Jerry Garcia’s Name-Claiming Journey Beyond the Grateful Dead

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  • Togotigi

    This patterned musical foundation – or meeting at the head – resounds a sense of collectivity, of a cultural heritage passed on from one generation to another, a patrimony nominally represented by one’s surname, or jamu. To perform on top of this foundation, to mobilize the body beneath the head of a musical arrangement is…

  • Folk Songs of North America, 1: cover

    Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. See also map and all front matter.

  • Jerry Garcia Transcribing Lenny Bruce

    I had completely forgotten that in 1964, upon returning from his bluegrass road trip with Sandy Rothman, Garcia got a job transcribing Lenny Bruce’s comedy routines for Lenny’s various legal defenses. So cool. ! ref: McNally 2002, 73.

  • Reading Notes – Loren 2014

    Loren, Richard, with Stephen Abney. 2014. High Notes: A Rock Memoir. Demariscotta, ME: East Pond Publishing. When I read a book that I will need to be able to cite chapter and verse, this is how I arrange the chapters and verses. I just pull out quotes and other observations, I effectively tag them, and…

  • Circular on Mickey Hart and Rolling Thunder

    “Mickey Hart: Off the Road and Into His Head,” Circular 4, 36 (September 11, 1972), 2 pp. Warner Brothers pimped Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder (BS 2635) in its “weekly news device” Circular for its September 1972 release. As I found with an earlier edition of Circular (“Keith. And, Modernity”), this one holds various pieces of…

  • Weir’s Book

    Since books are in the air (and when, in the Good Life, aren’t they), I thought I’d note that Weir says he plans to write his own. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/bob-weir-on-dead-reunion-his-doc-and-being-jerrys-bag-man-20150520 Bring it on!

  • Creative Destruction

    Reminder of the state of my copy of McNally 2002 as of 3/6/2011, under heading “is it possible to love books too much?” Also in the frame: papers, printer, CD Will The Circle Be Unbroken, CD The Jerry Garcia Collection, Vol. 1: Legion of Mary, Legion Of Mary (Rhino Records R2 74692, August 2005), a…

  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (née Nevill) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a profoundly original American folk musician, vectoring between the music of isolated early 20th century North Carolina and the multimodal hypersounds of the present – check her out playing in crystal clear black and white on your youtube. A southpaw church and…

  • New Lost City Ramblers Song Book

    Seeger, Mike, and John Cohen, eds. 1964. The New Lost City Ramblers Song Book. New York: Oak Books. Here’s a brief list of tunes in the NLCR songbook that Garcia is known to have played. This does not include the Elizabeth Cotten tunes (I have considered them separately) and has not been carefully vetted, since…

  • On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987

    http://jerrygarcia.com/on-broadway-act-one-october-28th-1987/ buy it here- –> https://www.garciafamilyprovisions.com/product/JYCD57/jerry-garcia-band–on-broadway-act-one-102887-3-cd-set On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987 We’re excited to announce the debut of On Broadway, a new archival series celebrating Jerry’s magical 13 night run at the historic Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York City’s Broadway theater district. The first installment, On Broadway: Act One – October 28th,…