cold Rain and Snow (2:26)) (Grateful Dead)
5. Sitting on Top of the World (2:43) (Walter Jacobs/Lonnie Carter)
6. Cream Puff War (3:18) (Jerry Garcia)
7. (Walk Me Out in the) Morning Dew (5:16) (Bonnie Dobson/Tim Rose)
8. New, New Minglewood Blues (2:40) (traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead)
9. Viola Lee Blues (10:09) (Noah Lewis)
10. Alice D. Millionaire (2:22) (Grateful Dead)
    • Inspired by an autumn 1966 newspaper headline ("LSD Millionaire") about the Dead's benefactor and soundman Owsley Stanley.
11. Overseas Stomp (The Lindy) (2:24) (Jab Jones/Will Shade)
12. Tastebud (4:18) (Ron McKernan)
13. Death Don't Have No Mercy (5:20) (Gary Davis)
14. Viola Lee Blues (edited version) (3:00) (Noah Lewis)
15. Viola Lee Blues (live) (23:13) (Noah Lewis)

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Musical Personnel

• Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
• Bob Weir - guitar, vocals
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - keyboards, harmonica, vocals
• Phil Lesh - bass, vocals
• Bill Kreutzmann - drums

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Production Personnel

• Dave Hassinger - producer
• Grateful Dead - arrangers
• Dick Bogert - engineer

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Bonus Tracks Production Details

• Tracks 10-13 recorded at RCA Victor Studio A, Hollywood, CA on February 2, 1967
• Track 14 is an edited version of track 9.
• Track 15 recorded live at Dance Hall, Rio Nido, CA on September 3, 1967

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Reissue Production Credits

• James Austin and David Lemieux - reissue producers
• Peter McQuaid - executive producer, Grateful Dead Productions
• Michael Wesley Johnson - associate producer, research coordination
• Eileen Law - archival research, Grateful Dead Archives
• Cassidy Law - project coordination, Grateful Dead Archives
• Jeffrey Norman - additional mixing on bonus tracks
• Joe Gastwirt - mastering, production consultant

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Trivia

• The band used the collected pseudonymn McGannahan Skyjellyfetti for their group-written originals and arrangements. The name derived from a corruption of a character name in the Kenneth Patchen work The Memoirs of a Sly Pornographer.