Grateful Dead's Workingman's DeadReleased in 1970, Workingman's Dead was the breakthrough album for the Grateful Dead, a cold water shock departure from the Acid Test madness of the late '60s. It was the band's most commercially and critically successful release to date. More importantly, these songs established the blueprint for how the Dead would maintain and build upon a community held together by the core motivation of rejecting the status quo the straight life in order to live