"Uncle John's Band" is a song by the #GratefulDead that first appeared in their concert setlists in late 1969. The band recorded it for their 1970 album #WorkingmansDead. Written by guitarist #JerryGarcia and lyricist #RobertHunter, "Uncle John's Band" presents the Dead in an acoustic and musically concise mode, with #closeHarmony singing. The song is one of the band's best known, and is included on the #RockAndRollHallOfFames500SongsThatShapedRockAndRoll.
https://youtu.be/yD1naKNQuF4

Time for a Flashback Friday Vinyl! Play 1 The Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead - 1970 #gratefuldead #workingmansdead #Year1970

"Workingman's Dead" by Grateful Dead released this day in 1970.
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@bourgwick I finally started listening to the Good Ol’ Grateful Deadcast (from the beginning), and the discussion of “Workingman’s Dead” reminded me of how I came across a reference to the album in Denise Levertov’s poem “Staying Alive”. I wrote about it here: https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2021/06/denise-levertov-dancing-to-workingmans.html

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Nuff for today. Time to head out and

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