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At Chess' studio in Chicago in January 1956, Howlin' Wolf recorded "Smokestack Lightning". [1] The song takes the form of "a propulsive, one-chord vamp, nominally in E major but with the flatted blue notes that make it sound like E minor", and lyrically it is "a pastiche of ancient blues lines and train references, timeless and evocative". [1]
"Smokestack Lightning" features no chord changes and instead uses a single implied tonic, but "Last of the Steam-Powered Trains" uses a progression. [26] The musicologist Matthew Gelbart describes "Trains" as having a twenty-four-bar structure that is "proportionally correct" in comparison to a standard twelve-bar blues.
Grateful Dead covers Song Original Artist "All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan "Are You Lonely for Me Baby" Freddie Scott "Around and Around" Chuck Berry "Baba O'Riley" The Who "Bad Moon Rising" Creedence Clearwater Revival "Ballad of a Thin Man" Bob Dylan "Beat It on Down the Line" Jesse Fuller "Big Boss Man" Jimmy Reed "Big Boy Pete" The Olympics
The Grateful Dead’s "Dancing Bears" first appeared on the back cover of Bear's Choice. A large complement of iconography is associated with the Grateful Dead. Along with the "Skull & Roses" and dancing terrapins , perhaps the most ubiquitous are the "Lightning Skull/Steal" , and the "Dancing Bears", which notably made their first appearance ...
Road Trips Full Show: Spectrum 11/5/79 is a live album by the rock band the Grateful Dead. It contains the complete concert that they performed at the Spectrum, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on November 5, 1979. It was released by Grateful Dead Records on September 10, 2008 as a digital download, in both MP3 and FLAC formats. [1] [2]
The Golden Road (1965–1973) is a twelve-CD box set of the Grateful Dead's studio and live albums released during their time with Warner Bros. Records, from 1965 to 1973.. After 1973, the band went on to create its own label, Grateful Dead Re
Quicksilver Messenger Service is the debut studio album of Quicksilver Messenger Service, released in May 1968.The group were among the last of the original major San Francisco bands to secure a recording contract, which meant that the album appeared many months after the debut efforts of Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Country Joe and the Fish, Moby Grape, and Big Brother and the Holding ...
As of 2024, "Casey Jones" has been performed live by Dead & Company 60 times. "Casey Jones" is performed by Warren Zevon and David Lindley on Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead, a 1991 album by various artists. The song is included in Pickin' on the Grateful Dead: A Tribute, a bluegrass album of Grateful Dead songs.