Name: Anthem Of The Sun
Brand: Grateful Dead

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1971 Remix

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2021-06-04

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2020-08-28

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Grateful Dead

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Rhino

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Grateful Dead were an American rock band that formed in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1965. With a career spanning from 1965 to 1995, they left an indelible mark on the music industry. Originally established in 1964 as "The Warlocks," the band quickly gained popularity for their unique sound and improvisational style.The Grateful Dead's music encompassed various genres including rock, folk, blues, and psychedelic rock. Their live performances were legendary, known for their extended jams and eclectic setlists that kept fans coming back for more. The band's members included Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan.Throughout their career,&nbsp;Grateful Dead released numerous albums that became iconic within the counterculture movement of the time. Some of their most notable works include "American Beauty," "Workingman's Dead," and "Europe '72." Even after disbanding in 1995 following Garcia's untimely death, their legacy continues to resonate with music lovers worldwide.

Rhino Records, also known as Rhino, is a renowned music label that was established in 1973 by Richard Foos. Starting as a record store in Westwood California, Rhino quickly gained recognition with its first successful release "Go To Rhino Records" by Wild Man Fischer in 1975. The label's early logo featured "Rocky the Rhino" and focused on novelty, surf, local new wave bands, and reissues of out-of-print records from other labels.

Under the guidance of Bill Inglot for production, Ken Perry for mastering, and A&R team Gary Stewart and James Austin, Rhino expanded its catalog to include a wide range of reissues by the mid-1980s. The label underwent a logo redesign during this time period to simply "Rhino". In 1984, Rhino released its first CD and became known for manufacturing high-quality CDs made by Sanyo (1984-85) and various manufacturers from Japan or Switzerland thereafter.

In 1985, Rhino entered into a distribution deal with Capitol Records which lasted until 1992. This partnership allowed access to Capitol's back catalog and led to the release of reissues of old Capitol albums. Additionally, EMI and Rhino acquired the Roulette family of labels in 1989. As their deal with Capitol came to an end in 1992, Time-Warner offered an opportunity for growth. Half of the label was sold to Time-Warner

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<a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/american-beauty-mw0000192627">American Beauty</a> was recorded just a few months after its predecessor, both expanding and improving on the bluegrass, folk, and psychedelic country explorations of <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/workingmans-dead-mw0000651044">Workingman's Dead</a> with some of the band's most brilliant compositions. The songs here have a noticeably more relaxed and joyous feel. Having dived headfirst into this new sound with the previous album, the bandmembers found the summit of their collaborative powers here, with lyricist <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-hunter-mn0000832268">Robert Hunter</a> penning some of his most poetic work, <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jerry-garcia-mn0000328288">Jerry Garcia</a> focusing more on gliding pedal steel than his regular electric lead guitar work, and standout lead vocal performances coming from <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bob-weir-mn0000077175">Bob Weir</a> (on the anthem to hippie love "Sugar Magnolia"), <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/ron-pigpen-mckernan-mn0000826981">Ron "Pigpen" McKernan</a> (on the husky blues of "Operator"), and <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/phil-lesh-mn0000848187">Phil Lesh</a> (on the near-perfect opening tune, "Box of Rain"). This album also marked the beginning of what would become a long musical friendship between <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/garcia-mn0000328288">Garcia</a> and <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/dave-grisman-mn0000809396">Dave Grisman</a>, whose mandolin playing adds depth and flavor to tracks like the outlaw country-folk of "Friend of the Devil" and the gorgeously devotional "Ripple." <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/american-beauty-mw0000192627">American Beauty</a> eventually spawned the band's highest charting single -- "Truckin'," the greasy blues-rock tribute to nomadic counterculture -- but it also contained some of their most spiritual and open-hearted sentiments ever, their newfound love of intricate vocal arrangements finding pristine expression on the lamenting "Brokedown Palace" and the heavenly nostalgia and gratitude of "Attics of My Life." While <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-dead-mn0000988440">the Dead</a> eventually amassed a following so devoted that following the band from city to city became the center of many people’s lives, the majority of the band's magic came in the boundless heights it reached in its live sets but rarely managed to capture in the studio setting. <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/album/american-beauty-mw0000192627">American Beauty</a> is a categorical exception to this, offering a look at <a href="https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-dead-mn0000988440">the Dead</a>transcending even their own exploratory heights and making some of their most powerful music by examining their most gentle and restrained impulses. It’s easily the masterwork of their studio output, and a strong contender for the best music the band ever made, even including the countless hours of live shows captured on tape in the decades that followed.

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