Compliments (Jerry Garcia album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Compliments
Type = Album
Artist = Jerry Garcia


Released = June 1974
Recorded =
Genre = Rock, Folk
Label = Round Records
Producer = Jerry Garcia
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wifpxqu5ld6e link]
Last album = "Garcia
(1972)
This album = "Compliments"
(1974)
Next album = "Old and in the Way
(1975)

"Compliments" is Jerry Garcia's second solo album. It includes one newly-written song by John Kahn and Robert Hunter but is otherwise cover versions.

Track listing

#"Let It Rock" (Chuck Berry) - 3:12
#"When The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (Smokey Robinson) - 3:46
#"That's What Love Will Make You Do" (Henderson Thigpen, James Banks, Eddy Marion) - 3:42
#"Russian Lullaby" (Irving Berlin) - 3:04
#"Turn On The Bright Lights" (Albert Washington) - 5:04
#"He Ain't Give You None" (Van Morrison) - 3:25
#"What Goes Around" (Mac Rebbenack) - 3:07
#"Let's Spend The Night Together" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richard) - 3:40
#"Mississippi Moon" (Peter Rowan) - 3:06
#"Midnight Town" (Robert Hunter, John Kahn) - 3:12The album was reissued in the All Good Things box set with the following bonus tracks:

11. "That's a Touch I Like" (Jesse Winchester) - 3:40
12. "(I'm a) Road Runner" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) - 4:10
13. "It's Too Late (She's Gone)" (Chuck Willis) - 4:27
14. "I'll Forget You" (copyright control) - 3:21
15. "Tragedy" (Fred Burch, Gerald Nelson) - 3:52
16. "Think" (Deadric Malone, Jimmy McKracklin) - 4:12
17. "I Know It's a Sin" (Jimmy Reed) - 2:41
18. "Lonesome Town" (Thomas Baker Knight) - 6:19
19. "Cardiac Arrest (Studio Jam)" (Garcia, Kahn, Michael Omartian, Merl Saunders, Ron Tutt) - 1:39
20. "Back Home in Indiana" (James Hanley, Ballard McDonald) - 7:08

Credits

Personnel

*Jerry Garcia - guitar, vocals, classical guitar
*Arthur Adams - guitar
*Michael Omartian - piano, tack piano, Fender Rhodes
*John Kahn - bass , horn arrangement, string arrangement
*Ron Tutt - drums
*Merl Saunders - organ
*Larry Carlton - guitar

Additional personnel

*Bobbye Hall - percussion on tracks 1-3 & 7-8
*Melvin Moore - trumpet on tracks 3 & 5
*Gene Connors - trombone on tracks 3 & 5, horn arrangement
*Jackie Kelso - saxophones on tracks 3 & 5
*Amos Garrett - trombone on tracks 4 & 7
*Joel Tepp - clarinet on track 4
*Richard Greene - violin on tracks 4 & 8
*Merry Clayton - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
*Clydie King - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
*Patty - background vocals on tracks 6 & 10
*Geoff Muldaur - clarinet on track 7
*Maria Muldaur - background vocals on track 8
*Ben Benay - rhythm guitar on track 9
*John Rotella - e flat clarinet on track 9
*Willie Green - b flat clarinet on track 9
*Gary Ray - b flat clarinet on track 9
*Julian Sheer - bass clarinet on track 9
*Sid Page - violin on tracks 9-10
*Carl Pedersen - violin on tracks 9-10
*Nathan Rubin - violin on tracks 9-10
*Emily van Valkenburg - violin on tracks 9-10
*Miriam Dye - viola on tracks 9-10
*Nancy Ellis - viola on tracks 9-10
*Terry Adams - cello on tracks 9-10
*Judiyaba - cello on tracks 9-10
*Ray Siegal - string bass on tracks 9-10
*Arnie Egilsson - string bass on tracks 9-10
*Sid Sharp - contractor on tracks 9-10
*David Nichtern - guitar on track 20
*David Grisman - mandolin on track 20
*Vassar Clements - violin on track 20

Production

*Producer - John Kahn
*Engineer - Ron Malo
*Production assistants - Richard Loren, Joshua Blardo
*Equipment - Ramrod, Steve Parrish
*Cover art - Victor Moscoso

Trivia

The original title of the album was "Garcia" with a sticker on the record sleeve that said "Compliments of"