Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead glam his sold-out shows packed with

his sold-out shows packed with adoring fans

just as America itself seemed about to split at its seams

The Elephant Man

It's a testament to her integrity and extraordinary courage that she was able to resurrect with this extraordinary album

It examines the album's 36 tracks and considers the significance of the record's dissection on behalf of fans who curate their own versions of the album in the mixtape

Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead glam his sold-out shows packed withReleased in 1970, Workingman's Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold water shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late '60s. It was the band's most commercially and critically successful release to date. More importantly, these songs established the blueprint for how the Dead would maintain and build upon a community held together by the core motivation of rejecting the status quo the straight life in order to live