Review · 1970 · Rock
Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead
The Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead reviewed: godfathers of the jam band movement, on a stellar album that's hard to separate from the whole.
The verdict
I know I’m a generic fan by only picking the two most famous songs as Jams here, but I am what I am. The rest of the album is stellar, but not as easy to separate from the whole.
Like many members of my personal demographics, I went through a jam band phase in my youth. Although that phase is over for me personally, these guys were obviously godfathers of the jam band movement, and that’s a pretty cool legacy. That doesn’t mean I’m ever going back to an Umphreys McGee concert, though.
Jams
“Uncle John’s Band”
“Easy Wind”
“Casey Jones”
Originally part of Albums vs. Playlists: The Great Debate.