Category: James Booker
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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…
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Jerry’s January 1976
(formatting will almost certainly be a mess – I blame Blogger) I. Preface My band is in a state of flux right now. John Kahn and Ron Tutt and I are the main … are the nucleus of it, such as it is. We’re hoping to have a four-piece band that we all like, sometime.…
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Junco Partners – LN jg1976-01-10.jgb.all.aud-cook.8077.shn2flac
Down the road, came a junco partner (right now, wow-oh-wow) He was loaded, he was loaded, he was loaded, as loaded as can be Lord, he was knocked-out, knocked-out, knocked-out and loaded And he was singing, he was singing, he was singing this song for me Some great American music in this set, including several…
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James Booker, Classified
‘Cause I know I think I know How everything is classified That ain’t no lie I’m so glad someone told me How everything is classified That ain’t no lie — James Booker, “Classified” Let me pass some light through the social prism of James Carroll Booker III (December 17, 1939 – November 8, 1983) performing…
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Flight Of The Bumblebee
LN jg1976-01-09.jgb.all.sbd-tjs.8386.shn2flac More Booker raw materials. Jerry Garcia Band Sophie’s 260 S. California AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94306 January 9, 1976 (Friday) 112 minute sbd Kahn Shriver shnid-8386 shn2flac –set I (7 tracks, 54:05)– s1t01. //All By Myself [#7:47] (1) [0:54] s1t02. Goodnight Irene [10:35] -> s1t03. Für Elise [0:51] -> s1t04. Slowly But Surely [11:41]…
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“Gimme some chords, Jerry Garcia, gimme some chords”
LN jg1976-01-07.jgb-rehearsal.93mins.sbd-tjs.8385.shn2flac I will just post raw listening notes, because I will be sweeping bit and pieces of it up into a larger narrative that I have been working on. (update – see “James Booker, Classified”) Jerry Garcia Band Club Front 20 Front Street San Rafael, CA 94901 January 7, 1976 (Wednesday) – rehearsal 93min…
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Nicky after JGB
Under the rock and jazz heading, you’ll see Terry and the Pirates, featuring John Cipollina and Nicky Hopkins playing the Longbranch Saloon in Berkeley on Friday January 2 and Saturday, January 3, 1976. I had never really picked this up before. After flaming out of JGB on New Year’s Eve 1975-1976, two days later Nicky…
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JGB: September 19, 1975, Crabshaw Corner, Sacramento, CA
Thanks to Corry for answering my query on January 26, 1976 which also included a question about 11/4/78. Before starting my post, I just want to take a second to recognize Corry’s role in Garcia historiography. He has been not only an essential bridge across different documents (Soto, McNally) and traditions (from handwritten lists to…