BONUS! Jerry Garcia: American Folkie

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🗓️ 8 August 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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DESCRIPTION: A very Jerry bonus episode explores Jerry Garcia’s early ‘60s years in the Palo Alto folk scene and his progression from guitar strummer to banjo picker during a prodigious half-decade before going electric with the Grateful Dead, including interviews with David Nelson and Bob Matthews, both one-time members of Mother McCree’s Uptown Jug Champions.

GUESTS: David Nelson, Bob Matthews, Nicholas Meriwether, Dennis McNally

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0:00.0	The Good Old Grateful Dead cast, the official podcast of The Grateful Dead.
0:09.9	I'm Rich Mahan with Jesse Jarno, exploring the music and legacy of the Grateful Dead for the committed and the curious.
0:18.0	Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the good old Grateful Deadcast, where you really don't know what you're going to get until you climb inside.
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0:30.8	It helps spread the word to fellow in future heads, so thank you for your help.
0:35.4	This here episode is the second of our bonus episodes outside of the scope of our deep dive
0:41.1	into the songs on Working Man's Dead. It is after all the days
0:45.2	between and we agreed it would be fun and apropos to put together an episode that
0:50.0	focused on Jerry. One period we don't hear enough about is this time before the dead and even before the
0:56.3	warlocks. We'll find out Jerry was always very serious about music and already had that drive to
1:02.4	practice all the time.
1:04.0	Jesse and I took a trip up to the San Francisco Bay Area a little over a year and a half ago
1:09.0	and a few of the interviews we conducted took us well down the path of Jerry's musical upbringing to find out what he was digging as a developing young musician. The President, Spring, Spring,
1:25.0	One Summer's Day, my baby left me. She went away.
1:35.0	Now she's gone. But I don't worry.
1:40.0	No, I'm sitting on top of the... It's pretty universally agreed that January 1961 was an important
1:46.4	It's pretty universally agreed that January 1961 was an important month in the history of music
1:51.8	when teenage
1:52.8	Bobby Zimmerman arrived in New York from Minnesota to turn himself into Bob Dylan.
1:57.4	But a perhaps less recognized but maybe equally important arrival that month
2:01.8	was when 18-year-old Jerry Garcia showed up in Palo Alto, California.
2:07.0	Over the next four years, Jerry Garcia had a miniature career in acoustic music with several distinct periods.
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