WORKINGMAN’S DEAD – 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION

couldn’t catch a break. Sure, they were the head-trip belles of San Francisco’s 1960s psychedelic ball, but they were unable to get their recording act together enough to cut an album that best captured their true spirit—that is, until they struck prospector’s gold with their fourth studio album, June 1970’s . By dialing back on the overtly psychedeliccum-outré experimental modes that dominated June 1968’s and June 1969’s and instead zeroing in on their folk-bred songcraft for , the Dead had finally found their recording niche