American Beauty 50, Episode 10: Truckin’

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🗓️ 10 December 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

The Deadcast season finale wraps up American Beauty and looks at the iconic Truckin’, the autobiographical album-closing road anthem, unpacking the band’s history from its verses, lost lyrics, and never-heard original ending.

Bob Weir, Stephen Barncard, Mickey Hart, Howard Wales, Steve Silberman, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:17.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the good old Grateful Deadcast.
0:21.0	Thanks very much for tuning in. Thanks for taking this trip with us as we wrap up season two and our track by track exploration into the dead's wonderfully fantastic American Beauty.
0:33.0	It's been a long strange trip.
0:35.0	What a way to wrap it up.
0:36.6	Going long on the last track on Side 2 trucking.
0:41.0	Want some cool visuals to go along with this auditory trip? Of course you do.
0:45.0	Drop into our website dead.net slash deadcast and check out the extras we have waiting for you to explore for this and each episode.
0:52.0	While you're there, catch up on the episodes from
0:54.7	season one which goes track by track through working man's dead. You can link from
0:59.1	there to any and all of the podcasting platforms available so you can listen where you like to listen.
1:04.3	Please help us by subscribing, hitting that like button, leave us a review, tell a friend,
1:10.6	call your mom, thank you very much. It is the 50th anniversary of American Beauty
1:17.4	and the Grateful Dead to have prepared a three-cedy set reissue of this classic album,
1:21.5	which includes a pristine remastering of the album's 10 tracks
1:25.2	as well as an unreleased live show from February 18th 1971 at the Capitol Theater
1:30.8	was mixed from the original 16 track reel real-to-reel multi-tracks and you'll hear more
1:35.6	about that in this episode at Bob Weir's TRI Studios. Along with this impeccably
1:41.3	remastered three-disc set there's also a new batch of Angel's share audio.
1:45.0	It's out now, and it not only includes the band's acoustic demos for American Beauty,
1:51.0	but it also has all these great outtakes from the American Beauty recording sessions at Wally Hiders.
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