Workingman's Dead 50, Episode 2: High Time

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🗓️ 16 July 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

The Grateful Dead’s masterpiece Workingman’s Dead song by song. For “High Time,” we look behind the purple door of Pacific High Recording with co-producer Bob Matthews and tour manager Sam Cutler, examine session outtakes and tape mysteries with Brian Kehew and Mike Johnson, and explore how “High Time” was a songwriting breakthrough for Jerry Garcia and his new housemate, lyricist Robert Hunter.

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the good old Grateful Dead cast.
0:22.0	Hope you enjoyed the Bear Drop episode about Owsley Stanley. If you
0:25.7	haven't listened yet, I implore you to do so. He's a fascinating part of
0:29.8	Grateful Dead history and we look forward to setting more bear drops in your pathway.
0:35.5	Many thanks to all of you out there who have liked, left rating and subscribed.
0:39.8	It really helps us spread the word about the good old Grateful Dead cast.
0:43.9	There's a lot of great music from the Grateful Dead that's been recently released, including
0:48.3	The Angels Share, which are the studio outtakes from the Working Man's Dead recording sessions, and of course the newly released
0:56.3	Working Man's Dead 50th anniversary deluxe edition, which includes a show from February 21st,
1:02.4	1971 from the Capitol Theater in Portchester
1:05.9	and it's a gooden.
1:07.4	Mixed by Jeffrey Norman from the original 16 track tapes, over at Bob Weir's TRI Studios, it sounds fantastic.
1:15.0	Speaking a working man's dead, with this episode we get back to covering the album
1:20.3	track by track and we're dropping the needle on the second song on
1:24.0	side one high time. Jesse
1:27.0	Come here Uncle John's band by the river side, got some things.
1:35.0	As the glorious stacked harmonies of Uncle John's band End,
1:39.0	High Time starts with no preamble.
1:41.0	It seems like another simple song.
1:43.3	You told me goodbye.
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