Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band
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| Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band | |
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| Origin | San Francisco, California, USA |
| Genre(s) | Acoustic music |
| Years active | 1987 |
| Label(s) | Grateful Dead Records |
| Associated acts | Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia Band |
| Website | www.dead.net |
| Members | |
| Jerry Garcia David Nelson Sandy Rothman John Kahn Kenny Kosek David Kemper |
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The Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band (JGAB) was a band formed by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. They played a number of concerts in 1987 and subsequently released one live album.
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[edit] Band Members
- Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
- David Nelson - guitar, vocals
- Sandy Rothman - mandolin, dobro, banjo, vocals
- John Kahn - bass
- Kenny Kosek - fiddle
- David Kemper - drums
[edit] History
Garcia and Sandy Rothman had played together in The Black Mountain Boys, a bluegrass band. The JGAB formed in 1987 and made their first public appearance at The Fillmore on March 17, 1987 at a benefit concert.
The JGAB played the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre for a two-week Broadway run, then continued with appearances at The Warfield in San Francisco and the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. Other performances included the Electric on the Eel concert, the Creating a Better Future benefit in Marin County, California, as well as appearances at the Cotati Cabaret (an exclusive club in Sonoma County, California), and the Frost Amphitheater at Stanford University.
[edit] Discography
- Almost Acoustic - 1988
[edit] Selection of songs performed
- Swing Low Sweet Chariot
- Diamond Joe
- I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
- Deep Elem Blues
- I'm Troubled
- Oh, The Wind and Rain
- Oh Babe, It Ain't No Lie
- Ripple
- I've Been All Around This World
- The Girl At The Crossroads Bar
- The Ballad of Casey Jones (A song written by Mississippi John Hurt, not to be confused with the Grateful Dead's own song "Casey Jones")
- Gone Hom
- Blue Yodel
- Spike Driver Blues
