melvin seals
david kemper
gloria jones
shirley starks
marty holland
stu allen
When he wasn’t touring the countryside with the Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia stayed busy with a number of different musical excursions. While he explored folk, bluegrass, jazz and blues with several prolific musicians, the Jerry Garcia Band was a pet project that took on a life of its own, becoming a solid extracurricular activity of Garcia’s for two decades. To fully appreciate the extent of elasticity that the JGB implemented into their performances, Garcia’s estate has unveiled a pair of live releases that accurately depict two distinct and powerful editions of the band.