![]() ![]() It’s a classic example of the band bending traditional music to fit its own ideals. “It’s a beautiful song, but I was just not able to sing it worth a shit.” Others would disagree. “The song that I think failed on that record was ‘High Time,’” Garcia told Rolling Stone in a 1972 interview. In that regard, Garcia was never more unhappy with a studio performance than he was with this country-blues breakup song. Garcia and the Dead were always extremely critical of their recorded output they always felt more comfortable onstage, where songs truly blossomed, than in a studio. And without it, what would that music have been?”Īll those sides of Garcia - musically and internally - emerge in this collection of the 50 greatest songs that he performed with the Dead and from his solo records. But you know, what great man doesn’t have that? His bright side, his ebullient side, far seemed to outweigh. Who knows, but there was a decided darkness to him. “I suppose it had something to do with losing his dad so young, and possibly his finger getting chopped off. ![]() “That man had an agony almost that he had to fight,” Hunter said. Nor was he simply “Jolly Jerry,” as his longtime lyrical collaborator, Robert Hunter, told Rolling Stone in a 2015 interview. Over the roughly 35 years that he wrote and recorded songs with the Dead and on his own, Garcia was an uncommonly eclectic musician - equally at home with folk, bluegrass, electronic music, old-timey ballads, country, reggae, and Chuck Berry-style rock & roll. Just as the Grateful Dead were more than just a “jam band,” Jerry Garcia was more than just the affable Captain Trips of the scene. Studio Albums - The Grateful Dead/Anthem of the Sun/Aoxom Flashback with the Grateful Dead Aoxomoxoa Dick's Picks, Vol.Related: Grateful Dead Ultimate Album Guide 2: Springer's Inn, Portland At the Hollywood Festival North West England 1970 Grateful Dead at the Hollywood Festival Dead on Wax (The Warner Bros. 4 Fillmore at Last Little Jerry Candy Man Mountain View Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings Grateful Dead Download Series, Vol. ![]() 36: The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pa 9/21/72 Fillmore West 1969 Fillmore West 1969 Three from the Vault The Vault Box Left in the Vaults, Vol. ![]() 32 Anthem to Beauty The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack: 5-CD Set Dick's Picks, Vol. 31: Philadelphia Civic Center Dick's Picks, Vol. 24 View from the Vault III Rockin' the Rhein with the Grateful Dead Dick's Picks. 26: Electric Theater, Chicago Dick's Picks, Vol. 23: Baltimore Civic Center Downhill from Here Go to Nassau Aoxomoxoa Europe '72 Dick's Picks, Vol. 16: Fillmore Auditorium Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72 Dick's Picks, Vol. 19: Fairgrounds Arena The Golden Road (1965-1973) The Golden Road (1965-1973) Dick's Picks, Vol. 10: Winterland Arena Fillmore East: April 1971 Dick's Picks, Vol. 12: Providence Civic 6/26/74 Dick's Picks, Vol. 11: Stanley Theater, 9/27/72 Dick's Picks, Vol. 4 Europe '72 Aoxomoxoa Dick's Picks, Vol. ![]()
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