Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band: Unreleased Live Album & Reissue

NEWLY REMASTERED AND PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED MATERIAL OUT NOVEMBER 16

Ragged But Right

Before the Grateful Dead, the Warlocks, and even Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions, Jerry Garcia played in the Black Mountain Boys, a band he formed in the early 1960s with the exceptionally talented Sandy Rothman and David Nelson. Together only a short time, they played the kind of bluegrass, country, gospel, and old-time music that swept through coffeehouses coast-to-coast in the post-Beat, pre-Beatles era that Garcia called: “the folk scare.”

The trio came together again in 1986 to form the Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band with John Kahn (upright bass), Kenny Kosek (fiddle), and David Kemper (drums). The group’s brief but glorious arc spanned more than two dozen shows in 1987 and 1988, which mostly featured them opening for the Jerry Garcia Band.

The beloved group is spotlighted with a newly remastered version of 1988’s long out-of-print Almost Acoustic, the sextet’s sole release, and the much awaited arrival of its sequel, Ragged But Right. Each will be available November 16 at all physical retail outlets for a suggested list price of $13.98. In an exclusive offer from Dead.net, the albums can be purchased together with a deluxe booklet that includes an essay by Steve Silberman that details Garcia’s lifelong love for traditional string-band music as well as a history of the JGAB for $23.98.

ALMOST ACOUSTIC
1. “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”
2. “Deep Elem Blues”
3. “Blue Yodel #9 (Standin’ On The Corner)”
4. “Spike Driver Blues”
5. “I’ve Been All Around This World”
6. “I’m Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail”
7. “I’m Troubled”
8. “Oh, The Wind And Rain”
9. “The Girl At The Crossroads Bar”
10. “Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie”
11. “The Ballad Of Casey Jones”
12. “Diamond Joe”
13. “Gone Home”
14. “Ripple”

RAGGED BUT RIGHT
1. “Ragged But Right”
2. “Short Life Of Trouble”
3. “I Ain’t Never”
4. “Trouble In Mind”
5. “Drifting With The Tide”
6. Introductions
7. “Deep Elem Blues”
8. “Rosa Lee McFall”
9. “Two Soldiers”
10. “If I Lose”
11. “Bright Morning Star”
12. “Goodnight Irene”
13. “It’s A Long, Long Way To The Top Of The World”
14. “Drifting Too Far From The Shore”
15. “Turtle Dove”