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Category: race

  • Elizabeth Cotten

    Elizabeth “Libba” Cotten (née Nevill) (January 5, 1893 – June 29, 1987) was a profoundly original American folk musician, vectoring between the music of isolated early 20th century North Carolina and the multimodal hypersounds of the present – check her out playing in crystal clear black and white on your youtube. A southpaw church and…

  • Darben The Redd Foxx

    Commenter Nick’s encyclopedic discographical resources (vinyl and knowledge) rescue me/us from an error and afford a little glancing blow through American culture that helps us situate Garcia in his world. The song currently understood as “Ptah, the El Daoud” (Alice Coltrane), previously understood “Bag’s Groove” (Milt Jackson), performed by Garcia-Saunders on June 4 and June…

  • Race Record Dream

    Rolling Stone has just posted a little gallery of Garcia’s art. Given finity, I will only scratch the surface of the paintings and drawings. But, since race is one of the threads I am trying to weave through my (amateur!) musicological excursions, and it crossed my screen, I thought I’d reproduce it here. This is…

  • Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix – A Dialogue

    [ed: Corry sent me an email about Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders at the Matrix, which turned into a rather elaborate exchange on the subject. One piece of our correspondence involved the tape traveling as 5/20/71. This is some of Garcia’s finest playing on tape in any context. I highly recommend that you check it…

  • Fragments

    Look at how my eye focuses – I want the listings big enough to read, and I want the publication information along with them, if possible. That’s the scanning area I created and captured here. Look what gets cut, “on the margins” of my view, you might say. Besides the adult theaters, there’s some Maya…

  • Merl Saunders, September 7-10, 1972: Black Expo ’72

    Merl Saunders is noted as participating in this big event at the SF Civic Auditorium, known variously as Black Quake or Black Expo ’72. Be neat to see which day(s) he played, with whom, and what! Oh yeah, this is the first time I have seen Night Times spell Merl’s first name correctly – took…

  • Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders

    Love this for the Keystone Korner, ca. May 1, 1972, sounds like Selvin to me: “With Jerry Garcia of Garcia-Saunders out of town, not too much happening right now.” (listing: Night Times, May 3-16, 1972, p. 5.) In addition to reinforcing my point about the symbiosis between Jerry and Freddie, how quickly and deeply it…

  • Color: January 12-25, 1972 Night Times listings

    Here are some listings from the Night Times, with a few scattershot thoughts. 1) The Berkeley Night Times is a gem. 2) It’s especially good re: race. The range of clubs it covers exceeds most other sources – you’ve got the country clubs, the rock clubs, the black soul/R&B/gospel clubs, the Latin clubs, a little…

  • Mahalo, Jer: JGB, January 27, 1989 at the Orpheum

     LN jg1989-01-27.jgb.all.sbd-moses.84866.flac1644 Can’t believe I haven’t annotated any 1989 Garcia Band. For my money, 1988-1989 is one of the great JGB periods, which a fresh and healthy Jerry (that’s what starts to break down, for me, 1990-1991), solid band, some fresh material, rehearsed arrangements, and lots of classic American songs. Nothing too crazy, lots of…

  • Second Gig for the new Sextet: Rissmiller’s 10/27/82

    LN jg1982-10-27.jgb.s1s2p.aud-CC.xxxxxx.flac2448 Jerry Garcia Band Rissmiller’s Country Club 18415 Sherman WayReseda, CA 91335 October 27, 1982 (Wednesday) 83 min s1s2p Closet Call aud –set I (7 tracks, 57:16)– s1t01. crowd and tuning [0:28] s1t02. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) [8:43] % s1t03. … They Love Each Other [8:11] [0:08] % [0:32]…