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Postcards of the Hanging is a compilation album by the Grateful Dead. It consists entirely of Bob Dylan covers, performed live in concert, along with a rehearsal performance of "Man of Peace" featuring the Grateful Dead backing Dylan himself. Bob Weir sings lead on five tracks, Jerry Garcia on three, and Phil Lesh on one ("Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues"); Weir and Garcia also alternate on one ("Maggie's Farm"). Another Dylan covers collection, Garcia Plays Dylan, includes several performances by the Grateful Dead, but mostly by the Jerry Garcia Band and other Garcia side projects. An album of live performances containing Dylan and the Grateful Dead performing together was released in 1989 as "Dylan & the Dead."
The title comes from the opening stanza of Dylan's "Desolation Row": "They're selling postcards of the hanging/ They're painting the passports brown."




Content


Seven of the songs on the album originally appeared on the Dylan albums Bringing It All Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited; the remaining three represent Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and the Leon Russell session that produced "Watching the River Flow" for the Greatest Hits II double-LP. Aside from being from among his most critically revered rock albums, the seven songs date from 1965, the year the long strange trip of the Grateful Dead began. The songs remained in the Dead's live rotation throughout their existence.
Conspicuously absent from the compilation is "Knockin' on Heaven's Door", a song the Dead performed more than 170 times. Conversely, "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" was performed a few times in the early 1990s, and only once in the 1970s – in the version included here, the Dead are accompanied by Dickey Betts and Butch Trucks, of the Allman Brothers Band. Dylan himself leads the band on the final track of the main disc, a rehearsal for the 1987 tour for which the Dead were his backing band.




Track listing


All songs written by Bob Dylan




Personnel


Jerry Garcia – lead guitar, vocals
Bob Weir – rhythm guitar, vocals
Phil Lesh – bass guitar, vocals
Brent Mydland – keyboards, organ, vocals (except track 6)
Mickey Hart – drums (except track 6)
Bill Kreutzmann – drums
Keith Godchaux – piano (track 6)




= Additional personnel

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Dickey Betts – guitar (track 6)
Bob Dylan – acoustic guitar, vocals (track 11)
Butch Trucks – drums (track 6)




= Production

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John Cutler – engineer
Bill Candelario – engineer
Jeffrey Norman – mix
David Gans – compilation producer
David Lemieux – tape archivist
Joe Gastwirt – mastering
Geoff Gans – art direction
Emily Burnham – illustration and design
Cassidy Law – album coordination
Ken Friedman – photography




Charts


Album – Billboard




See also


List of songs written by Bob Dylan
List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs




Notes

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat
• Postcards of the Hanging
• Dozin' at the Knick
• Dylan & the Dead
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Desolation Row
• RFK Stadium, Washington, D.C. 6/10/73
• Brent Mydland
• Touch of Grey
• The Other Ones
• Truckin' Up to Buffalo