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Category: bluegrass

  • GSCBF3: Sunday, April 28, 1974 afternoon schedule

    Updated 9/18/2010 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. Previous installments: GSCBF1: just a mention GSCBF2: a plea for a release of the film and tapes! I have mentioned that there are several…

  • GSCBF2: Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival: San Rafael, CA, April 26-28, 1974

    I am going to probably do a series of posts on the Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival, which was held in San Rafael from April 26-28, 1974. I have become rather obsessed with this festival. It barely gets mentioned in most Dead-/Jerry-ology, but I think it provides a fascinating glimpse into all kinds of things:…

  • Where was Garcia on July 26 or 29, 1973?

    My previous post contemplated where Garcia was on July 4, 1973, based on ads published in a bluegrass magazine. This post does precisely the same thing for July 26 or 29, 1973. As you can see, Jerry Garcia is listed among the acts appearing at the First Annual West Virginia Peace, Love, Blues and Bluesgrass…

  • Where was Garcia on July 4, 1973?

    I don’t really know. I have him with the GD at the Universal Ampitheatre in Universal City, CA on June 29 – July 1, and then at the Lion’s Share on July 5 with Merl. July 4 was a Wednesday, but Garcia seemed like a vaguely patriotic guy (in a U.S. Blues sort of way!)…

  • Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble

    Pete Wernick recounts spending some time in the Summer of 1963 out West, playing banjo with Jerry Garcia (mandolin!) and David Nelson in an outfit called The Godawful Palo Alto Bluegrass Ensemble. I don’t recall seeing this name in the historiography, though as I have noted before I am not particularly up on the pre-GD…

  • OAITW: September 7, 1973, First Annual Harpers Ferry West Virginia Indian Summer Bluegrass Folk Music Festival, Harpers Ferry, WV (UNCERTAIN)

    Man, what a mouthful some of these bluegrass festival names are. And what’s with the “Indian Summer” thing? Scanning through Muleskinner News, it comes up a lot. An ad in Muleskinner News v4 n8 (August 1973), p. 37, announces the titular festival and lists, among the acts for Friday, September 7 (12 noon to midnight)…

  • OAITW: September 1-2, 1973, Blue Grass Park, Camp Springs (?), North Carolina

    This is why I pick up old copies of Muleskinner News and such whenever I can. It appears based on the image below that Old and in the Way played the “9th Labor Day Weekend Original Blue Grass Music Festival” in Camp Springs (?), North Carolina on September 1-2, 1973. The only thing standing in…

  • OAITW: June 6, 1973, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ

    update 20230704: I can’t go back and revise this post 13 years later. It’ll show up in Fate Music, believe me. With a LOT more specifics on Tex Logan, Peter Rowan, Boston, John Scher, and so much more! Old and in the Way did a small east coast tour in June of 1973, the band’s…

  • new OAITW

    Seemingly new-to-circ OAITW show via Matt Smith and the Pacific Northwest crew running at Lossless Legs. Fun stuff. Richard Greene is there, which puts it to April-May ’73, in all likelihood. It’s also in a goodish sized hall, not the Keystone or Boarding House or whatever. My own guess is either Santa Barbara 4/12/73 or…

  • Golden State Country Bluegrass Festival

    Gotta whole mess o’ discs from this festival, which I am going through pretty methodically. Lots of neat stuff. There’s a four CD version going around, but there’s more material that I’ll try to get moving around. There’s a post at Keep on Truckin‘ with the setlist of the circulating material. edit 8/22/201: now going…