Grateful Dead - Postcards of the Hanging: The Grateful Dead Perform the Songs of Bob Dylan

A Perfect Match!

I really enjoyed this album, for the most part. The one track I wasn't crazy about was "It Takes A Lot To Laugh" from the Garcia/Saunders Keystone era, but that has more to do with the fact that it's one of Dylan's songs that I really don't care for. The other songs are excellent choices. I loved Bobby's voice and the arrangement on Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again), and Phil seemed like he was having fun with "Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues".

All I can say is, if you are a fan of Dylan and/or The Dead, you either already have this disc in your collection, or you really should have!

Happy Listening!

Howard June 27, 2008

Greatest Album Ever Released

Top-notch versions of Rock n Roll's greatest band playing some of the finest tunes ever crafted by Rock n Roll's greatest songwriter. What more could anyone possibly want? Get this disc today, tomorrow you might be hit by a bus. January 11, 2008

Simple twist of Dylan

This is a pretty good collection of tunes. The copy I have also has the bonus disc with Queen Jane and The Mighty Quinn. The All Along The Watchtower is the one now available on Truckin' Up To Buffalo. It Takes Alot To Laugh features members of the Allman Brothers Band. December 1, 2006

dylan and the dead love hate relationship

the dead and dylan have a long musical history a poor soul un wisely says that the dead dont do dylans music justice the sheer stupidity of the stament makes me laugh dylan is one of the most influential writers of are time but come on he wrote almost all his songs with three chords because to him the words were everythining and because his musical skill allowed no more the dead on the other hand are an extremely diverse group of incrediable musicians so if you want to here dylans classics played and sung by highly skilled musicians this disc is 4 u if u cant stand the thought of someone other than dylan singing his tunes by dylan butno matter what u do dont get "dylan and the dead" its horrible. because dylan does not have the greatest voice with out a studio but he is a genuis and very close to the dead when jerry died he referred to jerry as more like a big brother rather than a freind...ive seen over 56 dead shows as well as 6 dylan shows and have seen each do each others songs numerous times these songs arent being played by the dead for the first time for some tribute album but for the thousandth time because the dead loved dylan and he loved the dead June 8, 2006

When Bob and Jerry hung out, what did they talk about?

There is a danger in reviewing the Grateful Dead. As a guy with kids, a job, and a mortgage, I am certain to fumble details that are common knowledge among true deadheads. I apologize in advance.

"Postcards from the Hanging" makes me believe there is a different way to live. It combines the loose, behind-the-beat Dead interpretations of some of the best poetry of the twentieth century. The result is a longing to live cleaner, easier, more creatively, and closer to the heart. This is what art is supposed to do.

So maybe I am not as discriminating as some of the other reviewers (there probably are better verisions), but nervertheless I was moved.

"Postcards" for me combined two sentimental memories. I was taken back to when I was thirteen, taping "Blood on the Tracks" off of Stereo X in the basement on a Sunday night. I was taken back to when I was 21, working in the lumber yard and listening to all-Grateful-Dead Saturdays on Utah's start-up community radio station. How could I resist this combination of two heroes from simpler times?

I was unable to resist another combination--"Dylan and the Dead." Ouch. (Who wanted to include eleven minutes of "Joey"?) Stay away from "Dylan and the Dead." Confidently immerse your ears in "Postcards."

Look, for the Dead to be about psychedelic interpretation of folk music--which on some level they were, they had to do Dylan's work. Dylan was and is the godfather of all post-modern American folk music. The combination is a natural one. For the casual fan of the Dead, this is probably the most accessible package of their Dylan work.

And yes I do agree that Jerry is by far the better voice for Dylan's lyrics. When Bob and Jerry got together, what did they talk about? December 3, 2005

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