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"St. Stephen" is a song by the Grateful Dead, written by Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Robert Hunter and originally released on the 1969 studio album Aoxomoxoa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The same year, a live version of the song was released on Live/Dead , their first concert album.
He joined the Grateful Dead at a concert in Rio Nido, California, where he wrote the lyrics that later became "Dark Star". [ 5 ] Hunter played a minimal role in the Grateful Dead's next album, Anthem of the Sun , but he and Garcia worked together to write every song on Aoxomoxoa , which came after it.
"Uncle John's Band" is a song by the Grateful Dead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album Workingman's Dead . Written by guitarist Jerry Garcia and lyricist Robert Hunter , "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with close harmony singing.
Yolanda Dozal stops for a portrait on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022, during a Day of the Dead Celebration at Scissortail Park in Oklahoma City.
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]
The song was written in 2019, [9] and recorded live at Elevation Church's Ballantyne campus on January 15, 2020, with Brandon Lake featuring on the track as a guest. [10] In an interview with The Christian Beat, [11] Chris Brown of Elevation Worship shared the story behind the song and why it became the title of the album, saying:
Basketball great Bill Walton, who died Monday at age 71, was a noted Deadhead who attended hundreds of Grateful Dead shows and was friends with members of the band.
A music video, directed by Marc Webb and filmed at a church in Los Angeles, was also released. The song and its music video were well received by critics. It was a commercial success, charting in several countries and becoming the band's first major hit on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as reaching number one on the UK Rock & Metal chart.