Conveniently, they were also deep in debt to their record company and trying to extract themselves from a recentand costly. They wanted something lighter, simpler something closer to a folk or country record than a psychedelic one. A nice run of China Cat Sunflower->I Know You Rider->High Time->Dire Wolf. "Dire Wolf" is a fun folk-country tune with heavy singalong vibes. When the Grateful Dead convened to record Workingman’s Dead in February 1970, they were intent on change. Discuss, vote on, and listen to the best versions of Dire Wolf by Grateful Dead.
It's a song by a ghost."Īll in good humor. Hunter verified that interpretation, stating that the narrator "is the shadow of the man in the song who is dead at this point. I said my prayers and went to bed, that's the last they saw of me Grateful Dead Dire Wolf (Live) In the timbers of Fennario The wolves are running round. The version of 'Dire Wolf' that appears on that album was taken from their Octoshow, and features an energetic solo from Jerry Garcia that. The dire wolf collect his due while the boys sing round the fire. I sat down to my supper, 'twas a bottle of red whisky The 1981 live Grateful Dead album 'Reckoning' features songs from the band's Warfield Theatre run in the fall of 1980, and the opening track 'Dire Wolf' is the subject of this lesson. When I awoke, the dire wolf, six hundred pounds of sin, was grinning at my. In short, the narrator is dead, as insinuated early in the song. The song never explains the significance of the Queen of Spades, but Dead lyricist Robert Hunter once stated that it is the "card of death," which means every card in the deck was a card of death. Dire Wolf - Live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO 7/8/78. When he cuts the deck at the Queen of Spades, he finds "the cards were all the same." The Grateful Dead’s lyricist, Robert Hunter.
He invites the wolf in and plays cards with him. In "Dire Wolf," Dead frontman Jerry Garcia sings about waking up to find a dire wolf, "six hundred pounds of sin," at his window.
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