Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: Grateful Dead albums, American Beauty, Anthem of the Sun, Aoxomoxoa, Workingman's Dead, In the Dark, Terrapin Station, The Grateful Dead, Shakedown Street, From the Mars Hotel, Built to Last, Blues for Allah, The Pizza Tapes, After Midnight: Kean College, 2/28/80, Go to Heaven, Zabriskie Point, Wake of the Flood, Compliments, The Very Best of Jerry Garcia, Cats Under the Stars, Shady Grove, Not for Kids Only, Been All Around This World, Grateful Dawg, Reflections, Garcia/Grisman, So What, Run for the Roses. Excerpt: American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records. The album continued the folk rock and country music explored on Workingman's Dead and features the lyrics of Robert Hunter prominently. In 2003, the album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The band began recording American Beauty only a few months after the release of Workingman's Dead. An odd occurrence was that the band recorded the album without their sound crew, which was out on the road as part of the Medicine Ball Caravan tour (which the Dead were originally scheduled to join), and this led to staff engineer Stephen Barncard replacing Bob Matthews as producer -- "a move that irks Matthews to this day." Barncard mused that "I had heard bad stories about engineers' interactions with the Dead ... but what I found were a bunch of hardworking guys." Both Workingman's Dead and American Beauty were innovative at the time for their fusion of bluegrass, rock and roll, folk music and, especially, country. Compared to Workingman's Dead, American Beauty had even less lead guitar work from Jerry Garcia, who instead filled the void with...