Ace (album)

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Ace
Ace cover
Studio album by Bob Weir
Released May 1972
Recorded January - March 1972
Genre Rock, Country, Folk
Length 37:45
Label Warner Bros. Records, Grateful Dead Records
Producer Grateful Dead or "everyone involved"
Professional reviews
Bob Weir chronology
Ace
(1972)		 Kingfish
(1976)

Ace was the first solo album by Grateful Dead rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, released in 1972.

Its origins come from an offer by the Dead's Warner Bros. Records label to have band members cut their own solo records, and came out at the same time as Jerry Garcia's Garcia and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder. In the case of Ace, Weir's backing band was essentially the Dead itself, and all songs except "Walk in the Sunshine", became concert staples of the Dead. In a way, Ace and Garcia can be considered Dead studio albums during a live album era that included Skull & Roses and Europe '72.

"Greatest Story Ever Told" also appears on Hart's Rolling Thunder, as "The Pump Song".

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side One

  1. Greatest Story Ever Told (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 3:43
  2. Black-Throated Wind (Weir, Barlow) – 5:42
  3. Walk in the Sunshine (Weir, Barlow) – 3:05
  4. Playing in the Band (Weir, Hart, Hunter) – 7:38

[edit] Side Two

  1. Looks Like Rain (Weir, Barlow) – 6:12
  2. Mexicali Blues (Weir, Barlow) – 3:28
  3. One More Saturday Night (Weir) – 4:31
  4. Cassidy (Weir, Barlow) – 3:41

This has been the same tracklisting for every reissue of Ace.

[edit] Musicians

  • Bob Weir - Lead Vocals, Electric and Acoustic Guitars
  • Jerry Garcia - Lead Guitar, Pedal Steel Guitar on "Looks Like Rain", Backup Vocals on "Greatest Story Ever Told"
  • Phil Lesh - Bass Guitar, Backup Vocals on "Mexicali Blues"
  • Bill Kreutzmann - Drums, Percussion
  • Keith Godchaux - Piano, Organ
  • Donna Jean Godchaux - Backup Vocals on "Greatest Story Ever Told", "Walk In The Sunshine", "Playing In The Band", and "Cassidy".
  • Dave Torbert - Bass Guitar on "Greatest Story Ever Told"
  • Snooky Flowers, Luis Gasca, and the Space Rangers - Horns on "Black-Throated Wind", "Mexicali Blues", and "One More Saturday Night"
  • Ed Bogus - String Arrangements on "Looks Like Rain"