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Almost AcousticJerry Garcia Acoustic BandInitial release : December 1988Concensus Reality / GD Merchandising 4005 JGAB recorded live during their 1987 tour. |
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Sleeve note by Sandy Rothman: In 1964, twenty three years before these shows were recorded, Jerry, David and I were playing music together in the early Bay Area folk music scene. After all the intervening years, we spontaneously got together again to sing and play. This time, Jerry played rhythm and lead guitar (instead of banjo), David played rhythm and lead guitar (instead of mandolin), and I played mandolin and dobro (instead of guitar) and some banjo (but not on these selections). We don't know why it happened this way. Then, we got together with John Kahn and he played bass. Kenny Kosek joined in on fiddle. David Kemper added some snare drums. It was fun. The music had a rough-hewn, energetic quality to it. Some of the shows were taped, just on two-track stereo DAT - no multiple tracks, no way to change anything. Here's a sampling of how it sounded. We think of this as mostly acoustic, not quite bluegrass, progress report for our friends, our fans, and people who love this music.David Nelson spoke about the inception of the Jarry Garcia Acoustic Band in an interview. It followed Garcia, Nelson and Sandy Rothman spending some time together socialising and playing old songs; We really had fun playing that old material, so we played a benefit for Bill Graham's poster artist. Bill got real excited about it and came into the back room. He said, 'I gotta take this somewhere,' and Jerry said, 'Take us to Broadway, Bill!' The next thing we know, we had 18 shows at the Lunt-Fontanne.Credits above are as given on recording and, in the case of Casey Jones and Oh, Babe It Ain't No Lie, reflect the arrangements of the songs used rather than original composition. The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band released just the one recording. Issued in the UK in February 1989 on LP by Grateful Dead Records (GDV 4005) Reissued by Grateful Dead Records on CD and LP in February 1989 (GDCD 40092) Reissued by Arista in 1995 (14005) Deep Elem Blues and Ripple were included on;
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