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What a gem of a book. Love reading about all the stories behind the lyrics! I will be reading this over and over. A true must have for all Deadheads
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The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
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The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics is an authoritative text, providing standard versions of all the original songs you thought you knew forwards and backwards. These are some of the best-loved songs in the modern American songbook. They are hummed and spoken among thousands as counterculture code and recorded by musicians of all stripes for their inimitable singability and obscure accessibility. How do they do all this? To provide a context for this formidable body of work, of which his part is primary, Robert Hunter has written a foreword that goes to the heart of the matter. And the annotations on sources provide a gloss on the lyrics, which goes to the roots of Western culture as they are incorporated into them.
480 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1,2005
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480 pages, Hardcover
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October 11, 2005 by Free Press
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9780743277471
- ASIN
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0743277473
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English
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This is the authoritative text on the Grateful Dead's lyrics. It features lovely illustrations. In fact, I first read this book as part of a course on the Music of the Grateful Dead while attending UC Santa Cruz. Mr. Dodd was a research associate at UC Santa Cruz. There is a website on this very subject, http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl. Enjoy!
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Lyrics to the songs of my favorite band. What's not to like? Also, lovely illustrations and annotations.
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This book is so awesome! It lists all the Grateful Dead lyrics and gives you some insight to what they were all about! I'm 'Grateful' to have gotten my hands on this book. It's nice having the index of all the songs when I want to locate a certain song. I really enjoy all the graphics and photos in the book as well!
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Although this does contain the complete annotated Grateful Dead lyrics with the addition of some covers, deadheads might be disappointed to find out it doesn't contain the most well known covers by them such as big river or el paso.Also, the annotations in this book aren't consistent, and I felt some things could've been annotated much more, and some songs much less. However, if you're a deadhead, it's still a good read. Gotta love the forward by Robert Hunter
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Love using this while listening to the tunes. Gives you new outlooks and cross references. It goes by other dead song references and in general. I love the endless scope of the annotations! I learn so much every time I pick it up or check them out online. Online it's sometimes even more fun bc you see more feedback from other readers and how they have interpreted the lyrics.
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Nice reading
Loved the whole book. The assembler/writers compiled an excellent tome. Highly recommend to all DeadHeads. As Mr. Spock would say: Fascinating!
Loved the whole book. The assembler/writers compiled an excellent tome. Highly recommend to all DeadHeads. As Mr. Spock would say: Fascinating!
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The most exhaustive - exhausting - book of lyrics I've ever read; full of so many footnotes. A handful of brilliant lyrics - intriguing, elegiac, mercurial - from Robert Hunter. And then a lot of hippie tosh (also from Hunter - and the others). But it's all here. Literally, all of it. So much.
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