Grateful Dead Announce ‘Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Edition)’
Grateful Dead will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Wake Of The Flood with a newly remastered and expanded reissue featuring demos and a previously unreleased 1973 show.
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Out 29 September via Rhino, Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) will be available as 2CD and digital sets, featuring the album’s seven original songs and previously unreleased demo recordings of Eyes Of The World and Here Comes Sunshine. Recorded in early 1973, the demos feature Jerry Garcia singing and playing. He presumably shared them with the rest of the band members so they could start learning. The beautiful, primitive rendition of Eyes Of The World provided the basis of what would become one of the Dead’s most beloved and frequently played songs for the next 20+ years and is available to hear now.
Additionally, the deluxe edition includes a bonus disc of live material from the final night of a brief tour that immediately followed Wake Of The Flood’s release. Captured at Northwestern University’s McGaw Memorial Hall on 1 November 1973, the set is bookended with Weather Report Suite and Mississippi Half-Step, and features one of the most creative and inspired jams of the entire run: Morning Dew>Playing In The Band>Uncle John’s Band>Playing In The Band.
Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) will also be released on 29 September as a single 180-gram black vinyl LP, limited edition 12” vinyl picture disc, limited edition “coke bottle clear vinyl” exclusive to Barnes & Noble, and Dead.net Exclusive, limited edition “Watermark” Custom Vinyl.
Since the launch of the Workingman’s Dead “Oil Stained” Custom Vinyl in 2020, each instalment of Dead.net’s Custom Vinyl series has quickly sold-out, delivering a unique and cohesive narrative specific to that release. Between specialty designed labels, prints, inserts, stickers and designs, the package goes far beyond coloured wax. All pressings of Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Remaster) feature Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction and are newly mastered by GRAMMY(R) Award-winning engineer, David Glasser and produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux.
Wake Of The Flood (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
DISC ONE
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
Let Me Sing Your Blues Away
Row Jimmy
Stella Blue
Here Comes Sunshine
Eyes Of The World
Weather Report Suite
Eyes Of The World (Demo)*
Here Comes Sunshine (Demo)*
DISC TWO*
MCGAW MEMORIAL HALL, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY EVANSTON, IL (11/1/73)
Weather Report Suite
Morning Dew
Playing In The Band
Uncle John’s Band
Playing In The Band
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
*Previously Unreleased
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