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Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – Live at Keystone (2–LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders – Live at Keystone (2–LP Vinyl) Vinyl Record

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The classic first meeting of Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia on record, Live at Keystone was recorded live at the Keystone in Berkeley, California on July 10 and 11, 1973 — during the fertile period when Garcia could often be found playing small Bay Area clubs between Grateful Dead tours. Reissued on 180-gram 2-LP vinyl by Fantasy Records in 2012, the album captures Saunders on keyboards, Garcia on guitar and vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Bill Vitt on drums — with David Grisman adding mandolin to Bob Dylan's "Positively 4th Street."

The repertoire is a genre-spanning joy: Dylan covers, blues standards, Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come," the jazz standard "My Funny Valentine," and extended improvisations that beautifully capture the chemistry of this ad-hoc configuration. Recorded by Grateful Dead associates Betty Cantor and Rex Jackson, and originally produced by all four band members.


Tracklist:

LP 1 — Side A

  1. Keepers
  2. Positively 4th Street
  3. The Harder They Come

LP 1 — Side B

  1. It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry
  2. Space
  3. It Ain't No Use

LP 2 — Side C

  1. That's All Right, Mama
  2. My Funny Valentine

LP 2 — Side D

  1. Someday Baby
  2. Like a Road

UPC: 025218790215
Label: Fantasy
Release Date: 9.25.12
Format: LP Vinyl

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