Robert Weir, and Jerry Garcia, will be from legitimate song books, whenever possible.Īs appropriate, some lyrics will include an analysis section, which will provide technical information on the lyric's construction, and some potentialĪvenues for interpretation. Lyrics by others, such as Robert Petersen, Will be his own library of lyrics, on the World Wide Web.
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He has kindly agreed to allow me to use full text for all lyrics as of April 24, 1996! Hunter has also posted his lyrics on the web! For John Perry Barlow's lyrics, the standard text The standard text for Robert Hunter's lyrics will be his A Box of Phrases which might benefit from some elucidation, without attempting to give definitive "interpretations," since that's a very personal endeavor. The standard procedure will be to provide links for words or This site provides footnotes for Grateful Dead lyrics. Thanks to all who participated! I have enjoyed doing the work, and I continue to love the music and the words. So the website, as it stands, will become more and more of an artifact, and less and less of a living thing. This will include no longer updating broken links, or correcting errors of fact. I am now laying it to rest, and will not be updating the site further. Introduction to the Project What follows is the introduction I wrote a long time ago when I started this project. For more information on the book and upcoming events such as book signings, see the information page. Note: For more up-to-date and exhaustive discographies,Īnnouncing the print publication of The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics. Take a look! Join the WELL and become a participant! Hostedīy David Gans, Alex Allan, and myself. Readable by the world, featuring discussions of each Grateful Dead song. Please read and contribute to "deadsongs.vue, a WELL Conference Note: for a broader search on Grateful Dead-related topics, try This Old Engine
No further updating to this site will be done, barring unforeseen circumstances. All Grateful Dead lyrics © Ice Nine Publishing. (The opinions expressed are those of the author, not of the University of California.) Notes and essays © 1995-2007 David Dodd, or by their authors.
The Dead’s future was assured.The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, by David Dodd "I can't figure out if it's the end or beginning." The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics Dedicated to the memory of Jerry Garcia.ġ997-98 Research Associate, Music Dept., Univ.
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It duly cracked the US Top 30, while Uncle John’s Band and Casey Jones picked up enough airplay to become radio hits. Surprisingly, Workingman’s Dead established the Dead as a group capable of recording imposing studio albums. It was as the cover suggested a snapshot of the group, stripped of the appurtenances of psychedelia and dumped right back into the setting from which they had sprung. Uncle John’s Band seemed more an affectionate, airbrushed take on the Dead’s early years. ‘High Time’ captured the spirit of Hank Williams and would have sounded right on jukeboxes in the late 40s.Ĭasey Jones may conjure up images of hobos riding the trains in the depression, but " Riding that train/High on cocaine" was more consistent with the rock’n’roll era than with that of the dispossessed in the 30s. Yet the detail of the lyrics was pure rock’n’roll, irrespective of specific era. Superficially, the songs evoked images of a bygone era, where drifters and grifters, hucksters and shucksters, and ladies of easy virtue all rubbed shoulders with a cosy familiarity.
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