Grateful Dead - American Beauty (1970)
Tracklist front / back album covers
Songs written by Jerry Garcia / Robert Hunter. Lyrics written by Garcia except
Side one
"Box of Rain" (Phil Lesh, Robert Hunter) – 5:18 (lead singer: Phil Lesh)
"Friend of the Devil" (Garcia, John Dawson, Hunter) – 3:24
"Sugar Magnolia" (Bob Weir, Hunter) – 3:19 (lead singer: Bob Weir)
"Operator" (Ron McKernan) – 2:25 (lead singer: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan)
"Candyman" – 6:14
Side two
"Ripple" – 4:09
"Brokedown Palace" – 4:09
"Till the Morning Comes" – 3:08 (lead singers: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh)
"Attics of My Life" – 5:12 (lead singers: Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh)
"Truckin'" – 5:05 (Garcia, Lesh, Weir, Hunter) – 5:03 (lead singer: Bob Weir)
American Beauty is the fifth studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Released November 1, 1970, by Warner Bros. Records, the album continued the folk rock and country music style of their previous album Workingman's Dead, issued earlier in the year. Though the Americana approach is still evident in the songwriting, comparatively the sound focused more on folk harmonies and major-key melodies, showing influence from Bob Dylan and Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young.
Upon release, American Beauty entered the Billboard 200 chart, ultimately peaking at number 30 during a nineteen-week stay in January 1971. On July 11, 1974, the album was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and it later reached Platinum and Double Platinum certification in 1986 and 2001, respectively. In 2003, the album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and 261 in a 2012 revised list.
