It’s much like the way we root for lost hikers and suspected kidnap victims to be found.ĭespairing, near suicidal, this song won’t be on the next “Now That’s What I Call Christmas,” but as a leadoff track for Kill Rock Stars Records holiday package, it’s perfect.įrom “Kill Rock Stars Winter Holiday Album” It doesn’t get much more hopeful, but when Wasif asks that everyone “come together this December and for the new year,” you want to believe it can happen. It was Christmas time/and I was the reaper of woes The song begins with gathering cymbal thunder, spare acoustic guitar and a harrowing opening line: The group appeared in the film “Laurel Canyon” in 2002. Wasif was a member of Lou Barlow’s side project New Folk Implosion at the end of their run. “River,” Joni Mitchell’s dark holiday lament, gets some testerone competition with Imaad Wasif’s “The New Year,” a track from Kill Rock Stars’ Winter Holiday Album, a joyous little affair indeed. Posted in Cow Palace, Free Downloads, Free Music, Grateful Dead Today’s Free Download – Imaad Wasif Go to the Rhino Listening Party page to listen, or access the QuickTime Stream: This CD is available only through for a limited time when you purchase the Cow Palace release. Highlights are numerous, including exquisite renditions of “The Music Never Stopped” and “Crazy Fingers” from 6/9/76, “Let It Grow” and “Might As Well” from 10/2/76, and the magnificent “Playing In The Band” >”Supplication” >”Playing In The Band” jam from 9/24/76. Every second of the concert is included in the recording Rhino is streaming Disk 2, which includes the following songs:įans who advance purchase the set on the Dead’s website get a nice freebie:Īll pre-orders of the Grateful Dead’s Cow Palace release will receive a very special bonus CD, Spirit of ‘76, featuring more than an hour of previously unreleased music from 1976, produced especially for this release. There’s a sense of the greatness to come in this concert recording, due to be released January 23. Most fans consider it the worst Dead album ever.īut as the year ended, they began a transition which would buoy their greatest commercial successes, signing with Clive Davis’s Artista Records and beginning work on “Terrapin Station.” Over the course of their Arista career, they went from being a cult band to an institution, releasing “Shakedown Street,” “Go To Heaven,” and “In The Dark,” their best-selling studio album. Plans to release the film of their week-long run of Winterland shows stalled, although they did put out a two-record set of the concerts – “Steal Your Face” – which satisfied their obligations to UA. The band split with United Artists and went shopping for a new record label, after their experiment with Grateful Dead Records fell apart. They began the year with a series of “hit and run” shows, their first since 1974. The Grateful Dead finished up a tumultuous 1976 with their New Year’s Eve appearance at San Francisco’s Cow Palace.
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