Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows

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Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows
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Live album by Old & In the Way
Released October 1, 2013
Recorded October 1 and October 8, 1973
Genre Bluegrass
Label Acoustic Disc / Acoustic Oasis
Producer David Grisman
Old & In the Way chronology
Live at the Boarding House
(2008) Live at the Boarding House2008		Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows
(2013)
Jerry Garcia chronology
Garcia Live Volume Two
(2013) Garcia Live Volume Two2013		Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows
(2013) Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows2013		 Garcia Live Volume Three
(2013) Garcia Live Volume Three2013
David Grisman chronology
Live at the Boarding House
(2008) Live at the Boarding House2008		Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows
(2013) Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows2013

Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows is a four-CD live album by the bluegrass band Old & In the Way. It was recorded on October 1 and October 8, 1973, at the Boarding House in San Francisco, and contains the complete concerts from those dates. It was released by Acoustic Disc and Acoustic Oasis on October 1, 2013. The album includes 55 tracks, 14 of which were previously unreleased. [1] [2]

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the United States Appalachian region. The genre derives its name from the band Bill Monroe and the Blue Grass Boys. Bluegrass has roots in traditional English, Irish, and Scottish ballads and dance tunes, and by traditional African-American blues and jazz. The Blue Grass Boys played a Mountain Music style that Bill learned in Asheville, North Carolina from bands like Wade Mainer's and other popular acts on radio station WWNC. It was further developed by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass pioneer Bill Monroe characterized the genre as: "Scottish bagpipes and ole-time fiddlin'. It's Methodist and Holiness and Baptist. It's blues and jazz, and it has a high lonesome sound."

Old & In the Way was a bluegrass group formed in 1973. It was composed of Peter Rowan, Vassar Clements (fiddle), Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, and John Kahn. When the group was forming, it was intended that John Hartford would be the fiddle player. Based on Hartford's engagements, and Clement's reputational stature in the bluegrass community, Clements became the group's fiddler.

San Francisco Consolidated city-county in California, US

San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a city in, and the cultural, commercial, and financial center of, Northern California. San Francisco is the 13th-most populous city in the United States, and the fourth-most populous in California, with 884,363 residents as of 2017. It covers an area of about 46.89 square miles (121.4 km2), mostly at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area, making it the second-most densely populated large US city, and the fifth-most densely populated U.S. county, behind only four of the five New York City boroughs. San Francisco is also part of the fifth-most populous primary statistical area in the United States, the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland, CA Combined Statistical Area.

Contents

The band Old & in the Way existed from 1973 to 1974 and played less than 50 shows. Its members were Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead on banjo, David Grisman on mandolin, Peter Rowan on guitar, Vassar Clements on fiddle, and John Kahn on bass. [3] [4]

Jerry Garcia American musician and member of the Grateful Dead

Jerome John Garcia was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s. Although he disavowed the role, Garcia was viewed by many as the leader or "spokesman" of the group.

Grateful Dead American rock jam band

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. Ranging from quintet to septet, the band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, country, bluegrass, blues, gospel, modal jazz, reggae, experimental music, psychedelia, and space rock, for live performances of lengthy instrumental jams, and for their devoted fan base, known as "Deadheads". "Their music", writes Lenny Kaye, "touches on ground that most other groups don't even know exists". These various influences were distilled into a diverse and psychedelic whole that made the Grateful Dead "the pioneering Godfathers of the jam band world". The band was ranked 57th by Rolling Stone magazine in its The Greatest Artists of All Time issue. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994 and a recording of their May 8, 1977, performance at Cornell University's Barton Hall was added to the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress in 2012. The Grateful Dead have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide.

David Grisman Mandolinist, composer, and record label owner

David Grisman is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "Dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which issues his recordings and those of other acoustic musicians.

Critical reception

On AllMusic, Jeff Tamarkin said, "Although OAITW was able to handle a traditional bluegrass number — vocal or instrumental — as well as anyone, the musicians brought a jam band sensibility and rock attitude to the proceedings, extending the instrumental segments with improvisations, something alien to bluegrass up to that point. By doing so, the quintet pretty much invented the concept of progressive bluegrass, taking the music even further from its starting point than the New Grass Revival had the year before while simultaneously paying homage to its founders." [5]

AllMusic Online music database

AllMusic is an online music database. It catalogs more than 3 million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musical artists and bands. It launched in 1991, predating the World Wide Web.

Jeff Tamarkin is an American editor, author and historian specializing in music and popular culture.

In Relix , Jesse Jarnow wrote, "While it was Peter Rowan's sweet silvery holler and the quintet's close dynamics that sold the Stinson Beach supergroup to audiences, it was Jerry Garcia's presence that sold the band's live LP to hippies, and in turn linked banjos to beardos forevermore.... The real stars, though, are the infinitely warm recordings themselves... Inside a tangible stereo field, the quintet's instrumental mesh is every bit as blended as the harmonies — a high, lonesome wholeness forever haunting the hills of Marin." [6]

<i>Relix</i>

Relix is a magazine that focuses on live and improvisational music. The magazine was launched in 1974 as a handmade newsletter devoted to connecting people who recorded Grateful Dead concerts. It rapidly expanded into a music magazine covering a wide number of artists. It is the second-longest continuously published music magazine in the United States after Rolling Stone. The magazine is published eight times a year. In 2009, the magazine had a circulation of 102,000.

Track listing

Disc 1
October 1, 1973 – first set:
  1. "On and On" (Bill Monroe)
  2. "I'm On My Way Back to the Old Home" (Monroe)
  3. "Catfish John" (Bob McDill, Allen Reynolds)
  4. "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Vassar Clements)
  5. "Land of the Navajo" (Peter Rowan)
  6. "Down Where the River Bends" (Jack Anglin, George Peck, Johnnie Wright)
  7. "I Ain't Broke but I'm Badly Bent" (H. Payne)
  8. "Lost" (Buzz Busby, Cindy Davis)
  9. "Kissimee Kid" (Clements)
  10. "Lonesome L.A. Cowboy" (Rowan)
  11. "Pig in a Pen" (traditional)
  12. "Wild Horses" (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)
  13. "Midnight Moonlight" (Rowan)
Disc 2
October 1, 1973 – second set:
  1. "Muleskinner Blues" (Jimmie Rodgers, George Vaughn)
  2. "Goin' to the Races" (Carter Stanley)
  3. "Old and in the Way" (David Grisman)
  4. "Old and in the Way Breakdown" (Jerry Garcia)
  5. "Panama Red" (Rowan)
  6. "Hard Hearted" (Jesse McReynolds, Jim McReynolds)
  7. "That High Lonesome Sound" (Rowan)
  8. "The Hobo Song" (Jack Bonus)
  9. "Drifting Too Far from the Shore" (Charles E. Moody)
  10. "Angel Band" (Jefferson Hascall, W.B. Bradbury)
  11. "Wicked Path of Sin" (Monroe)
  12. "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (Connie Gateley, Joe Talley)
  13. "Uncle Pen" (Monroe)
  14. "Orange Blossom Special" (Ervin T. Rouse)
  15. "Blue Mule" (Rowan)
Disc 3
October 8, 1973 – first set:
  1. "Home Is Where the Heart Is" (Gateley, Talley)
  2. "Love Please Come Home" (Leon Jackson)
  3. "Down Where the River Bends" (Anglin, Peck, Wright)
  4. "Kissimee Kid" (Clements)
  5. "Pig in a Pen" (traditional)
  6. "Uncle Pen" (Monroe)
  7. "Panama Red" (Rowan)
  8. "Midnight Moonlight" (Rowan)
  9. "White Dove" (Stanley)
  10. "Wild Horses" (Jagger, Richards)
  11. "Orange Blossom Special" (Rouse)
  12. "Old and in the Way" (Grisman)
  13. "Lonesome Fiddle Blues" (Clements)
Disc 4
October 8, 1973 – second set:
  1. "On and On" (Monroe)
  2. "Land of the Navajo" (Rowan)
  3. "Catfish John" (McDill, Reynolds)
  4. "'Til the End of the World Rolls 'Round" (Thomas Newton)
  5. "Drifting Too Far from the Shore" (Moody)
  6. "I'm Knocking on Your Door" (traditional)
  7. "Old and in the Way Breakdown" (Garcia)
  8. "You'll Find Her Name Written There" (Harold Hensley)
  9. "Jerry's Breakdown" (Garcia)
  10. "The Great Pretender" (Buck Ram)
  11. "Working on a Building" (traditional)
  12. "That High Lonesome Sound" (Rowan)
  13. "Wicked Path of Sin" (Monroe)
  14. "Blue Mule" (Rowan)

Personnel

Old and in the Way
Banjo musical instrument

The banjo is a four-, five-, or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head, which is typically circular. The membrane is typically made of plastic, although animal skin is still occasionally used. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by Africans in the United States, adapted from African instruments of similar design. The banjo is frequently associated with folk, Irish traditional, and country music. Banjo can also be used in some rock songs. Many rock bands, such as The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, and The Allman Brothers, have used the five-string banjo in some of their songs. Historically, the banjo occupied a central place in African-American traditional music and the folk culture of rural whites before entering the mainstream via the minstrel shows of the 19th century. The banjo, along with the fiddle, is a mainstay of American old-time music. It is also very frequently used in traditional ("trad") jazz.

Singing act of producing musical sounds with the voice

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists. Singers may perform as soloists or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Different singing styles include art music such as opera and Chinese opera, Indian music and religious music styles such as gospel, traditional music styles, world music, jazz, blues, gazal and popular music styles such as pop, rock, electronic dance music and filmi.

Mandolin musical instrument in the lute family (plucked, or strummed)

A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.

Production
Owsley Stanley LSD chemist

Augustus Owsley Stanley III was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist. He was a key figure in the San Francisco Bay Area hippie movement during the 1960s and played a pivotal role in the decade’s counterculture. Under the professional name Bear, he was the soundman for the rock band the Grateful Dead, whom he met when Ken Kesey invited them to an Acid Test party. As their sound engineer, Stanley frequently recorded live tapes behind his mixing board and developed their Wall of Sound sound system, one of the largest mobile public address systems ever constructed. Stanley also designed the band's trademark skull logo.

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References

  1. ↑ Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows, JamBase, October 1, 2013. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  2. ↑ Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows at the Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  3. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Old & In the Way Biography" at AllMusic. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ "Old & In the Way Discography" at the Grateful Dead Family Discography. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ Tamarkin, Jeff. Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows at AllMusic. Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  6. ↑ Jarnow, Jesse (March 3, 2014). Live at the Boarding House: The Complete Shows, Relix . Retrieved December 4, 2015.
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