Jerry Garcia ‘GarciaLive Volume 13’ Features 1989 Show With Clarence Clemons

The next installment of the Jerry Garcia GarciaLive archival series features a show from 1989 performed with special guest Clarence Clemons. GarciaLive Volume 13: September 16th, 1989 Poplar Creek Music Theatre is due on April 24 via Round Records.

Recorded live at the Chicago area venue the Poplar Creek Music Theatre, which has since been demolished, the JGB lineup featured Garcia, keyboardist Melvin Seals, drummer David Kemper, bassist John Kahn and backing vocalists Gloria Jones and Jackie LaBranch. Clemons sat-in throughout the night as he did for a series of five Jerry Garcia Band gigs that started at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, New Jersey and ended at Poplar Creek. The longtime Bruce Springsteen sideman was on hiatus with the rest of the E Street Band at the time.

“Much of the JGB’s material was steeped in R&B, gospel, and rock & roll — more in the relatively straight-ahead Springsteen mold than so many of the Dead’s more complex, open-ended, and stylistically difficult-to-categorize explorations, which were often hard for ‘outsiders’ to join in on because of the highly idiosyncratic, improvisation-based styles of the Dead’s front line,” Dead scholar Blair Jackson wrote in the liner notes as per Rolling Stone.

Among the highlights were Garcia originals “Cats Under The Stars” and “They Love Each Other” as well as covers of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” The Rolling Stones’ “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” The Beatles’ “Dear Prudence,” Bob Dylan’s “Tangled Up In Blue” and blues number “Someday Baby.” Preview the release by streaming “They Love Each Other,” which premiered via Rolling Stone, below:

GarciaLive Volume 13 Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Cats Under the Stars
2. They Love Each Other
3. Let It Rock
4. I Shall Be Released
5. Someday Baby
6. Dear Prudence
7. Let’s Spend The Night Together

Disc 2

1. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
2. Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
3. Think
4. Waiting for a Miracle
5. Evangeline
6. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
7. Tangled Up in Blue