''Garcia Plays Dylan'' is an album composed of various live performances featuring
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a vocalist with the rock band Grateful Dead, which he co-founded and which came to prominence during the counterculture of the 196 ...
playing covers of
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...
songs. It is culled from performances from 1973–1995, and features Garcia playing with
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in Palo Alto, California, in 1965. Known for their eclectic style that fused elements of rock, blues, jazz, Folk music, folk, country music, country, bluegrass music, bluegrass, roc ...
,
Legion of Mary
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,
Jerry Garcia Band
The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia founded the band in 1975; it remained the most important of his various side projects until his death in 1995. The band regularly tour ...
, and Garcia-Saunders.
[ Garcia takes lead vocals on all tracks.
Another collection, '' Postcards of the Hanging'', features more Dylan covers performed by the Grateful Dead (with lead vocals shared among Garcia, ]Bob Weir
Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead ...
and Phil Lesh
Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30 ...
).
Track listing
All songs composed by Bob Dylan, except "Tears of Rage
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" by Richard Manuel
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and Bob Dylan.
Disc one
#"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" is a song written by Bob Dylan, that was originally released on his album ''Highway 61 Revisited''. It was recorded on July 29, 1965. The song was also included on an early, European Dylan compilat ...
" – 8:12
#" Tough Mama" – 9:17
#"Positively 4th Street
"Positively 4th Street" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan, first recorded in New York City on July 29, 1965. It was released as a single by Columbia Records on September 7, 1965, reaching on Canada's ''RPM'' chart, on the U.S. ''Bi ...
" – 10:46
#" The Wicked Messenger" – 13:20
#"Knockin' on Heaven's Door
"Knockin' on Heaven's Door" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, written for the soundtrack of the 1973 film '' Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid''. Released as a single two months after the film's premiere, it became a worldwide hit, ...
" – 17:15
#"Simple Twist Of Fate
"Simple Twist of Fate", a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, was recorded on September 19, 1974, and was released in 1975 as the second song on his 15th studio album '' Blood on the Tracks''.
Background and recording
"Simple Twist of ...
" – 10:58
#"I Shall Be Released
"I Shall Be Released" is a 1967 song written by Bob Dylan.
Dylan recorded two primary versions. The first recording was made in collaboration with the Band during the Basement Tapes sessions in 1967, and released on '' The Bootleg Series Volu ...
" – 7:40
Disc two
#"When I Paint My Masterpiece
"When I Paint My Masterpiece" is a 1971 song by Bob Dylan. It was first released by The Band, which recorded it on its album '' Cahoots'', released on September 15, 1971.
Background
Dylan first recorded the song at New York's Blue Rock Studi ...
" – 14:00
#" She Belongs to Me" – 6:31
#" Forever Young" – 9:05
#"Tangled Up In Blue
"Tangled Up in Blue" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and the opening track of his 15th studio album '' Blood on the Tracks'' (1975). It was released as the album’s sole single, reaching No. 31 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. ...
" – 11:48
#" Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)" – 7:16
#" Visions of Johanna" – 9:21
#"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
"Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)" is a folk-rock song written and first recorded by Bob Dylan in 1967 during '' The Basement Tapes'' sessions. The song's first release was in January 1968 as "Mighty Quinn" in a version by the British band ...
" – 5:15
#"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan and featured on his '' Bringing It All Back Home'' album, released on March 22, 1965, by Columbia Records. The song was recorded on January 15, 1965, with Dylan's acous ...
" – 7:07
Notes
Bonus Disc – ''Garcia Plays Dylan Again''
#"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" (acoustic) – 5:38
#"Tears of Rage
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" – 8:19
#" Going, Going, Gone" – 18:56
Track information
Disc one
#Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders. Recorded Live at The Boarding House, San Francisco, CA (1/25/73)
#Jerry Garcia Band. Recorded Live at Keystone, Berkeley, CA (11/18/75)
#Jerry Garcia Band. Recorded Live at Keystone, Berkeley, CA (11/17/75)
#Legion Of Mary. Recorded Live at Oriental Theatre, Milwaukee, WI (4/19/75)
#Jerry Garcia Band. Recorded Live at Sophie's, Palo Alto, CA (2/15/76) (?)
Credits
*Jerry Garcia - guitar
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, vocals
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Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders
*Merl Saunders
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- organ
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*John Kahn
John Kahn (June 13, 1947 – May 30, 1996) was an American bassist. From 1970 to 1995, Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead.
Biography
John Kahn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Adopted at birth by ...
- electric bass
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*Bill Vitt
Bill Vitt (May 6, 1943 - July 16, 2019, aged 76) was an American drummer and keyboardist. He worked extensively as a live performer and as a session musician. In the 1970s he played with Brewer & Shipley, Jerry Garcia, Merl Saunders, and the S ...
- drums
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Jerry Garcia Band
*John Kahn
John Kahn (June 13, 1947 – May 30, 1996) was an American bassist. From 1970 to 1995, Kahn was Jerry Garcia's principal musical collaborator outside of the Grateful Dead.
Biography
John Kahn was born in Memphis, Tennessee. Adopted at birth by ...
- bass
* Ozzie Ahlers, Keith Godchaux
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, Nicky Hopkins
Nicholas Christian Hopkins (24 February 1944 – 6 September 1994) was an English pianist and organist. He performed on many popular and enduring British and American rock music recordings from the 1960s to the 1990s, including on songs recorde ...
- keyboards
*Buzz Buchanan, Johnny de Fonseca, David Kemper
David Law Kemper (born 1947/8 in Chicago, Illinois
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, Ron Tutt
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- drums
*Donna Godchaux
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, Gloria Jones
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, Jackie LaBranch - vocals
Legion of Mary
*Merl Saunders - organ
*John Kahn - bass
*Ron Tutt - drums
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- saxophone
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Grateful Dead
*Bob Weir
Robert Hall Weir ( ; né Parber, born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the Grateful Dead. After the group disbanded in 1995, Weir performed with the Other Ones, later known as the Dead ...
- guitar, vocals
*Phil Lesh
Philip Chapman Lesh (March 15, 1940 – October 25, 2024) was an American musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he developed a unique style of improvised six-string bass guitar. He was their bassist throughout their 30 ...
- bass, vocals
*Brent Mydland
Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the ...
- keyboards, vocals on disc 2, tracks 2 & 7-8
*Mickey Hart
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- drums
*Bill Kreutzmann
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- drums
*Vince Welnick
Vincent Leo Welnick (February 21, 1951 – June 2, 2006) was an American keyboardist and singer-songwriter, best known for playing with the band The Tubes during the 1970s and 1980s and with the Grateful Dead in the 1990s. He was inducted ...
- keyboards on disc 2, track 6
See also
*List of songs written by Bob Dylan
This list contains songs written by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, including those where he is credited as co-author. The list omits traditional songs where Dylan has claimed arranger's copyright.
List
See also
*List of Bob Dylan songs ba ...
*List of artists who have covered Bob Dylan songs
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer–songwriter, author, poet, and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for more than five decades. Many major recording artists have covered Dylan's mater ...
References
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Bob Dylan tribute albums
Grateful Dead compilation albums
Jerry Garcia live albums
2005 live albums
2005 compilation albums
Rhino Entertainment compilation albums
Rhino Entertainment live albums
Grateful Dead live albums
Jerry Garcia compilation albums