Cats Under the Stars

Infobox Album |
Name = Cats Under the Stars
Type = studio
Artist = Jerry Garcia Band


Released = April 1978
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, Folk
Label = Arista Records
Producer = Jerry Garcia & John Kahn
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kifpxqu5ld6e link]
Last album =
This album = "Cats Under the Stars"
(1978)
Next album = "Jerry Garcia Band
(1991)
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Jerry Garcia
Type = studio
Last album = "Reflections
(1976)
This album = "Cats Under the Stars"
(1978)
Next album = "Run for the Roses
(1982)

The first release under the name Jerry Garcia Band and Garcia's first album on the Arista label, "Cats Under the Stars" was released in 1978.Garcia, in the years before his death in 1995, considered this album to be his favorite.

Track listing

#"Reuben And Cherise" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 5:17
#"Love In The Afternoon" (Hunter, John Kahn) – 4:09
#"Palm Sunday" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:21
#"Cats Under The Stars" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:31
#"Rhapsody In Red" (Hunter, Garcia, Kahn) – 5:11
#"Rain" (Donna Godchaux) – 5:53
#"Down Home" (Kahn) – 1:46
#"Gomorrah" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:26The album was reissued in the All Good Things box set with the following bonus tracks::9. "Magnificent Sanctuary Band" (Dorsey Burnette) – 3:50:10. "I'll Be With Thee" (trad.) – 6:01:11. "The Way You Do the Things You Do" (Smokey Robinson, Robert "Bobby" Rogers) – 5:01:12. "Mighty High" (David Crawford, Richard Downing) – 3:04:13. "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) – 15:59:14. "Down Home (Rehearsal Version)" (Kahn) – 1:49:15. "Palm Sunday (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:24
*Tracks 9 & 11-13 are from a rehearsal session in November 1976.

Personnel

Jerry Garcia Band

*Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals
*Donna Jean Godchaux - vocals
*Keith Godchaux - keyboards, background vocals
*John Kahn - basses, keyboards, guitar, orchestration
*Ron Tutt - drums, percussion

Additional personnel

*Merl Saunders - organ
*Maria Muldaur - background vocals on tracks 2, 8 & 10
*Stephen Schuster - flute, clarinet, saxophone
*Brian Godchaux - violin
*Candy Godchaux - violin

Production

*Engineers - Betty Cantor-Jackson, Bob Matthews
*Assistants - Harry Popick, Steve Parrish, Bill Candelario, Ramrod
*Cover art - Kelly Mouse Studios