Listen To Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders Cover The Four Tops On Forthcoming ‘GarciaLive’ Release

GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 – Keystone Berkeley is due July 28 via Round Records/ATO Records. The upcoming installment of the long running Jerry Garcia live archival series features an official recording of a previously uncirculated show at the famed Keystone in Berkeley from 1974. Included among the many covers on the two-CD release is a fantastic instrumental rendition of “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I Got)” which can be streamed below.

The lineup for the show finds Garcia joined by longtime collaborator Merl Saunders on keys as well as Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann, multi-instrumentalist Martin Fierro and bassist John Kahn. GarciaLive Volume Nine contains covers of The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” Jimmy Cliff’s “The Harder They Come,” Thigpen/Marion/Banks’ “That’s What Love Will Make You Do” and more as well as a take on Fierro’s “La La.”

The Four Tops released the original “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I Got)” in 1972. Garcia and Saunders started covering the tune just a few years later. The 17-minute version features solos from Merl and Martin as well as a beautiful one from Jerry. Listen to “Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I Got)” from GarciaLive Volume Nine: August 11th, 1974 – Keystone Berkeley:

Various packages are available for pre-order here.

GarciaLive Volume Nine Tracklist

Disc One/Set One

1. That’s What Love Will Make You Do
2. La La
3. It Ain’t No Use
4. Mystery Train

Disc Two/Set Two

1. The Harder They Come
2. Ain’t No Woman (Like The One I’ve Got)
3. It’s Too Late
4. (I’m A) Road Runner
5. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down