Jerry Garcia – Run for the Roses (2018 Remaster) (1982/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 35:28 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
Run for the Roses is the fourth and final solo album by the American musician Jerry Garcia, released in 1982. It was recorded during a period when Garcia began to have health issues.
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Jerry Garcia – Side Trips: Volume One (1998)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:05:08 minutes | 847 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
In a 1991 interview, Garcia said, “So they used to have this Monday night jam session, but Howard gradually sort of took it over. Howard’s this amazing organ player — difficult person, but wonderful musician. And for some reason he liked our playing, John [Kahn] and mine. We didn’t know each other, John and I. In fact we played with Howard for almost a year before we even actually started talking to each other. Really. We would just show up, plug in, and play. About half the set I’d be whispering to John, I’d be saying, ‘Hey, man, what key are we in?’ Howard didn’t have tunings or anything, he just played. Sometimes he would do these things that were so outside that you just couldn’t — unless you knew where it was going, you had no idea where to start. Sometimes they’d turn out to be just these things like four-bar blues turnarounds, relatively simple musical things, but they were so extended the way he’d play them — ‘God, what is this?’
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Jerry Garcia – Garcia (1972)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:47 minutes | 779 MB | Genre: Folk Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia’s first solo album, released in 1972.
Warner Bros. Records offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released around the same time as Bob Weir’s Ace and Mickey Hart’s Rolling Thunder. Unlike Ace, which was practically a Grateful Dead album, Garcia was more of a solo effort, as Garcia played almost all the instrumental parts. Six tracks (specifically those coauthored by lyricist Robert Hunter) eventually became standards in the Grateful Dead concert repertoire.
Some reprints of the album are self-released. “Loser” was covered by Cracker on their 1993 album Kerosene Hat.
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Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – Garcia Grisman (Alternate Version) (1991/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:54 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Acoustic Disc
In celebration of the late Jerry Garcia’s 70th birthday, David Grisman unveils a new collection of nine previously unreleased Garcia/Grisman alternate takes in the new high-definition (24 bit, 96 khz) format. This HD release affords listeners an opportunity to enjoy “Grateful Dawg” music in a sonically superior format with different versions of “The Thrill Is Gone,” “Friend of the Devil,” “Russian Lullaby,” “Arabia” and five others, providing insight into how these two legendary American musicians approached this material. According to producer Grisman, “Our sessions were always informal, and all of these takes are exceptional performances. They are just as vibrant as the original selected masters and perhaps even better!”
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Jerry Garcia – Before The Dead (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 03:41:12 minutes | 2,23 GB | Genre: Folk, Bluegrass
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
Before the Dead is an album by Jerry Garcia. It is a compilation of early recordings of Garcia playing folk and bluegrass music with various other musicians. The recordings were made from 1961 to 1964, before Garcia co-founded the rock band the Grateful Dead. Produced as a four-CD box set, and also as a five-LP limited edition box set, it was released on May 11, 2018.
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Jerry Garcia – Might As Well: A Round Records Retrospective (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:15:42 minutes | 1,50 GB | Genre: Soul
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
Might As Well: A Round Records Retrospective presents a collection of Jerry Garcia’s most beloved solo studio recordings and collaborations with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. The compilation contains 16 remastered, original recordings of fan favorites including “Sugaree,” “They Love Each Other,” “Rubin & Cherise” and “Cats Under The Stars,” among others. It highlights the performances that helped enshrine the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia in the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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Jerry Garcia Band, Jerry Garcia – GarciaLive Volume 20: June 18th, 1982 Cape Cod Coliseum (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 02:15:15 minutes | 2,74 GB | Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
GarciaLive Vol. 20 showcases the Jerry Garcia Band during their transitional, high-octane early 80’s era with the Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann on drums. The release presents the complete Cape Cod ’82 set, plus 45+ mins of additional incendiary, uncirculated selections captured in ’81 at The Stone in San Francisco – all remastered from soundboard recordings. Highlights include the relative rarity “Valerie,” a show-stopping “Don’t Let Go” and an otherworldly “After Midnight.”
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Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – Live at Keystone, Vol. 1 (1973) [Reissue 2004]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 55:06 minutes | Scans included | 2,21 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,11 GB
This 1973 release features what is essentially a Bay Area bar band led by Merl Saund*rs (keyboards) and Jerry Garcia (guitar) during the latter musician’s downtime from the Grateful Dead. Along with the two subsequent “encore” volumes, Live at Keystone includes performances drawn from the quartet’s July 10-11, 1973, run in the intimate confines of Keystone Korners in Berkeley. With the support of Bill Vitt(percussion) and John Kahn (bass), the pair jams their way through an eclectic assortment of covers and a few equally inspired original instrumentals. The clavinet and Hammond B-3-driven “Keepers” (aka “Finders Keepers”) is one such composition from the team of Saund*rs and Kahn. This funky rocker pulsates through some downright greasy interactions that recall a cross between Sly Stone and Billy Preston. Their interpretation of “Positively 4th Street” — the first of two Bob Dylan covers — is laid-back and bluesy, which allows Garcia to stretch out instrumentally between the verses. His impassioned vocals weave between Saund*rs’ alternating murky and billowing organ fills, adding new depths of empathetic noir. Notably, David Grisman’s mandolin runs were not part of the live recording, but overdubbed later. Conversely, Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come” bops with an infectiously syncopated shuffle that glides along Saund*rs’ ethereal, swirling keyboard accents mimicking the hurdy-gurdy of a calliope. “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry” is given a languid and slinky workout that is highlighted by some of Garcia’s most incendiary fretwork in this collection. Joined in progress is “Space” — a bit of jazzy free-form which was initially preceded by “Someday Baby” during the July 10 performance. John Kahn truly shines as he barrels in between Saund*rs’ scatological leads and Garcia’s trippy guitar runs. This distinct ensemble improvisation recalls some of the Grateful Dead’s further-out sonic explorations during seminal mid-’70s performances of “Playing in the Band” and “Eyes of the World.” It likewise foreshadows the direction that the Dead would follow on their highly sophisticated and fusion-influenced Blues for Allah (1975).
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Jerry Garcia & David Grisman – Garcia/Grisman (1991) [MFSL 2014]
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 58:28 minutes | Scans included | 2,35 GB
or FLAC(converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 1,04 GB
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab # UDSACD 2140
This Grammy-nominated disc heralds the origins of the highly acclaimed acoustic duo of Jerry Garcia (guitar/vocals) and David “Dawg” Grisman (mandolin). They had been chums for years by the time they began their direct partnership in earnest on December 7, 1990, with a nine-song set at the Sweetwater in Mill Valley, CA. Over half of that material would be reworked the following spring — for inclusion on this disc — at Grisman’s newly appointed, plush, and well-lit Dawg Studios. Along with David Grisman Quintet members Jim Kerwin (bass) and Joe Craven (percussion/fiddle), Garcia and Grisman revive a few familiar tunes covering every dimension of popular music, ranging from the blues (“The Thrill Is Gone”) to folk-rock (“Friend of the Devil”), as well as pop music standards such as Irving Berlin’s “Russian Lullaby” — which Garcia had previously covered on his 1974 Garcia (Compliments) album — and Hoagy Carmichael’s “Rockin’ Chair.” They also examined the origins of authentic traditional folk (“Walkin’ Boss”/”Two Soldiers”). Additionally, the pair collaborated on the original instrumental “Grateful Dawg,” which coalesces the distinct styles of Grisman’s “Dawg Music” with Garcia’s Grateful Dead intonations. The results are categorically brilliant and undoubtedly helped usher in the contemporary bluegrass and progressive bluegrass movements. Grisman’s sonically perfected studio coupled with his decades of hands-on engineering and producing expertise helped immensely in capturing and accurately reproducing their unaffected acoustic intimacy. Nowhere is this more evident than the 16-plus minute “Arabia” — which would become a showstopper once they hit the road in the early ’90s. The sound quite literally envelopes the listener, who autonomically becomes drawn into the track as it twists and slithers through several different movements — including the central theme, credited in the liner notes as being based on the traditional Cuban melody “Hasta Siempre.” All dimensions of “unplugged” enthusiasts who have not already made Jerry Garcia/David Grisman a top priority are strongly encouraged to do so.
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Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice – The Pizza Tapes (2000)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:14:05 minutes | 1,29 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Acoustic Disc
Legend has it that a pizza delivery boy lifted Jerry Garcia’s cassette tape of two evenings worth of very special music from his kitchen counter, thus paving its way into underground tape trading circles and giving a handle to these incredible performances. Now at last, from the vaults of Dawg Studios comes the sonically superb official release of this historic jam session, the only meeting of guitar greats Jerry Garcia and Tony Rice, introduced to each other by their mutual friend and musical associate, mandolinist/ producer David Grisman. The Pizza Tapes capture these virtuosos at a rare moment in time, free of pressure, hassles or any given agenda other than making music and having plenty of fun.
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Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders – GarciaLive Volume 9: Keystone Berkeley (August 11, 1974) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 01:57:24 minutes | 2,31 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Round Records
GarciaLive Volume Nine presents Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders’ adventurous rock-jazz-R&B fusion performance from August 11th, 1974 at Keystone in Berkeley, CA with John Kahn on bass, Martin Fierro on saxophone & flute and the Grateful Dead’s Bill Kreutzmann on drums. While the evening’s setlist focuses mainly on standards, the approach is anything but regular or straight. It showcases their ability to reimagine standards through inventive arrangements and fiery virtuosity permeated with soul.
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