Jerry Garcia

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”

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

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

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

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

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

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