Category: 1964
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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.
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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…