Postcards of the Hanging
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Postcards Of The Hanging is a compilation album by the Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

. It consists entirely of Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

 covers, including a performance of "Man Of Peace" with the Grateful Dead backing Dylan.

Track listing

All songs written by Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

  1. "When I Paint My Masterpiece
    When I Paint My Masterpiece
    "When I Paint My Masterpiece" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first featured on the Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II compilation in 1971. The song is segued back-to-back with "Tomorrow is a Long Time" . Even though there is applause at the beginning of the song, it is in fact a studio recording...

    " - 6:11
  2. "She Belongs to Me
    She Belongs to Me
    "She Belongs to Me" is a song by Bob Dylan, and was first released as the second track on his 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. It was one of the first anti-love songs and one of Dylan's first of many songs that describe a "witchy woman"...

    " - 7:20
  3. "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
    "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan. It was originally recorded on August 2, 1965 and released on the album Highway 61 Revisited. The song was later released on the compilation album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol...

    " - 4:29
  4. "Maggie's Farm
    Maggie's Farm
    "Maggie's Farm" is a song written by Bob Dylan, recorded on January 15, 1965, and released on the album Bringing It All Back Home on March 22 of that year...

    " - 6:13
  5. "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
    Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
    "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" is a song written by Bob Dylan that appears on his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. The album version also appears on 1971's Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II. A live version of this song appears on the 1976 album Hard Rain; and was also released as...

    " - 8:07
  6. "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
    It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
    "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" is a song written by Bob Dylan that was originally released on his seminal album Highway 61 Revisited, and also included on the compilation album Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits 2 that was released in Europe. An alternate version of the song appears on...

    " - 7:35
  7. "Ballad of a Thin Man
    Ballad of a Thin Man
    "Ballad of a Thin Man" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan, released on the album Highway 61 Revisited in 1965.-Meaning:"Ballad of a Thin Man" comments on a conventional "Mr. Jones", who walks into a room of intentionally bizarre circus freaks and doesn't "know what's happening".The...

    " - 6:40
  8. "Desolation Row
    Desolation Row
    "Desolation Row" is a 1965 song written and sung by Bob Dylan. It was recorded on August 4, 1965, and was released as the closing track of Dylan's sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited...

    " - 9:55
  9. "All Along the Watchtower
    All Along the Watchtower
    "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song, which has been included on most of Dylan's greatest hits compilations, initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding. Over the past 35 years, he has performed it in concert more...

    " 5:44
  10. "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
    It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
    "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his Bringing It All Back Home album, released on March 22, 1965 by Columbia Records . The song was originally recorded on January 15, 1965 with Dylan's acoustic guitar and harmonica and William E. Lee's bass...

    " - 7:23
  11. "Man of Peace" - 5:51

Bonus disc

The first release included a limited 2-track bonus CD.
  1. "Queen Jane Approximately
    Queen Jane Approximately
    "Queen Jane Approximately" is a song from Bob Dylan's 1965 album Highway 61 Revisited. It was released as a single as the B-side to "One of Us Must Know " in January 1966...

    " - 6:12
  2. "Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
    Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
    "Quinn the Eskimo " is a folk-rock song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded during The Basement Tapes sessions in 1967. The song was first released in January 1968 as "Mighty Quinn" by the British band Manfred Mann and became a great success...

    " - 4:02

Recording dates

  • "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry" - June 10, 1973 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC
  • "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" - December 3, 1981 at Dane County Coliseum in Madison,WI
  • "She Belongs To Me" - September 15, 1985 in Chula Vista, CA
  • "The Mighty Quinn (Quinn The Eskimo)" - December 30, 1985 at The Oakland Coliseum, CA
  • "Man Of Peace" - June 9, 1987 (Rehearsal for Dylan & The Dead
    Dylan & The Dead
    Dylan & the Dead is a collaborative live album by Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead, released in 1989 by Columbia Records. It consists of seven songs written and sung by Dylan, with the Dead providing accompaniment. The album was produced by Jerry Garcia and John Cutler.Dylan & the Dead was...

     summer tour) in San Rafael
  • "Maggie's Farm" - October 3, 1987 at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, CA
  • "Ballad Of A Thin Man" - April 1, 1988 at Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ
  • "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again" - July 16, 1988 at The Greek Theater, Berkeley, CA
  • "Queen Jane Approximately" - December 29, 1988 at The Oakland Coliseum, CA
  • "All Along The Watchtower" - July 4, 1989 at Rich Stadium, Orchard Park, NY (also on "Truckin' Up To Buffalo")
  • "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" - July 12, 1989 at RFK Stadium in Washington, DC
  • "When I Paint My Masterpiece" - October 11, 1989 at Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, NJ
  • "Desolation Row" - March 24, 1990 at The Knickerbocker Arena in Albany, NY

Personnel

  • Jerry Garcia
    Jerry Garcia
    Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

     - lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Bob Weir
    Bob Weir
    Bob Weir is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, most recognized as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the Grateful Dead disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with The Other Ones, later known as The Dead, together with other former members of the Grateful Dead...

     - rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

    , vocals
  • Phil Lesh
    Phil Lesh
    Phillip Chapman Lesh is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career....

     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , vocals
  • Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland
    Brent Mydland was the fourth keyboardist to play for the American rock band the Grateful Dead. He was with the band for eleven years, longer than any other keyboardist.- Early life :...

     - keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

    , organ
    Organ (music)
    The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

    , vocals (except track 6)
  • Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart
    Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...

     - drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Bill Kreutzmann
    Bill Kreutzmann
    Bill Kreutzmann is an American drummer who played with the rock band the Grateful Dead for their entire thirty-year career...

     - drums
  • Keith Godchaux
    Keith Godchaux
    Keith Richard Godchaux was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.-Biography:Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California...

     - piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

     (track 6)

Additional personnel

  • Dickey Betts
    Dickey Betts
    Forrest Richard "Dickey" Betts is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and composer best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995 and also won with the band a best rock performance Grammy Award for his...

     - guitar (track 6)
  • Bob Dylan - acoustic guitar, vocals (track 11)
  • Butch Trucks - drums (track 6)

Production

  • Engineers - John Cutler and Bill Candelario
  • Mix - Jeffrey Norman
  • Compilation producer - David Gans
    David Gans
    ----David ben Solomon ben Seligman Gans was a Jewish mathematician, historian, astronomer, astrologer, and is best known for the works Tzemach David and Nechmad ve'naim.- Early life :...

  • Tape archivist - David Lemieux
  • Mastering - Joe Gastwirt
  • Art direction - Geoff Gans
  • Illustration and design - Emily Burnham
  • Album coordination - Cassidy Law
  • Photography - Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman
    Ken Friedman, is a seminal figure in Fluxus, an international laboratory for experimental art, architecture, design, literature, and music. He had his first solo exhibition in New York in 1966. He has also been involved with mail art, and he has written extensively about Fluxus and Intermedia...


Charts

Album - Billboard
Year Chart Position
2002 The Billboard 200 120
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