Jerry Garcia

A tribute to the late guitarist Jerry Garcia who passed away 4 years ago this August. Featured is an exclusive interview with Garcia made during his 1989 visit to the Smithsonian Institution. Roots and branches of the Grateful Dead's sound take center stage in this mid-summer celebration in music and memory.

HOUR ONE

Open Bed: Big Railroad Blues Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers

Big Railroad Blues Cannon's Jug Stompers
Ruckus Juice & Chittlins -The Great Jug Bands - Classic Recordings of the 1920's and 30's Vol.1, Yazoo

You Win Again Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury

You Win Again Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Vol. 1, Warner Brothers

Postcard: Who are the Deadheads?
/montage Wash DC 1990

Playing In The Band Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers

Truckin' Wailing Souls
Fire on the Mountain 2... Reggae Celebrates the Grateful Dead, Pow-Wow

Instrumental: Truckin' The Truckin' Telecasters
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead...A Tribute, CMH Records

SEGMENT: Jerry Garcia

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Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Woody Guthrie
This Land Is Your Land - The Asch Recordings Vol. 1, Smithsonian Collection

Going Down the Road Feeling Bad Grateful Dead

Ramblin' Ornette Coleman
Beauty is a Rare Thing: The Complete Atlantic Recordings, Rhino

Turn On Your Love Light Bobby 'Blue' Bland
Turn On Your Love Light, MCA/Duke

Instrumental: Turn On Your Love Light Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records

My Heart Skips A Beat Buck Owens
Together Again/My Heart Skips A Beat, Sundazed

Glendale Train New Riders of the Purple Sage
New Riders of the Purple Sage, Columbia

Red Rooster Howlin' Wolf
Howlin' Wolf, Chess/MCA

New Speedway Boogie Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers

HOUR TWO

St. Stephen Grateful Dead
Fillmore East 2-11-69, Arista Records

Postcard: Security Guard

I Fought the Law Bobby Fuller Four
Hot Rod Rebels, The Right Stuff

Beat it On Down the Line Jesse Fuller
Lone Cat Sings and Plays Jazz, Folk Songs, Spirituals and Blues, Fantasy

Beat it On Down the Line Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead, Warner Brothers

Instrumental: Friend Of The Devil Pickin’ On The Grateful Dead
Pickin' On The Grateful Dead ...A Tribute, CMH Records

INTERVIEW: Jerry Garcia

Acadian Two Step Coteau
45 rpm, Booray

Bertha Los Lobos
Deadicated, Arista

Instrumental: Hiko-Hiko Donald Harrison
Indian Blues, Candid

16th St. Baptist Church Branford Marsalis
Requiem, Columbia

Iko-Iko Young Guardians of the Flame
Young Guardians of the Flame, First Tribe Records

Ripple Jane's Addiction
Deadicated, Arista

Uncle John's Band Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead, Warner Brothers

End Bed: Morning Dew Grateful Dead
Europe '72, Warner Brothers

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