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Denver CO—Vinyl Me, Please today announced The Story of the Grateful Dead, a limited-edition 8 album, 14-disc deluxe box set featuring 4 studio albums and four "essential" live albums all cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering using the original analog master tapes, housed in "Tip-on" jackets and pressed at QRP on colored vinyl. ("Acid Flashback" color characterization, AnalogPlanet's description, not VMP's).

The deluxe set comes packaged in a custom, Jeremy Dean-designed box complete with a 12X12 booklet printed on thick matte stock with photos and essays written by My Morning Jacket's Jim James, Animal Collective's Avery Tare, Dirty Projector's Dave Longstreth, Hiss Golden Messenger's MC Taylor, the National's Scott Devendorf, the Mountain Goat's John Darnielle, the Decemberist's Jenny Conlee, STS9's Hunter Brown and singer Margo Price.

The deep Dead catalog makes it difficult for the newly acquainted to find a way in so this set provides not just a path, but what should be a sonic blockbuster of an entry way into the music and cultural heritage of the iconic band. Limited to 7500 copies.

The albums included are:

1) Workingman's Dead (1970
2) American Beauty (1970)
3) Live/Dead (Fillmore West 1969)
4) Europe '72 Vol. 1 (1972)
5) Wake of the Flood (1973)
6) Terrapin Station (1977)
7) Reckoning (1981)
8)Without a Net (1989-90)

To learn more and/or to "secure a spot" visit the Vinyl Me, Please Anthology page (link fixed)