Last night, the San Francisco Giants paid tribute to Jerry Garcia on the 15th anniversary of his death at AT&T Park. Furthur’s Phil Lesh, Bob Weir and Jeff Pehrson kicked
It’s springtime and around here that means one thing: the music of Jerry Garcia. Normally our thoughts turn to JGB in one of its various incarnations but this year’s JG
Garcia Plays Dylan doesn’t have the completeness factor of this year’s other marvelous Jerry Garcia estate releases–but it adds another dimension and a different sort of thoroughness those releases can’t, by nature, explore: the connection between two storied musicians as exemplified by one’s tackling of the other’s material in a variety of contexts.
As Grateful Dead scholarship goes, the summer of 1971 presents an eye-popping, mouth-watering slice of Dead history in transition, and until the unearthing of these
Keyboard player and musical arranger for The Jerry Garcia Band, Melvin Seals evoked a sound from Garcia that rivaled his work in the Grateful Dead. Now he creates that emotion on his own, releasing his first official solo album, Melting Pot.
The Rex Foundation lost steam following Jerry Garcia
These days it can be easy to forget why someone would want to be a Deadhead. Nobody really wants to formally acknowledge it, but the band that currently tours as
