Europe '72 - Blender

Review

Europe '72

(Warner Bros.)
Release Date: 01/01/1972 12:00

Founding member “Pigpen” McKernan’s final recording (his liver gave out the following year at age 28) also marked the debut of pianist Keith Godchaux and his singing wife, Donna. Hunter hoped such rough-hewn gems as “He’s Gone,” “Jack Straw” and “Tennessee Jed,” introduced here on the group’s third (and some argue, best) live album, would form the crux of a never-recorded country-rock studio effort called Rambling Rose. At the top of their game musically, the Dead returned home to new popularity.

STANDOUT TRACKS: “He’s Gone,” “China Cat Sunflower,” “Morning Dew”

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