Fate Music

Category: bluegrass

  • Byron Berline playing with Old And In The Way, ca. summer 1973

    Byron Berline playing with Old And In The Way, ca. summer 1973

    My previous post (three months ago!) touched on an expost recollection of Doug Sahm sitting in with Garcia-Saunders at the Keystone around December 1972. I love these little fragments, love trying to pin them down. Here’s a similar one: in the August 16. 1973 Village Voice, it is reported by Jerry Leichtling that Byron Berline…

  • Rockygrass 2016

    http://www.afterfm.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/rocky.grass

  • Jerry and Sandy’s Adventure, May 1964

    http://jerrygarciasbrokendownpalaces.blogspot.com/2015/10/jerry-and-sandys-adventure-may-1964.html I don’t do pre-Dead stuff, but this of course interests me because, as a member of the JGAB, Sandy Rothman interests me. Great archaeological work by JGBP, and thanks to Sandy for sharing his recollections for public consumption!

  • OAITW at Homer’s Warehouse – March 4, 1973

    This started off, and can still function, as a post with the setlists for the 3/4/73 OAITW gigs at Homer’s Warehouse. But now there are a few other fragmentary thoughts. Jerry Garcia lived an idyll at Sans Souci (18 Avenida Farallone, Stinson Beach, CA, 94970, map). It was his most domestic period, living with MG…

  • Palate Cleansers, etc.

    Been soaking in some bluegrass, as research around Jerry but mostly just to listen to it. Cheesy collections that nonetheless bring together some amazing material: Classic Bluegrass Collection (TimeLife, 2006) Stanley Brothers Definitive Collection 1947-1966 (TimeLife, 2007) I’d like to hear more Louvin Brothers, more of everything, of course. I have also been spending time…

  • March 23, 1975 – Jerry Garcia Interview

    I don’t know who the interviewer is, nor the radio station from which this particular recorded. It is the first track of shnid-126296. This is the interview Jerry gave before the SNACK Benefit at Kezar Stadium. Sounds like reading the newspapers around the time of the show will prove interesting, mismanagement of budgets by bureaucrats…

  • Elves, Gnomes, Leprechauns and Little People’s Chowder and Marching Society Volunteer Fire Brigade and Ladies Auxiliary String Band

    I cannot make any representation for the accuracy of any of this. It’s a fascinating piece, of course. Dister was a famous French rock journalist (wiki) who spent ca. 1966-early 1968 in San Francisco, apparently spending a ton of time with the Dead, if the narratives are to be believed. I am sure it is…

  • GSCBF16: Program Images

    More eye candy below the fold.

  • Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival: Index Post (GSCBF15)

    Mostly for my own purposes, but a little index of my series on the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival, held at the Marin County Veterans’ Auditorium (building and grounds) in San Rafael, CA (94903) from the evening of Friday, April 26, 1974 through late on Sunday, April 28, 1974. I have tons more to get…

  • GSCBF12: Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys: Sunday, April 28, 1974, ca. 21:15

    Part of a series of back-of-the-napkin thoughts about the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival (GSCBF), held in San Rafael, CA from Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28, 1974. Click the link to see the posts in this series. Now I see why I only had a draft of this post for a long time.…