This is my only Grateful Dead album: Shakedown Street. I take my Dead in small doses. I do really like some of their songs. Bertha (Los Lobos), Jack Straw (Bruce Hornsby, and a few others - becoming familiar with the Dead via an all-cover versions compilation CD called Deadicated. Perhaps one of the great covers of all time is the Dead's take on "Good Lovin,'" on this record. It was written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick that was a number one hit single for The Young Rascals in 1966. The album cover art for Shakedown Street was drawn by Gilbert Shelton, creator of The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers and other popular titles from the San Francisco underground comics scene. This record was produced by the late, great Lowell George, of Little Feat, and also formerly of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Many would agree that one of the all-time great double live records is Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus.
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