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Check for Availabilityout of stock. Click on the button below to search for this title in other formats.  The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:When the Grateful Dead's in-house publishing company, Ice Nine, decided that the band's fortieth anniversary was a good time to publish their entire lyric catalog, a wave of excitement swept across the world of Deadheads, or would have had they known. What was that unclear word in "Uncle John's Band"? Would "Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues" be included? Which Cassidy is John Barlow writing about? Would Robert Hunter reveal the meaning of anything at all? These questions are finally answered with the publication of this book, but in true Grateful Dead fashion you'll have to dig around to find the answers and have fun doing it. The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs so that you can win an occasional bar bet. Or not. There are songs you've never heard and others you've never heard right and still others you didn't know existed, and some, indeed, that may not exist at all. To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook. You will hear them hummed and spoken among tens of thousands as counterculture code and recorded by musicians of all stripes for their inimitable singability, mysterious presence, and obscure accessibility. How do they do all this? The annotations on sources provide a gloss on the lyrics, which goes to the roots of Western culture as they are incorporated into them. Be it fairy tale or folksong that the lyricists have drawn on, ancient verse, biblical narrative, or T. S. Eliot, the references are here. This has never been done before. There are things here that would not have otherwise been known or imagined, which also goes for what was in the minds of the lyricists themselves. They would be the first to admit that the incursion of imagery into their creative memory banks was a chancy business. Annotation is a venerable literary tradition. It's been done for the works of Dante and Shakespeare, and for Finnegans Wake annotations may be essential. Mother Goose and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland have been annotated. All genres of writing can be illuminated by it, and that fundamental revelation that comes from reading books — "Oh, I always wondered about that" — becomes especially meaningful. David Dodd is well suited to the task of annotation. An avid Grateful Dead concertgoer for two decades, he is a librarian who brings to the work a detective's love of following a clue as far as it will take him. He first began the annotation as a research project in 1995, in the early days of the Web, through the medium of a website. As in all things virtual, it grew, and with input from interested correspondents from around the world, the website evolved continually. With their publication in book form, the Grateful Dead's lyrics can be newly savored, couched in the cultural traditions that spawned them. With the addition of artist Jim Carpenter's illustrations, whimsical elements in the lyrics, aspects cognitively unreferenceable, and imagery often repeated are brought to light. What he has seen to illustrate itself illustrates the American legend that is present in The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. You won't think of the cultural icon that is the Grateful Dead the same way again. Review:"Even the most hardcore Deadheads will be impressed by this obsessively complete look at the Grateful Dead's lyrics written by Robert Hunter and John Barlow, as well as selected traditional and cover songs that were basic parts of the Dead's repertoire. In 1994, Dodd (The Grateful Dead Reader) founded the first Web site of annotated Dead lyrics, and this book is the product of that project, which united academics and fans in finding 'new references, resonances, and refractions' in favorites like 'Dark Star' and 'Uncle John's Band.' The annotations range from a look at the influence of 'Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,' Stephen Foster's 'Oh Susanna,' and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde on Hunter's 'New Speedway Boogie' to a recipe for cream puffs by Denver Post food critic John Kessler to illustrate 'Cream Puff War,' an obscure tune by Jerry Garcia. But the heart of the book is Hunter's exquisitely written foreword, which is equal parts love letter to the lyric tradition, impassioned argument on the importance of songwriting and creativity, and reverie for the Grateful Dead themselves and his luck in being their primary lyricist: 'I lived lyric year in and year out for decades and never lost my taste for it.' Illus., photos." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.) Review:"In this book are insights to the songs we have lived with and loved all of these years. This is really a treat for me." -- Mickey Hart Review:"The words of our songs always gave the Heart a good place to land. Many a tough night was made easy by the songs and how they related perfectly right in time to soothe the spirit of whatever was going on. Like old friends they comforted you." -- Bill Kreutzmann Review:"Through all the years of playing and singing these songs, I could always find illuminating insights on the 'Annotated' website. Now, to all who hunger for knowledge, those nuggets of accumulated wisdom are available in this eagerly awaited new book." -- Phil Lesh Review:"This book is great. Now I'll never have to explain myself." -- Bob Weir Synopsis:For the first time ever comes the complete and fully annotated lyrics of one the most popular and prolific bands of the 20th century, available in time for the 40th anniversary of The Grateful Dead's founding. of full-color photos. 100 two-color illustrations throughout. (Music) Table of ContentsContents Foreword by Robert Hunter Preface by Alan Trist Introduction by David Dodd The Lyrics 1965-1995 (Songs are listed by date of first performance or, if never in the live repertoire, by date of studio recording, whichever comes first. An alphabetical list of songs is included in the index.) 1965 Can't Come Down Caution (Do Not Stop on Tracks) Mindbender The Only Time Is Now 1966 Cold Rain and Snow I Know You Rider You See a Broken Heart Beat It on Down the Line You Don't Have to Ask Cream Puff War Tastebud New, New Minglewood Blues Don't Ease Me In Cardboard Cowboy Standing on the Corner Keep Rolling By Alice D Millionaire Me and My Uncle 1967 Morning Dew New Potato Caboose The Golden Road (to Unlimited Devotion) Alligator Turn on Your Love Light That's It for the Other One (Suite) Born Cross-eyed Dark Star 1968 Clementine China Cat Sunflower The Eleven And We Bid You Goodnight Saint Stephen Not Fade Away Cosmic Charlie Rosemary 1969 Dupree's Diamond Blues Mountains of the Moon Doin' That Rag Dire Wolf Casey Jones What's Become of the Baby? High Time Easy Wind Cumberland Blues Black Peter Uncle John's Band Mason's Children New Speedway Boogie 1970 Friend of the Devil Candyman Attics of My Life Sugar Magnolia / Sunshine Daydream To Lay Me Down Brokedown Palace Operator Ripple Truckin' Till the Morning Comes Goin' Down the Road Feelin' Bad Box of Rain 1971 Bertha Greatest Story Ever Told Loser Playing in the Band Wharf Rat Bird Song Deal Mister Charlie Sugaree Brown-eyed Women Empty Pages Tennessee Jed Jack Straw Mexicali Blues Comes a Time One More Saturday Night Ramble on Rose Chinatown Shuffle 1972 Black-Throated Wind Looks Like Rain The Stranger (Two Souls in Communion) He's Gone Stella Blue Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo 1973 China Doll Eyes of the World Here Comes Sunshine Loose Lucy They Love Each Other Row Jimmy Weather Report Suite, Part 1 Weather Report Suite, Part 2 (Let It Grow) Let Me Sing Your Blues Away Peggy-O 1974 U.S. Blues It Must Have Been the Roses Ship of Fools Cassidy Scarlet Begonias Money, Money Pride of Cucamonga Unbroken Chain 1975 Blues for Allah Crazy Fingers Help on the Way Franklin's Tower Showboat The Music Never Stopped 1976 Lazy Lightnin' / Supplication Might As Well Samson and Delilah The Wheel Mission in the Rain 1977 Terrapin Station (Suite) Estimated Prophet Fire on the Mountain Sunrise Iko Iko Passenger Equinox 1978 I Need a Miracle Stagger Lee If I Had the World to Give From the Heart of Me Shakedown Street France 1979 Althea Lost Sailor Easy to Love You Saint of Circumstance Alabama Getaway 1980 Far From Me Feel Like a Stranger 1981 Never Trust a Woman 1982 Keep Your Day Job West L.A. Fadeaway Touch of Grey Throwing Stones 1983 My Brother Esau Maybe You Know Little Star Hell in a Bucket 1984 Don't Need Love Tons of Steel 1985 Revolutionary Hamstrung Blues Black Muddy River When Push Comes to Shove 1988 Victim Or the Crime. Foolish Heart Blow Away I Will Take You Home Believe It Or Not Gentlemen, Start Your Engines Built to Last 1989 Standing on the Moon We Can Run But We Can't Hide Just a Little Light Picasso Moon 1991 Reuben and Cèrise 1992 So Many Roads Wave to the Wind Corrina Way to Go Home 1993 Eternity Lazy River Road Liberty Days Between Easy Answers 1994 Samba in the Rain If the Shoe Fits Childhood's End Coda: Original Songs Played by The Dead All That We Are A Little Piece for You Night of a Thousand Stars No More Do I Strange World The Banyan Tree Only the Strange Remain October Queen Even So Baba Jingo Self-defense Time Never Ends You Remind Me Down the Road Notes on the Instrumentals. Afterword by John Barlow The Lyricists Bibliography Credits and Permissions Acknowledgments General Index Index of Song Titles Index of First Lines
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