Don't Let Go (album)

Don't Let Go
Live album by Jerry Garcia Band
Released	January 23, 2001
Recorded	May 21, 1976
Genre	Rock
Label	Grateful Dead Records
Jerry Garcia Band chronology
How Sweet It Is (1997) Don't Let Go (2001) Shining Star (2001)
Jerry Garcia chronology
The Pizza Tapes (2000) Don't Let Go (2001) Shining Star (2001)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
The Music Box	[2]
JamBands.com	(not rated)[3]

Don't Let Go is the third live album by the Jerry Garcia Band. It was recorded on May 21, 1976 at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, with a bonus track recorded on September 11 in 1976 at the Keystone in Berkeley.

Jerry Garcia plays a Travis Bean guitar on this recording.

Track listing

Disc One

1. "Sugaree" (Robert Hunter, Jerry Garcia) – 9:55
2. "They Love Each Other" (Hunter, Garcia) – 8:31
3. "That's What Love Will Make You do" (James Banks, Eddy Marion, Henderson Thigpen) – 9:56
4. "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (Bob Dylan) – 11:07
5. "Sitting in Limbo" (Plummer Bright, James Chambers) – 10:29
6. "Mission in the Rain" (Hunter, Garcia) – 7:43
7. "Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) – 16:03

Disc Two

1. "After Midnight" (J. J. Cale) – 11:00
2. "Strange Man" (Dorothy Love Coates) – 7:12
3. "Tore up over You" (Hank Ballard) – 9:28
4. "I'll Take a Melody" (Allen Toussaint) – 15:10
5. "The Way You do the Things You do" (Smokey Robinson, Robert "Bobby" Rogers) – 7:11
6. "My Sisters and Brothers" (Charles Johnson) – 6:41
7. "Lonesome and a Long Way from Home" (Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell) – 14:27

Bonus track

8. "Mighty High" (David Crawford, Richard Downing) – 6:26

Personnel

• Jerry Garcia – guitar, vocals
• Donna Godchaux – vocals
• Keith Godchaux – keyboards
• John Kahn – bass
• Ron Tutt – drums

References

1. ^ Planer, Lindsay (2011 [last update]). "Don't Let Go - Jerry Garcia Band | AllMusic". allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r513816. Retrieved 20 August 2011. 
2. ^ Metzger, John (2011 [last update]). "The Music Box: Jerry Garcia Band - Don't Let Go (Album Review)". musicbox-online.com. http://www.musicbox-online.com/jg-dont.html. Retrieved 20 August 2011. 
3. ^ JamBands.com review

• "Really Randoms: Prince, Jerry Garcia", Rolling Stone, December 29, 2000