Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (50th Anniversary Edition)On June 14, 1970, the Grateful Dead released Workingmans Dead, an album that was unlike anything they had ever done, one that showed the world a new side of the Dead. It was clearly the same band as before, but now with a distinctly different sound and approach to the music, pivoting from psychedelic improvisation to folk rock storytelling for the everyman, as the albums title suggests.