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Jerry Garcia “Before The Dead” Rare Limited Edition 5xLP Box Set. Only 2500. Still Sealed.

Jerry Garcia – Before The Dead

Jerry Garcia - Before The Dead album cover

Label:Round Records (3) – JGFRR1016

Format: 5 x Vinyl, LP, Limited Edition, 180 Gram

Country:US

Released:May 11, 2018

Genre:Folk, World, & Country

Credits:

Licensed To – JGF Rights Holding, LLC

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Jerry Garcia Family

Copyright © – Jerry Garcia Family

Pressed By – Quality Record Pressings

Mastered At – Kevorkian Mastering

Lacquer Cut At – Capitol Studios

Credits

Art Direction, Design – Frank Harkins

Executive-Producer – Kevin Monty, Marc Allan

Lacquer Cut By – RM*

Liner Notes – Dennis McNally, Neil Rosenberg

Mastered By – Fred Kevorkian

Producer – Brian Miksis, Dennis McNally

Notes

Limited edition of 2500 sets.

Includes a 32 page book.

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Rolling Stone Article: Jerry Garcia’s ‘Before the Dead’ Is a Fascinating Origin Story

Among the buried treasures on Before the Dead, the most comprehensive collection of music Jerry Garcia learned and played prior to the formation of his most famous band, is a casual moment from 1961. At a 16th birthday party for his girlfriend, Garcia and his new pal and fellow would-be troubadour Robert Hunter are heard singing and playing traditional, non-pop tunes. After a version of the oft-covered blues “Trouble in Mind,” someone at the party seems to shout out a request. “Me, play rock & roll?” Garcia responds dismissively. “No, it’s never happened.”

Of course, that musical U-turn would come to pass, but not before Garcia spent several years immersed in bluegrass and folk, playing in a succession of Palo Alto-area bands with oddball names like the Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers. To date, only a small portion of the recordings he made with those combos has been released, making the multi-disc Before the Dead the deepest – and most educational – dive yet into Garcia’s pre-Dead musical life. Right up to his death, Garcia would periodically revisit his bluegrass roots, from the wonderful but short-lived Old and in the Way to albums he made with mandolinist David Grisman. But Before the Dead reveals, in more detail than ever before, when and how that appetite began and why numbers like “Deep Elem Blues” and “Rosa Lee McFall,” both heard here, made their way into the Dead’s repertoire.

That birthday-party tape, long written about but never released in its entirety until now, introduces one of Garcia’s earliest incarnations: the folkie. He wasn’t alone in dismissing rock & roll at that point; before the Beatles, it was widely assumed the genre was toast, embodied by Elvis’ smoothed-over, post-Army return. Vernacular music of all types was the new underground, and in keeping with the times, Garcia and Hunter come on like a Kingston Duo, heartily singing sea chanties and spirituals. In 1963 club recordings with his guitar-playing first wife, Sara, Garcia is a solemn folksinger, harmonizing with her on American and Brit folk tunes and singing an especially dour “Long Black Veil.”