![]() ![]() "Truckin '" was the highest-charting pop single the group would have until the surprise top-ten performance of " Touch of Grey" sixteen years later. ![]() Pop Singles chart and stayed on the chart for eight weeks. The single reached number 64 on December 25, 1971, on the U.S. In addition to being shorter, the single version had some audible differences compared to the album version: it featured sections of lead guitar in places where it's faded down on the album version, a heavy processed effect on Bob Weir's lead vocals in the verses, a different vocal track for the "Sometimes the lights." portion, and is missing the album version's organ part. The song was taken from the American Beauty album and edited down in length from five to three minutes for release as a single. Release The single version of "Truckin '" as a B-side to " Johnny B. ![]() He goes on to say that "the last chorus defines the band itself." Weir credited the band's 1967 experience in backing vocalese singer Jon Hendricks for helping Weir to enunciate the tongue-twister lyrics in Truckin's verses. and the better we could create music around it." The communal, shared-group-experience feel of the song is brought home by the participation of all four of the group's chief songwriters (Garcia, Weir, Lesh, and Hunter), since, in Phil Lesh's words, "we took our experiences on the road and made it poetry," lyrically and musically. the result of, the better he could write. Garcia commented that "the early stuff we wrote that we tried to set to music was stiff because it wasn't really meant to be sung. "Truckin '" was considered a "catchy shuffle" by the band members. "Truckin '" is associated with the blues and other early 20th-century forms of folk music. The song's climactic refrain, "What a long, strange trip it's been", has achieved widespread cultural use in the years since the song's release. ![]()
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