Grateful Dead – Go To Heaven (LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

Go To Heaven (1980) is the Grateful Dead's eleventh studio album and their first with keyboardist Brent Mydland, who joined in 1979 following Keith Godchaux's departure. Recorded at Club Front studio in San Rafael, California and produced by Gary Lyons, the album captures the Dead attempting to create radio-friendly songs while maintaining their musical identity.

"Alabama Getaway" became the band's highest-charting single in years, while the Garcia/Hunter classic "Althea" went on to become a live staple for decades. Bob Weir contributes some of his most sophisticated writing with the paired suite of "Lost Sailor" and "Saint of Circumstance," and Mydland announces his arrival with a pair of his own compositions — "Far from Me" and "Easy to Love You" — sung with a grit and soul that immediately distinguished him as a vital addition to the band.

Go To Heaven would be the last Grateful Dead studio album for seven years — until In the Dark in 1987 — and an album that has aged considerably better than its mixed initial reception suggested.