Garcia (album)

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


Released = January 20, 1972
Recorded = July 1971
Genre = Folk rock
Label = Warner Bros. Records
Producer = Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor and Bill Kreutzmann
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hifpxqu5ld6e link]
Last album = "New Riders of the Purple Sage"
(1971)
This album = "Garcia"
(1972)
Next album = "Compliments (1974)

"Garcia" is Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia's first solo album, released in 1972.

Warner Bros. Records, offered the Grateful Dead the opportunity to cut their own solo records, and "Garcia" was released during the same time as Bob Weir's "Ace" and Mickey Hart's "Rolling Thunder". Unlike "Ace", which was practically a Grateful Dead album, "Garcia" was more of a solo effort, as Garcia played almost all the instrumental parts. Six tracks eventually became standards in the Grateful Dead concert repertoire.

Track listing

#"Deal" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 3:14
#"Bird Song" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:26
#"Sugaree" (Hunter, Garcia) – 5:54
#"Loser" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:10
#"Late For Supper" (Garcia) – 1:37
#"Spidergawd" (Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Hunter) – 3:25
#"EEP Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 5:08
#"To Lay Me Down" (Hunter, Garcia) – 6:18
#"An Odd Little Place" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:38
#"The Wheel" (Hunter, Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 4:12The album was reissued in the All Good Things box set with the following bonus tracks::11. "Sugaree (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:13:12. "Loser (Alternate Take)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:06:13. "Late For Supper / Spidergawd / EEP Hour (Alternate Takes)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann):14. "The Wheel (Alternate Take #1)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 4:04:15. "The Wheel (Alternate Take #2)" (Hunter, Garcia) – 2:53:16. "Study for EEP Hour" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:30:17. "Dealin' from the Bottom (Studio Jam)" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 1:25:18. "Study for the Wheel" (Garcia, Kreutzmann) – 3:22

Credits

Personnel

*Jerry Garcia - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar, bass, piano, organ, samples, vocals
*Bill Kreutzmann - drums
*Robert Hunter - lyrics

Production

*Producers & engineers - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor, Ramrod (Laurence Shurtliff) [http://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Garcia_72.htm "Garcia" at The Grateful Dead Family Discography] ]
*Producion assistants - Ramrod, Bill Kreutzmann
*Mixing - Bob Matthews, Betty Cantor, Jerry Garcia
*Cover photo & album design - Bob Seidman
*Garcia photo - Herb Greene

References