I’m On My Way…On My Way (1942-1995)

Yeah, it’s that time of the year when we think back to when we were kids on a softball field in Middle of Nowhere, Pennsylvania, seemingly tucked away in a utopian paradise where news cannot penetrate, a time before cell phones and Internet, a time when someone can walk right by and say “Jerry Garcia just died.” How do you know? Really? What about Giants Stadium in the fall?

Could it really be 12 years to the day? Without pausing to re-eulogize a man that’s had 10 million of ’em, let’s instead stream a little Dead in Jerome’s high honor:

• Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodleloo — 2/4/79 — Madison, WI
• They Love Each Other — 9/2/83 — Boise, ID
• Tennessee Jed — 6/28/76 — Chicago, IL
• U.S. Blues — 2/12/86 — Oakland, CA

Across the Rio Grandeeeoooo. Across the lazy river. Acrooooossss…