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"Box of Rain" is drawn from American folk and country musical roots. This is true of many Grateful Dead tunes, including most of the songs on American Beauty and their other 1970 release, Workingman's Dead. As the first song on American Beauty, it was also the first Grateful Dead song released on record to feature Phil Lesh as the lead vocalist ...
American Beauty is the fifth studio album (and sixth overall) by American rock band the Grateful Dead. Released in November 1970, by Warner Bros. Records , the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album Workingman's Dead , released earlier in the year.
Elliott Smith's cover of the Beatles song "Because" was featured over the end credits for the film. The track "Dead Already" was later featured in the 2005 film Madagascar (which was also a film from DreamWorks Pictures). Newman's "Dead Already" and "Any Other Name" were sampled by Jakatta for his house track "American Dream" in 2000.
"Truckin '" is associated with the blues and other early 20th-century forms of folk music. [6]"Truckin '" was considered a "catchy shuffle" by the band members. [7] Garcia commented that "the early stuff we wrote that we tried to set to music was stiff because it wasn't really meant to be sung... the result of [lyricist Robert Hunter getting into our touring world], the better he could write ...
A soundtrack album for the film was also released, on October 5, 1999, entitled American Beauty: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack. That album includes songs by ten of the eleven artists (Annie Lennox's rendition of "Don't Let It Bring You Down" being absent) and two excerpts from the film's score: "Dead Already" and "Any Other ...
“Rain, if you go puttin’ that s— in your body, you don’t know what’s gonna happen,” Kimmie tells her in episode 1, to which Rain exhales deeply and rolls her eyes. Well, Kimmie was right.
A Box of Rain is a 1990 book by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, compiling his complete songbook, in and out of the Dead, from 1965 until 1990. A more-recent paperback edition has also been published, which includes lyrics up until 1993; the original edition was hardbound.
Singin’ in the Rain is considered a cinema classic, due in part to Gene Kelly’s iconic song and dance performance of the movie’s titular musical number. And 70 years later, imagery from the ...