WEIR,BOB - ACE (50TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER) Vinyl LP

When Bobby started working onAceat Wally Heider's Studio in San Francisco inearly 1972, he wasn't planning for the Grateful Dead to be his backing band. It just happened. "I pretty much knew in the back of my mind what would happen," Weir toldCrawdaddya few months after the sessions. "I go and get the time booked and start putting the material together. Everybody gets wind of the fact I got the time booked and I may be going into the studio. So, one by one, they start coming around..."

It made sense, the band was already familiar with most of the music, having road-tested six of the album's eight songs, including "Greatest Story Ever Told," "Mexicali Blues," and "Playing in the Band," destined to become one of Weir's signature tunes.Acealso marked the beginning of Weir's long-running collaboration with lyricist John Perry Barlow and includes early standouts "Cassidy" and "Looks Like Rain."

Tracks:

1. Greatest Story Ever Told
2. Black-Throated Wind
3. Walk in the Sunshine
4. Playing in the Band
5. Looks Like Rain
6. Mexicali Blues
7. One More Saturday Night
8. Cassidy

Label: Rhino