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{{Short description|1970 album by Grateful Dead}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox album
| name       = Workingman's Dead
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Grateful Dead]]
| cover      = Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead.jpg
| alt        = A black-on-sepia image of men in Stetson hats standing along a road.
| released   = {{Start date|1970|6|14}}
| recorded   = February 1970
| venue      =
| studio     = Pacific High Recording, [[San Francisco]]
| genre      = {{hlist|[[Roots rock]]|[[folk rock]]|[[country rock]]|[[blues rock]]|}}
| length     = {{Duration|m=35|s=33}}
| label      = [[Warner Bros. Records|Warner Bros.]]
| producer   = {{hlist|Bob Matthews|[[Betty Cantor-Jackson|Betty Cantor]]|Grateful Dead}}
| prev_title = [[Live/Dead]]
| prev_year  = 1969
| next_title = [[Vintage Dead]]
| next_year  = 1970
| misc       = {{Singles
| type       = studio
| single1    = [[Uncle John's Band]]
| single1date= July 1, 1970
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Jason |last=Akeny |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/workingmans-dead-mw0000651044 |title=Workingman's Dead |website=AllMusic |access-date=September 26, 2018}}</ref>
| rev2 = ''[[American Songwriter]]''
| rev2Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name=as>{{cite journal|last=Beviglia|first=Jim|date=January–February 2014|title=The Grateful Dead: ''Workingman's Dead'' |journal=[[American Songwriter]]|volume=29|issue=2|page=55|publisher=ForASong Media, LLC|issn=0896-8993|url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/|access-date=December 27, 2013}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev3Score = A<ref>{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: G|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=G&bk=70|access-date=February 24, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}}</ref>
| rev4 = ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev4Score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|year=2007|publisher=[[Omnibus Press]]|edition=5th|isbn=978-0857125958}}</ref>
| rev5 = ''[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]]''
| rev5score = 9.1/10<ref>{{cite web |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-the-angels-share/ |title=Grateful Dead: ''Workingman's Dead'' |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |work=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=July 11, 2020 |access-date=July 21, 2020}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Rolling Stone]]''
| rev6Score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com:80/music/artists/the-grateful-dead/albumguide|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628185005/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/the-grateful-dead/albumguide|url-status=dead|title=The Grateful Dead: Album Guide &#124; Rolling Stone Music|archive-date=June 28, 2011|access-date=November 19, 2025}}</ref>
}}

'''''Workingman's Dead''''' is the fourth studio album (and fifth overall) by American rock band the [[Grateful Dead]]. It was recorded in February 1970 and released on June 14, 1970, by [[Warner Bros. Records]]. The album and its studio follow-up, ''[[American Beauty (album)|American Beauty]]'', were recorded back-to-back using a similar style, eschewing the [[psychedelic music|psychedelic]] experimentation of previous albums in favor of [[Jerry Garcia]] and [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]]'s [[Americana (music)|Americana-styled]] songcraft.

In 2003, the album was ranked number 262 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]], 264 in a 2012 revised list,<ref>{{cite web|year=2012|title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-172017/|access-date=September 10, 2019|publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]}}</ref> and 409 in the 2020 list.<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=2020-09-22|title=The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/|access-date=2021-05-11|magazine=Rolling Stone|language=en-US}}</ref>  It was voted number 371 in [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''.<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=143}}</ref>

==Recording==
The band again recorded at Pacific High Recording Studio in [[San Francisco]], spending just nine days there. After the protracted sessions required for the previous two studio albums, Garcia suggested "Let's do it all in three weeks and get it the hell out of the way".<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Blair |date=1999 |title=Garcia: An American Life |publisher=Penguin Books, New York, NY. p. 181}}</ref> Besides trying to avoid the debt that had accumulated while recording ''[[Aoxomoxoa]]'', the band was dealing with the stress of a recent drug bust in [[New Orleans]]{{spaced ndash}}which could have resulted in jail time. Additionally, they returned from a tour to find their soon-to-be-fired manager, [[Lenny Hart]] (father of drummer [[Mickey Hart]]), refusing to show [[financial statement|the books]] to anyone else in the organization. "In midst of all this adverse stuff that was happening ... [recording the album] was definitely an upper," said Garcia in an interview.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jackson |first=Blair |date=1999 |title=Garcia: An American Life |publisher=Penguin Books, New York, NY. p. 189}}</ref>

Lyricist [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]] had joined the band on the road for the first time, resulting in a period of faster song development. Unlike the psychedelic, electrified music for which the band had become known, the new songs took a new direction, reviving their folk-band roots. Bassist Phil Lesh stated "The song lyrics reflected an 'old, weird' America that perhaps never was ... The almost miraculous appearance of these new songs would also generate a massive paradigm shift in our group mind: from the mind-munching frenzy of a seven-headed fire-breathing dragon to the warmth and serenity of a choir of chanting cherubim. Even the album cover reflects this new direction: The cover for ''Aoxomoxoa'' is colorful and psychedelic, and that of ''Workingman’s Dead'' is monochromatic and sepia."<ref>{{cite book |last=Lesh |first=Phil |date=2005 |title=Searching for the Sound |location=New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |chapter=Chapter 13 |isbn=978-0-316-00998-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh }}</ref> In recent years, a search revealed that the photograph was taken at 1199 Evans Avenue in San Francisco.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popspotsnyc.com/workingmans_dead/|title=The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead _ Album Cover Location|website=Popspotsnyc.com|access-date=November 19, 2025}}</ref>

''Workingman's Dead'' and ''[[American Beauty (album)|American Beauty]]'', the companion album that followed months later, were, according to drummer Bill Kreutzmann, both influenced by the [[Bakersfield sound]]. He explained "We tried to be like a [[Bakersfield, California|Bakersfield]] band{{spaced ndash}}but one that still sounded like we were from 300 miles north of that town ... we held to our psychedelic roots. ''Workingman's Dead'' was all about discovering ''the song'' ... ''American Beauty'' became all about having the harmonies to do that".<ref>{{cite book |last=Kreutzmann |first=Bill |date=2015 |title=Deal |location=New York |publisher=Little, Brown & Co. |chapter=Chapter 9 |isbn=978-1-250-03380-2}}</ref>

{{Quote box|width=25em|bgcolor=#ACE1AF|quote=This was, sort of, stepping out of our spacesuit and coming down to Earth and putting on a pair of Osh Kosh and digging the furrows ... we would have to bring the music in, to support the texts: Hunter's [[Holy Grail]]|source=- Mickey Hart<ref>{{cite AV media|title=Classic Albums - The Grateful Dead: Anthem to Beauty |date=1999 | medium=DVD | publisher=Rhino/WEA}}</ref>}}

While on tour in [[Boulder, Colorado]], the previous year, Garcia had purchased a [[pedal steel guitar|steel guitar]] and was now keen to use it on the new batch of songs. Lesh explained, "Just as with any other instrument he picked up, he made it sing. The main impetus for this development was the nature of the new songs Hunter and Jerry had been writing; many of them had a decidedly country flavor ('Dire Wolf,' 'Friend of the Devil,' 'High Time,' 'Casey Jones', 'Ripple'), and Jerry began using the new axe on these as they were slotted into the set lists. Bobby [Weir] also began bringing in covers of his favorite country tunes and some originals in that vein, so we were starting to see a trend developing. Personally, I was thrilled that the band could make such a complete musical about-face while still maintaining the flat-out weirdness that I’d come to know and love."<ref>{{cite book |last=Lesh |first=Phil |date=2005 |title=Searching for the Sound |publisher=Little, Brown & Co., New York, NY. Chapter 11 |isbn=978-0-316-00998-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/searchingforsoun00lesh }}</ref>

Songs such as "Uncle John's Band", "High Time", and "Cumberland Blues" were brought to life with soaring harmonies and layered vocal textures that had not previously been a part of the band's sound. According to the 1992 Dead oral history, ''Aces Back to Back'', in the summer of 1968 [[Stephen Stills]] vacationed at Mickey Hart's ranch in Novato. "Stills lived with me for three months around the time of CSN's first record," recalls Hart, "and he and [[David Crosby]] really turned Jerry and Bobby onto the voice as the holy instrument. You know, 'Hey, is this what a voice can do?' That turned us away from pure improvisation and more toward songs."<ref>{{cite book |last=Allen |first=Scott W. |date=1992 |title=Aces Back to Back|publisher=Outskirts Press |location=Parker, Col.}}</ref>

Garcia commented that much of the sound of the album comes both from his pairing with Hunter, as well as the band's friendship with [[Crosby, Stills and Nash]]: "Hearing those guys sing and how nice they sounded together, we thought, 'We can try that. Let's work on it a little'."<ref>''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip''. Jake Woodward, et al. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003, p. 119.</ref>

==Release==
The album title came about when Jerry Garcia commented to lyricist Robert Hunter that the album was "turning into the 'workingman's Dead' version of the band".<ref name="multiple1">''Grateful Dead: The Illustrated Trip''. Jake Woodward, et al. Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2003, p. 108.</ref> Having both worked on all of the album's songs and gone out on the road with the band, Hunter appears as a seventh member on the front cover photograph.

Warner Bros. released "Uncle John's Band" ([[A-side and B-side|backed with]] "New Speedway Boogie") as a single to promote the album. It received limited airplay, even though it was edited to a radio-friendly three-minute length and the lyric "goddamn" removed.

Readers of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' voted ''Workingman's Dead'' the best album of 1970, followed by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's ''[[Déjà Vu (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album)|Déjà Vu]]'' and [[Van Morrison]]'s ''[[Moondance]]''.<ref name="multiple1"/>

The album was remastered and expanded in 2001 as part of [[Rhino Records]]' 12-CD box set ''[[The Golden Road (1965–1973)]]''. This version, given separate release in 2003, includes eight bonus tracks.  A [[DVD-Audio]] version was also released in 2001, without the bonus material. In 2014 it was issued as a two-LP set, mastered at 45 rpm by [[Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab]].

In 2020 Rhino Records released the "50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition" of ''Workingman's Dead''. Disc one contains a new remaster of the album. Discs two and three contain a previously unreleased complete concert from the [[Capitol Theater (Port Chester, New York)|Capitol Theater]] in [[Port Chester, New York]], recorded on February 21, 1971.<ref name=PNW-DDN>{{cite web |date=May 6, 2020 |url=http://www.dead.net/store/music/new-releases/Workingman's-Dead-50th-Anniversary-Deluxe-Edition?eml=2020May6/4345146/6131962&etsubid=39948510 |title=Announcing ''Workingman's Dead'' 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition |website=dead.net |access-date=May 28, 2020}}</ref>

==Track listing==
All songs written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, except where noted.
{{track listing
| headline     = Side one
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1       = [[Uncle John's Band]]
| writer1      =
| extra1       = {{hlist|Garcia|[[Bob Weir]]|[[Phil Lesh]]}}
| length1      = 4:42
| title2       = High Time
| writer2      = 
| extra2       = Garcia
| length2      = 5:13
| title3       = [[Dire Wolf (song)|Dire Wolf]]
| writer3      = 
| extra3       = Garcia
| length3      = 3:13
| title4       = New Speedway Boogie
| writer4      = 
| extra4       = Garcia
| length4      = 4:05
| total_length = 17:13
}}
{{track listing
| headline     = Side two
| extra_column = Lead vocals
| title1       = Cumberland Blues
| writer1      = {{hlist|Garcia|Lesh|Hunter}}
| length1      = 3:15
| extra1       = {{hlist|Garcia|Weir|Lesh}}
| title2       = Black Peter
| writer2      = 
| extra2       = Garcia
| length2      = 5:42
| title3       = Easy Wind
| writer3      = Hunter
| extra3       = [[Ron McKernan]]
| length3      = 4:59
| title4       = [[Casey Jones (Grateful Dead song)|Casey Jones]]
| writer4      =
| extra4       = Garcia
| length4      = 4:24
| total_length = 18:20
}}

{{track listing
| headline     = 2001/2003 reissue bonus tracks
| title9       = New Speedway Boogie |note9=alternate mix
| length9      = 4:10
| title10       = Dire Wolf |note10=live
| length10      = 2:31
| title11       = Black Peter |note11=live
| length11      = 9:07
| title12       = Easy Wind |note12=live
| length12      = 8:09
| title13       = Cumberland Blues |note13=live
| length13      = 4:52
| title14       = Mason's Children
| note14        = live: Garcia, Lesh, [[Bob Weir]], Hunter
| length14      = 6:32
| title15       = Uncle John's Band |note15=live
| length15      = 7:57
| title16       = Radio promo
| length16      = 1:00
| total_length  = 44:18 79:51
}}

'''Bonus track details'''
* "Dire Wolf" recorded June 27, 1969, at Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Hall, [[Santa Rosa, California|Santa Rosa]], CA
* "Black Peter" recorded January 10, 1970, at Golden Hall Community Concourse, [[San Diego]], CA 
* "Easy Wind" recorded January 16, 1970, at Springer's Ballroom, [[Gresham, Oregon|Gresham]], OR  
* "Cumberland Blues" recorded January 17, 1970, at Oregon State University (Gymnasium), [[Corvallis, Oregon|Corvallis]], OR 
* "Mason's Children" recorded January 24, 1970 at Civic Auditorium, [[Honolulu]], HI (later released with complete concert on ''[[Dave's Picks Volume 19]]'')
* "Uncle John's Band" recorded October 4, 1970, at [[Winterland Ballroom|Winterland]], [[San Francisco]], CA (sleeve notes incorrectly list as December 23, 1970, Winterland;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://deadessays.blogspot.com/2010/10/mysterious-case-of-121770.html |title=Grateful Dead Guide: The Mysterious Case of 12/17/70 |publisher=Deadessays.blogspot.com |date=2010-10-05 |access-date=2015-04-24}}</ref> another track from this date is a bonus on ''[[American Beauty (album)|American Beauty]]'')

=== 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition ===
{{track listing
| headline      = Disc two - February 21, 1971 (Set 1) – Capitol Theatre – Port Chester, New York
| title1        = Cold Rain and Snow
| note1         = traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead
| length1       = 7:36
| title2        = [[Me and Bobby McGee]]
| note2         = [[Kris Kristofferson]], [[Fred Foster]]
| length2       = 7:33
| title3        = Loser
| note3         = Garcia, Hunter
| length3       = 6:54
| title4        = Easy Wind
| length4       = 8:49
| title5        = [[Playing in the Band]]
| note5         = [[Bob Weir|Weir]], [[Mickey Hart|Hart]], Hunter
| length5       = 5:25
| title6        = [[Bertha (song)|Bertha]]
| note6         = Garcia, Hunter
| length6       = 6:13
| title7        = [[Me and My Uncle]]
| note7         = [[John Phillips (musician)|John Phillips]]
| length7       = 3:56
| title8        = Ripple
| note8         = false start
| length8       = 1:09
| title9        = [[Ripple (song)|Ripple]]
| note9         = Garcia, Hunter
| length9       = 5:24
| title10       = [[Next Time You See Me]]
| note10        = [[Earl Forest]], [[Bill Harvey (bandleader)|Bill Harvey]]
| length10      = 4:39
| title11       = [[Sugar Magnolia]]
| note11        = [[Bob Weir]], [[Robert Hunter (lyricist)|Robert Hunter]]
| length11      = 6:08
| title12       = Greatest Story Ever Told
| note12        = Weir, Hunter
| length12      = 4:09
| title13       = [[Johnny B. Goode]]
| note13        = [[Chuck Berry]]
| length13      = 3:42
| total_length  = 71:37 107:10
}}
{{track listing
| headline      = Disc three - February 21, 1971 (Set 2) – Capitol Theatre – Port Chester, New York
| title1        = [[China Cat Sunflower]]
| note1         = Garcia, Hunter
| length1       = 6:20
| title2        = [[I Know You Rider]]
| note2         = traditional, arranged by Grateful Dead
| length2       = 4:29
| title3        = Bird Song
| note3         = Garcia, Hunter
| length3       = 6:17
| title4        = Cumberland Blues
| length4       = 4:55
| title5        = [[I'm a King Bee]]
| note5         = [[Slim Harpo]]
| length5       = 7:32
| title6        = [[Beat It On Down the Line]]
| note6         = [[Jesse Fuller]]
| length6       = 3:17
| title7        = Wharf Rat
| note7         = Garcia, Hunter
| length7       = 9:46
| title8        = [[Truckin'|Truckin{{'-}}]]
| note8         = Garcia, [[Phil Lesh|Lesh]], Weir, Hunter
| length8       = 8:07
| title9        = Casey Jones
| length9       = 4:39
| title10       = [[Good Lovin' (The Young Rascals song)|Good Lovin{{'-}}]]
| note10        = Artie Resnick, [[Rudy Clark]]
| length10      = 17:00
| title11       = Uncle John's Band
| length11      = 7:27
| total_length  = 79:49 186:59
}}

==''Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share''==
{{infobox album
|name = Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share
|artist = [[Grateful Dead]]
|cover = Workingmans-Dead-The-Angels-Share.jpg
|type = studio
|recorded = February 1970
|studio = 	Pacific High Recording
|released = July 1, 2020
|label = [[Rhino Entertainment|Rhino]]
|length = 
|prev_title = [[Dave's Picks Volume 34]]
|prev_year = 2020
|next_title = [[Dave's Picks Volume 35]]
|next_year = 2020
}}
On July 1, 2020, a collection of demos and outtakes from the ''Workingman's Dead'' recording sessions entitled ''Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share'' was released in streaming and digital download formats.<ref>{{cite web |first=Stephen Thomas |last=Erlewine |date=July 11, 2020 |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/grateful-dead-workingmans-dead-the-angels-share/ |title=Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead / The Angel's Share Album Review |work=Pitchfork |access-date=July 4, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Michael |last=Broerman |date=July 1, 2020 |url=https://liveforlivemusic.com/genre/grateful-dead-workingmans-the-angels-share/ |title=Grateful Dead Release 'Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share' Studio Outtakes |work=Live for Live Music |access-date=July 4, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Andrew |last=Sacher |date=July 1, 2020 |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/grateful-dead-release-album-of-workingmans-dead-studio-tapes-listen/ |title=Grateful Dead Surprise-Release Album of 'Workingman's Dead' Studio Tapes |work=Brooklyn Vegan |access-date=July 4, 2024}}</ref>

===Track listing===
{{Track listing
| headline = ''Workingman’s Dead: The Angel’s Share''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://store.dead.net/en/grateful-dead/home/workingmans-dead-the-angels-share-digital/603497846092BUN.html |title=Workingmans Dead: The Angels Share Digital |work=dead.net |access-date=July 4, 2024}}</ref>
| title1 =  Uncle John’s Band (False Start 1) [Not Slated]
| length1 = 1:04
| title2 =  Uncle John’s Band (Breakdown) [Not Slated]
| length2 = 1:08
| title3 =  Uncle John’s Band (False Start 2) [Not Slated]
| length3 = 0:27
| title4 =  Uncle John’s Band (Complete Track) [Not Slated]
| length4 = 4:44
| title5 = Uncle John’s Band (Take 6 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length5 = 1:02
| title6 =  Uncle John’s Band (Take 7 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length6 = 1:46
| title7 = High Time (Breakdown 1) [Not Slated]
| length7 = 1:23
| title8 = High Time (Breakdown 2) [Not Slated]
| length8 = 1:09 
| title9 = High Time (Take 3 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length9 = 0:25
| title10 = High Time (Complete Track 1) [Not Slated]
| length10 = 5:40
| title11 = High Time (Studio Chatter)
| length11 =  0:44
| title12 =  High Time (Complete Track 2) [Not Slated]
| length12 = 5:32
| title13 = High Time (Take 6 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length13 =  0:46
| title14 =  High Time (Take 7 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length14 = 0:17
| title15 =  Dire Wolf (Breakdown 1) [Not Slated]
| length15 = 1:25
| title16 =  Dire Wolf (Complete Track 1) [Not Slated]
| length16 = 2:51
| title17 =   Dire Wolf (Complete Track 2) [Not Slated]
| length17 = 4:23
| title18 =   Dire Wolf (Take 2 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length18 = 1:08
| title19 =   Dire Wolf (Take 4 False Start & Breakdown) [Slated]
| length19 = 0:45
| title20 =  Dire Wolf (Breakdown 2) [Not Slated]
| length20 = 0:57
| title21 =  Dire Wolf (Take 6 Breakdown) [Slated]
| length21 = 1:31
| title22 =  Dire Wolf (Breakdown 3) [Not Slated]
| length22 = 0:42
| title23 =   Dire Wolf (False Starts 1) [Not Slated]
| length23 = 0:21
| title24 = Dire Wolf (Breakdown 4) [Not Slated]
| length24 = 2:18
| title25 =  Dire Wolf (False Start 2) [Not Slated]
| length25 = 1:07
| title26 =  Dire Wolf (Complete Track 3) [Not Slated]
| length26 = 4:26
| title27 =  Dire Wolf (Complete Track with Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length27 = 4:36
| title28 =  Dire Wolf (False Start 3) [Not Slated]
| length28 = 0:36
| title29 =  New Speedway Boogie (Demo with Acoustic Guitar, Drums & Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length29 = 2:35
| title30 =   New Speedway Boogie (Complete Track with Vocals 1) [Not Slated]
| length30 = 3:57 
| title31 =  New Speedway Boogie (Take 2 Breakdown with Vocals) [Slated]
| length31 = 1:34 
| title32 = New Speedway Boogie (Take 3 Breakdown with Vocals) [Slated]
| length32 = 1:38
| title33 = New Speedway Boogie (Mis-Named as Take 3 False Start with Vocals) [Slated]
| length33 = 0:15
| title34 =  New Speedway Boogie (Take 4 Complete with Vocals & Lead Guitar) [Slated]
| length34 = 4:26
| title35 =  New Speedway Boogie (Arranging Take with Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length35 = 2:37
| title36 =  New Speedway Boogie (Breakdown with Vocals 1) [Not Slated]
| length36 = 1:00
| title37 = New Speedway Boogie (Breakdown with Vocals 2) [Not Slated]
| length37 = 1:59
| title38 =  New Speedway Boogie (Complete Track With Vocals 2) [Not Slated]
| length38 = 4:48
| title39 = New Speedway Boogie (Take 8 With Vocals) [Slated]
| length39 = 4:19
| title40 =  Cumberland Blues (Various Breakdowns & Take 9) [Slated]
| length40 = 3:26 
| title41 = Black Peter (Breakdown 1) [Not Slated]
| length41 = 1:05
| title42 =   Black Peter (Breakdown 2) [Not Slated]
| length42 = 1:12
| title43 =  Black Peter (Studio Chatter)
| length43 = 1:45
| title44 =  Black Peter (Breakdown 3) [Not Slated]
| length44 = 5:41
| title45 = Black Peter (Breakdown 4) [Not Slated]
| length45 = 4:42
| title46 = Black Peter (Complete Track with Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length46 = 5:43
| title47 =  Easy Wind (Complete Track With Vocals 1) [Not Slated]
| length47 = 4:53
| title48 = Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 1) [Not Slated]
| length48 = 0:48
| title49 = Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 2) [Not Slated]
| length49 = 4:20
| title50 = Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 3) [Not Slated]
| length50 = 1:12
| title51 = Easy Wind (Breakdown With Vocals 4) [Not Slated]
| length51 = 1:04
| title52 = Easy Wind (Complete Track With Vocals 2) [Not Slated]
| length52 = 5:52
| title53 =  Easy Wind (False Starts & Breakdowns With Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length53 = 1:43
| title54 =   Easy Wind (Incomplete Track With Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length54 = 1:44
| title55 =  Easy Wind (Take 17 With Vocals) [Slated]
| length55 = 5:42
| title56 =  Easy Wind (Take 18 Breakdown With Vocals) [Slated]
| length56 = 0:45
| title57 = Easy Wind (Take 19 Breakdown With Vocals) [Slated]
| length57 = 1:05
| title58 = Easy Wind (Take 20 With Vocals) [Slated]
| length58 = 4:36
| title59 =  Easy Wind (Take 21 False Start With Vocals) [Slated]
| length59 = 0:21
| title60 = Easy Wind (Take 22 Breakdown With Vocals) [Slated]
| length60 = 0:39
| title61 =  Easy Wind (Take 23 Breakdown With Vocals) [Slated]
| length61 = 0:39 
| title62 =  Casey Jones (Breakdown 1) [Not Slated]
| length62 = 2:51 
| title63 =  Casey Jones (Breakdown 2) [Not Slated]
| length63 = 3:10 
| title64 =  Casey Jones (Complete Track With Vocals) [Not Slated]
| length64 = 4:34 
}}

==Personnel==

'''Grateful Dead'''
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* [[Jerry Garcia]]&nbsp;– [[lead guitar]], [[pedal steel guitar]], [[banjo]], [[Singing|vocals]], lead vocals on all songs except where noted
* [[Bob Weir]]&nbsp;– [[guitar]], vocals, co-lead vocals on "Cumberland Blues", lead vocals on the reissue live bonus track "Dire Wolf"
* [[Ron "Pigpen" McKernan|Pigpen (Ron McKernan)]]&nbsp;– [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[harmonica]], vocals, lead vocals on "Easy Wind"
* [[Phil Lesh]]&nbsp;– [[bass guitar|bass]], vocals
* [[Bill Kreutzmann]]&nbsp;– [[drum kit|drums]], [[percussion instrument|percussion]]
* [[Mickey Hart]]&nbsp;– drums, percussion (absent on discs two and three of the 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
* [[Tom Constanten]]&nbsp;– keyboards on reissue live bonus tracks "Dire Wolf", "Black Peter", "Easy Wind", "Cumberland Blues", "Mason's Children"

'''Additional musicians'''
* [[David Nelson (musician)|David Nelson]]&nbsp;– [[Steel-string acoustic guitar|acoustic guitar]] on "Cumberland Blues"

'''Production'''
* Bob Matthews, [[Betty Cantor-Jackson|Betty Cantor]], Grateful Dead –  producer
* [[Alembic Inc|Alembic]] – engineer
* [[Laurence Shurtliff|Ramrod]] –  equipment crew
* Rex Jackson –  equipment crew
* S. Heard –  equipment crew
* Jon McIntire –  big nurse
* Sam Cutler –  executive nanny
* Cosmic Gail –  lady in waiting
* David Parker –  guardians of the vault
* Bonnie Parker –  guardians of the vault
* [[Stanley Mouse|Mouse Studios]], with Toon N Tree –  cover photo, art, and design
* [[John Dawson (musician)|John Dawson]] –  special thanks
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'''Reissue production credits'''
* James Austin – reissue production
* [[David Lemieux (archivist)|David Lemieux]] – reissue production
* Peter McQuaid –  executive producer
* Michael Wesley Johnson –  associate producer and research coordination
* Eileen Law –  archival research
* Cassidy Law –  project coordinator
* Eric Doney –  business affairs
* Nancy Mallonee –  business affairs
* Malia Doss –  business affairs
* Dennis McNally –  Grateful mentor
* Joe Gastwirt –  mastering, production consultant
* Jimmy Edwards –  production manager
* Joe Motta –  project coordination
* Gary Peterson –  discography annotation
* Shawn Amos –  liner notes coordination
* Daniel Goldmark –  editorial supervision
* Hugh Brown –  reissue art direction, design
* Greg Allen –  reissue art direction, design
* Rachel Gutek –  reissue art direction, design
* David Singer –  poster on book cover
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==Charts and certifications==
''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]''
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Chart
!align="left"|Position
|-
|align="left"|Pop Albums
|align="left"|27<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Top 200 Albums - week of June 27, 1970|url=http://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1970-06-27|magazine=Billboard|access-date=3 December 2016|location='''Scroll down to Workingman's Dead and hover'''}}</ref>
|}
'''[[RIAA Certification]]'''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?resultpage=1&table=SEARCH_RESULTS&action=&title=Workingman&artist=grateful%20dead&format=&debutLP=&category=&sex=&releaseDate=&requestNo=&type=&level=&label=&company=&certificationDate=&awardDescription=&catalogNo=&aSex=&rec_id=&charField=&gold=&platinum=&multiPlat=&level2=&certDate=&album=&id=&after=&before=&startMonth=1&endMonth=1&startYear=1958&endYear=2009&sort=Artist&perPage=25 |title=RIAA Gold & Platinum database-''Workingman's Dead''|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] |access-date=February 28, 2009}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!align="left"|Certification
!align="left"|Date
|-
|align="left"|[[Gold album|Gold]]
|align="left"|July 11, 1974
|-
|align="left"|[[Platinum album|Platinum]]
|align="left"|October 13, 1986
|}

==See also==
* ''[[So Many Roads (1965–1995)]]''—a 1999 box set that includes the outtake "Mason's Children"
* ''[[The Golden Road (1965–1973)]]''—a 2001 box set which includes the entirety of this album and its re-release bonus tracks
* ''[[The Warner Bros. Studio Albums]]''—a 2010 box set which includes this album

==References==
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