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Franklin's Tower

Blues for Allah

Blues for Allah
Studio album by The Grateful Dead
Released September 1, 1975
Recorded February 27 – May 7, 1975
Genre Jazz fusion
Rock
Length 44:13
Label Grateful Dead Records
Producer Grateful Dead
Professional reviews

Blues for Allah is the eighth studio album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between February 27 and May 7, 1975 and originally released on September 1, 1975. It was the third release under the band's own label, Grateful Dead Records, after fulfilling their contract with Warner Bros. Records.

It was the first album with Mickey Hart in over four years, and the band's first album since their short hiatus from touring in 1974. Possibly because of late arrival, Mickey Hart's picture does not appear on the back cover.

The album's title track was only performed a handful of times in 1975 and never played again after that, while several other tracks on the album were performed regularly for the rest of the Dead's career.

The album was released for the first time on CD in 1995 by Arista before being remastered, expanded, and released as part of the Beyond Description (1973-1989) 12-CD box set in October 2004. The remastered version was later released separately on CD on March 7, 2006 by Rhino Records.

Track listing

Original release

Side one

  1. "Help on the Way" (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter) – 3:15
    "Slipknot!" (Garcia, Keith Godchaux, Bill Kreutzmann, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir) – 4:03
  2. "Franklin's Tower" (Garcia, Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 4:37
  3. "King Solomon's Marbles" (Lesh) – 1:55
    "Stronger than Dirt or Milkin' the Turkey" (Mickey Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh) – 3:25
  4. "The Music Never Stopped" (Weir, John Perry Barlow) – 4:35

Side two

  1. "Crazy Fingers" (Garcia, Hunter) – 6:41
  2. "Sage & Spirit" (Weir) – 3:07
  3. "Blues for Allah" (Garcia, Hunter) - 3:21
    "Sand Castles & Glass Camels" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Donna Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 5:26
    "Unusual Occurrences in the Desert" (Garcia, Hunter) – 3:48

2004 reissue bonus tracks

  1. "Groove #1" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 5:45
  2. "Groove #2" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 7:35
  3. "Distorto" (Garcia) – 8:14
  4. "A to E Flat Jam" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 4:39
  5. "Proto 18 Proper" (Garcia, K. Godchaux, Hart, Kreutzmann, Lesh, Weir) – 4:18
  6. "Hollywood Cantata" (Weir, Hunter) – 4:14

Personnel

Grateful Dead:

Additional performers:

Production:

Bonus tracks production details

Reissue production credits

Charts

Album - Billboard

YearChartPosition
1975Pop Albums12

Singles - Billboard

YearSingleChartPosition
1975"The Music Never Stopped"Pop Singles81

See also

External links

References






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