Album of the Day: ‘AOXOMOXOA’ by the Grateful Dead

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Album of the Day: ‘AOXOMOXOA’ by the Grateful Dead

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Grateful Dead. Photo by Chris Walter/WireImage/Getty Images. 

We’re revisiting the Grateful Dead’s third studio album, AOXOMOXOA which was originally released in 1969. 

 

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'AOXOMOXOA' (1969).

Though AOXOMOXOA was the third Grateful Dead album, it represented several significant firsts for the Bay-area band. The group's first self-produced set, it would be their first recorded on 16-track tapes and the first whose lyrics were entirely penned by frequent collaborator Robert Hunter. It was also the first with cover art by the great Rick Griffin, who came up with the titular palindrome with Hunter. The 1969 collection introduced favorites like St. Stephen and Mountains On The Moon, as well as China Cat Sunflower, a song that would continue to remain in the band's repertoire (and one, Rosemary, which the band only performed live once - this week in 1968). Murky, mysterious, and majestic, AOXOMOXOA is a perfect time capsule that is still resplendent a half-century after it first appeared.

Grateful Dead | ‘St. Stephen’ [Winterland 12/31/78] [Official Live Video]

 

Grateful Dead | ‘Mountains of the Moon’

Grateful Dead | ‘China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider’ [Winterland 10/17/74]

Grateful Dead | ’Rosemary’ 

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