Title: Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead
Year/Genre: 1970, Country Rock
Condition: New

Cultural Facts:

1. Recorded quickly at Pacific High Recording in San Francisco after years of debt, busted sound systems, and LSD-era excess caught up with the band.

2. Marked a turn toward harmony-heavy, song-focused writing influenced by The Band and Bakersfield country, with Robert Hunter’s storytelling at the center.

3. The cover photo was shot in San Francisco’s Mission District, underscoring the album’s blue-collar, West Coast street feel.