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JERRY GARCIA
We pay tribute to the late guitarist Jerry Garcia who passed away 9 years ago this month with a historic interview with Garcia from his 1989 visit to the Smithsonian Institution. Roots and branches of the Grateful Dead’s sound take center stage in this mid-summer celebration in music and memory.
HOUR ONE
- Open Bed: Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers - Big Railroad Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers
Ruckus Juice & Chittlins -The Great Jug Bands - Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's Vol.1, Yazoo - You Win Again Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury - You Win Again Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Vol. 1, Warner Brothers - Postcard: Who are the Deadheads? /montage Wash DC 1990
- Playing In The Band Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers - Truckin' Wailing Souls
Fire on the Mountain 2... Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead, Pow-Wow - Instrumental: Truckin' The Truckin' Telecasters
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead...A Tribute, CMH Records - SEGMENT: Jerry Garcia
Listen - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land - The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Collection - Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Grateful Dead
- Ramblin' Ornette Coleman
Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino - Turn On Your Love Light Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Turn On Your Love Light, MCA/Duke - Instrumental: Turn On Your Love Light Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records - My Heart Skips A Beat Buck Owens
Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat, Sundazed - Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia - Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf, Chess/MCA - New Speedway Boogie Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers
HOUR two
- St. Stephen Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records - Postcard: Security Guard
- I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff - Beat it On Down the Line Jesse Fuller
Lone Cat Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Fantasy - Beat it On Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers - Instrumental: Friend Of The Devil Pickin' On The Grateful Dead
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ...A Tribute, CMH Records - INTERVIEW: Jerry Garcia
- Acadian Two Step Coteau
45 rpm, Booray - Bertha Los Lobos
Deadicated, Arista - Instrumental: Hiko-Hiko Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid - 16th St. Baptist Church Branford Marsalis
Requiem, Columbia - Iko-Iko Young Guardians of the Flame
Young Guardians of the Flame, First Tribe Records - Ripple Jane's Addiction
Deadicated, Arista - Uncle John's Band Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers - End Bed: Morning Dew Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Brothers
