{"product_id":"081227804923","title":"PRE-ORDER: Grateful Dead \"Workingman's Dead\" LP (HiFi Brick \u0026 Mortar Exclusive)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTHIS IS A PRE-ORDER: We expect this to ship on or around JULY 24th, 2026. Any items ordered with this will be held until they can ship together. If you need other items faster please place a separate order for those items. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn June 14, 1970, the Grateful Dead released WORKINGMAN’S DEAD, an album that was unlike anything they’d ever done, one that showed the world a new side of the Dead. It was clearly the same band as before, but now with a distinctly different sound and approach to the music, pivoting from psychedelic improvisation to folk-rock storytelling for the “everyman,” as the album’s title suggests. While the Dead’s first three studio albums appealed to many, the group didn’t yet have the mass breakthrough that would make the entire world take notice of this band of misfits from the Bay Area. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWORKINGMAN’S DEAD changed all that. With eight perfect songs – like “Casey Jones” and “High Time” – the album solidified the Jerry Garcia-Robert Hunter songwriting tandem as one of the best and most important songwriting collaborations in music history. The album reached the Top Thirty and included the single “Uncle John’s Band,” which climbed to #69 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, and Mickey Hart recorded the album in about 10 days at Pacific High Recording Studio in San Francisco with Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor – the band’s live-sound engineers – as producers.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e01    Uncle John's Band\u003cbr\u003e02    High Time\u003cbr\u003e03    Dire Wolf\u003cbr\u003e04    New Speedway Boogie\u003cbr\u003e01    Cumberland Blues\u003cbr\u003e02    Black Peter\u003cbr\u003e03    Easy Wind\u003cbr\u003e04    Casey Jones\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"track\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003estreet date 7\/24\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"WEA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45119380652232,"sku":"081227804923","price":61.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0628\/1337\/2616\/files\/86_9198e112-2dc6-4719-8792-0c1e19a59076.jpg?v=1781802705","url":"https:\/\/1234gorecords.shop\/en-ca\/products\/081227804923","provider":"1-2-3-4 Go! Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}