Garcia Live Volume Six

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Garcia Live Volume Six
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Live album by
Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders
ReleasedJune 24, 2016
RecordedJuly 5, 1973
VenueThe Lion's Share
San Anselmo, California
Genre Rock, rhythm and blues
Length179:25
Label ATO
Producer Marc Allan
Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia chronology
Garcia Live Volume Three
(2013)		Garcia Live Volume Six
(2016)		 Garcia Live Volume Nine
(2017)
Jerry Garcia chronology
On Broadway: Act One – October 28th, 1987
(2015)		Garcia Live Volume Six
(2016)		 Garcia Live Volume Seven
(2016)

Garcia Live Volume Six is a three-CD live album by Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders. It was recorded on July 5, 1973, at the Lion's Share in San Anselmo, California. It was released on June 24, 2016. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Contents

From February 1971 to July 1975, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders played many live shows together when the Grateful Dead were not on tour. Their band's lineup for the Lion's Share concert was Garcia on guitar and vocals, Saunders on keyboards and vocals, John Kahn on bass, and Bill Vitt on drums. A few days later, the band played two shows at the Keystone in Berkeley, California, that are documented in the albums Live at Keystone , Keystone Encores , and Keystone Companions . [5]

At the July 5 Lion's Share concert, a trumpet player whose identity is no longer known sat in on the second set. [1]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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On PopMatters, Jedd Beaudoin said, "A total of eight official releases from that [Garcia and Saunders] partnership exist, including a 1974 date from the Keystone. But this one, tracked at the small-ish Lion's Share just after Independence Day '73, is the one that takes them all.... The song selection is choice and the group sounds hungry for new musical heights.... Now, if we could just find out who the heck is playing trumpet we'd be in great shape." [7]

Doug Collette of All About Jazz called the album "a distinctive entry in the solo discography of guitarist/songwriter/vocalist Jerry Garcia," and noted that it "documents a starting point for ongoing endeavors he would refine the remainder of his life." [6]

Writing for No Depression , Mike Seely commented: "The music doesn't merely distract you; it teleports you to another sphere of reality. You're lost out there with Jerry, uninterested in heading home. You forget about life for awhile, which isn't too far removed from being gratefully dead." [8]

A reviewer for Aquarium Drunkard stated: "intimacy and freedom were on the menu that night while outfitting themselves with a wrecking crew of a rhythm section... this new set adds an additional 3 hours to the party that (seemingly) never wants to end." [9]

Jeff Wilson of The Absolute Sound remarked: "it's nice to hear a musician whose improvisational wizardry can match Garcia's, as Saunders delivers solos as colorful, unpredictable, and yes, 'mind-blowing' as the Fat Man's." [10]

Track listing

Disc one
First set:
  1. "After Midnight" (JJ Cale) – 10:35
  2. "Someday Baby" (Lightnin' Hopkins) – 9:14
  3. "She's Got Charisma" -> (Merl Saunders) – 18:40
  4. "That's Alright, Mama" (Arthur Crudup) – 13:16
Disc two
  1. "The System" (Saunders, Pamela Carrier) – 18:45
  2. "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" (Robbie Robertson) – 6:00
Second set:
  2. "I Second That Emotion" (Al Cleveland, Smokey Robinson) – 13:29
  3. "My Funny Valentine" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 19:16
  4. "Finders Keepers" (General Johnson, Jeffrey Bowen) – 9:29
Disc three
  1. "Money Honey" (Jesse Stone) – 8:37
  2. "Like a Road" (Don Nix, Dan Penn) – 9:21
  3. "Merl's Tune" -> (Saunders, John White) – 16:44
  4. "Lion's Share Jam" (Jerry Garcia, John Kahn, Saunders, Bill Vitt) – 9:52
  5. "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)" (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland) – 6:04

Personnel

Musicians
Production

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References

  1. 1 2 "Song Premiere: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders "Finders Keepers"", Relix, May 17, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  2. ↑ Kahn, Andy (May 17, 2016). " GarciaLive Volume 6 Featuring Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders Coming in June", JamBase. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Jerry & Merl Volume Six Out June 24th", Grateful Web, May 17, 2016. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  4. ↑ "GarciaLive Volume Six to Be Released on June 24th", JerryGarcia.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  5. ↑ Gatta, John Patrick (November 16, 2012). "Bill Vitt Remembers His Keystone Companions: Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders", Jambands.com. Retrieved June 5, 2016.
  6. 1 2 Collette, Doug (July 16, 2016). "Jerry Garcia And Merl Saunders: Garcia Live Volume Six: Jerry Garcia And Merl Saunders July 5 1973, Lion's Share". All About Jazz. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  7. ↑ Beaudoin, Jedd (June 30, 2016). "Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders – Garcia Live Volume Six: July 5, 1973", PopMatters. Retrieved July 4, 2016.
  8. ↑ Seely, Mike (July 20, 2016). "Long Dead, Jerry Garcia's More Alive Than His Former Band". No Depression. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  9. ↑ "Garcia Live :: Volume Six (1973) / Volume Seven (1976)". Aquarium Drunkard. August 9, 2016. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
  10. ↑ Wilson, Jeff (April 21, 2017). "Long Live the Dead". The Absolute Sound. Retrieved October 9, 2022.
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