BOB WEIR – Ace – 50th Anniversary Remaster (S.Y.E.O.R. 2023 Reissue) – LP – Red Vinyl

LP – Limited 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition on 140g Translucent Red Vinyl. Remixed by Derek Featherstone and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer David Glasser (Warner ‘Start Your Ears Off Right’ 2023 Reissue).

Produced for Release by Bobby Weir and Derek Featherstone. When Bobby started working on Ace at Wally Heiders Studio in San Francisco in early 1972, he wasnt 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 told Crawdaddy a 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 albums eight songs, including Greatest Story Ever Told, Mexicali Blues, and Playing In The Band, destined to become one of Weirs signature tunes. Ace also marked the beginning of Weirs long-running collaboration with lyricist John Perry Barlow and includes early standouts Cassidy and Looks Like Rain.

(Original RD: May 1972)

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Greatest Story Ever Told [3:42]
2. Black-Throated Wind [5:43]
3. Walk In The Sunshine [3:02]
4. Playing In The Band [7:38]

Side B
1. Looks Like Rain [6:10]
2. Mexicali Blues [3:24]
3. One More Saturday Night [4:25]
4. Cassidy [3:39]