The Grateful Dead: Grateful Dead (Warner Bros.)
Jon Tiven, Phonograph Record, November 1971
I APPROACHED THIS album with mixed feelings; one side of me saying "Well, you love the Dead don't you?" and the other half repeating "They went commerical, and this ain't no different."
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