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explained "One by one we sidled into the studio, saying things like 'Bob, I really like that tune – got a bass player for it yet?' or 'Hey Bob, need some keyboards on that ballad?' Drawn in by the new songs, we eventually assembled the whole band (minus Pig, who was still trying to
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The album is essentially a Grateful Dead recording in everything but name. However, it was the first album in which Weir wrote the music for a majority of the songs. "Mexicali Blues" later appeared on the Grateful Dead album
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epiphany because it strains Bobby's vocal chords—that just adds a note of authenticity. With Barlow redeeming himself on the elegiac pre-hippie fable 'Cassidy' and Keith Godchaux sounding like a cross between
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regain his health) at Wally Heider’s and finished the album in a burst of enthusiasm. Bob’s songwriting had taken a great leap forward".
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Versions of "Greatest Story Ever Told" and "Playing in the Band" also appear on percussionist Mickey Hart's
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back him on the album, and all but one of the songs became staples of the band's live shows.
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know-nothingisms ('Walk in the Sunshine'), and 'One More Saturday Night' isn't any less a
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label to have band members cut their own solo records, and it came out the same year as
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Special thanks to Luis Gasca, Hadley "Snooky" Flowers, the Space Rangers
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wrote: "Weir can be preachy and screechy, but Robert Hunter's
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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
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Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies
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Index

A painting of a woman seated inside of a horseshoe, superimposed over a red spade from a deck of cards with the word "ACE" written above
Studio album
Bob Weir
Wally Heider Studios
San Francisco
Genre
Rock
country rock
folk rock
psychedelic rock
Label
Warner Bros.
Grateful Dead
Producer
Bob Weir
Kingfish
AllMusic
Christgau's Record Guide
Rolling Stone
Encyclopedia of Popular Music
Grateful Dead
Bob Weir
Grateful Dead
Warner Bros. Records
Jerry Garcia
Garcia
Mickey Hart
Rolling Thunder
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Skeletons from the Closet

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