We'll hear discussions of pacing and arrangements, “talkback” from the studio to the control room with the album’s producers, Bob Matthews and Betty Cantor-Jackson, and even the shuffling of feet on the studio floor. Here we'll sit in on over two-and-a-half hours of unreleased partial and complete studio outtakes and be fly-on-the wall privy to insider conversations from the WORKINGMAN'S DEAD recording sessions. So let's step into the studio, shall we? THE ANGEL'S SHARE transports us back to 1970 to the Pacific High Recordings Studio in San Francisco. Under the supervision of David Lemieux, engineer Brian Kehew and archivist Mike Johnson spent countless hours compiling and piecing these reels together to create the final opus.
While there may have been ingredients vital to the creation of WORKINGMAN’S DEAD that were lost and did not end up on the final album, they've come a-bubblin' up and we're more than pleased to pass the bottle around.Ĭompiled from dozens of 16-track reels that were recently discovered in unlabeled boxes, THE ANGEL'S SHARE includes outtakes for every song on the album, which have been unheard since they left the studio over 50 years ago. We told you we had an ace in our pocket and we're calling this one THE ANGEL'S SHARE. “Keep it nice and f***ing together, you f***ers.” - Jerry Garcia