Watch Grateful Dead Shake A Stellar ‘Sugaree’ With Bruce Hornsby At Buckeye Lake In 1991

The Grateful Dead Vault has opened for the release of pro-shot video of the band performing “Sugaree” at Buckeye Lake in Hebron, Ohio on June 9, 1991. Pianist Bruce Hornsby was touring with the Dead at the time and engages in wonderful call-and-response with GD guitarist Jerry Garcia in the latest installment of the All The Years Live video series.

Summer Tour 1991 for the Grateful Dead featured the lineup of Garcia, Hornsby, guitarist Bob Weir, keyboardist Vince Welnick, bassist Phil Lesh and drummers Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart. Welnick came aboard the previous fall after the tragic death of Brent Mydland. Bruce Hornsby stepped in from September 1990 through March 1992 while Vince got his bearings.

Vince Welnick often played synthesizer tones but on “Sugaree” at Buckeye Lake he utilized an organ sound. Garcia delivered not only an inspired vocal performance on the song that followed the “Picasso Moon” opener on June 9, 1991, he also unfurled a pair of memorable guitar solos.

“Debuted by the Grateful Dead in 1971, and included on Jerry Garcia’s first solo album in 1972, Sugaree was a staple of Grateful Dead shows 1971-1995, usually played early in the first set,” Grateful Dead archivist David Lemieux wrote in a note accompanying the video. “It had a short-lived life in the Jerry Garcia Band starting in 1975 and lasting under a decade, so while it is indeed a Jerry Garcia solo song, it is primarily associated with the Grateful Dead along with other songs on his debut album, including The Wheel, To Lay Me Down, and Bird Song, just as much of Bob Weir’s Ace album is widely considered Grateful Dead songs.”

See the official footage of the Grateful Dead’s “Sugaree” from June 9, 1991 below: