WORKINGMAN'S DEAD 3/15/2005 and part Ratt won the

and part Ratt won the hearts of dozens of fans with their 1989 cult classic

Includes liner notes by Dave Tompkins

This is Armored Saint's first album in a decade

since there's so much talent involved and the tracks are so short (Estee Nack's meditative "Lost and Found" is the longest at just over four minutes)

Label: Blue Note

WORKINGMAN'S DEAD 3/15/2005 and part Ratt won theAs the '60s drew to a close, it was a heavy time for the quickly crumbling hippie movement that had reached its apex just a few years earlier in 1967's Summer of Love. Death and violence were pervasive in the form of the Manson murders, fatalities at the Altamont concert, and the ongoing loss of young lives in Vietnam despite the best efforts of anti war activists and peace seeking protesters. Difficult times were also upon the Grateful Dead,