Searching for Jerry Garcia

Infobox Album | Name = Searching for Jerry Garcia
Type = Album
Artist = Proof


Released = August 9 2005
Recorded =
Genre = Hip-hop
Length = |66:25 Label = Iron Fist Records
Producer = Mr. Porter, B-Real, Fredwreck Nassar, Emile, B.R. Gunna, Ski
Jewels, Dirty Bird, Essman, DJ Salam Wreck, Sicknotes, Nick Speed
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3gdjvwpwa9yk link]
Last album = "Grown Man Shit"
(2005)
This album = "Searching for Jerry Garcia"
(2005)
Next album =

"Searching for Jerry Garcia" is the second album by Detroit rapper Proof of D12, released on August 9 2005. It was the only solo album that Proof released on a major label before his death. It reached number sixty-five on the U.S. Billboard 200 Albums Chart. The album is named after Grateful Dead member Jerry Garcia. The album's release date, August 9 2005, intentionally coincided with the ten-year anniversary of Garcia's death.

Proof used the title of this album and the original song titles ("Jump Biatch" was originally "Eric Clapton Jr.") to refer to famous deaths that people are uncertain about. He extends this concept to express suicidal thoughts of his own on the track "Kurt Kobain".

In the song titled "Forgive Me" featuring 50 Cent, 50 sings the chorus from his song "Ghetto Qu'ran".

Track listing

This Album also included for a limited time with both the clean and explicit a Special Edition DVD contained interview type footage.

*note: on the Clean/Edited Version of the Album the track "Jump Biatch" was listed as Jump B***ch"

Trivia

* The track "Kurt Kobain" samples "Blue Sky, Silver Bird" by Lamont Dozier. Coincidentally, this sample was produced by Proof's biological father, McKinley Jackson, who was a prominent Detroit producer in the 1970's.

References

* [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000999900 Weissmann, Jordan Heller, "D12's Proof Inspired By Garcia On Solo Debut", "Billboard", July 28, 2005]