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Post by JamesP on Apr 7, 2019 10:23:56 GMT -5
Jerry Garcia was a great bluegrass guitar player long before he was with the Grateful Dead.
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Post by JamesP on Apr 7, 2019 10:25:43 GMT -5
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Post by earleg on Apr 7, 2019 15:19:46 GMT -5
I had pretty much forgotten that era but remember he was into and playing bluegrass, jug band and folk music prior to the rock. The Wikipedia biography is interesting and considerably in depth but they don't get into the Bluegrass aspect, only a brief mention of it. Jerry Garcia From Wikipedia
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Post by JamesP on Apr 7, 2019 15:25:07 GMT -5
I had pretty much forgotten that era but remember he was into and playing bluegrass, jug band and folk music prior to the rock. The Wikipedia biography is interesting and considerably in depth but they don't get into the Bluegrass aspect, only a brief mention of it. www.imdb.com/name/nm0305263/bio
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Post by rooster on Apr 9, 2019 14:27:22 GMT -5
Garcia was in a number of short lived Folk & Jugband groups before the Grateful Dead. Some of those groups included various members of what would later become the Grateful Dead. "Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions" is probably the best known of those early bands due to a radio broadcast (That existed as a bootleg for many years but, I believe has since been officially released). Old And In The Way was a great band. the story goes that Jerry Garcia had not picked up a banjo for eight or nine years before they stared working out tunes for that group. The group included Vasser Clements, and you can't go wrong with a fiddle player like him.
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Post by JamesP on Apr 11, 2019 10:17:27 GMT -5
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Post by JamesP on Apr 17, 2019 10:14:56 GMT -5
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