MVD Entertainment Group has released a double live CD that will be of interest to fans of California bluegrass in the 1970s, and followers of Grateful Dead alumnus, the late Jerry Garcia. Good Old Boys Live - Drink Up & Go
Jerry Garcia
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Jerry Garcia – Before the Dead: a preview
It is quite common knowledge that Grateful Dead psychedelic guitar-playing icon Jerry Garcia was in his youth a follower of folk and bluegrass music. A recent (August 2016) release, The Hart Valley Drifters’ Folk Time was described as a “Nice find”
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Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass roots
Reams, actual and virtual, has been written about Grateful Dead icon Jerry Garcia’s bluegrass music roots. In his musically formative years, Garcia was a member of the Thunder Mountain Tub Thumpers and the Asphalt Jungle Boys, both consisting of a fluid
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40 years of Old & In The Way
It's a sure sign you're getting old when when a band that was a touchstone of your youth celebrates its 40th Anniversary. Old & In The Way formed in 1973, with Jerry Garcia on banjo, David Grisman on mandolin, Vassar Clements
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3 Grisman/Garcia recordings in digital release
Acoustic Oasis has announced the release of three digital releases, timed in celebration of what would have been the 70th birthday of Jerry Garcia. All three are offered for download in Hi-Def audio (24 bit, 96 khz), which Acoustic Oasis describes
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Unreleased Jerry Garcia album comes to light
Rhino Records has resurrected the sole album from the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band, Almost Acoustic, recorded live in 1988. They have also released the group's only other recording, Ragged But Right, a second set of live takes that has lain
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A Bluegrass Treasure: An interview with Jesse McReynolds
This post is a contribution from Mike Reed, one of our 2010 IBMA correspondents. Photo for this post courtesy of Ted Lehmann. Jesse McReynolds’ CD release Songs of the Grateful Dead probably surprised a lot of his fans, not to mention
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Jesse McReynolds to release Grateful Dead tribute CD
Jesse McReynolds is set to release a Grateful Dead tribute album. Yes... you read that right. Grand Ole Opry member, one half of the legendary bluegrass power duo Jim & Jesse, and pioneering crosspicking mandolinist Jesse McReynolds' next album will pay