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JERRY GARCIA
A tribute to the late guitarist Jerry Garcia who passed away 4 years ago this August. Featured is an exclusive interview with Garcia made during 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