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  • You Know What’s Crazy? I Have Never Listening-Noted a Garcia-Grisman Gig

    So I will do the January 12–13, 1994 Warfield shows together. The performances are delightful, and I don’t have tons of comments at that level. They play a number of rarities which had been relatively recently released on Not For Kids Only (Acoustic Disc ACD 9, 1993), and I am a huge fan of that record,…

  • Garcia and The Great American Songbook

    Per wiki, The Great American Songbook is “the canon of significant early-20th-century American jazz standards and popular songs“. It is put out by The Great American Songbook Foundation, fittingly enough. I have so damn much to learn about this stuff. It’s just a gaping hole in my (admittedly limited) musicological understanding.  I just fell into…

  • Classical Music

    I am trying together instances of Garcia engaging classical music, which are few and far between. Alan Trist reports that ca. 1960-1961 one of their friends “John the Poet” had a great classical recording collection, and they listened to a lot of Bach. “Endless Bach,” Trist said. Jerry and Trist and a few others went…

  • Enter Tom Fogerty

    update 20230712 I have no idea why I inferred Tom Fogerty saw JGMS at Keystone Korner on 5/20/71. It seems more likely to have been 5/22/71, and his arrival may mark why they made tapes of the next two nights. Further, I have no idea why I inferred he first joined in Berkeley on 5/26/71, when…

  • Jerry’s Guitar Style

    Where most rockers tend to push against the beat to build excitement, using a vocabulary of riffs that has come largely from the blues and Chuck Berry, Mr. Garcia constructs lines that float over the top of the rhythm. ! ref: Palmer, Robert. 1977. Dancers Rock to Jerry Garcia. New York Times, November 29, 1977,…

  • Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7TAYus5LRzuTDF5bkxHOEx5TU0/view?usp=sharing This includes the table of contents, which is super interesting. Have at it! Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter

  • Folk Songs of America, 2: map

    Lomax, Alan. 1960. The Folk Songs of North America in the English Language. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Folk Songs of America, 1: cover Folk Songs of America, 2: map Folk Songs of America, 3: all front matter

  • Body … Bent and Broken

    LN jg1994-09-10.jgb.all.aud-vasseur.23791.shn2flac Man, these late era shows are really changing my understanding of Old Garcia. I have been saying it in these recent posts: his lacks lung-power, his voice is weak, his muscles are atrophied and his wrists are sore. He is prone to forgetting lyrics. These physical limitations dictate his vocal and instrumental approaches.…

  • Johnny Too Bad

    I cannot get this song out of my ear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgkZwUDt98o The Slickers, “Johnny Too Bad” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slickers. “The Slickers were a Jamaican rocksteady and reggae group in the late 1960s and early 1970s.” https://www.discogs.com/Slicker-The-Johnny-Too-Bad/master/630180 looks like first release was 1971 on Punch. One of the youtube versions is said 1970, but discogs 1971 as Panther P-01.…

  • JGB at the Warfield: April 21, 1995

    LN jg1995-04-21.jgb.all.aud-vasseur-ladner.21900.shn2flac Third to last JGB gig, on the home court. A little bit of historical background, some analysis of the musics figuring in the setlist, and a brief note on “Johnny Too Bad” (“my God, this is just great, so full of feeling”) will figure in the listening notes below. Jerry Garcia Band The…