The Grateful Dead - Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share

Another November 2nd (Day Of The Dead) - another Grateful Dead offering for you all!

In celebration of the original album's fiftieth anniversary, The Dead's vaults were thrown open to provide Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share, the third installment of the celebrated Angel's Share series, featuring more than two hours of previously unreleased studio chatter, outtakes and alternate versions recorded during the band's August 1973 Wake Of The Flood sessions, held at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California. Some great additions to this release include:

• Takes of “Let Me Sing Your Blues Away,” Keith Godchaux’s first and only vocal on a Grateful Dead studio record;
• Bobby Weir’s continually evolving “Weather Report Suite”; and
• The track “Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain)”, released on the group's later album The Mars Hotel.

In case you're curious, here's the track listing:

1. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Take 9) [Not Slated] [8/6/73]
2. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Take 10) [Slated] [8/6/73]
3. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Take 11) [Slated] [8/6/73]
4. Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo (Take 16) [Slated] [8/6/73]
5. Stella Blue (Take 1) [Not Slated] [8/7/73]
6. Stella Blue (Take 2) [Not Slated] [8/7/73]
7. Stella Blue (Take 4) [Slated] [8/7/73]
8. Stella Blue (Take 5) [Not Slated] [8/7/73]
9. I Am The Rain (Weather Report Suite) [Take 2] [Slated] [8/7/73]
10. I Am The Rain (Weather Report Suite) [Take 3] [Slated] [8/7/73]
11. I Am The Rain (Weather Report Suite) [Take 4] [Slated] [8/7/73]
12. Pistol Shot (China Doll) [TAKE 1] [SLATED] [8/8/73]
13. Pistol Shot (China Doll) [TAKE 2] [SLATED] [8/8/73]
14. Pistol Shot (China Doll) [TAKE 3] [SLATED] [8/8/73]
15. Pistol Shot (China Doll) [TAKE 4] [SLATED] [8/8/73]
16. Row Jimmy (Take 1) [Not Slated] [8/10/73]
17. Eyes Of The World (Run-through) [Not SLATED] [8/10/73]
18. Eyes Of The World (Take 1) [SLATED] [8/10/73]
19. Eyes Of The World (Take 6) [Not SLATED] [8/10/73]
20. Eyes Of The World (Take 15) [Not SLATED] [8/10/73]
21. Eyes Of The World (Take 16) [Not SLATED] [8/10/73]
22. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (TAKE 1) [Not SLATED][8/15/73]
23. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (TAKE 2) [SLATED] [8/15/73]
24. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (TAKE 3) [SLATED] [8/15/73]
25. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (TAKE 4) [SLATED] [8/15/73]
26. Let Me Sing Your Blues Away (TAKE 13) [Not SLATED] [8/15/73]
27. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 1] [Not SLATED] [8/16/73
28. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 2] [Not SLATED] [8/16/73]
29. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 3] [SLATED] [8/16/73]
30. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 4] [Not SLATED] [8/16/73]
31. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 5] [Not SLATED] [8/16/73]
32. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 6] [Not SLATED] [8/16/73]
33. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 7] [SLATED] [8/16/73]
34. Phil’s Song (Unbroken Chain) [Take 8] [SLATED] [8/16/73]
35. Weather Report Suite (Take 10) [Not Slated] [8/16/73
36. Weather Report Suite (Take 11) [Not Slated] [8/16/73
37. Weather Report Suite (Take 16) [Not Slated] [8/16/73]
38. Weather Report Suite (Take 8) [Slated] [8/17/73]

Sort of not much else left to say here about this album - so I'll just shut up and offer up the music. Here for your Dias De Los Muertos listening pleasure, here's Wake Of The Flood: The Angel's Share, released by Rhino Records on August 18, 2023. This one's for all the Deadheads out there!

Enjoy, and... well, you know!

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