Jerry Garcia Solo/JGB/Grisman/etc. - S/D

"D&G":
https://hazeldickensalicegerrard.bandcamp.com/album/sing-me-back-home-the-dc-tapes-1965-1969

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/11/13/jerry-garcia-radio-aquarium-drunkard/

Freeform transmissions from Radio Free Aquarium Drunkard. Our four-hour broadcast airs every third Sunday of the month on Dublab, featuring regular shows, AD friends, and collaborators. Tune in November 15, from 4-8 PM Pacific on Dublab, for this month’s broadcast, featuring a special program, One Kind Favor: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders, to celebrate the December 4 release of GarciaLive Volume 15.

The new album documents a complete concert from May 21, 1971 at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco, where Garcia and Saunders and drummer Bill Vitt and and special guest Martin Fierro on saxophone. Surf on over to Garcia Family Provisions to get your copy as we share an hour of mostly unheard music, selected by Marc Allan and Kevin Monty on behalf of the Jerry Garcia Family and Round Records, drawn from the new live set and the Garcia Family vault.

Had to go out in the car for a couple of hours today, so I burned the first two Garcia albums, which have been sitting on my computer for a while.

I liked most of Garcia. As someone who was hoping for two albums of "China Cat Sunflower," "Bird Song" is the highlight for me--"Deal"'s very catchy too. Could definitely do without the two pieces of musique concrète, or whatever they're supposed to be. The kind of thing where someone needed to step in and say, "I know this seems like a good idea right now, but looking down the road, not really."

Compliments is only two years later, but whatever drove him to experiment on the first album is gone--the world has changed. Most of it just felt like a tepid, white-folkie attempt at R&B. "Mississippi Moon" does suggest he was paying attention to Randy Newman.

Happy 80th to Jerry — here's a mix I made a few years back that holds up nicely ... https://t.co/nFpaqSwi20 pic.twitter.com/q2ywtIrWxA

— Tyler Wilcox (@tywilc) August 1, 2022

Jerry Garcia
Garcia
50th Anniversary Edition
In Stores Now / From Round Records & Garcia Family Provisions

Garcia celebrates its golden year in 2022! Expanding on Jerry’s first solo release, this 50th Anniversary Edition is a deluxe 2-LP set featuring the original album remastered from the analog mix master reels plus outtakes & explorations from the original sessions pressed to vinyl for the first time. Recorded almost entirely by Garcia with assistance from Bill Kreutzmann and Robert Hunter, six of the songs became staples in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire. Garcia (50th Anniversary Edition) is available on limited edition 180g gold nugget vinyl and includes a liner note essay from David Fricke.

Oooo, sold. This was a significant gateway record in terms of finally getting my head around the dead.

It's funny how solo Jerry works that way. I was at best a casual Dead fan until I got into the After Midnight JGB live album, which was where his playing really fully clicked for me. (Still only a moderate Dead fan I guess, but I feel like I actually hear them now.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcbAMgLNpx0

Setlist:
0:00:00 Intro & tune up
0:01:41 Limehouse Blues
0:05:49 Dawg's Bull
0:05:49 Swing '42
0:15:27 Coloured Aristocracy
0:20:28 Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms (1)
0:26:51 Dawg's Rag
0:32:51 I'll Be A Gambler If You Deal The Cards
0:38:03 Midnight At The Oasis (1)
0:43:29 Sweet Georgia Brown (1)
0:50:30 Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1)

Lineup:
David Grisman - Mandolin
Richard Greene - Fiddle
David Nictern - Guitar, Vocals
Taj Mahal - Bass, Vocals
Jerry Garcia - Banjo
Maria Muldaur - Vocals (1)
unknown trumpet player

SBD MR ~ R ~ CD ~ EAC ~ FLAC

SBD MR (House Source) ~ R (Will Boswell) ~ CD --- Huge thanks to Will Boswell for dubbing a copy from the master at 7.5 IPS --- (R copied @ 7 1/2 ips using Akai GX625) --- Mastered to cd by Matt Smith --- R ~ apogee mini me (24/96) ~ apogee mini dac (monitoring) ~ wavelab 5.0 (dithered to 20/44) ~ CD ~ EAC ~ WAV (shntool confirms no sbes) ~ FLAC (TLH)

AKA Great American String Band, though line-ups may vary

Nothing about Old & In The Way in this thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZpwxNutU14

I wanted to bring them up in that Peter Rowan thread you started. First lp is a classic

you should! I mean I posted this song in that thread, but would be good to get more discussion going.

Sometimes I enjoy other Garcia projects more than the Dead themselves. The Dead were so about being this big, sprawling, hairy experience more than just being about the music, and I'm just not all that into the big, sprawling, hairy experience. And I think sometimes the Dead sacrificed the quality of the music for that, whereas you can hear Jerry play with top notch bluegrass guys or top notch session guys and it actually just sounds good.

Wouldn't want to miss his other bands, but also Working Man's Dead and Reckoning are Dead albs w considerable acoustic picker's appeal.

Lots of related stuff here, incl. about Jerry's Before The Dead:
Pickers: a catchall thread for modern bluegrass, nu-old-time music, rootsy americana string bands, etc.

(Although I probably pasted the BTDtakes from this thread)

Jerry's banjo playing on OAITW sounds pretty damn good to me, I wonder how his playing is regarded by serious banjoists

from Jambase:

Jerry Garcia Band – GarciaLive Vol. 20
Jerry Garcia’s archival GarciaLive series continues with its 20th volume featuring the Jerry Garcia Band’s performance on June 18, 1982 at the Cape Cod Coliseum in South Yarmouth, Massachusetts. In addition to the eight-song set JGB played on June 18, 1982, GarciaLive Vol 20. is rounded out with, for the first time in the series, “filler” from another show. Culled from JGB’s June 1, 1981 concert at The Stone in San Francisco, the bonus tracks include previously uncirculated/unheard recordings of Jimmy Cliff’s “Sitting In Limbo,” J.J. Cale’s “After Midnight,” Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue” and Garcia’s “Deal.” Regarding the June 30, 1982 show’s selection for the GarciaLive series, a description of the release follows:

The early ‘80s marked a transitional period for the Jerry Garcia Band. After beginning the decade with the lean & mean quartet showcased on After Midnight and GarciaLive Volume One, Garcia & John Kahn would go on to experiment with personnel configurations expanding the line-up considerably.

By the time the Jerry Garcia Band rolled into the Cape Cod Coliseum co-headliners [with] Bobby & the Midnites, the lineup included Grateful Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann (drums), Melvin Seals (organ), Jimmy Warren (electric piano) and Liz Stires and Julie Stafford (backing vocals). While the co-headline format limited each group to a single 90-minute set, Garcia’s eight-song set packed plenty of punch. The requisite “How Sweet It Is” opener wastes no time getting down to business with a galloping tempo punctuated by crisp solos from Garcia, Warren, & Seals.

The relative rarity “Valerie,” marking its first appearance here on an archival release, and extended, show-stopping takes on “Dear Prudence” and “Don’t Let Go” follow to the crowd’s obvious delight. Other highlights from Cape Cod include a poignant take on Dylan’s “Simple Twist of Fate” and the freshly written “Run for the Roses.”

Nice