The deluxe edition of the Grateful Dead's 'Wake of the Flood' includes tender demos of “Here Comes Sunshine” and “Eyes of the World.”
Wake of the Flood
marked an album of change for the Dead. It was their first record without Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, who died that spring, and drummer Mickey Hart, who temporarily parted ways with the band. It was also the debut of their new label, Grateful Dead Records.includes a set at Northwestern University’s Mcgaw Memorial Hall, as well as tender demos of “Here Comes Sunshine” and “Eyes of the World.” You can hear the latter, recorded earlier that year, below.
“I was enthralled with the beautiful arrangements of some of the Dead’s greatest songs, everything so clear and present,” archivist David Lemieux said in a statement. “The songs and vocal treatments all sounded so mature, like these were guys who knew things and they wanted to share what they’d learned in the eight years since forming
. And what REALLY caught my ear were the many additional sounds that were striking at first, but I can’t imagine these songs, on this record, without these many additional contributors.”
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