Keith and Donna Godchaux

Keith and Donna Godchaux

Round Records RX 104

Keith and Donna Godchaux's first album. Jerry Garcia plays guitar on the album.

Tracks

• River Deep, Mountain High (Barry / Greenwich / Spector)
• Sweet Baby (Godchaux / Godchaux)
• Woman Make You (Godchaux / Godchaux)
• When You Start To Move (Godchaux / Godchaux)
• Showboat (Godchaux / Godchaux / Godchaux)
• My Love For You (Godchaux / Godchaux)
• Farewell Jack (Godchaux / Godchaux / Godchaux)
• Who Was John (Traditional)
• Every Song I Sing (Godchaux / Godchaux)

• Donna Godchaux - vocals
• Keith Godchaux - keyboards, vocals
• Jerry Garcia - guitars, vocals
• Denny Seiwell - drums
• Chrissy Stewart - bass

• Brian Godchaux - violin on Every Song I Sing
• Merl Saunders - organ on Sweet Baby
• Bernard Purdie - drums on River Deep, Mountain High
• John Kahn - bass on River Deep, Mountain High
• Jim Brereton - drums on Farewell Jack
• Bill Wolf - bass on Farewell Jack

• Producers - Keith and Donna Godchaux
• Recorded - "At great expense" (Studio R)
• Engineer - Bill Wolf
• Engineering assistant - Fred Bradfield
• Mixed by Gene Eichlberger and Merl Saunders at His Master's Wheel
• Mastered at Artisan Sound Recorders - Hollywood
• Front Cover Photograph: Andy Leonard
• Back Cover Photograph: Cadillac Ron
• Zion's Thoughts by Garcia

Donna Godchauz spoke about the recording of this album in an interview with Blair Jackson;

Almost all of it was recorded at our house in Stinson Beach. Bob Matthews brought in a Neve board and we had our nine-foot Steinway there and we had our whole living room set up as a recording studio for a while. Jerry was just a couple of minutes away, so it was real easy to get together and work on it.

Related releases

Every Song I Sing is included on the UK produced sampler LP;

• For Dead Heads, Various Artists, 1976, Round Records / United Artists, FREE 2

• Sampler For Deadheads (#2), Old And In The Way / Keith And Donna Godchaux, 1975, Round Records SMP 02