The Very Best of Jerry Garcia
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The Very Best of Jerry Garcia is a compilation album with recordings by Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...

, Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...

, Jerry Garcia Band
Jerry Garcia Band
The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side-projects until his death in 1995...

, Old and in the Way
Old and in the Way
Old & in the Way was a bluegrass supergroup in the 1970s. The group performed traditional tunes such as "Pig in a Pen" as well as bluegrass-flavoured versions of The Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" and Peter Rowan's "Panama Red"....

, Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
Jerry García Acoustic Band
The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band was a band formed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. They played a number of concerts in 1987 and subsequently released two live albums.-Band members:*Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals*David Nelson - guitar, vocals...

, and Reconstruction
Reconstruction (band)
Reconstruction was a band formed in 1978 by John Kahn initially to occupy him while Jerry Garcia, his long-time musical collaborator, was busy with the Grateful Dead. The band's original guitar player was Jerry Miller, best-known for performing with Moby Grape...

. It is meant to showcase Jerry's non-Grateful Dead work.

Disc One (Studio)

  1. "Deal" (Robert Hunter
    Robert Hunter (lyricist)
    Robert C. Hunter is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his association with Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead.-Biography:He was born Robert Burns in San Luis Obispo, California...

    , Jerry Garcia) – 3:14
  2. "Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:26
  3. "Sugaree
    Sugaree
    "Sugaree" is a song written by long-time Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and composed by guitarist Jerry Garcia. It was written for Jerry Garcia's first solo album Garcia, which was released in January 1972...

    " (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54
  4. "Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:10
  5. "The Wheel" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:12
    • (Originally released on the album Garcia
      Garcia (album)
      Garcia is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.Warner Bros. Records offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and Garcia was released during the same time as Bob Weir's Ace and Mickey Hart's Rolling Thunder...

      .)
  6. "Let It Rock
    Let It Rock (Chuck Berry song)
    "Let It Rock" is a song by Chuck Berry from his 1960 album Rockin' at the Hops. The same year, it was released as the B-side of the single "Too Pooped to Pop " and reached #64 in the U.S. on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #6 in the UK. The song is about working on a train track as a train is...

    " (Chuck Berry
    Chuck Berry
    Charles Edward Anderson "Chuck" Berry is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, and one of the pioneers of rock and roll music. With songs such as "Maybellene" , "Roll Over Beethoven" , "Rock and Roll Music" and "Johnny B...

    ) – 3:12
  7. "Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

    ) – 3:04
    • (Originally released on the album Compliments
      Compliments (Jerry Garcia album)
      Compliments, also known as Garcia, is Jerry Garcia's second solo album, released in 1974. It includes one newly-written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise cover versions...

      .)
  8. "Might as Well" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:54
  9. "Mission in the Rain" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:04
  10. "I'll Take a Melody" (Allen Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint
    Allen Toussaint is an American musician, composer, record producer, and influential figure in New Orleans R&B.Many of Toussaint's songs have become familiar through numerous cover versions, including "Working in the Coalmine", "Ride Your Pony", "Fortune Teller", "Play Something Sweet ", "Southern...

    ) – 9:28
    • (Originally released on the album Reflections
      Reflections (Jerry Garcia Album)
      Reflections is Jerry Garcia's third solo album, released in 1976. It includes five songs that were performed by the Grateful Dead. All of the then-members of the Grateful Dead contribute to the music on this album.-Track listing:...

      .)
  11. "Reuben and Cérise" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:17
  12. "Cats under the Stars" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:31
  13. "Rhapsody in Red" (Hunter, Garcia, John Kahn
    John Kahn
    John Kahn was an American rock bass player. For a period of about twenty five years Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead.-Biography:...

    ) – 5:11
    • (Originally released on the album Cats Under the Stars
      Cats Under the Stars
      Cats Under the Stars, released in 1978, is the first and only studio release under the name Jerry Garcia Band and Garcia's first album on the Arista label.Garcia, in the years before his death in 1995, considered this album to be his favorite....

      .)
  14. "Run for the Roses" (Hunter, Garcia) – 3:41
  15. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    Knockin' on Heaven's Door
    "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.-Story line and song structure:...

    " (Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan
    Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

    ) – 7:40
  16. "Without Love" (Danny Small) – 4:26
    • (Originally released on the album Run for the Roses
      Run for the Roses (album)
      Run for the Roses is a 1982 solo album by Jerry Garcia.-Track listing:#"Run For The Roses" #"I Saw Her Standing There" #"Without Love"...

      .)

Disc Two (Live)

  1. "Catfish John
    Catfish John
    "Catfish John" is the title of a song written by Bob McDill and Allen Reynolds, and recorded by American country music artist Johnny Russell. It was released in November1972 as the fourth single from the album, Catfish John / Chained...

    " (Bob McDill
    Bob McDill
    Robert Lee "Bob" McDill is an American country music songwriter. Active from the 1960s until 2000, he has written several songs for country music artists, including more than thirty Number One hits...

    , Allen Reynolds) – 4:06
    • (Originally released on the album Breakdown.)
  2. "Deep Elem Blues" (Traditional) – 6:09
  3. "Ripple
    Ripple (song)
    Ripple is the sixth song on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty. It was released as the B-side to the single "Truckin'".-Background:...

    " (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:21
    • (Originally released on the album Almost Acoustic
      Almost Acoustic
      Almost Acoustic is a 1988 live acoustic album by the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band. Held in high esteem by fans for superb sound quality and fine musical selection, it was culled from 18 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre during the fall of 1987...

      .)
  4. "Positively 4th Street
    Positively 4th Street
    "Positively 4th Street" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan, first recorded by Dylan in New York City on July 29, 1965. It was released as a single by Columbia Records on September 7, 1965, reaching #1 on Canada's RPM chart, #7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and #8 on the UK Singles Chart...

    " (Dylan) – 10:46
    • (Originally released on the album Garcia Plays Dylan
      Garcia Plays Dylan
      Garcia Plays Dylan is an album composed of various live performances featuring Jerry Garcia playing covers of Bob Dylan songs. It is culled from performances from 1973-1995, and features Garcia playing with the Grateful Dead, Legion of Mary, Jerry Garcia Band, and Garcia-Saunders.-Track...

      .)
  5. "The Harder They Come
    The Harder They Come (song)
    "The Harder They Come" is a reggae song by the Jamaican singer Jimmy Cliff. It was first recorded for the soundtrack of the movie by the same name....

    " (Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff
    Jimmy Cliff, OM is a Jamaican musician, singer and actor. He is the only currently living musician to hold the Order of Merit, the highest honour that can be granted by the Jamaican government for achievement in the arts and sciences...

    ) – 12:43
    • (Originally released on the album Theatre 1839, July 29 & 30, 1977
      Theatre 1839, July 29 & 30, 1977
      Theatre 1839, July 29 & 30, 1977 is the first release in the Pure Jerry series of live recordings by Jerry Garcia and his various solo bands. As the title suggests, it was recorded on July 29 and July 30, 1977, at the Theatre 1839 in San Francisco...

      .)
  6. "Gomorrah" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:37
    • (Originally released on the album How Sweet It Is.)
  7. "Dear Prudence
    Dear Prudence
    "Dear Prudence" is a song written by John Lennon, and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released by The Beatles as the second track on their 1968 double-disc album entitled The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.-Composition:...

    " (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...

    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney
    Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...

    ) - 11:38
    • (Previously Unreleased Reconstruction - Live 1979)
  8. "Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)" (Dylan) - 7:45
    • (Originally released on the album Jerry Garcia Band
      Jerry Garcia Band (album)
      Jerry Garcia Band is the second album, and first live album, by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was recorded in the spring of 1990 at The Warfield in San Francisco.-Disc One:#"The Way You Do the Things You Do" – 8:08...

      .)
  9. "Evangeline" (David Hidalgo
    David Hidalgo
    David Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project band made up of some of the members of Los Lobos...

    , Louis Perez) – 4:47
    • (Originally released on the album Jerry Garcia Band
      Jerry Garcia Band (album)
      Jerry Garcia Band is the second album, and first live album, by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was recorded in the spring of 1990 at The Warfield in San Francisco.-Disc One:#"The Way You Do the Things You Do" – 8:08...

      .)
  10. "Deal" (Hunter, Garcia) - 9:12
    • (Originally released on the album Way After Midnight.)

Production

  • Compilation producers – James Austin, Joe Gastwirt, Blair Jackson, Peter McQuaid
  • Product manager – Jimmy Edwards
  • Tape research, liner notes – Blair Jackson
  • Remastering – Joe Gastwirt
  • Discographical annotation – Reggie Collins
  • Editorial supervision – Dorothy Stefanski
  • Art direction, design – Jean Krikorian
  • Photography – Herb Greene
    Herb Greene
    Herb Greene is an American photographer known for his photographs of 1960s San Francisco musicians.-Career:Herb Greene was part of the 1960s San Francisco art scene and a friend of many of psychedelic rock musicians of the era...

    , Jon Sievert, Richard E. Aaron, Dave Patrick
  • Painting – Jerry Garcia
  • Project assistance – Karen LeBlanc, James O'Toole
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