Garcia, Celebrating The Music Of Jerry (Dear Jerry)

Various Artists
Rounder Records
General | Nov 2016

Reviews

Mike Akatiff
Reviewed 2016-11-17
No FCCs
In 2015, 20 years after Jerry's death, surviving members put on 5 large scale shows to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dead. Prior to those events a tribute concert came together called Dear Jerry. This included Allen Tousaint in one of his final performances, Track 2 Get Out Of My Life Woman. Also good are the Billy and The Kids tracks (D1 9 & 10) these are the jammy-est of the set. I can't strongly recommend many of the others as I saw the original many times and these tributes are not the real thing, however I will implore you to air the Jimmy Cliff selections D1-Tracks 7 & 8 - both are excellent. For those who don't know Garcia played Road Runner, Get Out Of My Life Woman, and Harder They Come solo. The rest of these songs are Grateful Dead standards, except for David Grisman's title, Shady Grove - the Title track of one the many records issued since 1995 to feature Garcia.

Recent airplay

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Clean Copper RadioJan 03, 2017
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Charting

2016-11-23 — 2017-01-22
Week EndingAirplays
Jan 15 1
Jan 8 1
Dec 18 1
Dec 11 1

Track listing

1. The Wheel / Uncle John's Band
2. Get Out Of My Life Woman
3. Shady Grove
4. (I'm A) Road Runner
5. Deal
6. Sugaree
7. The Harder They Come
8. Help On The Way / Slipnot / Franklin's Tower
9. Scarlet Begonias / I Know You Rider
10. Loser
11. St. Stephen
12. Bertha
13. Brown Eyed Women
14. Shakedown Street
15. Friend Of The Devil
16. Tennessee Jed
17. Morning Dew
18. Touch Of Grey
19. Ripple