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Tracklist
U.S. Blues
281
China Doll
251
Unbroken Chain
407
Loose Lucy
203
Scarlet Begonias
260
Pride of Cucamonga
258
Money Money
264
Ship Of Fools
333
China Doll (Demo)
167
Wave That Flag (Demo)
300
Sugaree
448
Mexicali Blues
232
Tennessee Jed
495
Jack Straw
297
Brown-Eyed Women
300
Beat It On Down The Line
236
China Cat Sunflower
486
I know You Rider
414
El Paso
272
U.S. Blues
316
Greatest Story Ever Told
291
It Must Have Been the Roses
341
Me and Bobby McGee
341
Deal
286
Around and Around
398
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
479
Truckin'
610
The Other one
1300
Row Jimmy
528
Big River
342
Ship Of Fools
376
Sugar Magnolia
566
From the Mars Hotel - 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
2024
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Tracklist
U.S. Blues
281
China Doll
251
Unbroken Chain
407
Loose Lucy
203
Scarlet Begonias
260
Pride of Cucamonga
258
Money Money
264
Ship Of Fools
333
China Doll (Demo)
167
Wave That Flag (Demo)
300
Sugaree
448
Mexicali Blues
232
Tennessee Jed
495
Jack Straw
297
Brown-Eyed Women
300
Beat It On Down The Line
236
China Cat Sunflower
486
I know You Rider
414
El Paso
272
U.S. Blues
316
Greatest Story Ever Told
291
It Must Have Been the Roses
341
Me and Bobby McGee
341
Deal
286
Around and Around
398
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo
479
Truckin'
610
The Other one
1300
Row Jimmy
528
Big River
342
Ship Of Fools
376
Sugar Magnolia
566
Show Notes
FROM THE MARS HOTEL (50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION) features remastered audio by GRAMMY® Award-winning engineer David Glasser, with Plangent Processes tape restoration and speed correction. Produced for release by Grateful Dead Legacy Manager and Audio Archivist, David Lemieux, the DELUXE EDITION also includes demos of “China Doll” and “Wave That Flag” – the song that became “U.S. Blues” – as well as a previously unreleased live performance of the Grateful Dead at University of Nevada-Reno on 5/12/1974. As the band filled an outdoor football stadium with epic highs like huge “China Cat Sunflower” > “I Know You Rider,” Mars Hotel cuts including “U.S. Blues” and classics such as “Brown-Eyed Women,” “Tennessee Jed,” “Mississippi Half-Step,” “Truckin',” “Sugar Magnolia,” a massive wind storm was no match for the Wall of Sound. Designed to improve the listening and performance experience at what were becoming larger gigs and longer, more dynamic and varied sets, the Wall of Sound required 21 stage hands, and underlined the resounding effect the Grateful Dead were having on American audiences and culture at the time, even as the entire operation remained homespun and humble.
Recorded in San Francisco’s Coast Recorders studio, FROM THE MARS HOTEL finds Keith Godchaux particularly shining across a variety of keys, from the “China Doll” harpsichord to the pounding piano on Bob Weir’s “Money Money,” to the churchy organ that elevates “Ship Of Fools.” Lyricist Robert Hunter packs “U.S. Blues” with a barrage of imagery, pop-culture references and sardonic asides – as Canadian author Ray Robertson writes in the 50th Anniversary Edition’s liner notes, it “carries an undeniable whiff of late-capitalism ennui…it’s the most fun you’ll ever have dancing to the end of the American Empire.” Jerry Garcia’s jaunty lead guitar drives bouncing melodies across the LP, while guests include Ned Lagin’s unnerving synth effects on “Unbroken Chain,” Clover member John McFee’s country-rock pedal steel on “Pride Of Cucamonga,” and more.
